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Saturday Seed 125 (Prime Directive)
With October upon us, and dreams of Halloween One-Shots in the air, the Seeds for this month will focus on horror, but we will try to make them our normal style of slightly unusual. This week’s seed is for Prime Directive and brings the crew into contact with the sins of their past. The seed … Continue reading →
Filed under Prime Directive (SFB), Saturday Seeds, Star Fleet Battles · Tagged with Halloween One-Shots, Prime Directive, Star Fleet Universe
Shadowscast Episode 8
It is October once again, and my often futile quest to find a decent carving pumpkin here in Korea is on. It is also a period wherein several of my favorite holidays coincide: Chuseok, the Korean Harvest Festival, Canadian Thanksgiving, and Halloween. This episode of Shadowscast, the eighth, presents two segments on Korea, one on … Continue reading →
Filed under Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Reports, Running Games, Shadowscast, The Blog · Tagged with Chuseok, gaming, Halloween, Korea, Role-playing game, roleplaying, RPG, setting development, Shadowscast, South Korea
Saturday Seed 124 (Aces & Eights)
With October upon us, and dreams of Halloween One-Shots in the air, the Seeds for the next four Saturdays will focus on horror, but perhaps not in the usual places. This week’s seed is for Aces & Eights and pits the characters against terrors in the darkness. The Casting Shadows blog offers Saturday Seeds and … Continue reading →
Filed under Aces & Eights, Infectious Plots, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with A Time of War, Aces & Eights, Battletech, Mechwarrior, Plot Ideas, Role-playing game, Story Hooks
October RPG Blog Carnival – Surfing the Surfeit of Horror
It’s October, so naturally it is time to expect Halloween episodes in prime-time on the major networks, fat pumpkins in the grocery stores and farmers markets, and line-jumping Christmas Decorations in the shopping malls. For gamers, thoughts often turn to the one-shot horror story, such as running a Call of Cthulhu scenario, or dipping into … Continue reading →
Filed under Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Halloween, Role-playing game, RPG Blog Carnival
All for One: Campaign Development Report 3
This post is intended both to help newcomers to All for One: Regime Diabolique get into the game more smoothly by discussing elements of the combat systems which can raise questions, and offer some ideas for transitioning from other game systems to Ubiquity. This post will look at physical and social combat. Subsequent posts will look … Continue reading →
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