A DramaSystem Series Brief For years the Ashton family has enriched itself on the record-breaking sales of their pharmaceutical company’s supposedly safe and effective opioid. Now the pain is coming for them. Characters Encourage players to create characters from the Ashton clan, majority shareholders of the BinghamHealth pharma corporation. With a larger group you might […]
A Trail of Cthulhu location Residents of Arkham have taken to referring to the abandoned building near the corner of Alliance Street and Whitston Road simply as the Old Bank. Though the signs have been taken down, any local historian can tell you that it was originally incorporated as Mather and Sons, and went out […]
In the latest episode of their steely, status-enhancing podcast, Ken and Robin talk Ulfberht swords, the new cycle of female-centric horror cinema, spending your Dracula points, and the strange tale of astrologer Isaac Bicksterstaff.
A Yellow King: The Wars Foe The pallid monarch reacts with unpredictable caprice when his cosmic senses tell him that someone has read a copy of The King in Yellow. Those he deems useless or puerile, he visits and destroys, for daring to touch the mind of a living god. Others he leaves to seek […]
A DramaSystem Series Brief A cult leader and his flock establish a new compound to shelter themselves from a hostile world. But the world isn’t done with them yet. Characters The players portray the leader of a cult, his family, and others in his circle. Example characters: The leader himself. Since the typical cult leader […]
A Yellow King: This is Normal Now yuletide scenario hook Ask your players to describe a Christmas party they would all attend. While there, the investigator whose Freaking Weird Moment most reminds you of this story hook makes egg-nog flavored small talk with a fellow partygoer of about the same age. A mutual flirtation might […]
In their final episode of 2023, Ken and Robin talk unsolved problems of gaming, solo game design, troupe play, WWII-Peloponnesian crossover, high end tabletop snacks, live at Dragonmeet.
A Mutant City Blues GMC Lala Fulgur knows something the investigators want to know, either from her brief criminal career or her status as top dog in the enhanced gang at your city’s prison for women. When Lala gained mutant powers, she did what a lot of people did. She pretended she didn’t have them. […]
In the latest episode of their charmingly batrachian podcast, Ken and Robin talk reframing the fumble, the Loveland Ohio frogman, and Ken’s London book raid.
Hazards for Yellow King: The Wars Black Star technologists working both for the Loyalists and the enemy have loosed onto the battlefield a variety of experimental automated killing machines. Although they promise their superiors that the devices distinguish between friend and foe, experienced soldiers understand otherwise. They flee from devices bearing their own nation’s markings […]
