A Column on Roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Excerpt from an Ordo Veritatis threat analysis report (draft version) Author Codename: Coastpoint In this department we think often of ODEs (Outer Dark Entities) but too little of a parallel phenomenon, one I will, for lack of a better term, call the Outer Dark Intersection. For the […]
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Improvising telling but subtle details on the fly is tricky, especially if the players catch you off-guard. They’ve suddenly flown to Iceland to follow a lead you hadn’t prepared, and now you’re scrambling not only to get back ahead of the Agents, but also get a handle on where the overall campaign is now going. […]
A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws A while back in the Alma Mater Magica series I’ve been running we came across an unusual situation not covered by the DramaSystem procedural rules. A wizardly confrontation pitted at least three player factions against each other. I polled the players to find out what their characters […]
Jonathan and I usually agree on the mechanics of 13th Age, but our memories don’t always agree when it comes to how key mechanics were created.* The escalation die is a prime example. I remember using the escalation die in a bizarro 4e game, fighting minions of Torog, back before we started work on 13th Age. […]
See P. XX A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Lovecraft specialized in tales of cosmic horror, in which the insignificance of mere personality pales when confronted with the utter indifference of a materialistic universe. His heroes go mad or are destroyed by monstrous stand-ins for a reality that takes no note of human […]
In this month’s See Page XX, pre-order the 13th Age GM screen, grab new free fiction, scenario seeds for Esoterrorists and Mutant City Blues, and more Dracula Dossier news than you can shake a stake at. Our new releases include the pre-order for the 13th Age Game Master’s Screen and Resource book, Cthulhu Apocalypse PDF, The Long Con PDF, final 13 […]
If you hang around my social media presence (or Ken’s, whose twitterings are to mine as Dracula is to a small fruit bat), you may have seen this funky diagram floating around. It’s a map of every (or nearly every) node in the Dracula Dossier and the connections between them. I ostensibly built it as […]
Happy Halloween! Our festivities have focused around Dracula, as he has landed in various homes all over the world – like some kind of horrible Santa Claus. Our backers have been kind enough to snap him in various guises as he arrives – you can see their photos here, or on the Dracula Dossier Facebook page […]
Driven By Our Loves A New Sources of Stability System for Trail of Cthulhu by Cat Ramen Trail of Cthulhu makes it clear that the Investigators are not simply pushed by their own need to investigative the Mythos; they also need the support of the people closest to them, their Sources of Stability. This system […]
This month we’ve moved our fulfilment centre for the UK and Rest of World to Kixto – a new company formed by my ProFantasy Software business partner Mark Fulford. As a result, the bulk of the Dracula Dossier simple pledes (two standard books) have been shipped, and many of the limited editions. The 13th Age […]