Serial Setting 1: Ubiquity ~ Week 20

Posted by Runeslinger on April 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

This is the 20th installment of this year’s Serial Setting project; a tropical island setting in the South Pacific intended for use with Hollow Earth Expedition or Daring Tales of Adventure. Ostensibly a corporate holding off the usual shipping lanes, known to savvier career sailors in the region as a possible refuge between Pitcairn and French Polynesia, the Windlet Isles strangely represent both … Continue reading →

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Snap, Crackle, and Pulp

Posted by Runeslinger on April 5, 2011 · 1 Comment 

Last week I took a step away from my pulp projects to catch up on book-keeping in my other games. This week, I have a clearer sense of what I want to do with my part of our shared HEX campaign, and how I want to accomplish it. As a player in Pulp Action games … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed ~ .44 (HEX)

Posted by Runeslinger on March 26, 2011 · 1 Comment 

In discussions about pulp adventure this week, a recurring theme appropriately appeared, and it is in its honor that this week’s seed is being planted. Suitable for any pulp game, but written with HEX in mind, this seed is a non-combat action sequence starting from an innocuous event and potentially ending up in the morgue. … Continue reading →

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Serial Setting 1: Ubiquity ~ Week 12

Posted by Runeslinger on February 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

This series of posts is intended to provide a quickly usable setting for busy GMs looking to run Daring Tales of Adventure or Hollow Earth Expedition.   Each serial installment for the setting builds on, connects to, or in some way embellishes those that have gone before. Story seeds are liberally strewn throughout, and each entry features a location and a … Continue reading →

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Ready to Explore~

Posted by Runeslinger on January 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Over the weekend, what used to be my regular gaming group assembled over lunch to discuss getting back into the swing of actually playing around the same table in the same room again. It has been too long. While PBeM and games over Messenger have enabled us to keep certain games moving along at a … Continue reading →

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