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With all the recent work and talk about Dark Trek it’s time, as a roleplaying gamesmaster, to turn to the matter of which game system to use. For Dark Trek I’ve chosen to dig out a now out-of-print classic: the Icon System, published by Last…
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Things are moving forward in our Dark Trek gaming plans. Without revealing too much, a few decisions have been made and our episode, due to be “aired” on September 26th, is under production. Dark Trek: The Original Series The first key decision has been to set…
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Imagine the Star Trek universe turned dark. For a long-time fan of the TV series and movies this idea would be, perhaps, anathema. Yet, in our gaming group, this is an idea that I am toying with for our forthcoming Sunday Special game in September….
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Yesterday I came home from Continuum 2010, an excellent bi-annual roleplaying convention. Energised and revitalised by the ideas and conversations I had experienced, clutching a copy of the rather cool OpenQuest rulebook, I have been reflecting on what to do next within my own roleplaying…
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September 1939. The German Army was advancing into Poland. Elsewhere on the front, armoured companies were driving into enemy territory. Here, though, the front line advanced on foot and by horse-drawn wagon. As the front line of German troops drew up in the woodlands overlooking the…
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Every campaign deserves factions. A faction is, broadly speaking, a group of people connected by a shared belief or opinion within a larger group. In terms of the roleplaying campaign, factions are the spice that lifts your game from individual encounters linked only by the…
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I’ve become acutely aware that I haven’t posted much to this site since I revamped it at Christmas. What, you may ask, am I playing at?
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Adam Forth drifted in a haze, floated in a light that surrounded him. There was no sense of direction, no gravity. Adam was simply there. Yet not alone. “Do you remember what happened?” Adam wasn’t sure that he did remember. He strained his mind back…
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Adam Forth was a pretty decent IT guy until he got knocked down by a car, on his way to work one winter’s morning. That was the day that Adam died. Yet that wasn’t the end of things for Adam. Soul Shards is a new…
