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Tag: Legendary Lives
A fantasy game by Joe Williams and Kathleen Williams, first published in 1990 by their company Marquee Press, Inc.
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Monday Lab: My Character
I am pretty confident these days regarding the strength and utility of my/our ideas expressed at this site, so my Lab notions are shifting from organized curriculum and into “let’s see where we can gte.” In this case, we began with “tell me about your character” and moved on from there. For those who follow […]
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Legendary Lives Debrief
The Four R’s (Ross, Ron, Rod, and I) played through eighteen sessions of Legendary Lives, completing our run at the start of December. For background, this heroic fantasy rpg is one of the so-called Fantasy Heartbreakers that came out in the 1990s. There are still plenty corners of the game that I would love to explore, […]
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Party, party, ultraviolence
We are seventeen sessions into Legendary Lives. It is at least possible that this is a lifetime record for the game, which received mainly demonstration convention play during its initial promotion and release. I’m ambiguous. I really love my character, the inestimable Shining Star, and the game system has many virtues. It also has many […]
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Two pals pow!
I invited my old friend Jared Sorensen, a.k.a. Memento Mori Theatrics, over to Sweden for a late-autumn getaway – and also to meet my new friend Simon Pettersson, a.k.a. (part of) Urverk Speldesign. The plan was a few days of unbridled RPG discourse, RPG play, unconstructed conversation, kid-wrangling, and meeting with some local players too. […]
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A safe, quiet, friendly new home
We’ve just completed our 13th session of Legendary Lives, with Ross as GM, featuring me, Rod, and Robbie, hence “The Four R’s” as I’ve dubbed the resulting saga. Session 8 closed out the initial set of conflicts set in and around Smith City, and sessions 9-11 concerned the voyage from harbor to harbor as our […]
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Failed rolls for plot in action – not so easy
This photo shows the character Laura Wolf, as played by Ava Layevska, in the Mexican TV series Yankee. I was a couple episodes in when she just seemed so familiar to me, and then a bit later, I said, “Ah ha, not because of some other TV or movie character, but because that is Shining […]
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Lives, yes; curious about the Legend
We are many sessions into what has become a rather dedicated, eventful run for Legendary Lives. The leading illustration for this post is perfect for my character’s sister’s plight in session 4, but it’s also way out of context for its original meaning, so follow the link stated in the image to see its proper […]
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Beware of what you wish for
We four R’s continue our trek into the twisted fates of Cristabelle, Shining Star, and Grrrl. They’ve bathed, which is a relief, and I am beginning to take seriously the idea that Shining Star is going to clean up considerably session by session, maybe even get that damn curse lifted if I can recover the […]
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Fantasy women adventurers, varying odors
In January, my mention of the game Legendary Lives in one of my Design Curriculum posts led to a comment, that comment led to a for-fun character creation video, and that video led to the organization of a game. The participants are our fearless organizer Ross, Rod, Robbie, and me. … Yes, I know. The […]