Genre is Rule 0
Posted by Runeslinger on January 27, 2013 · 6 Comments
I watched a video clip yesterday evening which asked “Why?” in connection to the disparity in numbers between those who will choose to respond to an ad looking for D&D or Pathfinder players as compared to the number who will respond to ads for other roleplaying games – mainstream or otherwise. The thoughts which followed … Read more
Category Aces & Eights, All for One: Regime Diabolique, Brass&Steel, Call of Cthulhu, Godlike, Hollow Earth Expedition, Leagues of Adventure, Running Games, Stormbringer, Technical Questions, Technoir, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Aces & Eights, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, gaming, genre conventions, Role-playing game, roleplaying games, RPG, running games, World of Darkness, Wraith the Oblivion
Saturday Seed ~ 140 (Aces&Eights)
Posted by Runeslinger on January 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is a small one for problem solvers and community builders in Aces&Eights. It is suitable as a one-shot or limited number of sessions with established characters. My Saturday Seeds also reappear on Ancient Scroll on random Saturdays~ The seed The seed entails the characters stumbling across a scene of great tragedy and … Read more
Category Aces & Eights, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Aces&Eights, Plot Ideas, roleplaying, Story Hooks
Saturday Seed ~ 137 (Aces & Eights)
Posted by Runeslinger on January 5, 2013 · 2 Comments
This week’s seed is a grim idea to spark a manhunt in Aces&Eights. It is suitable as a motivator for one story in a campaign, or as an ongoing theme. The seed The seed entails offering the players the opportunity to involved their characters in a search for a prisoner who has escaped from justice … Read more
Category Aces & Eights, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Aces&Eights, 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
Saturday Seed 124 (Aces & Eights)
Posted by Runeslinger on October 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
With October upon us, and dreams of Halloween One-Shots in the air, the Seeds for the next four Saturdays will focus on horror, but perhaps not in the usual places. This week’s seed is for Aces & Eights and pits the characters against terrors in the darkness. The Casting Shadows blog offers Saturday Seeds and … Read more
Category Aces & Eights, Infectious Plots, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with A Time of War, Aces & Eights, Battletech, Mechwarrior, Plot Ideas, Role-playing game, Story Hooks
