A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws The Yellow King Roleplaying Game takes a couple of design innovations that first appeared in Cthulhu Confidential and imports them back into multi-player GUMSHOE. Most notably, its QuickShock sub-system uses cards to represent the specific ongoing consequences of mental and physical harm. Importing them into previous GUMSHOE […]
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In the latest episode of their satisfyingly escalating podcast, Ken and Robin talk climactic sessions, Stoker translations, fantasy films 101, and Sumerian stargates.
In the latest episodeof their Elder-signed podcast, Ken and Robin talk narrative dungeons, Christoph Sapinsky, tattooing Cthulhu and Rosaleen Norton.
A combination of forensic examination and interrogation results have revealed a chilling new modus operandi of an Esoterror cell. This cell, known to us as the Murphy-Hanson-Crawford organization (MHCO), and to its participants as the Gee-Gnomes, has been using genetic testing as a screening device for the recruitment of new members. Under the guise of […]
In the latest episode of their scratchy-voiced podcast, Ken and Robin review the hustle, bustle & lobsters of Gen Con 2018 and talk to Emily Reinhart.
In the latest episode of their chronologically correct podcast, Ken and Robin talk Innmsouthing your scenario ending, Cagots, gaming David Lynch, and the Phantom Time Hypothesis.
In the latest episode of their highly secure podcast, Ken and Robin talk same foe/different games, China’s Sea Dragon data heist, protagonists, and Witold Pilecki.
Replication A scenario seed for Ashen Stars The lasers pick up a contract from an independent scientific consortium to investigate the fate of one of their Sherlock-class survey vessels. It sent out a distress call several days ago and has not been heard from since. The Linnaeus was orbiting a supposedly barren planet in the […]
In the latest episode of their well-stocked podcast, Ken and Robin talk dungeons, carbon reclamation, Jonathan Tweet and Julius Evola.
Rapid fire Qs include arm-wrestling, aftershave and the game we’d bargain our lives for in post-zombie hell as Ken and Robin Talks About Stuff reaches its landmark 300th ep. LIGHTNING RO-O-O-O-O-O-OUND!!!



