Casting Runes 4: The Dance of Death
This post continues the exploration and implementation of RuneQuest 6th Edition for the creation of a sword and sorcery campaign setting. This installment focuses on combat in general and magic use in combat in particular. Our Combatants For my first few sample combats with RuneQuest 6, I picked pregenerated characters and creatures randomly and worked … Continue reading
Casting Runes 3: Developing the Experience
This post continues the exploration and implementation of RuneQuest 6th Edition for the creation of a sword and sorcery campaign setting. Balancing Interests For me, the lure of developing this campaign is to delve deeply into RuneQuest. I hope to develop a believably violent world with mediation, tactical evasion, and strategic forethought as hallmarks of … Continue reading
Casting Runes 2: Populating a Peculiar Place
This post continues the exploration and implementation of RuneQuest 6th Edition for the creation of a sword and sorcery campaign setting. Decades ago, when I was running fantasy stories as a matter of course, my worlds were planets circling stars and followed the laws of physics as I understood them. About the only thing that … Continue reading
Does size matter?
Most of us have no doubt heard at one point or another the witty retort that it is not the size of the wand, but rather the skill of the magician that determines effectiveness. While a discussion on this could likely give rise to numerous probing insights into the minds of gamers everywhere, I would … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 