The Podcast- A friendly conversation about natural-feeling characters with SettingFirstRPG
- A Friendly Conversation on Character Social Inequality in RPGs
- A Frightfully Cheerful Conversation on Horror and Comedy
- On the idea of a "Better Game"
- On what might be in a name, and Listener Calls
- Biting the Bullet with Jason Hobbs [video]
- Biting Bullets with Jason Hobbs
- A Friendly and Impossible chat with RPG Sean~
- On Memory and RPGs, featuring Arcane Alienist
- Is Immersion Impossible? A Friendly, Abridged Discussion~
Whispers in Darkness
Saturday Seeds
This series of posts will present whole or partial story ideas for use in your own games. If you use any of them, please leave a comment to let me know how they worked, what you chose to or needed to change and expand, and think of me kindly… once in a while.
Adjudication 1 ~ The Hand
~The Hand~ * link below not for young or sensitive viewers: graphic content The Question: How would you rule on a character losing their hand? The Details: The removal of the hand may be voluntary, such as the character cutting it off as part of a sacrifice, test, self-preservation (Ash)*, spite (Ash), act of contrition … Continue reading
PBeM report – 1: Long Winter Shadows ~ A Single Step
This is an excerpt of the first few posts from the Long Winter Shadows PBeM for Palladium Fantasy, dealing with the wanderings of the wizard Marlin Tyrell. I include it here to provide a light read for those who enjoy this sort of entry, and to promote and invite discussion on ways of conducting fantasy … Continue reading
Palladium Fantasy: a pleasant return ~ part 3
And in the fury of this darkest hour We will be the light You’ve asked me for my sacrifice And I am Winter born -Cruxshadows, Winterborn Unlike most of my games, the initial set-up of this campaign was built around a strong, pre-envisioned arc, while character creation was a mix of random trait generation and … Continue reading
Discomfort, Fear, Terror, and Vast Cosmic Horror, on a dime a day
A blog I have been reading regularly since I started using WordPress (The Black Campbell), mentioned in passing the difficulty of running horror games and that, plus listening to some podcasts of actual games got me thinking about the skills it takes, and the effort that is required to set specific moods in a game session. … Continue reading
Colours out of Space
Casting Shadows 