Reviews from rpgnow.com BOUH is our most critically acclaimed book, with it and its d20 cousin receiving a clean sweep of eight five star ratings on rpgnow.com. Read the reviews of the d20 version (a subset of the GUMSHOE version) here and the GUMSHOE version here. From the art and fiction to the abilities and […]
A review of Armitage Files on Flames Rising.
This past weekend I was in beautiful Regina, Saskatchewan for a wedding. While the bride entertained hosted a girls night out for female out-of-town guests, I was paired with a conveniently rounded-up game group for a BBQ and an RPG session. As if I planned it that way, Skulduggery serves perfectly for this sort of […]
A review of Watchers in the Sky, courtesy of Matthew Pook.
Robin discusses Skulduggery on The Game’s the Thing podcast.
The ENnie award nominations are in. Armitage Files has been nominated for best adventure, with Shadows over Filmland taking an honourable mention. And Jérome gets a richly deserved nod for his cover artwork on Rough Magicks. Last July in Page XX, Jérome let us into the secrets of his photomontage technique in creating this amazing […]
Over the last couple of installments (here and here) I discussed structure as something that mostly takes care of itself if you manage the dramatic rhythms of your roleplaying session on a beat-by-beat basis. Now it’s time to break that down a bit. Our first step is to nail down what we mean by a […]
Last time I talked about allowing the structure of a session or campaign to arise organically, as opposed to imposing it in advance. Let’s drill deeper into that idea with some techniques and examples. Organic structures are built on disparate story threads that eventually converge. The best source of story threads are your players. These […]