It’s not just The Esoterrorists that urges you to reconfigure real-life mysteries by ripping tales from the headlines. With Mutant City Blues undergoing a resurgence of interest lately, I figured I’d start swapping in case ideas for the Heightened Crimes Investigative Unit as well. Japan’s strict limitations on organ donation have created a thriving black […]
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The Bookhounds Deluxe editions are on their way!
Trail of Cthlhu player Alf Joakim Persson spotted this ominous warehouse in the great seaport of Gothenberg. What is lacks in subtly it makes up for in doric columns.
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 […]
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 […]