Palladium Fantasy: a pleasant return ~ part 3
And in the fury of this darkest hour We will be the light You’ve asked me for my sacrifice And I am Winter born -Cruxshadows, Winterborn Unlike most of my games, the initial set-up of this campaign was built around a strong, pre-envisioned arc, while character creation was a mix of random trait generation and … Continue reading
SFB meets Prime Directive
This idea has been on my prodigious back-burner for a very long time. The basic idea is to have the game be mostly roleplay using Prime Directive, where the consequences for political ham-handedness can be played out using Starfleet Battles. The scenario I have in mind is like the episode (Friday’s Child, season 2) where … Continue reading
Palladium Fantasy: a pleasant return, pt 2
In this installment, we will look at some of the basic underpinnings of my Palladium Campaign, The Houses of Winter, and its two primary stories Winter Blooms, and Long Winter Shadows. The Houses of Winter is the overall campaign. Winter Blooms concerns itself with the quest by the three ostensible heroes, Grath, Marlin Tyrell, and … Continue reading
Palladium Fantasy: a pleasant return, pt 1
The bulk of my RPG collection is in storage… on the other side of the Earth. Were it not for the not insignificant issues of weight and shipping costs, I would have had it all (or most of it at any rate) sent to me here, long ago. In order to sate a desire most … Continue reading
Trinity: Planning and running the game~ pt 5
It is time to take a look at how the Trinity game I am running got where it has gotten, and why certain decisions were made to either prevent that result, or allow it to continue. To recap for a moment, the series itself was set from the beginning to be one of heroic action, … Continue reading
