If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. Shadows in Eldolan System: 13th Age Author: Cal Moore Duration: 1-2 sessions Deadline: 15th January Description: Shadows in Eldolan is an introductory adventure for the 13th Age game system. The adventure’s objective […]
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by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan Most cultures mark the deepest darkness of the winter and the turning of the year with feasts and rituals. Festivals often spread from one culture to another when peoples engage in trade, though the celebrations may lose their original meaning and acquire new ones in the transmission. By the time humans went […]
Conspiracy Horror in Trail of Cthulhu by Justin Farquhar These guidelines will help you to incorporate a thoroughly conspiratorial feel into your Trail of Cthulhu campaign. They make use of conspiracy mechanics found in Night’s Black Agents, so you will need a copy of the Night’s Black Agents (NBA) core rulebook as well as your […]
by Kevin Kulp One of my favorite things about GUMSHOE games is the Preparedness ability. It’s an ability that’s designed to eliminate gearing-up at the beginning of the play session. Instead of trying to guess at what weaponry, gear, explosives and devices you’re going to need for the mission, you’re assumed to bring a bunch […]
With the dying of the year, it’s time to read “The Festival” and to think of 2014. In this space, specifically, about the next year’s Ken Writes About Stuff installments. To get the good, or rather the known, stuff out of the way: January 2014: GUMSHOE Zoom: Mind Control. This is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful […]
This is a short update . I’ve gone for Buzzfeed-themed headlines for this View from A Pelgrane’s Nest – I hope you forgive my indulgence. Anything I haven’t mentioned is covered in my previous missive. This month we release Hillfolk and Blood on the Snow for DramaSystem, Albion’s Ransom: Worm of Sixty Winters for Esoterrorists, […]
Christmas comes but once a year, and it’s brought with it a host of Buzzfeed-themed headlines to enhance your seasonal cheer. So have a hot drink, sit back and relax with Some of The Most Incredible Things You’ll Read This Christmas. New Releases The Hillfolk Are Coming! Don’t Eat The Red Snow Blood on the […]
A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws I designed DramaSystem to allow groups to impose their own dynamic on play. It gives you a framework and lets you decide what to do with it. So when it turns out that one-shot games tend to take on a cutthroat edge, that’s not because I installed […]
A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Hillfolk and Blood on the Show present a couple of series pitches that cross the streams with our flagship GUMSHOE games. Chris Lackey’s “The Whateleys” lets you play in Lovecraft territory from the cultists’ point of view. My own “Mutant City: HCIU” flips the police procedural […]
See P. XX A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Roleplaying offers a pleasure we don’t much mention or, for that matter, particularly think about. When you play with a group, you get to see how each of its members thinks. Here I’m speaking not so much of the content of their thought—about resource […]