December 2007
6 posts
Samantha Black Crow in "American Gods"
“…I can believe that things are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen, I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is...
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Shadows of the Mind
The one-shot based on Altered Carbon is finished. Meanwhile I have even given a title to it: “Soulless”. And now I am thinking to the next one. I plan on expanding and improving an old idea. Many chtulhu adventures describe the horror of discovering the secrets beyond the veil of reality. While discovering disturbing details your character loses his mind sanity falling toward madness....
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Adventures: How I categorize them
Maybe it is a bit boring, but I find useful to divide the adventures I propose to my players in 3 kinds: Campaign: In the perfect DnD style, a party of adventurers will face many different adventures and quests. The connection between the quests is provided by the setting and the party living them: all the facts happen in the same “plane of existence”. Saga: In fact very similar to a...
Many hated villains in my campaigns...
…have a thing in common: the first time they met the party, they paralyzed/incapacitated a lot of them for the whole scene. Players remember painstakingly well who annoyed them.