Some Hillfolk players report cognitive dissonance over an edge case in the game’s procedural resolution system. Success in a standard procedural scene with the players on one side and the GM on the other depends on matching a target card. When the GM spends a green procedural token, at least one of the player’s cards […]
Author Archives: Robin Laws
In the latest episode of their ENnie-nominated podcast, Ken and Robin talk Pokemon Go, Thrill of Dracula, fear of triangles, and the Wonderland Chamber.
An opening scene for Trail of Cthulhu Dr. Ellis Brock, a medical doctor acquainted with one of the PCs, asks them to consult on a curious case. A young patient, Rudolf Esper, presented himself to Brock exhibiting the telltale symptoms associated with ocular syphilis: damage to the retina, nerves and blood vessels at the back […]
It’s Episode 200 of Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, and you know what that means—Lightning Round!!!
In the Gaean Reach, almost every world capable of supporting life gave rise to creatures of an insect-like body configuration. Though biologists assign each planet’s evolutionary tree its own taxonomic categories, in both lay and scientific circles the term “insect” is used to describe them all. The so-called insects of Achernar, for example, bear no […]
In the latest episode of their 2016 ENnie-nominated podcast, Ken and Robin talk Tsan-Chan, Westerns 201, pre-nuclear steel, and Trois-Echelles.
In the latest episode of their ENnie-nominated podcast, Ken and Robin talk scenario climaxes, Edward Barton, AI screenwriting, and Nixon unpardoned.
In the latest episode of their epoch-making podcast, Ken and Robin talk Bubblegumshoe, playing historical figures, and Ken’s New England book raid.