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Saturday Seed ~ 197 (All for One)
This is a slightly sexy seed for All for One: Regime Diabolique’s take on a darkly supernatural 1630s France. The seed This seed takes a stab at a darker reflection on the oldest profession and its ages old association with soldiery and other brave, but lonely people who put their lives on the line for … Continue reading →
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Saturday Seed ~ 196 (Call of Cthulhu)
This is a seed for Call of Cthulhu, because it’s the only way to get the blue-painted wahoos dancing around the stones in my backyard to shut up. The seed This seed is a play on the idea of out of sight, out of mind, and will put the investigators face to face with evidence … Continue reading →
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Saturday Seed ~ 195 (Corporia)
This is a seed for Corporia, the forthcoming (at time of writing) RPG by Mark Plemmons, focused on Knights in Shining Armani, battling secretly to save a magically reawakened world that doesn’t know or cannot admit that it needs rescue. The seed This seed is all about the hunger that is greed and the starvation … Continue reading →
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Saturday Seed ~ 194 (Aces & Eights)
This is a seed for Aces&Eights, the western RPG as broad and beautiful as the vistas of the Old West themselves. The seed This seed is all about having and not having, ego and insecurity, fair play and graft, and most of all…poker. Planting the seed This seed can be planted in any nowhere town … Continue reading →
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Giving Powergamers What They Deserve…
Chances are if you asked a room full of gamers to list some negative player types, powergamer, min/maxer, rules lawyer, and thespian would vie for first place… Then the powergamer would take out the min/maxer from a position of advantage in a flurry of massive dice rolls, and the rules lawyer would drown in the … Continue reading →
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