The Internet has certainly jacked up standards for what a GM is supposed to improvise these days. My home group’s Yellow King Roleplaying Game series has now progressed to the final sequence, the contemporary reality horror of This is Normal Now. Accordingly, a recent session found several characters wearing Urchins, Fitbit-like devices that can’t be […]
Author Archives: Robin Laws
In the latest episode of their option-filled podcast, Ken and Robin talk The Fall of DELTA GREEN, shaping dramatic scenes, choice & game design, and Savitri Devi.
In the latest episode of their bear-greased podcast, Ken and Robin talk skeptical PCs in horror, the Boy Jones, the Witches Tree and Springheeled Jack.
In the latest episode of their tinsel-spattered podcast, Ken and Robin talk fights that advance the story, 2017 movie top tens and the Ritman online occult library.
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A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Previously on See Page XX, I talked about the difficulties we occasionally hear about when GMs who have trained themselves to say “no” come to the GUMSHOE system with those assumptions in mind. This time I’d like to look at how early roleplaying culture took on that […]
In the latest episode of their trim and healthy podcast, Ken and Robin talk improv GUMSHOE, fitness app opsec, scene transitions and the Agatha Christie disappearance.
When the cold war sputtered to a close, Esoterrorists let the stoking of nuclear anxiety recede into the background in favor of newer and fresher means of increasing ambient panic. These days Esoterror operatives, eagerly scanning the news for fresh inspiration, suffer from a glut of possibility. So many causes of psychic disequilibrium, so little […]
In another all-request episode of their garum-basted podcast, Ken and Robin talk sandbox time travel, Apicius, place as story and the Belluminati.
In the latest episode of their comfy cuppa of podcast, Ken and Robin talk RPGs as jazz, Dennis Detwiller, the Worst Genre, and zodiac cup tea reading.
In the latest episode of their incisively diagrammed podcast, Ken and Robin talk about Beating the Story, Pizzagate, non-Anglo Delta Green and displacing Tolkien.