Fragile Bonds, and Frightening Loyalties – Sandbaggers part 3

We have reached the third installment of this series on increasing our familiarity and flexibility with game mechanisms by watching and assessing appropriate media while thinking of them in terms of those mechanisms. In particular, this series of posts, however many it turns out to be, is looking at the cold war spy drama called … Continue reading →

Building Bonds, Testing Trust, and Sandbaggers – oh my! Part 2

This is the second in what might become a series which uses the episodes of a beloved cold war spy series called The Sandbaggers to dig into the genre from an RPG perspective and specific mechanisms from RPGs such as Delta Green and World War Cthulhu.

Bonds, Trust, and Sandbaggers – Oh, my! Part 1

This is the first in what might become a series of posts about episodes of the cold war spy series The Sandbaggers and how the events and relationships in the series can highlight and give nuance to our understanding of mechanisms within great RPGs like Delta Green and World War Cthulhu: Cold War~

A Universe Parallel to the RPG Experience

Humans being humans, the way we express ourselves tends toward recognizable patterns which we can choose to hone. Looking at how an idea can be explored helps in ways that taking the idea doesn’t…

The Silent Majority

When I reflect on this blog and what my projects under the name of Runeslinger are, it is inescapable to conclude that in the beginning, these endeavors were rooted in an effort to maintain a conversation with the dead.

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