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 […]
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In the latest episode of their emerald-laden podcast, Ken and Robin talk the role of dice in RPGs, brain diagnosing inner voices, fantasy films of the silent era, and the sinking of the San Jose.
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Jun
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In Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff 603 we riffed a series of plot hooks arising from the career of experimental filmmaker and Vodou researcher Maya Deren. But maybe that left you unsatisfied, wanting a Yellow King: This is Normal Now scenario hook that drew in all of experimental cinema. You absolutely requested that, so […]
Pelgrane Press seeks swashbuckling playtesters to strap on their swords and smite some sorcery to playtest Pillars Built on Sand. Written with the trademark verve of acclaimed designer Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, this book of linked scenarios features: A quarantined ship harboring a fatal secret. An avatar of war on a predatory night time hunt. A covert […]
In the latest episode of their cleverly escaping podcast, Ken and Robin talk gaming the French Revolution, English spy George Blake, ground rules for fantasy film essentials, and Kabbalists vs Hitler.
In the latest episode of their unadulterated, nutritious podcast, Ken and Robin talk games where the bad guys control the authorities, English spy George Blake, NYC vs. swill milk, and the New England vampire panic.
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May
May
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 […]
Ken and Robin talk board game anger, mythological creatures in need of makeovers, mushroom patronage and way way more in their 650th episode LIGHTNING ROUND!!!
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May
May
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 […]
In the latest episode of their spicy, pickled podcast, Ken and Robin talk mercy for defeated foes, killer forger Mark Hofmann, stuffed shirt characters, and keeping kimchi in the timeline.