Runners in the Shadows

So, I’ve been playing a game of Mark Cleveland Massengale’s Runners in the Shadows with a group GMed by Jeremy Tolbert for almost a year now. It’s a Forged in the Dark hack for playing Shadowrun style fantasy-cyberpunk games. Despite Shadowrun having been pretty big 90s game—something that most of the other players in our group seem to have had experience with—I knew the setting/game by reputation only. To be honest, in the 90s I wouldn’t have wanted to play Shadowrun anyway: I was very much in the “I don’t want my genres mixed up” camp, like a kid who …

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 1

This entry is part 2 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

So, we played our first session of Mythic Bastionland. I think I’ll be blogging a log of events, and I’m going to skip anytying that would be spoilers for stuff the players don’t know about, for now at least. Maybe once the series is wrapped up, I’ll post a separate post with accumulated background spoilers and comments.   The epic begins quietly, deep in the Merragon forest (on the western edge of the map I shared last time), sometime in the afternoon. Three knights appear, riding their steeds. The first is Sir Yorick Childermass, the least knightly-looking of the lot in …

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