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.
“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 […]
In the latest episode of their marsh-draining podcast, Ken and Robin talk Robin’s upcoming game Page Turners, Silver Age heroes vs Cthulhu, the goddess of Rome’s best sewer, and actor/occultist Florence Farr.
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 […]
Live at THE KRAKEN, Ken and Robin talk Stalin and the alien invasion, printing books in Europe, what we would to do German cuisine, and ending your game session with a post-credit sequence.
A big shout-out to our estimable Patreon backers! Thanks to Peter, Jim, Phil, Bryant, P. Troilus, Michael M, ScottKey, Michael B, Andreas, Ranting John, Michael H, Mark, Daniel, Jiří, Marcus, Cena, Thomas and Marc!! TARIFFS Since my last update, one topic has dominated the tabletop games industry: the impact of the USA’s extensive tariffs on imports, […]
You invest your base of operations with General and Investigative abilities that anyone in your group can share as long as they’re in that location. This location is called a sanctum.
For the upcoming Paths of the Behemoth sourcebook, I contributed a parade of scavengers and weird mystics who trek along in the wake of the behemoths. I’ve a weakness for eccentric little guys who’ve found some niche and stick with it until they become crazy magic/mutant hermits – and the Dragon Empire setting is full […]
