Part of the whole~

Weak Analogies and Misdirection: I love reading old pulp stories. Even though I live in an apartment with virtually no convenient storage or display space, on the other side of the Earth from the bunker in which all my other cool stuff is kept, I still have literal stacks of pulps from the likes of Maxwell Grant, … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed – 15 (Blue Planet)

This seed is being dropped in the water and left to its own devices. Perhaps it will find a home on some Blue Planet. This seed is wind-blown and storm-swept, and in the usual vague way of these entries will aspire to inspire some sort of idea for your own game. When I first got Blue … Continue reading →

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PBeM report 8 – Long Winter Shadows ~ A Single Step

Continuing the events detailed in the gripping scroll of Marlin Tyrell’s autobiographical tale, “The Kobold Lair” A Harsh Journey~ The GM: “We are ready.” Setting off the collapse, according to the dwarves, will not endanger the prisoners, although they have ensured there will be collateral damage to the arena. All that remains is to organize how to … Continue reading →

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Iconic Heroes ~ part 3

A friend of mine asked me why I was choosing to use Icons for the mechanics of this story, seeing as how I didn’t really like aspects of it and consider it ‘not my thing.’ I gave him a long-winded response that boils down to, “I feel that I should give this lineage of games … Continue reading →

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Iconic Heroes – part 2

As all the players I can reasonably expect to enter the game, should the campaign survive the design phase, have seen Heroes, I suspect that I will dispense with origin stories. Such things can be set firmly in the hands of the players to relate. I think the focal point should rest on the development … Continue reading →

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