Part 5: Playing the Alien...  On our first session, spontaneous improvisation within an understood framework of in-game and meta goals, and getting going even if not feeling 100% ready.

This series of blog, vlog, and pod episodes will explore Alien the Roleplaying Game by Free League from the perspective of preparation for horror and improvisation within the framework of Campaign Mode for Colonial Marines.    

            The Casting Shadows Blog

Part 4: Framing the Alien...  On conceptualizing the process of preparation in the context of who the characters are, what the approach to play is, and how those things intersect with the setting and its genre.

This series of blog, vlog, and pod episodes will explore Alien the Roleplaying Game by Free League from the perspective of preparation for horror and improvisation within the framework of Campaign Mode for Colonial Marines.  

Part 3: Hearing the Alien...   On description and how it can be approached as a skill for horror gaming.

Links:  

Choice of Voice

Where I can be found:

Casting Shadows Blog 

YouTube Channel: Runeslinger

Part 2: Feeding the Alien - On character and the two modes to enjoy them with in this game.

On Genre Being Rule Zero

Where I can be found:

Casting Shadows Blog

Part 1: Embracing the Alien - on the choice of a horror game and how to implement it.

2. Conscience in Gaming

3. Conscientious Gamers

Where I can be found:

Casting Shadows Blog

#RPGaDay is the brainchild of David "Autocratik" Chapman (Dr. Who RPG, WILD RPG, etc) and co-hosted by Anthony "Runeslinger" Boyd, which for the past 8 years has been striving to help frame the month of August as a scene of positivity and sharing about Roleplaying Games. Each of the 31 days of August has its own prompt to serve as a spark of praise about this hobby we who have made it a part of our lives would like to share. The prompt for today is Mention.

READ the Casting Shadows Blog instead.

Example:  Telling Other Peoples' Tales

#RPGaDay is the brainchild of David "Autocratik" Chapman (Dr. Who RPG, WILD RPG, etc) and co-hosted by Anthony "Runeslinger" Boyd, which for the past 8 years has been striving to help frame the month of August as a scene of positivity and sharing about Roleplaying Games. Each of the 31 days of August has its own prompt to serve as a spark of praise about this hobby we who have made it a part of our lives would like to share. The prompt for today is System.

READ the Casting Shadows Blog instead.

Example:

1. Thorough Review of FFG Star Wars Roleplaying

2. Unboxing of the Fallout 2d20 RPG by Modiphius

#RPGaDay is the brainchild of David "Autocratik" Chapman (Dr. Who RPG, WILD RPG, etc) and co-hosted by Anthony "Runeslinger" Boyd, which for the past 8 years has been striving to help frame the month of August as a scene of positivity and sharing about Roleplaying Games. Each of the 31 days of August has its own prompt to serve as a spark of praise about this hobby we who have made it a part of our lives would like to share. The prompt for today is Dream.

READ the Casting Shadows Blog instead.

Example: Leagues of Cthulhu - Summons to Alcatraz; part 2  (Triple Ace Games, Ubiquity Roleplaying System)

#RPGaDay is the brainchild of David "Autocratik" Chapman (Dr. Who RPG, WILD RPG, etc) and co-hosted by Anthony "Runeslinger" Boyd, which for the past 8 years has been striving to help frame the month of August as a scene of positivity and sharing about Roleplaying Games. Each of the 31 days of August has its own prompt to serve as a spark of praise about this hobby we who have made it a part of our lives would like to share. The prompt for today is Fraction.

READ the Casting Shadows Blog instead.

Example: Below is a recent and still ongoing chain of video responses proceeding from one observation of play and spreading from there~

Original Video - Prompting RPG Reactions

Response 1 - Coherence of Genre and Tone in RPGs

Response 2 - On Genre/Tone Coherence

Response 3 - Coherency and Prompts

Response 4 - Roleplaying Prompts, Coherence with Genre and Tone

Response 5 - TTRPG Thoughts  (Immersion)  

Response 6 - On Immersion