The classic murder mystery: a bunch of eccentrics gather, often at a remote house or other confined location, and then – thump! One of them’s murdered. In most roleplaying scenarios, red herrings aren’t needed. The classic advice is that the players create enough confusion as they maraud and blunder towards a conclusion that adding distractions […]
In the latest episode of their giraffe-rescuing podcast, Ken and Robin talk game table attendance vagaries, Ken’s Potomac book raid, and the Toronto clown-fireman riot.
Sorcery, of course, is forbidden in the Empire of Hekte, one of the key lands in The Paragon Blade. They will not forget the horrors and evils unleashed by the demonologists of the Hellbound Empire. Only Imperial bondsmages, carefully monitored and suitably restrained, are allowed work magic under the watchful eyes of the Bureau of […]
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In the latest episode of their locally beloved podcast, Ken and Robin talk greased rail scenarios, the Chicago rat hole, and our top ten movies of 2023.
It’s a staple of the detective genre that the heroic investigator picks up on some tiny clue, some inconsistency that unravels an otherwise perfect crime. They spot that only one dinner guest could have passed through the kitchen in the two-minute window to poison the bride’s champagne glass, or that the mystery turns on whose […]
In the latest episode of their meticulously planned podcast, Ken and Robin talk Diamond Sutras, a Gildd Age heist mastermind, Reacher as Theseus, and the Isle of Demons.
Here’s another installment of the new kin powers from 13th Age 2E. If you played using the original core book, you probably noticed that wood elves rocked. That presented a challenge which we did not tackle in the Alpha Playtest Packet. Here’s what’s coming in the 2E Beta Playtest Packet in a few weeks Wood […]
In the latest episode of their nattily attired podcast, Ken and Robin talk fashion vocabulary in gaming narration, the Johnny Appleseed of dates, the devil’s hunt for skins, and the Pythagoreans.