Posted by Runeslinger on February 8, 2011 · 8 Comments
Running Campaigns with multiple GMs. One of the most memorable campaigns I have ever been involved with was also one of the most complicated. The campaign, a Vampire: The Dark Ages Chronicle, was run by 4 GMs, started with 8 players, grew to 13 at its peak, had countless NPCs, and as events took their … Continue reading →
Filed under Aberrant, Adventure!, Casting the Shadows, Daring Tales, Hollow Earth Expedition, Running Games, The Blog, Trinity (Aeon), WoD ad nauseum · Tagged with playing in games, Role-playing game, running games, The Blog, Thoughts, Vampire The Dark Ages, World of Darkness
Posted by Runeslinger on February 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Promises The Second Story in the Tale of Marlin Tyrell, Wizard – known to himself as Marlin the Magnificent – begins here with this first installment of ‘Promises.’ The first story, ‘ A Single Step ‘ concluded with Marlin and Genrir booking passage on a vessel called the Winter Wind to speed the young wizard on his journey to the … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on January 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Have you ever noticed that something which was initially off-putting about a system may become a favoured aspect of that setting once you really get into things? I think this is the quieter cousin of the brash and well-known truth that often the things that first draw us to something become the very things which … Continue reading →
Filed under All for One: Regime Diabolique, Casting the Shadows, Daring Tales, Desolation, Hollow Earth Expedition, Preparation and Preparedness, Reviews, Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog, Ubiquity · Tagged with All for One, Daring Tales, Desolation, Hollow Earth Expedition, running games, Thoughts, Ubiquity
Posted by Runeslinger on January 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Over the weekend, what used to be my regular gaming group assembled over lunch to discuss getting back into the swing of actually playing around the same table in the same room again. It has been too long. While PBeM and games over Messenger have enabled us to keep certain games moving along at a … Continue reading →
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Posted by Runeslinger on January 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Despite having to use the implied handist term set down by our commonly handed overlords, I am pleased to have been born with a reasonable degree of ambidexterity. I suspect it is because of this that I have often found the rules in virtually all the RPGs I have ever played which concern this relatively … Continue reading →
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