Aersalus B-Team: Season 1, Session 5 – Road Agents and Shadowed Paths Dramatis Personae Listens-to-Ocean (Played by Rory): Accurate and pithy description and personality. Capabilities: Beadteller, diplomat, Ministry-trained healer, scholar, shenin, and songshaper (Light, Spirit, Water, Wind, and Wood). Occupation: Imperial arbiter turned Abolethian Peerage magistrate. Race: Haulflin (Halfling). Tagline: “The Wind, Spirits, Ocean, and […]
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Aersalus B-Team: Season 1, Session 5 – Road Agents and Shadowed Paths
Aersalus B-Team: Season 1, Session 4 – Silence and Shadow Dramatis Personae Listens-to-Ocean (Played by Rory): Accurate and pithy description and personality. Capabilities: Beadteller, diplomat, Ministry-trained healer, scholar, shenin, and songshaper (Light, Spirit, Water, Wind, and Wood). Occupation: Imperial arbiter turned Abolethian Peerage magistrate. Race: Haulflin (Halfling). Tagline: “The Wind, Spirits, Ocean, and Stars are […]
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Aersalus B-Team: Season 1, Session 3 – Spirit Talks while Darkness Walks Dramatis Personae Listens-to-Ocean (Played by Rory): Accurate and pithy description and personality. Capabilities: Beadteller, diplomat, Ministry-trained healer, scholar, shenin, and songshaper (Light, Spirit, Water, Wind, and Wood). Occupation: Imperial arbiter turned Abolethian Peerage magistrate. Race: Haulflin (Halfling). Tagline: “The Wind, Spirits, Ocean, and […]
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Aersalus B-Team: Season 1, Session 2 – The Miller, The Tanner, and The Sailor Dramatis Personae Listens-to-Ocean (Played by Rory): Accurate and pithy description and personality. Capabilities: Beadteller, diplomat, Ministry-trained healer, scholar, shenin, and songshaper (Light, Spirit, Water, Wind, and Wood). Occupation: Imperial arbiter turned Abolethian Peerage magistrate. Race: Haulflin (Halfling). Tagline: “The Wind, Spirits, […]
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Aersalus B-Team: Season 1, Session 1 – Arrival at Wolftrap Dramatis Personae Listens-to-Ocean (Played by Rory): Accurate and pithy description and personality. Capabilities: Beadteller, diplomat, Ministry-trained healer, scholar, shenin, and songshaper (Light, Spirit, Water, Wind, and Wood). Occupation: Imperial arbiter turned Abolethian Peerage magistrate. Race: Haulflin (Halfling). Tagline: “The Wind, Spirits, Ocean, and Stars are […]
Continue readingAersalus E-Team: Season 1, Session 4 – Let The Boy Have The Sword
Aersalus E-Team: Season 1, Session 3 – The Lady of a Thousand Eyes Dramatis Personae Arsham uru Kajj damu Arasti (Played by Chris A.): Arsham experienced a traumatic event that led him to bury his sorrows in dangerous work, but he can be friendly once you get to know him. Capabilities: Priest, assassin, parkour expert […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Tech-Genius
One of the things I rather like about GURPS is how it’s divided its skills into different tech levels. TL3 Smith is different from TL9 Smith. Is it crazy granular? Yeah, in a way, but it allows one trait to be multiple traits with minimal new rules and description and that is always a win with […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Ten Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Out as a Gamemaster
There are things that I wish someone had told me when I first started out being a gamemaster. Stuff you only get told by someone who knows (assuming you listen) or things which you learn at the school of hard knocks. Occasionally, you can read about them if some wise and learned master (*cough*) writes […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: On The Care And Feeding of Players
GMs can’t run games without players and players can’t play games without GMs. It’s a paradox of collaborative storytelling. But players can be finicky creatures and not all GMs know how to heard cats. Here’s a few tips to keep your players happy without giving into them all the time. Agency of Choices Players do […]
Continue readingA Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 18 – This Is Just to Say
A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 17 – Fine Young Cannibals Dramatis Personae Ekaterini Tsakalidis aka The Lady of Laundry (played by Chepe): Godling of Hygieia and Minerva. Face-changing clothes-horse with history as a Mob assassin and crime-scene cover-up artist. Tagline: “Never let them see you sweat.” Tercallus aka Callum “Cal” Parker (played […]
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