Peter Rudin-Burgess

September seems to be bundle season. There is the SWAG-tember (a 50% off mega bundle of Savage Worlds content), then GRIMtember (a 33% off bundle of Zweihander community content) and there may be more as well. Chantel Jones runs regular Two for Tuesday offers. It looks like these are temporary bundles matching two titles. There … Read more

Running a solo adventure is all about not knowing what is really going on until the end when the truth is revealed. The way we can do this is by setting up what I called the briefing, to give you a decent start to the adventure, and then testing your assertions by using the oracle. … Read more

In today’s session, I am pushing Simon’s choices out to the oracle. He is not supposed to be an automata that just does what I tell him to. I decide what Kallen would ask him to do, and then ask the oracle if he is happy to go along with that. This does mean that … Read more

The biggest fear of most GMs is to be considered a railroading GM. This is a particular problem with mysteries when you have a single plot hook and a single correct answer to the mystery. There are two big names in investigative games, Cthulhu and Gumshoe. Gumshoe uses a very linear approach to each scene … Read more

To put it bluntly, not much happens in these three scenes. The adventure Night Blade tells me nothing about Whitesparrow except for there is a tower above the village called the Lonely Torch, and that it has a sheriff called Ruth Willowmane. That is not a lot to go on. Everything that I know about … Read more