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Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 9
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting has been running once a week for just over two months, and will continue for another four, providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition. These ideas, set in a fictional version of the Korean peninsula in 1936, present a … Continue reading →
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Facilitating Function in Fractious Factions
Thoughts on Parties of Mixed Capability Inspired by Joss Whedon’s film based on Marvel’s Avengers Last week, thanks to early release dates in Asia, I watched the Avengers on a local screen in Daejeon, South Korea. As I was leaving the theatre I was struck by just how well Joss Whedon had managed to present … Continue reading →
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Saturday Seed ~ 101 (Call of Cthulhu/Aces&Eights)
This week’s seed could work easily with either Call of Cthulhu or Aces&Eights as I will present it here, but could be modified or completed to work as a cross-over of these two games, or run in a Deadlands campaign. The options are quite broad. The seed could be ideal for a new group of … Continue reading →
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Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 8
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting has been running once a week for two months, and will continue for another four, providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition. These ideas, set in a fictional version of the Korean peninsula in 1936, present a community oppressed … Continue reading →
Marvel’s and Whedon’s Avengers
NO SPOILERS – I have just gotten home from the theatre where my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed The Avengers. Liking Whedon’s past work,and being very pleased with the movie incarnations of Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America, I felt before going that there was a good chance that the movie continuity for these heroes … Continue reading →
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