Here is actual play of the Esoterrorists adventure Profane Miracles, with a home-designed follow up adventure using Fear Itself here, from the excellent Role Playing Public Radio. There is a bit of banter at the beginning, but they get into it pretty quickly and get on with the game.
With Kenneth Hite’s GUMSHOE vampire spy thriller Night’s Black Agents now percolating out into the gamer bloodstream, you may be seeking resources for your real-life geopolitical chasing and shooting needs. One site to bookmark is In Moscow’s Shadows, the blog of Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russia’s criminal underworld, its national security apparatus, and the […]
Lowell Francis has written a review of the Night’s Black Agents This is my new favorite GUMSHOE game and one of the best espionage game sourcebooks I’ve read.
“You lost a good opportunity to shut up.” Upon hearing that Nicholas Sarkozy recently said this to David Cameron, the obvious became evident: the current Euro rescue talks are a Skulduggery play pack waiting to happen. You play leaders of European nations attempting to prevent an implosion of the continental and/or global economy while at […]
Rewatching Zodiac recently, I was struck by the desire to see David Fincher similarly tackle the Mothman incidents of 1966-1967. This is no swipe at Mark Pellington’s The Mothman Prophecies, which I quite like for the way it evokes the enveloping paranoia of paranormal inquiry. It does, however, impose a cinematic structure and sense of […]
10 copies left! This years Dragonmeet was a huge success, our best yet but we did end up with a few copies of the Night’s Black Agents Dragonmeet Special Edition left. So we are making these available for general sale. This is a basic black and white, art-free layout with a full colour cover and […]
Courtesy of Steve Dempsey. In fairness, here is me gurning.