Bill White, Big Hoodoo writer has recorded a session he ran at the PAX East game convention. He says: If you’ve read “The Big Hoodoo” and want to run it, but are wondering about all its moving parts, there’s an audio recording of me running the game at PAX East for the nice folks at […]
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Earlier I talked about the way every SF game calls for a unique setting, whether the designer likes it or not, because there isn’t a complete enough assumptions set to present a default universe. Ashen Stars creates its setting to serve the action. This of course is how a creator in a non-interactive story form […]
Four critically acclaimed adventures for Trail of Cthulhu will soon be available in a single volume, with exclusive essays by the authors. These are The Black Drop, Castle Bravo, The Big Hoodoo and Not So Quiet. We’ll send out vouchers to all existing PDF customers with a modest discount for the print version. Edit: I […]
Dan Harms reviews Graham Walmsley’s Trail of Cthulhu adventure The Rending Box. …another excellent contribution to the Trail of Cthulhu line.
A hurdle any SF RPG faces is the lack of default setting assumptions. From the earliest days of D&D, we have been accustomed to a portmanteau fantasy world. This hybrid creature sprang from the experimental vats of the wizards Gygax and Arneson, combining the Howard sword and sorcery and Tolkien epic literary fantasy modes into […]
Download the character creation chapter and part of the GM’s Advice for Ashen Stars.
Edit: The Stellar Pre-Order window is closed. However, you can pre-order Ashen Stars for delivery in August, and get the PDF and Robin Laws fiction now. Read more about the perks available with the Stellar Nursery edition here. Incidentally, if you’ve ordered the Stellar Nursery edition, you might like to know that anyone who spots […]
When a phone tip from a woman claiming to be a psychic leads police in a rural community to excavate a supposed mass grave, the Ordo Veritatis dispatches a team to the site to cope with supernatural repercussions. By the time they arrive at the scene, the call is shown to be a hoax. But […]
Dead Rock Seven is a set of adventures for Ashen Stars, outlined by Robin Laws and written by Gareth Hanrahan. It was my intention to give Ashen Stars the best possible start, so I decided to release Dead Rock Seven simultaneously with the core book if possible. We brought Pascal Quidault aboard to do the […]
My original brief for Ashen Stars spacehip combat was that all PCs should be involved, regardless of their position in the crew. That element was retained, but starship combat was substantially altered in playtest. Read more on Robin’s blog…