Posted by Runeslinger on May 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
This seed is being planted for Mage: The Ascension. I don’t tend to share my seeds for the World of Darkness, but a recent conversation about the game caused this one to seem ripe for doing so. My Saturday Seeds also reappear on Ancient Scroll on random Saturdays~ The seed The seed involves a small group of … Read more
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
Filed under 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
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
Filed under 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
Posted by Runeslinger on July 20, 2012 · 4 Comments
Old Dog on the prowl As those with any familiarity with this blog will know I have been focused pretty heavily on running games with the Ubiquity roleplaying system for almost two years now. One interesting side effect of that which I noticed this week was that other systems are starting to look awfully slow … Read more
Filed under Battletech, Running Games, The Blog, Ubiquity · Tagged with A Time of War, Aces & Eights, All for One, Call of Cthulhu, Desolation, Hollow Earth Expedition, Leagues of Adventure, Mechwarrior, roleplaying system, running games, Shadowrun, Trinity, Ubiquity, World of Darkness
Posted by Runeslinger on February 8, 2011 · 5 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 11 at its peak, and as events took their toll on unlives, … Read more
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
