Runeslinger
@runeslinger.bsky.social
Indistinguishable from Bacchus but without the wine and licentiousness. Lover of games, swords, potatoes, meat, heavy music, and dogs.
#RPG castingshadowsblog.com castingshadowspodcast.com
www.youtube.com/runeslinger
#RPG castingshadowsblog.com castingshadowspodcast.com
www.youtube.com/runeslinger
Things fall apart, and what can regular people do to keep the center intact? Does it take your all? The campaign takes bigger steps into the world behind the world, setting up a major crossover of 3 of 5 branches~
youtu.be/TEfPZSIcIZc
youtu.be/TEfPZSIcIZc
Call of Cthulhu: Turn of a New Leaf - Session 35
YouTube video by Runeslinger
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November 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Things fall apart, and what can regular people do to keep the center intact? Does it take your all? The campaign takes bigger steps into the world behind the world, setting up a major crossover of 3 of 5 branches~
youtu.be/TEfPZSIcIZc
youtu.be/TEfPZSIcIZc
Do to computer and time issues, it has been many moons since I have been able to share a scrying window into the growing horrors in our fictional Boston of our immersive sandbox #CallofCthulhu campaign - Turn of a New Leaf. Today, we offer a double feature~
youtu.be/2VXDkvgZ-XE?...
youtu.be/2VXDkvgZ-XE?...
Call of Cthulhu: Turn of a New Leaf - Session 34
YouTube video by Runeslinger
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Do to computer and time issues, it has been many moons since I have been able to share a scrying window into the growing horrors in our fictional Boston of our immersive sandbox #CallofCthulhu campaign - Turn of a New Leaf. Today, we offer a double feature~
youtu.be/2VXDkvgZ-XE?...
youtu.be/2VXDkvgZ-XE?...
I will always be grateful to have found the Call of Cthulhu RPG by @chaosium.bsky.social and this one was my introduction to it~
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I will always be grateful to have found the Call of Cthulhu RPG by @chaosium.bsky.social and this one was my introduction to it~
Sometimes when I check my email, cool stuff from @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social is in one... such as this PDF release to backers of:
#CosmicDark
#rpg #ttrpg
#CosmicDark
#rpg #ttrpg
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Sometimes when I check my email, cool stuff from @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social is in one... such as this PDF release to backers of:
#CosmicDark
#rpg #ttrpg
#CosmicDark
#rpg #ttrpg
Truth.
Probably a great time to remind up and coming people making or writing things about games... social media is not your primary audience.
It was true on the old site and it's true on this site too.
It was true on the old site and it's true on this site too.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Truth.
I have seen the King, and he has Six Strings
Recently, I managed to record a series of talks with Jason Connerley of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast Blog and Podcast about the film, Six-String Samurai, and part of that included taking my BRP adaptation of it out for a spin like a beloved platter from…
Recently, I managed to record a series of talks with Jason Connerley of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast Blog and Podcast about the film, Six-String Samurai, and part of that included taking my BRP adaptation of it out for a spin like a beloved platter from…
I have seen the King, and he has Six Strings
Recently, I managed to record a series of talks with Jason Connerley of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast Blog and Podcast about the film, Six-String Samurai, and part of that included taking my BRP adaptation of it out for a spin like a beloved platter from the days when music mattered.
