Shadowscast Volume 2 Episode 2
Posted by Runeslinger on May 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment
This episode of Shadowscast, the second of Volume 2, presents more short segments on game ideas for Korea as a setting ranging from the supernatural to the curiously epicurean; one segment on the boundaries, inspiration, and limitations of art and visual aids in gaming and GMing; as well as some other odds and ends. For … Read more
Category A Time of War, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Broken Rooms, Playing in Games, Reports, Running Games, Shadowscast, Technical Questions, The Blog · Tagged with Aces&Eights, Broken Rooms, DCC, Hackmaster, Role-playing game, RPG, shamans
Saturday Seed ~ 145 (A Time of War)
Posted by Runeslinger on March 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is for A Time of War by Catalyst Game Labs. Although certainly usable for a set of mechwarrior player characters, it does not assume that occupation as a default. My Saturday Seeds also reappear on Ancient Scroll on random Saturdays~ The seed The seed involves the threat of assassination and espionage, but … Read more
Category A Time of War, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with A Time of War, Battletech, Mechwarrior, Plot Ideas, roleplaying, Story Hooks
Taking a Stab at Seven Games
Posted by Runeslinger on December 24, 2012 · 2 Comments
The Black Campbell got me thinking about the Seven Games thread that has been running on G+ for a while. This was a topic I had been studiously ignoring as it doesn’t seem to easily break down into 7 discrete games for me. I tend to run more than one game at a time, and … Read more
Category A Time of War, Aberrant, Aces & Eights, Adventure!, All for One: Regime Diabolique, Call of Cthulhu, Desolation, Hollow Earth Expedition, Palladium Fantasy, Running Games, Technoir, Trinity (Aeon), WoD ad nauseum · Tagged with Aces&Eights, Basic Role-Playing, Call of Cthulhu, Role-playing game, Ubiquity, World of Darkness
More Gaming with Google+
Posted by Runeslinger on October 22, 2012 · 6 Comments
As readers of this blog already know, I like Play by e-Mail games and have found them much easier to run since the advent of Gmail. A few weeks ago, I transformed a game slated to be run as a PBeM into a game run via Google+ and my initial feeling is that I will … Read more
Category A Time of War, Battletech, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Mechwarrior Live Game Reports, Preparation and Preparedness, Reports, Reviews, Running Games · Tagged with A Time of War, Battletech, Google+, live report, Mechwarrior, Play-by-mail game, playing in games, Role-playing game, running games
Saturday Seed 123 (A Time of War)
Posted by Runeslinger on September 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is for A Time of War in celebration of the release of the A Time of War Companion. The Casting Shadows blog offers Saturday Seeds and campaign starters every Saturday (go figure…). Seeds from the blog also appear on Ancient Scroll. The seed This seed could serve as the basis of a … Read more
Category A Time of War, Battletech, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Infectious Plots, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with A Time of War, Battletech, Mechwarrior, Plot Ideas, Role-playing game, Story Hooks
