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Rex Waid
- Feb 3, 2021
- 5 min
Tricky Ports: Kaiju Eiga
As regular visitors will know, one of the strands here on the blog is If…, where I look at the storytelling of movies and TV shows and...
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Rex Waid
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
Scenario Seed: Death by Moonshine
Here's another idea for a scenario based on a historical event. The setting involved - the United States in the 1920s - inevitably points...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 27, 2021
- 4 min
If Captain Kronos (1974) was an RPG...
Time to look at another movie and see what ideas we can find to improve a role-playing game session or campaign. This week, the 1974...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
Scenario Seed: In Caseus Veritas
As usual, let's start a new week with an idea for a scenario. Rather than an actual event, this one is based on a genuine bit of slightly...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 24, 2021
- 6 min
Investigations and the Frame Problem
One thing which perpetually gets discussed in relation to Call of Cthulhu and many other investigation-oriented games is that of skill...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 20, 2021
- 6 min
If Ronin (1998) was an RPG...
In If... was an RPG... I'll be looking at books, movies, and other kinds of storytelling to see what we can learn (and, more importantly,...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 18, 2021
- 4 min
Scenario Seed: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
This Monday's scenario seed is another example of how you can easily find inspiration for horror-mystery ideas simply by doing a little...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 16, 2021
- 6 min
The Name of the Game
Here's the thing: I've played a lot of Call of Cthulhu over the years, mainly as GM; I've also dabbled in the one-player variant of Trail...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 11, 2021
- 4 min
Scenario Seed: The Mystery of UB-85
Here’s a scenario seed to get the week started, most likely for a Cthulhu Mythos game. It’s based on true events (for a given value of...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 9, 2021
- 4 min
A Different Dreamlands
For an idea which is only tangentially connected to Lovecraft’s best-known stories, the Dreamlands have a substantial presence in the...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 7, 2021
- 2 min
Why Scenario Seeds?
Different people get different things out of playing and gamesmastering an RPG. I enjoy the process of actually running a game very much...
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Rex Waid
- Jan 6, 2021
- 2 min
Into 2021
So here we are in yet another new year, which so far doesn't look like much of an improvement on the last one. But let's try to be...
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Rex Waid
- Dec 9, 2020
- 1 min
Opening the Window
I always knew 2020 was going to be a leap into the dark, but this? I don't think anyone was expecting this. You don't need to read...
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