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Saturday Seed ~ 139 (HEX)
This week’s seed is for Hollow Earth Expedition, and involves a rare moment when the characters are at home doing nothing. We all know how the universe hates that. The seed The seed involves giving the characters a choice about becoming aware of forces seeking to meddle in world affairs to their own benefit behind … Continue reading →
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Saturday Seed ~ 138 (Call of Cthulhu)
This week’s seed is for Call of Cthulhu either in the 20’s or in the modern era and combines fear, wonder, and inconvenient locations to give your Investigators more reasons to doubt the motives of a universe which allows them to live in it. The seed The seed involves the opportunity to participate in an … Continue reading →
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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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