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Tag: The Shadow of Yesterday
A fantasy-apocalyptic game by Clinton R. Nixon, first published by his company Anvilwerks in 2004.
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June 2023 Q&A
Maybe I’m too much of a pattern-making story-making animal, but the questions this time really built a single coherent body of inquiry for me. I felt like I was addressing a single important topic from multiple angles of attack. I introduce the video with a warning, but I’ll say it briefly here as well: this…
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The Shadow of Yesterday: NPC rolls
So, we had ended last session of our Shadow of Yesterday campaign on a cliffhanger: the villain, tied and captured, spells a Zu sentence (a powerful form of magic), but when we played next time and I detailed the scene (the Zu sentence itself), I rolled on the villain’s behalf, only to find that he…
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Troubles in Solar Town
This post stems from a short conversation on the Adept Play discord, which I recommend visiting. I recently had a half-mediocre experience playing Solar System. I’m feeling kind of disappointed because I was feeling very excited both about this game and this very campaign. We were playing using the Elder Scrolls setting as a starting…
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The Search for Blackbird
For the past year and a half, I’ve been running a meetup group in my town for roleplaying games. Every few weeks, we run one-shot events intended to be accessible for new players. I’ve introduced a few people to roleplaying games, and many people to indie games. My favorite experiences have been seeing people become…
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Change, die, change some more
Dustin was intrigued by my statements in our first consulting session about character improvement, as well as being suspicious that I would start maundering about relationships as reward enough. I was able to surprise him a little, and the discussion was able to expand quite sensibly into his more general design regarding character death. A…