Passing Familiarity

Posted by Runeslinger on July 20, 2014 · 5 Comments 

For a few years, my game group and I switched games and usually systems every month. Every once in a while, the other GM in the group would switch systems out from under a setting to try a new way of running a game we’d already played for his month of sessions. Generally, though, each … Continue reading →

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Spectrum Shifts

Posted by Runeslinger on July 3, 2014 · 10 Comments 

I encounter a lot of certainty on the Internet, and no doubt convey no small amount of it myself – especially in posts like these. Hopefully, what registers that I am certain about is that we can rarely be certain of anything. Last week, I shared some ideas on gaming that seemed to register with … Continue reading →

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Running Interrogations in RuneQuest

Posted by Runeslinger on April 29, 2014 · 4 Comments 

When I first went over the list of Professional Skills in RuneQuest, I was happy to see how manageable the list is. Games with long and specific skills lists can be daunting to get used to, and bog down simple things like character generation. While the list in RQ6 is easy to get a grip … Continue reading →

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Theater of the Mind: Parlay Issue – Bonus Content

Posted by Runeslinger on March 12, 2014 · Leave a Comment 

Theater of the Mind Magazine and the Casting Shadows blog I have been contributing to a new gaming magazine called Theater of the Mind for the past few months. The magazine, available in PDF and Print-on-Demand from DriveThru, grew out of the underlying community supporting the YouTube RPG Brigade. In keeping with the nature of … Continue reading →

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Choice of Voice~

Posted by Runeslinger on October 20, 2013 · 11 Comments 

As discussion cycles through toward gaming techniques again in the YouTube RPG Brigade, it has brought a latent point about the narrative voices in gaming to the fore. This post brings together some ideas from a variety of earlier posts and videos and then tries to take some solid technical steps forward toward a framework … Continue reading →

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