Whose Ticket to Ride?

I don’t play any type of D&D anymore, and as it has been 23 years since I left that particular game behind in favour of others I can be fairly sure that there will be no returning. From time to time, the urge to run a fantasy game surfaces, of course, but those urges are … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed ~ 100 (Randomized!)

This week’s seed is the 100th I have shared on the Casting Shadows blog. When I started putting these story seeds forward, it never occurred to me that this particular series of posts would run so long. I have put up ideas of varying length and complexity over the past 100 weeks for games like … Continue reading →

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Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 7

The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting will be running once a week over a six-month period, and provide 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 by faceless enemies and … Continue reading →

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The Light that Never Warms (All for One: Regime Diabolique) – Campaign Report 3

This is the third installment of reports for my current face-to-face campaign using Triple Ace Games’ excellent All for One: Regime Diabolique ~ a game of supernatural intrigue and swashbuckling action in a dark reflection of 17th Century France. This campaign emphasizes mystery, dark magics, and verbal sparring, but includes a dash of chasing and escaping … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed ~ 99 (Call of Cthulhu)

This week’s seed is for Call of Cthulhu. It involves murders old and murders new. It is of pains and suffering, and most of all, it is of madness hidden for ages. The Seed After a particularly harrowing case, in which the investigators barely survived with lives and sanity intact, a woman comes to see … Continue reading →

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