Genre is Rule 0
Now available in audio form with commentary from 2020 Casting Shadows Podcast I watched a video clip yesterday evening which asked “Why?” in connection to the disparity in numbers between those who will choose to respond to an ad looking for D&D or Pathfinder players as compared to the number who will respond to ads … Continue reading
Casting Runes 1: Percentile Violence~
There are many reasons why I selected RuneQuest to support my serious foray back into fantasy gaming after all these years (No, Vampire: The Dark Ages does not count). Chief among these reasons is the basic simplicity of the core mechanics and the enjoyable lethality of the combat system. At this point in time, I … Continue reading
Casting Runes – An exploration of RuneQuest ~ Introduction
This post is an introduction to the series and as such little to no content was harmed in its making. As I mentioned last week, my next series on the blog will focus on RuneQuest. For whatever reason, I have never played it and from what I can see now, I should have. While I … Continue reading
Neither a Mark nor a Lender be: Kickstarter
Erik Tenkar has been keeping an eye on RPG Kickstarter projects for a while now, and I appreciate his perspective on the phenomenon of some of these explosive bidding processes followed by months of waiting and – more often than not, it seems, by delays. I especially appreciate that he does not proclaim the sky … Continue reading
Shadowscast Episode 9
This ninth episode of Shadowscast, presents two longer segments on Korea, and one segment on dealing with one of the pitfalls of winging events from behind the GM screen in a sandbox or “lazy-style” game . I had intended to include an update to an error in last episode’s Leviathans segment on the torpedo phase, … Continue reading
