Every now and again, I allude jokingly to my “patented one hour per paragraph production model.” This joke has the advantage of making Simon squirm and laugh hollowly, and the disadvantage of sometimes being true. Those little ability clues that I so thoughtlessly made standard in Hideous Creatures? Some of them, especially for the harder […]
Category Archives: General
In all GUMSHOE games, there’s a benefit for having 8 rating points in Athletics – your Hit Threshold rises by 1. Night’s Black Agents expanded this to all General Abilities – if you invest eight of your precious build points in a particular ability, you get a cherry, a special ability that shows off your […]
In the latest episode of their herb-scented podcast, Ken and Robin talk Chimeriades, plausible alternate histories, Mount Shasta Lemurians and Rob Ford in rehab.
[SPOILER WARNING – contains minor spoilers for Shadows of Eldolan] With the launch of 13th Age, we required new artists – with The Eyes of the Stone Thief, the Free RPG Day release and Shadows Over Eldolan all ready as manuscripts, we had quite a backlog. Joshua Calloway, who I feature here, was one of […]
In him, however, the family mentality had veered away from practical affairs to pure scholarship; so that he had been a notable student of mathematics, astronomy, biology, anthropology, and folklore at the University of Vermont. I had never previously heard of him, and he did not give many autobiographical details in his communications; but from […]
This month I have more 13th Age projects to announce, Cthulhu Apocalypse reaches its – well – apocalyptic conclusion, and we reach the final installment of the first Ken and Robin Writes About stuff. Cthulhu Apolcalypse Graham Walmsley’s epic and award-winning Cthulhu Apocalypse concludes in Slaves of the Mother, crafted with Gareth Hanrahan. It includes […]
Tell Me Lies, Tell me Sweet Little Lies Converting Pelgrane’s ‘Eternal Lies’ Campaign to Call of Cthulhu By Andrew Nicholson Part Two: Where Angels Fear to Tread So, the general concepts for the conversion were in place…next step was – how would I deal with the actual individual encounters? And how was I going to […]
Wow! There are over 500 GMs playing through Tales of the 13th Age organized play program right now, and an average of 5 new GMs joining us every day! At 5 players per group that is 3000 people. GMs are running games in every corner of the globe, from France to Russia, from the Philippines […]
As a result of the Hillfolk Kickstarter, the DramaSystem is now available under two open licenses; the Open Gaming License and the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Unported License. It is not a teaching document structured to show you how to play and enjoy DramaSystem, but a reference document for writers and game designers to create […]
I’m really very sorry. You might have noticed that Eternal Lies is available through retail, and if you have pre-ordered it, you haven’t received your pre-order. We realise that this affects our most loyal customers, and we’d like to first to make good (with extra goodies) and second ensure it doesn’t happen again. First a […]