Burn After Running: RPG One-Shots

Yeah, yeah, I get it. Everyone agrees with them, there’s a bunch of videos about them, all conventions do them. Except – we don’t really. We don’t need them for trusted players, do we? We don’t need them in our home groups, only for conventions. We don’t need them if we’re just playing D&D, only for horror games. Well – these are all wrong. Let me tell you why we need to ...

As promised, here’s an example of an adventure structured as a story circuit from Ion Heart. We actually tried to record this for Unconventional GMs, but technical issues meant we couldn’t get it to work – so here I am recycling it here.

Nimble’s an excellent D&a...

As you know, I’m a big fan of the power of solo gaming as a prep technique. And Ion Heart, a solo mech exploration RPG from Parable Games, has a structure for its missions that we can certainly re-skin for group games – and one that is especially suitable for one-shot...