Shadowscast Episode 6

This episode has been delayed for a few months and as such has expanded to nearly twice its normal expected size. No guests were harmed in the filming of this episode, but one crane was filmed without his permission while stalking three-eyed fish. Topics for this Shadowscast range from a look at some GameScience dice … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed ~ 116 (Dungeon Crawl Classics)

Although no doubt easily planted in any fantasy setting with varying degrees of work, this week’s small story seed is for Dungeon Crawl Classics. I have been intending to put one out for this game solely because I enjoyed reading it so much. After much delay, here it is.  As I mentioned last week, I … Continue reading →

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Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 23

The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments and is scheduled for a 6-month run in which less only this and one other post remains. This series is focused on providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition  and to a much lesser extent Leagues of … Continue reading →

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Let the beats fall where they may…

I have been struggling to write a certain post since I started this blog. This is a run at it, but probably won’t be it. Bits and pieces of the theme have crept out here and there in other posts, but simply what I want to write about is this: There is much more to … Continue reading →

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To Seek Out New Dice and New… Civilizations

With no small amount of wonderment at myself, I went on an extensive dice hunt this month for a game I am not at all likely to run. The game? Dungeon Crawl Classics. This post is not about the game though, it’s about the dice. Nostalgia and High Impact Dice It took me years to … Continue reading →

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