Showing posts with label Adventure Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adventure Design. Show all posts
Friday, November 21, 2014

Do you as the GM have obligations?

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Not too long ago we talked on our podcast with Swedish rpg luminary Anders Björkelid. He and his friends in the rpg club NisseNytt toured c...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Running a game for kids

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Tonight I ran a game for our daughter, two of her friends and our son. My wife also played, so give the kids some kind of help when flounder...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Some impressions of Mutant: Year Zero

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I guess you have heard that Modiphius is going to publish the Swedish post-apocalyptic game Mutant ? If you have not, go forth and click tha...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Running Tianxia - the session that brainfaded

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Last Wednesday I was supposed to be running my somewhat weekly Tianxia game. This time I canceled the game, since not only were attendance a...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Using Plot Triads for the win

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Last night we played Tianxia again. My life is in a very hectic phase, but I have managed to get a 2-3 hour session in now for two weeks in ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

How to run a con game, some notes for myself

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Last Saturday I ran a online Stormbringer game for an online game con. It was in the middle of the nineties the last time I did something li...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Getting the full impact of the story of a game

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I just finished reading Permanence , by Karl Schroeder, today. For those of you who don't know, it's a outer space science fiction s...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Scenes and nuggets - the DGP way

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Anyone remember the DGP "nuggets" system? It was back when GDW had handed over most of the development of their Traveller game to ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

How to write adventures - stringing scenes together

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I've posted before on my thoughts about scenes as the currency of gaming. This post is about how to use them to best effect. I'm not...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

How to write adventures - I keep talking about scene based design

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I'm continuing my thinking on adventure design, and have now come to how I've planned out my Savage Worlds scenarios. Since I've...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

How to write adventures - I keep talking about location based design

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So, what were my experiences from Location Based Design for my adventure? I had decided to play a game of Mutant , one of the earliest gam...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

How to write adventures - some attempts at consolidating ideas

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I've listened to quite a few podcasts  where the topic have been how to write convention scenarios. That combined with my experiences ru...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Summertime

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I love summer. Finally some heat for these old bones, and no more of that cloak of darkness that descends over you in winter. But, I never...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Old Traveller adventures - the emptiness of space

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I recently bought the Mongoose edition of Traveller, as you might remember me mentioning before. It is a good game, and a fun read. Now I ha...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Scenario design according to Dennis Detwiller

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I was listening to the Unspeakable podcast , a podcast about Call of Cthulhu, and noted Dennis Detwiller had some guides for scenario design...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

How about a little gonzo with that soup?

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I just watched Hidden Power of Dragon Sabre from 1984, and it must be one of the most nonsensical movies I've seen. There are a big m...
Friday, April 29, 2011

A new way to use the Ronnies

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Since I have had no time lately to devote to even think about designing a game, and the Ronnies always makes me want to try, I have held of...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

[From A to Z in Kalamar] Battle of Kadir Ridge

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In the section about the Kalamar empire in the KoK campaign set, under the heading Mountain Ranges, there is a mention of the Battle of Kadi...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Now, what do they want?

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I have been thinking more about different kinds of adventures. I realized that I have played quite a few games, for example Beyond the Mount...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Styles of adventures - weird fantasy style, and others

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There lot of different kinds of adventures you can design, and play. I think not all of them have been analyzed or talked about as much as t...