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Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 18
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments and is scheduled for a 6-month run. This series is focused on providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition. These ideas, set in a fictionalized and mysticized version of the Korean peninsula in 1936, present a community … Continue reading →
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Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 17
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments and is scheduled for a 6-month run. This series is focused on providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition. These ideas, set in a fictionalized and mysticized version of the Korean peninsula in 1936, present a community … Continue reading →
Filed under Daring Tales, Hollow Earth Expedition, Serial Settings, Ubiquity · Tagged with casting shadows, Hollow Earth Expedition, korean peninsula, Plot Ideas, pulp adventures, roleplaying system, Serial Settings, Story Hooks, Ubiquity
Saturday Seed ~ 110 (Outbreak Undead)
This week’s seed is for Outbreak Undead, and is put together primarily for fast, light, and easy immersion at first, but has plenty of slightly off meat for the more emotional range once characters get established. I am not really that into zombie or zombie apocalypse style settings and systems, but I find Outbreak Undead to … Continue reading →
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Why do supplements feel like an anchor, not support?
When I was a D&D player my cohorts and I had no access to much beyond the core books we had obtained from far-flung centers of population with amazing things like book and hobby stores. Core books had come to us from mail order, or older brothers who didn’t understand what the game was, or … Continue reading →
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Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 16
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments and is scheduled for a 6-month run. This series is focused on providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition. These ideas, set in a fictionalized and mysticized version of the Korean peninsula in 1936, present a community … Continue reading →
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