Page Turners, the game of dramatic interaction for one player and one game moderator, allows you to explore any story that revolves around interpersonal conflict. Some scenarios supplied in the book mix familiar genre tropes with the game’s character-driven storytelling structure. Sarah Saltiel’s “Addison’s Shadow,” brings the contemporary fantastical imagery of the weird tale into […]
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Playtest reports for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game gave me one consistent message: This game is way too deadly! Accordingly, I made it less so, lowering Difficulty Numbers for tests to avoid Shocks and Injuries. I added the more forgiving Occult Adventure mode, where it takes 4 Shock or 4 Injury cards to take a […]
In the latest episode of their spicy, pickled podcast, Ken and Robin talk mercy for defeated foes, killer forger Mark Hofmann, stuffed shirt characters, and keeping kimchi in the timeline.
In the latest episode of their marsh-draining podcast, Ken and Robin talk Robin’s upcoming game Page Turners, Silver Age heroes vs Cthulhu, the goddess of Rome’s best sewer, and actor/occultist Florence Farr.
To celebrate the Shadowlands Spanish-language release of the Worldbreaker campaign book for The Esoterrorists, Álvaro Loman interviews Robin on all things GUMSHOE. If we didn’t know better we’d think that Álvaro kind of wants the Ordo Veritatis to be bad sometimes. But how could we think such a thing? The Esoterrorists are occult terrorists intent […]
Live at THE KRAKEN, Ken and Robin talk Stalin and the alien invasion, printing books in Europe, what we would to do German cuisine, and ending your game session with a post-credit sequence.
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.
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 humans […]
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 […]