Casting Runes 5: More and Less than Human

This post continues the exploration and implementation of RuneQuest 6th Edition for the creation of a sword and sorcery campaign setting. It is long past time to show a little more about character options for this setting, and to write a little bit about how it will be run. Let’s start with the last part … Continue reading

Saturday Seed ~ 158 (Call of Cthulhu)

This minor seed is being musically planted by moonlight for Call of Cthulhu. Aimed at characters in the 20s and 30s, it can take on extra special significance in a generation game. My Saturday Seeds also reappear on Ancient Scroll on random Saturdays~ The seed The seed involves a neighborhood bar which has featured live musicians for … Continue reading

The Morrow Project Pre-Release: Character Generation

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For me, the character creation rules are often the window I use for getting a good understanding of how an RPG is intended to be interpreted and implemented. This section tends to be my first, best source of first impressions. Digging into my Pre-Release copy of The Morrow Project, I was quickly given the sense … Continue reading

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

Shadowscast Volume 2 Episode 1

This new volume and episode of Shadowscast, the first of Volume 2, presents more short segments on Korea ranging from the floral to the culinary, and ultimately the political (seas of fire and all that) , a quick look at Magicians – the language learning RPG, an update on Android apps for the gamer who … Continue reading

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