How can/should you change the Icons over the course of a campaign? I remember hearing, maybe at a Gen Con panel, that “If at least one Icon isn’t dead or changed by Epic tier you’re doing something wrong.” Suggestions or musings on how best to do this could be helpful. A great question! I’ll start […]
A few backers have asked why Trail 2nd Edition sticks to the old GUMSHOE method of having point Spends for each individual investigative ability, instead of switching to the Pushes used in the Yellow King/GUMSHOE One-2-One and Mutant City Blues. There’s no standalone GUMSHOE rules engine – each game takes the precepts and techniques and […]
Recorded live at Dragonmeet, Ken and Robin talk psi powers in the revolutionary war, tarot saturation, the world’s ineluctable slide into chaos, and what to do with brussels sprouts.
In the latest episode of their festive podcast, Ken and Robin talk falling damage, Kieron Gillen, krampuses, and Victorian spiritualist William Stainton Moses.
In 1895, the art student player characters of The Yellow King: Paris can’t simply pop home to visit their wealthy American families for the holidays. They can’t take time from their studies at the École des Beaux-Arts for a two-way ocean voyage. Like other temporary residents in someone else’s city, they’ll need to band together […]
Bottom Line Up Front: Santa Claus is Dracula. Oh, you want proof? Let’s briefly look at the life of St. Nicholas. (Start with Earth, says Ken. Start with Wikipedia, says I.) Nicholas of Myra, aka Nicholas the Wonderworker – and, as we all know, Dracula was a sorcerer as well as a vampire. He was […]
We’re just back from another brilliant Dragonmeet, held – for, we hear, the last time – in the Hammersmith Novotel in London. Ken, Robin, Gareth and myself joined Simon and booth stalwarts Jay Godden and Elina Gouliou for the fastest day of the year. It was great, as always, to catch up with everyone, and […]
Triangulate the impossible. Correlate a spate of disappearances, ELINT chatter, rumours you picked up from an old spy in a Viennese bar, and the nightmares of children to find where monsters make their lair. Take all the skills you honed investigating terrorists and serial killers, and use them to hunt vampires. This sourcebook for Night’s […]
In the latest episode of their entirely winnable podcast, Ken and Robin talk the state of crowdfunding, global ant war, 1930s carnival slang, and a bill to annex Canada.
