Casting Runes 1: Percentile Violence~

There are many reasons why I selected RuneQuest to support my serious foray back into fantasy gaming after all these years (No, Vampire: The Dark Ages does not count). Chief among these reasons is the basic simplicity of the core mechanics and the enjoyable lethality of the combat system. At this point in time, I … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed ~ 137 (Aces & Eights)

This week’s seed is a grim idea to spark a manhunt in Aces&Eights. It is suitable as a motivator for one story in a campaign, or as an ongoing theme. The seed The seed entails offering the players the opportunity to involved their characters in a search for a prisoner who has escaped from justice … Continue reading →

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Casting Runes – An exploration of RuneQuest ~ Introduction

This post is an introduction to the series and as such little to no content was harmed in its making. As I mentioned last week, my next series on the blog will focus on RuneQuest. For whatever reason, I have never played it and from what I can see now, I should have. While I … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed ~ 136 (Stormbringer)

This week’s seed is a grisly little item for Stormbringer. It is not much more than a rumor, but deployed skillfully, can twist itself into a long-running quest, full of the ambiguity and mystery for which the Elric saga is famed. The seed The seed is nothing more than news that an item known as … Continue reading →

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Taking a Stab at Seven Games

The Black Campbell got me thinking about the Seven Games thread that has been running on G+ for a while. This was a topic I had been studiously ignoring as it doesn’t seem to easily break down into 7 discrete games for me. I tend to run more than one game at a time, and … Continue reading →

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