by Adam Gauntlett … for the purpose of this resolution, ‘dark fleet’ or ‘shadow fleet’ means ships that are engaged in illegal operations for the purposes of circumventing sanctions, evading compliance with safety or environmental regulations, avoiding insurance costs or engaging in other illegal activities … Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’: Bringing the threat to light: […]
In the latest episode of their haunting podcast, Ken and Robin talk peace deals in rpgs, Cosmere rpg project lead Lyla Fujiwara, late 80s fantasy films, and Cambridge ghosts and weirdness.
“Had his work … been the start of his imaginative flights, or was the tendency innate, so that his choice of occupation was merely one of its manifestations? At any rate, the man’s work was very closely linked with his notions.” —“The Horror in the Museum” In our previous column (“Trail of Cthulhu Today”), […]
In the latest episode of their high-speed podcast, Ken and Robin talk Formula One roleplaying, whether Elizabeth Bathory was framed, RVIFF streaming movie highlights, and a feud over fossils.
If you’re curious to see Page Turners, the upcoming game of dramatic interaction for one player and one GM, in action, Guy and Jag of Unconventional GMs are here for you. In this video they tackle “The Beacon,” my F. Scott Fitzgerald pastiche. Of the many scenarios offered in the book, I steered Guy toward […]
“The more Zamacona studied these things, the more apprehensive about the future he became; because he saw that the omnipresent moral and intellectual disintegration was a tremendously deep-seated and ominously accelerating movement.” —“The Mound” Outside his early Dunsanian works, and the anomalous “The Tree,” Lovecraft sets his stories in his own time, his own […]
As a company that makes horror games, Pelgrane looks forward to the Halloweeny month of October. From tentacled gods of cosmic indifference to cognitively dissonant demons to pallid-faced Carcosan aristocracy, we celebrate many terrors. One fear I don’t care to truck with, however, is a frozen production schedule. Let’s head down into the basement […]
by Guy Milner A few weeks ago, I got to take the upcoming one-on-one DramaSystem game from Robin Laws, Page Turners, out for a spin. It’s a tight, intense system that, for me, stiffens up some of the looser improv-heavy stuff in Hillfolk, and really delivers a satisfying one-shot experience. But don’t just believe me […]
In the latest episode of their tenured podcast, Ken and Robin talk a tabletop rpg curriculum, Welsh Patagonians, solo game designer Elliot Davis and illuminated artist Walter Russell.