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Saturday Seed ~ 154 (Mage: The Ascension)
This seed is being planted for Mage: The Ascension. I don’t tend to share my seeds for the World of Darkness, but a recent conversation about the game caused this one to seem ripe for doing so. My Saturday Seeds also reappear on Ancient Scroll on random Saturdays~ The seed The seed involves a small group of … Continue reading →
Filed under Saturday Seeds, WoD ad nauseum · Tagged with Mage The Ascension, World of Darkness
Saturday Seed ~ 153 (Leagues of Adventure)
This seed is being planted for Leagues of Adventure, by Triple Ace Games (who have been having a great 30% off sale this week). If you are looking for some additional material to segue from one aspect of the Great Game Campaign to another, this seed might be of some small use. My Saturday Seeds also reappear … Continue reading →
Filed under Brass&Steel, Leagues of Adventure, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Games, Leagues of Adventure, mystery, roleplaying games, Victorian era
Iron Man 3: The IC, OoC Divide
Last night, my wife took me out to see the midnight showing of Iron Man 3 which opened here yesterday. She’s cool like that. We enjoyed it, even though we didn’t get back home ’til 3am and we both have to work today, but that enjoyment was at times hard-won. This blog post should contain … Continue reading →
Filed under Running Games, The Blog · Tagged with Armor Wars, Avengers, Immersion in RPGs, In-character, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Ironman, Out of Character, roleplaying games, War Machine
Casting Runes 4: The Dance of Death
This post continues the exploration and implementation of RuneQuest 6th Edition for the creation of a sword and sorcery campaign setting. This installment focuses on combat in general and magic use in combat in particular. Our Combatants For my first few sample combats with RuneQuest 6, I picked pregenerated characters and creatures randomly and worked … Continue reading →
Filed under BRP, Characters and Support Cast, Preparation and Preparedness, Runequest, Running Games, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Campaign setting, fantasy settings, roleplaying, Runequest, sword and sorcery
Saturday Seed ~ 152 (RuneQuest)
The latest version of RuneQuest, now published by The Design Mechanism, has been a topic of much interest and enjoyment around here this year. This seed is a little idea that might be a way to introduce one of the magical additions made to the game for this 6th Edition, mysticism. My Saturday Seeds also … Continue reading →
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