By Steven Hammond, Northland Creative Wonders A New Digital Tool for Pelgrane Games There has been an explosion in Virtual Table Tops in recent years. These applications provide numerous features to help people play online. I’ve played with friends who tried using a VTT for in-person play, and I was always left frustrated with the […]
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by Adam Gauntlett … for the purpose of this resolution, ‘dark fleet’ or ‘shadow fleet’ means ships that are engaged in illegal operations for the purposes of circumventing sanctions, evading compliance with safety or environmental regulations, avoiding insurance costs or engaging in other illegal activities … Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’: Bringing the threat to light: […]
by Guy Milner A few weeks ago, I got to take the upcoming one-on-one DramaSystem game from Robin Laws, Page Turners, out for a spin. It’s a tight, intense system that, for me, stiffens up some of the looser improv-heavy stuff in Hillfolk, and really delivers a satisfying one-shot experience. But don’t just believe me […]
By Jason Kraus The late 1960s were a heady time for society. Classified, compartmented military and intelligence programs on both sides of the Iron Curtain experimented with previously unutilized chemical compounds to gain advantage over their adversaries and insight into the human mind. In the shadowy corridors of Langley and Lubyanka, the competition to win […]
by Adam Gauntlett Premise: the agents are tasked with recovering data from a dead drop, only to discover a live agent on the scene, bleeding heavily. Do they bring this agent in from the cold, or are they being fed a poison pill? A dead drop is a prearranged location for depositing and picking up […]
In the canals and crumbling towers of Eversink, secrets soar higher than the gulls and sometimes the truth flies in on feathered wings. In this intrigue-heavy mystery, your heroes are hired to investigate infidelity, only to uncover a tangled network of blackmail, vanishing investigators, attack birds, and scandalous secrets best left buried. Overview The heroes […]
by Adam Gauntlett Premise: a man shot dead as he drops his children off at school turns out to be a high-profile former Russian military man, who defected fifteen years prior and has been living peacefully in Madrid ever since. Was he killed by Russia’s current government, as the papers claim, or was he assassinated […]
By Jason Kraus Manipulating an opponent’s mind from within is much more difficult than lashing out with a telekinetic punch or willing the evidence in an interrogator’s hands to burst into flame. It is the dream of every special agent, spy, and clandestine operator to control the way an opponent thinks and feels, experiences reality, […]