In Part One, I discussed the basics of running a pre-written GUMSHOE adventure. Based on a recent poll about half of you write your own adventures, or adapt ours, with a few brave souls improvising completely. This article covers the improvisation that’s required when characters go in unexpected directions or ask unexpected questions, whether in […]
I’ve started running a new 13th Age campaign for my Fire Opal Games comrades and their families. The PCs are (apparently) questing to recover a goddess who most of the world has forgotten. The Elf Queen has several statues of the missing goddess in one of the halls she devotes to her friends, and she […]
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As the project increasingly leaves my hands and heads to Pelgrane HQ and post-production, it’s time to show off a smidgen of the reality-shattering art you’ll see in The Yellow King Roleplaying Game. Brittany’s legendary city of Ys rises from the waves, by Shel Kahn, from Paris A postcard of malign implication, collage by Dean […]
In the latest episode of their extremely deep podcast, Ken and Robin talk cursed supermarket tokens, the Chicago Spire Pit, samurai films, and sacred alphabets.
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“They have no time to think of surrender. Are they heroes — these Parisians?” — Robert W. Chambers, “The Street of the First Shell” (1895) Right about now, just about fifty years ago as I write this, France had no functioning government. I mean, more than usual. Charles de Gaulle, President of France for the […]
In the latest episode of their incorruptible podcast, Ken and Robin talk fantasy heists, Fat Leonard, invented slang and the Poison King.
In the latest episode of their XP-grubbing podcast, Ken and Robin talk in-game reward, how Ken picks games, persuasive maps and Hobby Lobby’s Sumerian incantations.
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A creature for The Esoterrorists The Outer Dark Entities known as sheeple slip through thin spots in the membrane caused by the belief that a dangerous contaminant or source of disease exists nearby. They enter our reality only in rural areas where domestic livestock roam. Sheeple feed on the fatal terror of farm animals. Cows, […]
Sometimes a class is a bit more than a single class! The new demonologist class in Book of Demons is a bit like the druid in 13 True Ways in that it uses talent choices to define its class features and spell lists. The three demonologist paths—corruption, flame, and slaughter—have features in common, including resist […]
In the latest episode of their lightly resined podcast, Ken and Robin talk CIA boardgames, game fiction, fantasy world wine and the Roanoke colony.