Running A Time of War – again/still
It has been ages since I posted about my Mechwarrior campaign. There has been a lot to say, some of which ended up in Shadowscasts 6 and 7, but there has been a lack of time to do much more than that. To make a long story short, we put the campaign on Indefinite Hiatus. … Continue reading
Alien Geometry?
The phrase ‘alien geometry’ conjures up a lot of bizarre images when given time and space in our fragile, human, thought continuities… even after we graduate from school. To some of us, standard geometry can get pretty alien. In Korea, particularly older parts of Seoul, even those with a firm grasp of angles and armed … Continue reading
Playing to Type: Genre Fidelity and Growth
Genre conventions and assumptions can make or break a session, scenario, campaign or even a group. They are not alone in possessing this awesome power, but they do occupy a curious niche of game elements which people seem to understand, yet prove that they do not somewhere between ‘it’s probably too late to fix things’ … Continue reading
Assessing Group Performance
Perception shapes reality, but sadly individual perception shapes only an individual’s reality to any great degree. I say sadly, not because I long for the chaos such a totally mutable world would bring with it, but because many of us remain trapped in glass rooms for 1 in the Hotel of the Real, thinking that our perception … Continue reading
Come hell or high water…
Anyone who has spent any time with games set in the World of Darkness has probably at one time or another wondered if their Storyteller were out to get them. While games like Vampire do not have a monopoly on pushing for consequences for character action, they certainly introduced a lot of young gamers to … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 