castingshadowsblog.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I have seen the King, and he has Six Strings
Recently, I managed to record a series of talks with Jason Connerley of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast Blog and Podcast about the film, Six-String Samurai, and part of that included taking my BRP adaptation of it out for a spin like a beloved platter from…
Recently, I managed to record a series of talks with Jason Connerley of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast Blog and Podcast about the film, Six-String Samurai, and part of that included taking my BRP adaptation of it out for a spin like a beloved platter from…
RPGs manifest at the intersection of each player's actions, reactions, and interactions in play, where they are filtered through each person's perceptions of that play, before being morphed by memory, relating those memories as a story, and then by each retelling of that story~
wp.me/pdgy0y-7
wp.me/pdgy0y-7
Episode 3: On Genre being Rule 0
This post relates an idea which appeared in written and video form in 2013, as an expression of earlier and less specific ideas. Genre is Rule 0 is a set of posts which have proven to be of more us…
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November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
RPGs manifest at the intersection of each player's actions, reactions, and interactions in play, where they are filtered through each person's perceptions of that play, before being morphed by memory, relating those memories as a story, and then by each retelling of that story~
wp.me/pdgy0y-7
wp.me/pdgy0y-7
@gobagpod.com this might be the link you were looking for in the veiled reference from @spezbaby.bsky.social in the recent call-in episode~
Audio version:
castingshadowspodcast.com/2020/10/07/e...
Original text:
wp.me/pTI80-8E
Audio version:
castingshadowspodcast.com/2020/10/07/e...
Original text:
wp.me/pTI80-8E
Episode 1: On Premature Imagination
In this first of five introductory episodes to this podcast, 2010 meets 2020 as an early but somewhat important post from the written blog is shared with commentary. The post deals generally with c…
castingshadowspodcast.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
@gobagpod.com this might be the link you were looking for in the veiled reference from @spezbaby.bsky.social in the recent call-in episode~
Audio version:
castingshadowspodcast.com/2020/10/07/e...
Original text:
wp.me/pTI80-8E
Audio version:
castingshadowspodcast.com/2020/10/07/e...
Original text:
wp.me/pTI80-8E
I have enjoyed being a guest on Nerd's RPG Variety Cast once again, this time for a series on Six-String Samurai and BRP. Part 1 is available now:
spotify.link/xJuIqZ6yXXb
spotify.link/xJuIqZ6yXXb
S2E40 Six String Samurai (1998) with Runeslinger
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November 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I have enjoyed being a guest on Nerd's RPG Variety Cast once again, this time for a series on Six-String Samurai and BRP. Part 1 is available now:
spotify.link/xJuIqZ6yXXb
spotify.link/xJuIqZ6yXXb
It is rare, I feel, to find so cogent a discussion of Cthulhu, Lovecraft, and the effect of HPL as this one:
spotify.link/vF0AaxinXXb
spotify.link/vF0AaxinXXb
Episode 200 – On 'The Call of Cthulhu'
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November 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
It is rare, I feel, to find so cogent a discussion of Cthulhu, Lovecraft, and the effect of HPL as this one:
spotify.link/vF0AaxinXXb
spotify.link/vF0AaxinXXb
A Spectrum of Character in RPGS
In a significant percentage of roleplaying games, playing a character is a core activity. From the start of the hobby, this has been one of those things we expect to find in an RPG. Once the hobby began to broaden with more titles and with more approaches to play,…
In a significant percentage of roleplaying games, playing a character is a core activity. From the start of the hobby, this has been one of those things we expect to find in an RPG. Once the hobby began to broaden with more titles and with more approaches to play,…
A Spectrum of Character in RPGS
In a significant percentage of roleplaying games, playing a character is a core activity. From the start of the hobby, this has been one of those things we expect to find in an RPG. Once the hobby began to broaden with more titles and with more approaches to play, that notion of character and how one actually goes about playing one have broadened as well. What it means to play a character is a question that can be answered very differently now than in 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004, 2014, and so on. Sadly, although our ability to observe and communicate what goes on across the hobby as a whole has improved, our ability to describe it and so further share and discover it has not commensurately grown.
