[Mage: the Awakening] The Cast of Darker Days

Today I got to kick off my Mage: the Awakening 2nd Edition campaign, “Darker Days”. But before I start putting up my actual play reports in earnest, I figure I might as well spend a little bit of time talking about the cast of characters first. The initial brainstorm of this campaign was something that […]

[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Part 3: The Character

And we’re back! I’ve been thrown off the horse of regular blog posting due to some real life stuff (illness and such, nothing horrible) but I’m back to reading Unknown Armies. Today we’re looking at Character specific rules. We’ve touched on a lot of these elements in the previous entries so I’ll avoid repeating stuff […]

[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Part 2: The Setting and the Rules

Welcome back and thanks for sticking with me as I try to explain in less elegant terms how the new edition of Unknown Armies works in terms of setting and rules. The World Fans of the World of Darkness are familiar with the basic assumption of Occult Urban Fantasy: Our World, but darker. Unknown Armies […]

[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Part 1: Introduction

Unknown Armies is a game with a very big reputation in my mind. Even in my early years running Mage: the Ascension’s Revised Edition in 1998 I had always heard about Unknown Armies and just how utterly, delightfully dark and weird it was. Strangely, that’s probably the reason it took a new edition and so […]

[Let’s Study: John Carter of Mars] Part 7: GMing Chapters and Review

Much like the prior chapter, I’ll be discussing my thoughts on the various GMing chapters in the book and the contents that they have rather than repeating stuff here on the blog. Narrators of Mars This is the GMing chapter, which takes the potential GM through the genre conventions and how to run John Carter […]