Keeping Yellow King PCs Alive

Old lady in alternate 1940s France brandishes meat cleaver

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 […]

Call of Chicago: Rose Mackenberg, Ghost-Breaker

“It is only when I have found what was supposed to be psychic turned into extortion that I have condemned and exposed it. Or when I have watched it ladled out to some trusting soul until it became a one-way ticket to an asylum.” Rose Mackenberg, quoted in the Chicago Tribune (Aug. 5, 1945) Born […]

Smoke and Mirrors

by Emily Cambias This Spiritualism-inspired adventure is best played with Trail of Cthulhu groups that include a Parapsychologist or Medium. Introduction New England, December, 1930. Mrs. Allsopp is a wealthy widow and avid Spiritualist. She’s hosted the medium Lewis Thrush in her home for eight months and holds regular séances with him. Everyone who attends […]

Robin Journeys into the Shadowlands for a GUMSHOE Tell-All

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 […]

View From the Pelgrane’s Nest – April 2025

A big shout-out to our estimable Patreon backers! Thanks to Peter, Jim, Phil, Bryant, P. Troilus, Michael M, ScottKey, Michael B, Andreas, Ranting John, Michael H, Mark, Daniel, Jiří, Marcus, Cena, Thomas and Marc!! TARIFFS Since my last update, one topic has dominated the tabletop games industry: the impact of the USA’s extensive tariffs on imports, […]

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