The revised edition of Fear Itself offers a toolkit approach to building campaigns. Let’s use that toolkit to build that hoary staple of the horror roleplaying genre – a zombie apocalypse. One-shot zombie games tend to be extended exercises of combat-and-running (brainless, or braaaaiiins-full fun, so to speak), so let’s tackle the more interesting question […]
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In the latest episode of their entirely structurally sound podcast, Ken and Robin talk Night’s Mad Dossier, anti-harassment measures, Umberto Eco and the Fonthill Abbey tower collapse.
One of the joys of writing a whole new Cthulhoid core book (The Fall of Delta Green, and thank you for asking) is attempting yet another take on the old familiar Mythos legendry. The technothriller tone of Delta Green cries out for specifics and details and connections to our real world of war and terrorism, […]
In a world where it’s impossible to watch enough great TV shows to declare any of them the greatest TV show now in production, I’m still gonna call “Better Call Saul” one of the best shows going. (And I still haven’t made it all the way through “Breaking Bad”, which might suggest some kind of […]
Our brief for GUMSHOE One-2-One was very simple – create a system and setting tailored for two people to roleplay an investgative game together. It’s not always easy to get a game group together and GUMSHOE One-2-One gives people the opportunity to play without that barrier. In particular, it also provides a useful way for […]
In the latest episode of their labyrinthine and shadowy podcast, Ken and Robin talk info tracking, machine politics, Asian action cinema 101 and the P2 Lodge.
An Ashen Stars scenario hook Interstellar commodities magnate Agnes Moro wakes up in an unfamiliar, disabled ship floating in space near the planet Bifrost. Its primary holo screen plays an audio-only recording on loop. The electronically distorted voice says: “Search your recollections and you will find that you have none. We have confiscated your memories. […]
In the latest episode of their entirely curricular podcast, Ken and Robin talk RPGs as history class, Brussels espionage, writing influences, and the Black Dragon Society.
Getting Ahead through Strategic Incompetence My Wednesday night group been playing Dungeon World in the Forgotten Realms setting. We are enjoying it, and in particular exploring our characters’ differing niches (oo-er). In Dungeon World, whenever there is a challenge in the fiction, you describe what you are doing, an appropriate Move is chosen, then roll […]
Excerpt from an internal Ordo Veritatis monograph: A polemic pamphlet describing the 1616 trial and execution of a woman for double filicide unknowingly portrays a textbook case of Outer Dark activity. (The accompanying illustration, on the other hand…) Margaret Vincent of Acton, just outside London, murdered her two young children, aged 5 and 2, during […]