Saturday Seed ~ 77 (Mechwarrior)

This week’s seed is for A Time of War and is meant to combine the dramatic tensions of a colleague’s brush with debilitating stress, with the challenge of a rescue operation. The seed This seed is planted in the cold and infertile soil of space, and will spring to life around a unit of characters … Continue reading →

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Cracking Open the Skull of Evil (11-2011 Blog Carnival)

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted by Elthos RPG on the topic of “How to Think Like a Villain.” It is a daunting topic to be sure, but one with which every GM has to deal on a fairly regular basis, even if the primary sources for their games is printed adventures and … Continue reading →

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Serial Settings 1: Ubiquity ~ Week 50

The entry this week for Serial Setting 1 for Ubiquity details a curious and missing artifact believed to have been taken from the beautiful and deadly Windlet Islands by pirates or other unscrupulous men in times past. It carries a clue to the greater mysteries and even greater treasures which may still rest there. The Serial Settings series of posts … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed ~ 76 (All for One)

This week’s somewhat risqué seed is for All for One: Regime Diabolique, and pits the musketeers against distance, deceit, and damsels in order to aid a friend in need, before the sands of life run out. The seed One of the characters’ inexhaustible supply of childhood friends and acquaintances appears to the musketeers as they … Continue reading →

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Playing A Time of War pt.2: Do you know where your XPs are?

This is the second in my series of posts on being a player of Catalyst’s dynamite new edition of the Mechwarrior RPG. For some reason, today’s entry has an air of cloak and dagger about it, and for a while it bore the Nixonian title XP-Gate in my mind as I was formulating how to … Continue reading →

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