Posted by Runeslinger on October 30, 2012 · 5 Comments
Not long ago, an excellent new channel on YouTube called EmergentPlay began posting short, punchy clips pertaining to RPG theory and practice. If you have not taken a look at this channel yet, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The poster is very well-spoken, well-prepared, and game-literate; and the clips are 2-5 minutes of thought-provocation. Last … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on October 22, 2012 · 6 Comments
As readers of this blog already know, I like Play by e-Mail games and have found them much easier to run since the advent of Gmail. A few weeks ago, I transformed a game slated to be run as a PBeM into a game run via Google+ and my initial feeling is that I will … Continue reading →
Filed under A Time of War, Battletech, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Mechwarrior Live Game Reports, Preparation and Preparedness, Reports, Reviews, Running Games · Tagged with A Time of War, Battletech, Google+, live report, Mechwarrior, Play-by-mail game, playing in games, Role-playing game, running games
Posted by Runeslinger on October 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Our Mutant City Blues campaign has not been declared dead, but the lack of an official pronouncement does not make it less so. Predictably, the game to a crashing halt the moment it was about to take off. There is nothing about Gumshoe or Mutant City Blues itself which contributed to this, so this post will not get … Continue reading →
Filed under Campaign Recaps, Live Game Report, Mutant City Blues, Mutant City Blues Actual Play, Technical Questions, The Blog · Tagged with GUMSHOE System, Mutant City Blues, pelgrane press, Play-by-mail game, Role-playing game, RPG Review, setting development
Posted by Runeslinger on October 9, 2012 · 2 Comments
It is October once again, and my often futile quest to find a decent carving pumpkin here in Korea is on. It is also a period wherein several of my favorite holidays coincide: Chuseok, the Korean Harvest Festival, Canadian Thanksgiving, and Halloween. This episode of Shadowscast, the eighth, presents two segments on Korea, one on … Continue reading →
Filed under Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Reports, Running Games, Shadowscast, The Blog · Tagged with Chuseok, gaming, Halloween, Korea, Role-playing game, roleplaying, RPG, setting development, Shadowscast, South Korea
Posted by Runeslinger on October 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
With October upon us, and dreams of Halloween One-Shots in the air, the Seeds for the next four Saturdays will focus on horror, but perhaps not in the usual places. This week’s seed is for Aces & Eights and pits the characters against terrors in the darkness. The Casting Shadows blog offers Saturday Seeds and … Continue reading →
Casting Shadows 