Author Archives: ibrahim
By Kevin Kulp I’ve now run fourteen Merryshire Detective Club mysteries (using three scenarios and a whole lot of playtesters) in preparation for writing several mysteries in The Dreadful Hare, MSDC’s accompanying book of adventures by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, with additional scenarios by Robin D. Laws and myself. I can’t yet show the actual character sheets […]
by Adam Gauntlett A Trail of Cthulhu scenario set provisionally in Lovecraft Country, in which the investigators are hired as protection for an auction bid. Some of the action in this seed uses material from Chaosium’s Arkham Unveiled, specifically the legend of witch Goody Fowler on Hangman’s Hill. The Keeper should feel free to amend […]
By Jay Godden In this series, I’m presenting two different pre-generated builds for every 13th Age Heroes’ Handbook character class, at all levels. My goal is to present complete mechanical builds using only standard elements and rules from the Heroes’ Handbook, ready for you to apply your own backgrounds, icon relationships, and One Unique Thing. […]
by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan Mysteries are undeniably tricky things. They’re closely related to crosswords. When you’re doing a crossword, bits of the solution come early and easy. 1 Across, six letters, “the crime of killing another person”. MURDER 3 Across, eight letters, “figure of speech, not unlike a simile”. METAPHOR Other bits are a little more […]
By Jay Godden In this series, I’m presenting two different pregenerated builds for every 13th Age Heroes’ Handbook character class, at all levels. My goal is to present complete mechanical builds using only standard elements and rules from the Heroes’ Handbook, ready for you to apply your own backgrounds, icon relationships, and One Unique Thing. […]
By Adam Gauntlett I’ll grind your bones to make my bread. [folktale, Jack & the Beanstalk; sometimes linked to the German folktale The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs.] A Night’s Black Agents Node which distributes Blood Cocaine and is linked to several smaller criminal syndicates which may or may not be part of the […]
By Jay Godden In this series, I’m presenting two different pregenerated builds for every 13th Age Heroes’ Handbook character class, at all levels. My goal is to present complete mechanical builds using only standard elements and rules from the Heroes’ Handbook, ready for you to apply your own backgrounds, icon relationships, and One Unique Thing. […]
by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan Back in the day at Irish cons, we had a system where multiple tables would play the same scenario at the same time, tournament-style. One of the joys of this setup came after the game, when the players and GMs met up to compare notes. “We killed the dragon in two rounds […]