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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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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 →
Filed under Blue Planet, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Deadlands, Hollow Earth Expedition, Mutants & Masterminds, Palladium Fantasy, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game, Plot Ideas, Shadowrun, Story Hooks
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 →
Filed under Daring Tales, Hollow Earth Expedition, Serial Settings, Ubiquity · Tagged with casting shadows, Daring Tales, Hollow Earth Expedition, Plot Ideas, pulp adventures, setting development, Story Hooks, Ubiquity
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