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Showing posts with label Alternative Settings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alternative Settings. Show all posts
Friday, October 26, 2012

Span TwoPointFive... AKA expanding to Span Seven

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In the Continuum RPG, PCs progress through 5 "character levels" known as Spans.  I have to come to conclusion that these levels ar...
Monday, June 6, 2011

Leonardo's Microscope

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I've tried quite a few different rules-light GM-less games over the years (Off the top of my head: Microscope, Remember Tomorrow, Fiasco...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Planet Pollock

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Yesterday's session of 3:16 Carnage Amongst The Stars went rather well, despite some big interruptions (relatives calling in the middle ...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Beam Me Up Before You Go-Go

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Last night I ran "Wham Trek" at my weekly one-shot group. The mechanics were an extremely light trimmed-down version of Warhammer ...
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Friday, July 9, 2010

May the Blackbird be with you

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Last night I played in a one-shot called "New Hope" that was sort of set in the Star Wars Universe, and used mechanics somewhat b...
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Thursday, June 3, 2010

We aren't far from Swarm Prime afterall

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My apologies for using the narcissist term "Swarm Prime" to refer to the default Continuum universe. I know it's in poor taste...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Lego Batman at GwenCon

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My favorite game at GwenCon this year was Lego Batman. It had a great balance of goofiness and challenge, played wonderfully with tropes and...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Cornerstones of Conspiracy

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Verisimilitude is really important to me, even when I'm not running a "sandbox" style of game. The key to making your setting ...
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Saturday, February 7, 2009

LARPsploding

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A couple of buddies of mine are playing in a Vampire LARP here in town, and last night it was one of many topics of conversation. They revea...
Friday, July 18, 2008

Hollows & Hobgoblins

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3 posts about Thursday: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Last night, we played Hollows and Hobgoblins . It's a dark fantasy RPG based on the Wush...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Alternate Settings I'd Like To Run

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Here's some links to alternate setting ideas I'd like to run as RPGs, but may never get around to. Scion Babies Multi-Platform Warr...

Galadriel's Middle Earth

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We start the campaign by watching the first 2/3rds of Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring. When Frodo offers the ring to Galadriel, w...

Multi-Platform The Warriors

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Have you seen the movie The Warriors? It's an old 70's film about a New York street gang trying to get back to Coney Island while al...

Scion Babies

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I'm considering running this for GwenCon this year. The idea is a blending of Scion and the cartoon show Muppet Babies. PCs would be Mup...

Twisted Expectations

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It should be fairly obvious reading over this gaming blog that I'm a big fan of Alternative Settings that are at once familiar, yet also...

Amber (Myth)

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This was part of the binder full of hand-outs given to the players in my old Everway campaign. A few nods to Amberway can be noted in the t...
Monday, February 25, 2008

BrewerBarrow and the old ghosts

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An hour ago, I posted this as part of another file, but since then I've decided it's better to have it separate so I can reference/l...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Everway Realms

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Over the next day or two, I intend to post most or all of the Sphere and Realm files we made for the old Everway Campaign. Each had a player...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Addendum to Merankea

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With no published setting or historical evidence of a society such as Merankea , I was free to improvise whatever details I desired. This wi...
Wednesday, January 9, 2008

The Edison Gambit

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Today appears to be the day in which I bitch about issues gaming related. I said who am I to blow against my own wind? I used to be the Head...
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