A few backers have asked why Trail 2nd Edition sticks to the old GUMSHOE method of having point Spends for each individual investigative ability, instead of switching to the Pushes used in the Yellow King/GUMSHOE One-2-One and Mutant City Blues. There’s no standalone GUMSHOE rules engine – each game takes the precepts and techniques and […]
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Recorded live at Dragonmeet, Ken and Robin talk psi powers in the revolutionary war, tarot saturation, the world’s ineluctable slide into chaos, and what to do with brussels sprouts.
In the latest episode of their festive podcast, Ken and Robin talk falling damage, Kieron Gillen, krampuses, and Victorian spiritualist William Stainton Moses.
In 1895, the art student player characters of The Yellow King: Paris can’t simply pop home to visit their wealthy American families for the holidays. They can’t take time from their studies at the École des Beaux-Arts for a two-way ocean voyage. Like other temporary residents in someone else’s city, they’ll need to band together […]
Bottom Line Up Front: Santa Claus is Dracula. Oh, you want proof? Let’s briefly look at the life of St. Nicholas. (Start with Earth, says Ken. Start with Wikipedia, says I.) Nicholas of Myra, aka Nicholas the Wonderworker – and, as we all know, Dracula was a sorcerer as well as a vampire. He was […]
In the latest episode of their entirely winnable podcast, Ken and Robin talk the state of crowdfunding, global ant war, 1930s carnival slang, and a bill to annex Canada.
In the latest episode of their austere and ritualistic podcast, Ken and Robin talk fail forwards for locked doors, fantasy and horror writer Molly Tanzer, experimental theater director Jerzy Grotowski, and the Michigan relics.
In the latest episode of their thirty foot by twenty foot podcast Ken and Robin talk basking in descriptive narration, the 60s heroin trade, untangling MCU continuity, and influential spiritualist Anna Kingsford.
In the latest episode of their refreshing, uncontaminated podcast, Ken and Robin talk level trafficking, Well Man, and Ken’s genteel graze of Powell’s Books.