On Starter Sets and Beginner Boxes
Posted by Runeslinger on November 13, 2022 · 7 Comments
I am a little more than halfway through my 39th year as a roleplayer. In that time, which yes seems both long and short to me, I have never really had a full starter set of any game to enjoy. I have had a few incomplete sets, mostly back in my early days as a … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Product Overviews, Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog, Under the Hood, YouTube Channel · Tagged with roleplaying, roleplaying games, RPG, running games
PDF and the Mobile Gamer
Posted by Runeslinger on October 11, 2019 · 4 Comments
For a year or so I lived a lie. I didn’t know it was a lie while I was living it. It was that strange sense of change that comes with a lot of energy and conviction, stays long enough to leave scars, but vanishes in a moment and without warning. People shrug, and remark … Continue reading →
Category Corporia, Mythras, Product Overviews, The Blog, The Games, Under the Hood, Zweihander · Tagged with game pdf, gaming, roleplaying, RPG, runeslinger
Zweihander: Grim & Perilous RPG
Posted by Runeslinger on September 22, 2019 · 3 Comments
A number of factors conspired to get me to look into Zweihander by Grim & Perilous Studios when it was new, and more have colluded to keep me interested in it as its story has unfolded. Starting with the size of the book and the attitude of the rules and then crossing over into the … Continue reading →
Category Product Overviews, The Blog, YouTube Channel, Zweihander · Tagged with RPG, runeslinger, Zweihander
Spirited Readings: Wraith 20
Posted by Runeslinger on September 16, 2018 · Comments Off on Spirited Readings: Wraith 20
As the sadly delayed, and unsurprisingly cursed Kickstarter project for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Wraith: the Oblivion reaches its final stages, my mind has been caught up in both remembrance of the game as it was, and hope for the game to find a new existence here on the other side of the RPG … Continue reading →
Category Horror, Product Overviews, The Blog, WoD ad nauseum, YouTube Channel · Tagged with roleplaying games, World of Darkness, Wraith, Wraith the Oblivion
Behind the Lines: Instigation
Posted by Runeslinger on May 14, 2017 · 1 Comment
Not long after the initial scenario pitch requirements for Parallel Lines were given to us, I found myself latching on to a set which would put the Agents against a backdrop of what they might at first see as someone else’s war. I hoped that I could provide a framework for the GM to work … Continue reading →
Category BRP, BRP/RQ, Casting the Shadows, Hawkmoon, Horror, Infectious Plots, Luther Arkwright, Mythras, Product Overviews, Runequest, RuneQuest, Running Games, Science Fiction, The Blog · Tagged with Design Mechanism, GM Advice, Parallel Lines, roleplaying games