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Showing posts with label Mystery Plotlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mystery Plotlines. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

A Sneaky Little Thing With The Birds

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 I should have put this in the Amber post last night, but forgot to mention it then. It's okay, that post was mostly about how great my ...

I love my new Amberites!

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Ran the first session of my new Amber campaign tonight. I love my players! They're really engaged and give a damn about the NPCs already...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

The Great Pumpkins

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I played in an 11-hour halloween one-shot last night, run by my friend Jeremy Hill. It was a solid game, lots of fun. Every player had 2 PCs...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Hard Drives Full of Ripper Letters

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SPOILER ALERT: May contain tree nuts and spoilers for Night's Black Agents / Dracula Dossier. Last weekend's session of my Night...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Back From The Dead. (Again.)

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A year ago, I suddenly returned to this blog after a long absence, posted for a few weeks, and then vanished again. I had just moved closer ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Mapping Your Adversaries in Night's Black Agents

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As mentioned last time, I've recently started my third Night's Black Agents campaign. Today I'm going to talk about one of my fa...
Monday, December 22, 2014

All of our wars have now been thoroughly hammered

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Late last night, my play group completed the last session of our Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (3rd Edition) campaign. It was an epic session, ...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Old-School Conspiracy-Mapping with Night's Black Agents

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I think I need a bigger corkboard. Here's what my Night's Black Agents PCs have uncovered of the conspiracy as of session 3 (and t...
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Monday, July 8, 2013

The Enemy Within - Campaign Log - Part 6 - Session 5 - Day 4

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SPOILER ALERT: This is the campaign log for the new The Enemy Within for Warhammer 3rd Ed. Most of this is early stuff (day 4 of the advent...
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Information Is All - and sometimes that drives me crazy!

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As some of my readers know, I'm running this time-travel game two nights a week. It's the setting of the out-of-print Continuum RPG,...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

A good GM can save a bad system.

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A good GM can save a bad system. I played several new (for me) RPGS this weekend at the Emerald City Game Fest, and I had a ton of fun. In s...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Gumshoe Points Per Session

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For the past year, I've been running a Gumshoe game with one really major house rule: All the skill pools refresh automatically at the s...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Core Clues ported to Savage Worlds

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This started as a short tangent in my last post* (about using Gumshoe's "Core Clues" in Warhammer FRP), and grew long enough t...

Core Clues ported to WFRP

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GUMSHOE has a concept called "Core Clues", clues that are so vital to the plot that you literally can't miss them. Whatever el...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Daybreak as an RPG

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My wife and I recently Netflixed a TV show called Daybreak. It's sort of like if Groundhog Day were a serious Detective show. The lead c...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Azathoth Upstairs, Cthulhu Downstairs

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One of the other players in Fordyce Hall (a Cthulhu by Gaslight scenario I played in at Gwen Con) put up this lovely picture of me about t...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Using Cthulhu Mythos (aka Mythos Lore to us Old Schoolers)

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The cliff hanger I left off with in monday's session of Trail of Cthulhu was the realization that a monster was creeping up behind her, ...
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Monday, March 9, 2009

I'm really digging Trail of Cthulhu

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When I bought Esoterrorists, nearly a year ago, I was excited by the possibilities of the system . Reading the Cthulhu version of Esoterrori...