Meet the new gang, same as the old gang (mostly) but with the addition of a new Player Character, huzzah! Before we meet the new guy, I want to ramble a little about the logistics of dropping new characters into an extant campaign. There are many ways to skin this particular kitty and my preference … Continue reading The Dracula Dossier: Session 4 – Reboot
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The Dracula Dossier: Session 3 – More Questions Than Answers
To kick off my preparation for the third session of our campaign, Marcus sent me the following email: This is sent as a coded message to Elias. Possibly it is embedded within a rather boring message about some YouTube video, or football. Probably use that electronic dead drop Cassandra used in the first session. The … Continue reading The Dracula Dossier: Session 3 – More Questions Than Answers
The Dracula Dossier: Session 2 – In at the Deep End
Cassandra Our first foray into the campaign started with a young woman plunging to her death from the roof of a multi-storey carpark in Purfleet, from which we flash-backed to 48-hours earlier. These posts about the game are not going to be a blow-by-blow account of the session because, in my view, there's nothing more boring. … Continue reading The Dracula Dossier: Session 2 – In at the Deep End
The Dracula Dossier: Session 1 – Characters
In the distant past of my youth, people would rock up to a game with characters already created. The process of character creation was a solitary affair, primarily to facilitate cheating. Rarely would a player arrive for a game of AD&D with a character sporting an ability score lower than 13, except for Charisma. The prevailing view of … Continue reading The Dracula Dossier: Session 1 – Characters
A Table For Three: Part 5 – Mitigation
Right, so far I'm doing a great job of dissuading you from even considering the Dracula Dossier as your next campaign, which is as far removed from my intention as it's possible to be. So, please allow me to redress this by offering some motes of advice that will twinkle in the gloom and lead you … Continue reading A Table For Three: Part 5 – Mitigation
A Table For Three: Part 4 – Preparing the Unpreparable
Firstly, I'm sorry for the break in posts. Work became unpleasantly busy and rendered me too screen-fatigued to produce any cogent ramblings. Thankfully this brief spell of unpleasantness has abated and, in the words of George L. Costanza, "I'm back baby!" I ended the previous post by asking how one can prepare to run a collaboratively improvisational … Continue reading A Table For Three: Part 4 – Preparing the Unpreparable
A Table For Three: Part 3 – Preparation
I've rambled a lot about preparation over the last few posts, so now I'm going to put my money where my mouth is and ramble about my preparation for running a campaign using Night's Black Agents. I'm currently in the process of preparation so I'm not relying on foggy memories of a game I ran years … Continue reading A Table For Three: Part 3 – Preparation
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