Posted by Runeslinger on April 13, 2025 · Leave a Comment
The campaign has grown from one investigation with a single investigator to five independent investigations (or branches) and nine investigators, so far…
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Posted by Runeslinger on August 3, 2024 · Leave a Comment
#RPGaDAY2024 Day 3: Most Often
Posted by Runeslinger on November 18, 2023 · 2 Comments
In the imagined situation these characters and their decisions create and keep in motion, I have presented the players with some curious and upsetting details. As the clock ticks on, Terrence and Callum have followed their motivations, their curiosity, and their urge to find fame and fortune in breaking this case open in the papers. Smalls has found the secrets of the bloodthirsty book and its intimations about one Ludvig Prinn to be so fascinating it is worth heaving his massive bulk out of his shop and apartment on Newbury Street to uncover the truth of them.
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Posted by Runeslinger on August 9, 2022 · 3 Comments
#RPGaDay2022 Day 9, wherein a simple question becomes both detailed and complex~
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Posted by Runeslinger on June 17, 2018 · 7 Comments
There is a sense among gamers that for games played with Lovecraft and Company’s Cthulhu Mythos as the setting, that insanity, death, or both are a foregone conclusion. Play to Find Out takes on a slightly limited meaning, ‘play to find out how you meet your end.’ I think it is helpful to take a … Continue reading →
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Casting Shadows 