This wraps up the series outline from a previous installment of See P. XX. Cult Activity A friend or loved one joins the Temple of Hali, willingly embracing the new unreality as more vivid and exciting than boring old regular life. Can the team dig up a sinister truth that will release this person from […]
by Robin D. Laws Legions of Carcosa, the foe and creature book for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game, constitutes an experiment in Pelgrane’s use of AI-generated art in its products. An experiment that drips mystically corrupt paint, gallops like a typewriter-headed hyena, and buzzes like the insects of the Hyades. I have been exploring the […]
By Eric Prister, creator of the Nature of My Game Podcast I had been thinking about starting an actual play podcast for years before I actually released my first episode, and so I had plenty of time to think (and re-think, and re-think) about what game I should use to start. And when I decided […]
A Foe for Yellow King: This is Normal Now The Carcosan entity known as the Fame Eater nourishes itself on the psychic energy exuded by celebrity. Fame Eaters can attach themselves to well-known individuals of any stripe. Most seek the particularly heady emotional energy that surrounds people who combine true achievement in their fields with […]
A Scenario Seed for The Yellow King: Aftermath Not knowing who to trust, a fellow ex-insurgent now working for the Federal Police turns to the crew for assistance. A top-secret tribunal has sentenced a key war criminal of the Castaigne regime to death. The hitch: the convict is an egregore, an insubstantial malign being from […]
Please email support@pelgranepress.com for instructions on how to take part in this playtest! Title: Cassilda’s Song: Paris section System:The Yellow King RPG Authors: Robin D. Laws Deadline for return of feedback: Tuesday 31st January 2023 Number of sessions: 1-2 sessions per each of the four adventures Description: Like the YKRPG itself, Cassilda’s Song consists of four books, […]
A Foe for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game: Paris Monsieur Anguillerose, or Mr. Eelrose as he translates his name into English, is a singular Carcosan being who enjoys the Parisian nightlife, and killing the people who inhabit it. After spoiling a royal plan in the days before the city of Ys sank, the Pallid King […]
In the latest episode of their winged, dusty podcast, Ken and Robin talk faeries in The Yellow King RPG, the Mothman Festival, character complexity levels in fiction, and Cotton Mather.
A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Early phases of Yellow King scenarios often find the investigators looking into subtle symptoms of Carcosan reality shifting. While they talk to initial witnesses and hit the books to orient themselves in some research, not much in an overtly horrific or supernatural vein might be happening […]
The War of the Sisters STRANGER: Have you fashioned your masks? CAMILLA AND CASSILDA: Father, they shall not be masks for long. STRANGER: From what have you fashioned them? CAMILLA: From Rodrigo’s red flesh. CASSILDA: From my song of green joy. Cassilda’s Song, a massive scenario series for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game, spans all […]
