Thursday, 29 January 2015

The Importance of Shadowrun

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I played a lot of Shadowrun as a teenager. Christ, I played a lot of Shadowrun. I played a shark shaman from Hawai'i with a big tattoo o...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Random Encounters in New Troy: The Forest of Broceliande

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This is a random encounter table for the Forest of Broceliande. All random encounter tables for New Troy have two columns, with some rough c...
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Monday, 26 January 2015

Effusing About Writing

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If for no other reason that this passage made me smile both for its humour and its sheer storytelling and stylistic craft, here's James ...
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Thursday, 22 January 2015

The Jamesian and the Lovecraftian

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HP Lovecraft is, in a sense, a modernist writer. Not stylistically, but philosophically: the horror is senseless, unknowable, beyond our ken...
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Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Hexmapping in New Troy: Example (Hex 0101)

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Each 1-mile hex on the New Troy map has a mirror-image in Faerie, yet the Faerie equivalent is 6 miles. What this chiefly means is that each...
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Monday, 19 January 2015

Faerie Commoners

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Faerie commoners are the chief inhabitants of Faerie. They are subdivided into many different types, but a method of unique 'generic...
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Sunday, 18 January 2015

Faerie Nobles

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Faeries Nobles are the rulers of a Faerie sidhe. They are beings of great power and even greater caprice. Faerie Noble HD 7-12 (d6+6...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Reconceptualising the Morale Check

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One of my pet peeves in RPGs is unrealistic monster behaviour in combat - by which I generally mean, fighting to the death. By no means all ...
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Sunday, 11 January 2015

A Writer Writes

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I'm not a wannabe fiction writer. I was once, a long time ago, but I reconciled myself to the fact that I don't have the patience, n...
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Saturday, 10 January 2015

The Fetch

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It is said that sometimes the nobles of a Faerie shee decide to send a double of a human inhabitant of New Troy to replace the original. It ...
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