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Interview Techniques In Mutant City Blues

This article offers advice on how to run suspect and witness interviews in Mutant City Blues. It incorporates some real police techniques, as well as those TV cops sometimes use. This is not a game about corrupt cops who beat suspects. I’ve added a couple of techniques which will get Internal Investigations on your back […]

See Page XX: Who Does the Talking?

shadowy figures conversing in tunnel

A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws GUMSHOE players sometimes clutch when they realize that one of them has to go talk to someone. Break through that moment of indecision by following these simple steps. Interpersonal abilities exist to help make this decision. Start by asking yourself what you know about this person, and […]

13th Sage: Combat? At MY Table? It’s More Likely Than You Think.

How does combat at your table look? Does it regularly go to ED 4+ and higher? If not, does that mean you also don’t see certain class mechanics or the Gloranthan Lunar ED effects most of the time? Are your rounds so short and snappy that going 5-6 rounds is doable? I think a good […]

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 […]

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 […]

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