castingshadowsblog.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A Spectrum of Character in RPGS
In a significant percentage of roleplaying games, playing a character is a core activity. From the start of the hobby, this has been one of those things we expect to find in an RPG. Once the hobby began to broaden with more titles and with more approaches to play,…
In a significant percentage of roleplaying games, playing a character is a core activity. From the start of the hobby, this has been one of those things we expect to find in an RPG. Once the hobby began to broaden with more titles and with more approaches to play,…
To improve access to episodes of the Casting Shadows podcast and the relevant links pertaining to them, I have caused CastingShadowsPodcast.com to come into being. A more memorable link, search and tags which work, and optional notifications are the result~
Episode 65: On Memory and RPGs (with Arcane Alienist)
This is an OctOSR-adjacent episode. Thanks go out to BJ Boyd, the Arcane Alienist, for being a guest on this episode to help frame and execute a discussion on the nature of memory and some key ways that can affect our play and understanding of RPGs.
castingshadowspodcast.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
To improve access to episodes of the Casting Shadows podcast and the relevant links pertaining to them, I have caused CastingShadowsPodcast.com to come into being. A more memorable link, search and tags which work, and optional notifications are the result~
This week, I enjoyed an exploration of personal preparation for long-term or open-ended #RPG campaigns of cosmic horror with @seanpkelley.com with a heavy focus on @deltagreen.bsky.social
Annotated video:
youtu.be/o55hwQ1PKH8
Unabridged Audio:
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/A960QuYzMXb
Annotated video:
youtu.be/o55hwQ1PKH8
Unabridged Audio:
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/A960QuYzMXb
A Friendly but Impossible Chat with @RPGSean
YouTube video by Runeslinger
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This week, I enjoyed an exploration of personal preparation for long-term or open-ended #RPG campaigns of cosmic horror with @seanpkelley.com with a heavy focus on @deltagreen.bsky.social
Annotated video:
youtu.be/o55hwQ1PKH8
Unabridged Audio:
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/A960QuYzMXb
Annotated video:
youtu.be/o55hwQ1PKH8
Unabridged Audio:
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/A960QuYzMXb
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October 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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To horse! Pendragon Classic is live on Kickstarter. This is a full and faithful reprint of the 1st edition of this magnificent game, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its original publication. Just looking at the cover makes me want to go questing.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
Pendragon: Classic Edition
Bringing the iconic Pendragon 1st Edition collection back to life!
www.kickstarter.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
To horse! Pendragon Classic is live on Kickstarter. This is a full and faithful reprint of the 1st edition of this magnificent game, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its original publication. Just looking at the cover makes me want to go questing.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
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The yearly rewatch of Sandbaggers has begun. This year it is sweetening my first reads of Mick Herron's Slough House novels. I watched the TV series earlier this year. This means that after Pendragon, it will be time for choice selections from my spy RPGs @gobagpod.com
youtu.be/gUQ2dVm0raw?...
youtu.be/gUQ2dVm0raw?...
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The yearly rewatch of Sandbaggers has begun. This year it is sweetening my first reads of Mick Herron's Slough House novels. I watched the TV series earlier this year. This means that after Pendragon, it will be time for choice selections from my spy RPGs @gobagpod.com
youtu.be/gUQ2dVm0raw?...
youtu.be/gUQ2dVm0raw?...
How long has it been since you first read 'Frankenstein; The Modern Prometheus'?
Have you read it more than once? How recently have you re-read it?
What thoughts did it bring to life within you?
Will you watch the del Toro film, and if so, will you read/re-read the book prior to doing so?
Have you read it more than once? How recently have you re-read it?
What thoughts did it bring to life within you?
Will you watch the del Toro film, and if so, will you read/re-read the book prior to doing so?
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
How long has it been since you first read 'Frankenstein; The Modern Prometheus'?
Have you read it more than once? How recently have you re-read it?
What thoughts did it bring to life within you?
Will you watch the del Toro film, and if so, will you read/re-read the book prior to doing so?
Have you read it more than once? How recently have you re-read it?
What thoughts did it bring to life within you?
Will you watch the del Toro film, and if so, will you read/re-read the book prior to doing so?
We have released a shorter but no less spicy and detailed cut of the conversation with Thieves Guild Games for the Casting Shadows podcast for your listening pleasure~
open.spotify.com/episode/1vuK...
open.spotify.com/episode/1vuK...
