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 May 29, 2012 · 10 Comments
Produced by Triple Ace Games and using Exile Game Studio’s Ubiquity System, Leagues of Adventure is a broad-shouldered yet elegant game set in the age of Victoria and the brave new world of Stream-that-never-was, opening new vistas, charting new courses, and shining light on forgotten places. It is consulting detectives, daring inventors, challengers of convention, firsts-to-do, culture-clashing, mind and … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on November 29, 2011 · 2 Comments
I had intended to write a single overview entry on or review of A Time of War – The Mechwarrior RPG, 4th Edition much earlier than this, but hopefully the added perspective will balance out the delay. It is hard to believe that it has been a year already. I have posted several times on … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on January 19, 2011 · 4 Comments
Produced by Gremalkin Games and using Exile Game Studio’s Ubiquity System, Desolation provides an interesting combination of elements which somehow manages to mix the clarity of a detailed setting with the open-ended freedom of a merely outlined setting. I found this approach to be both refreshing and liberating. While I rarely feel constrained by the limits on a … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on November 11, 2010 · 3 Comments
Produced by Triple Ace Games and using Exile Game Studio’s Ubiquity System, All for One: Regime Diabolique is a powerful force for sword-wielding, insult-tossing, chandelier-swinging, musket-firing, honor-defending, King-Crown-and-Country-saving, wench-wooing, dice-chucking fun. If you don’t believe me, call your seconds and we will settle this like fictional characters. You can be D’Artagnan, and I will be… … Continue reading →
Casting Shadows 