Within the creaking bones of this old home, you sit in awkward silence with faces you’d rather not speak at around a lavish table. You puppeteer your words and motions with cautious care, ensuring you don’t step out of line or startle any of the other guests. You play along until the bell rings. Dinner […]
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In the latest episode of their lantern-equipped podcast, Ken and Robin wrap up the axes of RPG design series and talk about the wire game, Peruvian mine goblins, and the Georgia Guidestones.
In the latest episode of their 12-sided podcast, Ken and Robin talk randomness vs choice in RPG design, the Chicago Film Festival, Tristan Zimmerman’s Shanty Hunters, and saving Franz Ferdinand.
One of the major factions in the Eyes of the Stone Thief campaign is the Cult of the Devourer, a cabal of fanatics, wizards and fanatical wizards (wizardly fanatics) who worship the Living Dungeon as a god of vengeance. As outlined in the campaign (p. 302), the cult was originally founded, many ages ago, by […]
There are places where the Membrane between our reality and the Outer Dark frays, where things slip between worlds too easily. Some call these liminal spaces the Outskirts; the Ordo Veritatis, in its clinical way, refers to them as LMSLs (Low Membrane Strength Locations). Such places are often found on the edge of towns, in […]
In the latest episode of their elegantly logarithmic podcast, Ken and Robin talk abstract vs emotional rules design, Owen Luder and brutalism, and an Ohio-sized Ken’s Bookshelf.
In the latest episode of their lemon-squeezy podcast, Ken and Robin talk Ease vs Mastery in rpg design, TE Lawrence & Robert Graves, streams of SF illustration, and a Theosophist retirement community.
In the latest episode of their spritely podcast, Ken and Robin talk handling cost in rpg design, Chicago’s Midway Gardens, the changing face of festival circuit cinema, and time machining Japan’s WWII A-bomb.
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A foe for The Esoterrorists / Fear Itself Border Dwellers break through from the Outer Dark into our reality after scenting the psychic spoor of groups in conflict. The dispute that draws them could be between adjacent communities, or between factions in a single town. A Border Dweller can turn any collective resentment into the […]
In the latest episode of their entirely surpelagic podcast, Ken and Robin talk simulation vs. emulation, dark fish, the Queen in Yellow, and the Brazilian vampire UFOs known as chupas.