In the latest episode of their owl-fearing podcast, Ken and Robin talk climactic scenes where the PCs step back, Milton Bradley the person, the alleged sixth scenario type, and the Hopkinsville Goblin.
Author Archives: Robin Laws
Page Turners, the game of dramatic interaction for one player and one game moderator, provides rules for play in any genre that revolves around interpersonal conflict. It includes eleven fully fleshed scenarios ranging from screwball comedy to doomed vampire romance, from a behind-the-music rock ‘n’ roll saga to the emotional journeys of the last […]
In the latest episode of their delicious, almond-coated podcast, Ken and Robin talk bending world logic toward fun, Nicolo Zeno’s Friesland maps, Toulouse-Lautrec’s snake cake, and preventing the Wilson administration.
Although the rules don’t call for it, some GUMSHOE groups add a narrative wrinkle to the spending of pool points from general abilities. They call on players to justify why they’re spending the number of points they’ve chosen to add to their die rolls. “I really want to get over this fence so I’m going […]
In the latest episode of their subjectively numinous podcast, Ken and Robin talk planning a time slip scenario, a field trip to Roswell, an ill-fated bridge in Providence, and Giza megastructures.
In the latest episode of their prodigiously strong podcast, Ken and Robin talk weaselly patrons, 18th century thief Barbara Erni, the shooting of a white stag, and occultist production designer Albin Grau.
Pelgrane Press seeks playtesters for Boundary of the Darkness, the Trail of Cthulhu sourcebook of dread investigation during England’s age of Enlightenment. It presents two exciting campaign frames, ripped from the broadsheets of the 1770s: Phil Masters’ In Lunar Service, in which the Investigators act as Secret Associates for Birmingham’s most notable thinkers, scientists and […]
In the latest episode of their well-documented podcast, Ken and Robin talk game mastering notes, Napoleon’s secret police vampire, the filmmakers Kim Jong-il kidnapped, and the Cambridge bookfish.
In the latest episode of their clearly functional podcast, Ken and Robin talk knowing when rules work, the mummy the Ottomans dismembered, Mythos creatures with dwarf males, and the Blaenavon horse humanoid.
In the latest episode of their bibliomaniacal podcast, Ken and Robin talk making the reveal as fun as the mystery, genres with and without structures, and Ken’s Maryland book haul.