In the latest episode of their ENnie three-peating podcast, Ken and Robin talk GUMSHOE hybrids, killing Pat Garrett, Will Hindmarch’s gaming music secrets, and the Beast of Gevaudan.
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The streets here are a concrete labyrinth. I try to go one block east, towards the ocean, and find myself crossing another bridge over the grey waters of the Miskatonic, and I’m back on the north side of the city, climbing up towards the civic monstrosity that squats atop Sentinel Hill. Transport Police, their faces […]
“Just as it is almost impossible to be an agnostic in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, so it is difficult to keep from being swept up in the beauty and majesty of the Task Force Alpha temple.” — Leonard Sullivan, Deputy Director of Defense Research & Engineering, in 1968 There are, in fact, lots of […]
In the latest episode of their triple Gold ENnie winning podcast, Ken and Robin talk running con games, writing routines, Emily Care Boss and Agent 355.
In the latest episode of their triple ENnie Gold-winning podcast, Ken and Robin make a lot of humble statements just like that one as they talk Gen Con, Gen Con, Gen Con, and also Gen Con.
The ENnies are annual awards which celebrate and reward the year’s best roleplaying game releases. They are run by ENworld – a huge and popular forum devoted primarily to roleplaying games. Each year at Gen Con they host a ceremony which acknowledges and rewards that year’s roleplaying game highlights. As with many awards the recipients […]
Gen Con stretches across the publishing year like a huge rollercoaster. In the first half of the year there is the slow, ratcheted climb to the peak. You can do what the hell you want in your carriage, you might even forget you are committed, but nothing it stopping the ride. As you get higher […]
In the latest episode of their triple gold ENnie-winning podcast, Ken and Robin talk backloaded continuities, Russian intelligence hacking for Trump, blueberries and ley lines.
A scenario hook for The Esoterrorists Another Ordo Veritatis team just wrapped up a case in the affluent Dallas suburb of Richardson, TX. The climactic firefight with an Esoterror cell made up of telecom contractors has left that group in need of convalescence time. So the Ordo now taps your team to follow up a […]
Some Hillfolk players report cognitive dissonance over an edge case in the game’s procedural resolution system. Success in a standard procedural scene with the players on one side and the GM on the other depends on matching a target card. When the GM spends a green procedural token, at least one of the player’s cards […]