Response to Legend of Five Rings essay on Asian and Western Storytelling

I do not know why I ever expect something useful out of essays regarding the differences between Western and Asian storytelling. As a result, I am almost always disappointed to find the same points and arguments made whenever I read such an essay; points and arguments which are disproven with even a passing familiarity with myth, legend and storytelling traditions. Since the essay which is provoking me is coming from the Legend of Five Rings RPG section on storytelling, that’s where I’m going to be pulling some of the points I’m planning to argue against.

Numenera RAW Gameplay Part 1

This is part one of the first Gameplay session using the RAW rules.

Numenera Character Generation Actual Play

This is the character generation podcast for Numenera:

Aethercon Demon Next Door After Game-Report

We had two players, a third proved unable to attend due to software issues with Skype.

One player chose to play Clint Faerbolg, the half-demon whose mother was the Demoness of Baking.

The other player chose to play Leah Killian, an activist cheerleader, who I've now been informed is similar to a character on the TV show Community.

It started out with them deciding to run a shooting gallery where the players would shoot muffins and such off perches onto a shelf in order to win them as snacks. 

capitalized phrases are Aspects, phrases in parentheses are Boosts

Monster of the Week - Crossover Scenario

This isn't something I plan to do, it's just something I thought up and decided to type up since Halloween was just around.

One-Shot Gaming Sessions #3: Accursed

This is in preparation for the next One-Shot game we tackle, Accursed by Melior Via.  We have at least one more session of Numenera to get through at the time of this posting.

Numenera Mods for the One-Shot

Okay, we tried the system as written and had issues both with the published adventure and the system.  We can't do much about the adventure without a lot of work, but I can implement some of the mods I've seen discussed in other areas to see if we can address the system.

Kuro One-Shot Part 4

This is part four, and the conclusion, of the Kuro One-Shot session:

Kuro One-Shot Part 3

This is part 3 of the Kuro One-Shot session:

Kuro One-Shot Part 2

This is part two of the Kuro One-Shot session:

Strands of Fate Character Creation

A quick summary of character creation in Strands of Fate with a focus on Divine Blood.