Author Archives: Robin Laws
In the St. Patrick’s Day edition of their green and defiant podcast, Ken and Robin talk Aaron Allston, genre emulation, Octagon City, social media and Ireland unconquered.
In the latest episode of their half-Usonian podcast, Ken and Robin talk meaningful F20 fights, animal spies, publishing your homebrew, and building an unbuilt utopia.
Playtest feedback for Dreamhounds of Paris, the upcoming Trail of Cthulhu campaign sourcebook in which you play the major figures of the surrealist movement wreaking –psychic-revolutionary havoc in Lovecraft’s eerie fantasy realm, is in. Participants should pat themselves on the bat for a collectively great job. They’ve turned in detailed, thoughtful responses that will make […]
In the latest episode of their shimmering podcast, Ken and Robin talk character hooks, hit men, tropes vs. cliches and the djinn menace.
In the various mystery sub-genres, suspects shadow, spy upon and track the detectives at least as often as the investigators stake them out. Yet roleplayers react to being watched with less sang froid than do their fictional counterparts. Like imprisonment, enemy surveillance falls into the category of plot elements that players resist, because they seem […]