My plans for Kapcon have been all over the place this year. Despite what I posted earlier, my plans had moved to running Urban Shadows only, but this has now changed again. I have ended up with a streamlining my offerings to a single RPG (outside of Adventure Squad) being Shadow of the Demon Lord.

Round 2 and 6 - "A Measure of Faith" for Shadow ( Read more... )

Despite intending to take a break from Atlantis in 2016, it looks like we will be back with the first two chapters (chapters 5 and 6) of the second major arc. The first chapter is "Deadmen's Deadlock" for which I will be pillaging RQ6's Monster Island ( Read more... )

We had PC creation for Urban Shadows on Thursday. It went well, though we didn't get to actually starting play (the session was under 2 hour in length). I came out of it with a good handle of the PCs, their issues, and the rapidly evolving setting around them. The story for this short run was quickly whittled out of the wood of ideas ( Read more... )

My discussion on this concept is around 5 years too late, but just to compliment my last post, another aspect of PbtA RPGs that I really like and I think plays a large part in their appeal is their asymmetrical nature. Lots of RPGs have adopted an asymmetrical approach to the GM and players, and have been almost since the dawning of RPGs. The ( Read more... )

I am working on a short season or Urban Shadows, consisting of a short three session run this year and then some one session con runs next year. I have already discussed Urban Shadows in respect of running a World of Darkness game here:http://grandexperiment.livejournal.com/273171.htmlRead more... )

We have finished Chapter 4 of the Unbridled Blade campaign called "City Atop the Mire". The session logs can be found here:

Session 4.1: http://grandexperiment.livejournal.com/278690.html
Session 4.2: http://grandexperiment ( Read more... )

Session 4.7: During prefect Priam's funeral there was much intrigue. Staan, the regent of Cadaza and uncle, tried to make peace with Stelaro, but the offer was refused. Stelaro secretly planned to leave the city, now the Great Darkness was defeated. Nammelos offered Phaedra the assistance of the Grey Council in exchange for supporting Staan to ( Read more... )

Session 4.6: Stelaro led the defenders of Tartessos to the eastern wall of the city and made preparations for battle. A large horde of bloats, including an infected lavalu, approached. An attack was launched in coordination with bloats already inside the city, spilling out of the sewers. Cranetown burned in the harbour. Baram and Phaedra fled, ( Read more... )

Its been a while since my last general progress report on my ongoing Atlantis campaign: "The Unbridled Blade", so it seems like a good time to talk about things ( Read more... )

Shadow of the Demon Lord is Rob Schwalb's love letter to WFRP, which has then been streamlined, improved, and focussed through his recent experiences in developing WFRP2e and D&D5e. There is a level of unrestrained madness and glee in the RPG that has come across in his KS campaign and updates.

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