Is Immersion Impossible? A Friendly, Abridged Discussion~
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October 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
We have released a shorter but no less spicy and detailed cut of the conversation with Thieves Guild Games for the Casting Shadows podcast for your listening pleasure~
open.spotify.com/episode/1vuK...
open.spotify.com/episode/1vuK...
I had a #ttrpg chat with 1/2 of Thieves Guild Games about a variety of things including their past, present, and future games, some design considerations which went into them, and the ever-popular notion that "that word we keep using might not mean what we think it means"~
youtu.be/LdqytLSQd9o
youtu.be/LdqytLSQd9o
Talking with @ThievesGuildGamesOfficial about "Immersion"
YouTube video by Runeslinger
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October 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I had a #ttrpg chat with 1/2 of Thieves Guild Games about a variety of things including their past, present, and future games, some design considerations which went into them, and the ever-popular notion that "that word we keep using might not mean what we think it means"~
youtu.be/LdqytLSQd9o
youtu.be/LdqytLSQd9o
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Episode 120 - Bryan Talbot part 2.
@tomeenmurphy.bsky.social joins me as we welcome back @bryan-talbot.bsky.social to talk about Alice in Sunderland, Grandville, the soon to be released Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor and more.
Now with added James and a special guest appearance from Dr Mary Talbot.
@tomeenmurphy.bsky.social joins me as we welcome back @bryan-talbot.bsky.social to talk about Alice in Sunderland, Grandville, the soon to be released Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor and more.
Now with added James and a special guest appearance from Dr Mary Talbot.
Bryan Talbot Part Two
Bryan Talbot returns to Derry and Toms to talk to about Alice in Sunderland, Grandville and his upcoming release, The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor – and we get a special guest appearance fr…
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October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Episode 120 - Bryan Talbot part 2.
@tomeenmurphy.bsky.social joins me as we welcome back @bryan-talbot.bsky.social to talk about Alice in Sunderland, Grandville, the soon to be released Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor and more.
Now with added James and a special guest appearance from Dr Mary Talbot.
@tomeenmurphy.bsky.social joins me as we welcome back @bryan-talbot.bsky.social to talk about Alice in Sunderland, Grandville, the soon to be released Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor and more.
Now with added James and a special guest appearance from Dr Mary Talbot.
If you were going to run @chaosium.bsky.social 's Pendragon next, how would your vision for the land and its people take shape and influence how you presented them to the players?
youtu.be/7tTHkYoVLXo
#rpg #ttrpg #pendragon
youtu.be/7tTHkYoVLXo
#rpg #ttrpg #pendragon
On Pendragon 6th Edition - Part 2 [Perspective]
YouTube video by Runeslinger
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If you were going to run @chaosium.bsky.social 's Pendragon next, how would your vision for the land and its people take shape and influence how you presented them to the players?
youtu.be/7tTHkYoVLXo
#rpg #ttrpg #pendragon
youtu.be/7tTHkYoVLXo
#rpg #ttrpg #pendragon
Short but intense session of CoC today. One of the expected players was able to make the session due to a power outage, and a schedule conflict meant play time was suddenly limited to an hour. It would have been very easy to cancel, but I am glad we didn't. It was a momentous hour~
#RPG #ttrpg
#RPG #ttrpg
September 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Returning to Pendragon… again
What is Pendragon, really? Can we come to terms with it without first finding and naming our Arthur as King?
What is Pendragon, really? Can we come to terms with it without first finding and naming our Arthur as King?
Returning to Pendragon… again
What is Pendragon, really? Can we come to terms with it without first finding and naming our Arthur as King?
castingshadowsblog.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Returning to Pendragon… again
What is Pendragon, really? Can we come to terms with it without first finding and naming our Arthur as King?
What is Pendragon, really? Can we come to terms with it without first finding and naming our Arthur as King?