In the latest episode of their entirely curricular podcast, Ken and Robin talk RPGs as history class, Brussels espionage, writing influences, and the Black Dragon Society.
Getting Ahead through Strategic Incompetence My Wednesday night group been playing Dungeon World in the Forgotten Realms setting. We are enjoying it, and in particular exploring our characters’ differing niches (oo-er). In Dungeon World, whenever there is a challenge in the fiction, you describe what you are doing, an appropriate Move is chosen, then roll […]
Excerpt from an internal Ordo Veritatis monograph: A polemic pamphlet describing the 1616 trial and execution of a woman for double filicide unknowingly portrays a textbook case of Outer Dark activity. (The accompanying illustration, on the other hand…) Margaret Vincent of Acton, just outside London, murdered her two young children, aged 5 and 2, during […]
In the latest episode of their red and bubbling podcast, Ken and Robin Talk Bast, writing useful GMCs, Kim Philby and the return of Eric the lava lamp.
Most roleplaying games have some sort of diminishing resource that limits the player character’s ability to keep going. The commonest example are hit points and similar measures of health – if you’re running low on hit points, you need to stop and heal up. F20 games like 13th Age also treat some of your characters’ […]
In the latest episode of their horizon-illuminating podcast, Ken and Robin talk crazy game stories, John Tyler, the inaugural edition of Tell Me More & the Order of St Hubertus vs the Marfa Lights.
March is here, and with it comes spring (hooray!), an occasional glimpse of sunshine, and a host of Pelgranista birthdays, with Gareth, Cat, and Rob Heinsoo all celebrating another spin around the sun this month (congrats!). This month, we’re releasing the Night’s Black Agents PDF adventure The Dubai Reckoning (which includes the EPUB and MOBI). The third installment of the 13th Age Monthly […]
We’ve been hard at work developing GUMSHOE One-2-One settings with our writers, completing Dracula Dossier extras and getting the first laid-out draft of the TimeWatch RPG. I also had the pleasure of attending the Concrete Cow games convention in Milton Keynes, while Cat took the more glamorous option of attending Solmukohta. Paul Maclean, who runs […]