OSR or OGRe?
Posted by Runeslinger on July 20, 2012 · 4 Comments
Old Dog on the prowl As those with any familiarity with this blog will know I have been focused pretty heavily on running games with the Ubiquity roleplaying system for almost two years now. One interesting side effect of that which I noticed this week was that other systems are starting to look awfully slow … Continue reading →
Filed under Battletech, Running Games, The Blog, Ubiquity · Tagged with A Time of War, Aces & Eights, All for One, Call of Cthulhu, Desolation, Hollow Earth Expedition, Leagues of Adventure, Mechwarrior, roleplaying system, running games, Shadowrun, Trinity, Ubiquity, World of Darkness
Saturday Seed ~ 105 (Call of Cthulhu)
Posted by Runeslinger on May 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is for Call of Cthulhu. It is an extremely small seed, but packed with menace sent in the mail. The seed One of the characters (or a supporting character of personal importance to the Investigators) receives a small package in the mail addressed in their own handwriting. What’s inside is the first slice … Continue reading →
Filed under Call of Cthulhu, Infectious Plots, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Plot Hooks, roleplaying, Story Ideas, Trail of Cthulhu
May of the Dead: Building Undead Cults from Nothing
Posted by Runeslinger on May 21, 2012 · 2 Comments
Another explanation… This post is the second of two entries the Casting Shadows blog is contributing to the May of the Dead blog carnival. This entry pulls back the curtains of misdirection and manipulation which allow the formation of undead cults through mundane not mystical means. The previous entry from this blog can be read here, and … Continue reading →
Filed under Adventure!, All for One: Regime Diabolique, Beyond the Supernatural, Brass&Steel, Call of Cthulhu, Casting the Shadows, Deadlands, Hollow Earth Expedition, Leagues of Adventure, Palladium Fantasy, Running Games, Shadowrun, The Blog, Ubiquity · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Lich, May of the Dead, Mummy, roleplaying, setting development, Ubiquity, Vampire, Zombie
Saturday Seed ~ 101 (Call of Cthulhu/Aces&Eights)
Posted by Runeslinger on April 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed could work easily with either Call of Cthulhu or Aces&Eights as I will present it here, but could be modified or completed to work as a cross-over of these two games, or run in a Deadlands campaign. The options are quite broad. The seed could be ideal for a new group of … Continue reading →
Filed under Aces & Eights, Call of Cthulhu, Deadlands, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Plot Hooks, Story Ideas
Saturday Seed ~ 100 (Randomized!)
Posted by Runeslinger on April 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is the 100th I have shared on the Casting Shadows blog. When I started putting these story seeds forward, it never occurred to me that this particular series of posts would run so long. I have put up ideas of varying length and complexity over the past 100 weeks for games like … Continue reading →
Filed under Blue Planet, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Deadlands, Hollow Earth Expedition, Mutants & Masterminds, Palladium Fantasy, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game, Plot Ideas, Shadowrun, Story Hooks





