Shadowscast – episode 3

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    Arrayed in the pull-down menus at the top of the page is a collection of commentary and comments about roleplaying games and roleplaying techniques for both players and adjudicators. The most recent entry specifically on running games takes pride of place in the headline above. The most recent entries on all topics can be found listed below in the Livre d'Eibon

    The focus of the posts you will find here is strictly on face-to-face and play-by-post 'tabletop' gaming. Further details on what to expect, how things are arranged, and the schedule for posting different types of entry may be found in the 'What to Expect' sticky-post below~

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What to expect from Casting Shadows

Using either the pull-down menus at the top of the page, or the various means of tag and category search tools arrayed along the side, readers can explore a growing collection of commentary and comments about roleplaying games and techniques for both players and adjudicators. The focus of these posts is strictly on face-to-face and play-by-post ‘tabletop’ … Read more

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Shadowscast – episode 3

This episode touches on four topics. We continue our look at Seoul as a setting, discuss gaming in public, review the excellent service from Noble Knight Games, and take a look at our initial impressions of the Ubiquity Roleplaying System. Volume 1, Episode 3 Related articles Shadowscast – episode 1 from Casting Shadows (runeslinger.wordpress.com) Shadowscast … Read more

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Saturday Seed ~ 88 (Palladium Fantasy)

This week’s seed is for Palladium’s rich fantasy setting and takes a stab at racial intolerance at the same time. The Seed One of the characters comes into possession of a magical blade which proves itself able to communmicate with its accepted owner emapthically. As the days pass, it soon becomes obvious that it also provides … Read more

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All for One ~ Regime Diabolique Campaign Development Report 1

This post is intended both to help newcomers to All for One: Regime Diaboliqe get into the game more smoothly by looking at some of the more common questions about some important Skills and Talents, and lay out a sample campaign for the game. Subsequent posts will discuss elements of the free-form magic system which … Read more

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Saturday Seed ~ 87 (Shadowrun)

This week’s seed is for Shadowrun. It is incredibly small, but could roam anywhere between amusing and deadly dangerous depending on how you set it up, and the sort of character you use as the target.   The Seed A Sorcerer of some accomplishment has been devoting himself to obtaining a higher grade of Initiation, … Read more

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Divvying up the Divinations

I don’t play too many games where predicting the future comes up all that often. Additionally, I don’t find my players actually take this sort of past information-gathering skill too often, usually being more in favour of interacting with Contacts and so on, but when they do, I like to shoot for portraying things as … Read more

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