Rulings, Not Rules
Mark CasiglioA place where I write about games, mostly tabletop RPGs, and mostly Shadowdark and my Schadengard, my online West Marches campaign
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Running a Successful Shadowdark Gauntlet
A few weeks back our local game store Elm City Games (New Haven, CT) celebrated their 10th anniversary, and to help celebrate I ran an all day drop-in, drop-out Shadowdark Gauntlet - and I felt like it went really well. I had a full table m...
Hey Rulings not Rules guy, where have you been?
I’ve got about a dozen article ideas in my head, but most of them take work, and while I enjoy writing them out, it’s always been second fiddle to my actual gaming hobby. Which has been blessedly busy lately. So I figured I could put up a q...
A Deep Dive into The Stygian Library
As I mentioned last week, I ran a four-month play-by-post of The Stygian Library using Shadowdark. This came out of Schadengard, my online live-play Shadowdark West-Marches campaign. A few characters had the opportunity to step into the Dep...
Report: The Stygian Library
Today I finished a four-month play-by-post game of The Stygian Library and what an amazing game this was. I’m really smitten with the idea of running depth-crawl dungeons in play-by-post. The extra time between actions lets me develop detai...
Gaming Goals for 2026
My last posting covered my 2025 gaming experiences and thoughts. So today I’m going to cover the goals and games I have in mind for 2026. So lets get right to it!
Schadengard (Shadowdark) - This is my primary focus in retirement. Heh. We a...
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