In the latest episode of their well-equipped podcast, Ken and Robin talk player-created plot hooks, Chicago surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, fave defunct food products, and ghost investigation gear.
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Aug
Aug
The section on damage resistance in the core book says, “If there’s an automatic damage effect that feels like it should have a chance of being reduced by resistance, go ahead and fake an attack roll to see if the effect penetrates resistance.” My question is, if the attacker has the shocked condition from the […]
10 years ago, the first episode of Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff dropped. Celebrate this milestone with the A-Z of KARTAS!
In the latest episode of their double fun podcast, Ken and Robin talk doppelganger One-2-One, Night’s Black Agents in Asia, multiverses in the zeitgeist, and Eugene of Savoy.
Over on my twitter, I sometimes post entertaining or suggestive errors as typos of the day. Yesterday, I accidentally typed “manticore” as “manticorn”, which prompted… The Manticorn According to rumour, the Manticorn was once a fearsome manticore, an ancient and especially cruel creature. In time, he came to repent of his dreadful habit of hunting […]
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Jul
Jul
A creature for The Esoterrorists Powerful Outer Dark entities regularly promise immortality to the human would-be sorcerers who aid them. Sometimes they outright lie and can grant no such thing. Other entities can offer an indefinite existence, but in the awful, suffering form of an anthrospider. Esoterrorists agreeing to aid ODEs expect a far different […]
In the latest episode of their generously portioned podcast, Ken and Robin talk the middle of nowhere, TSR history with Ben Riggs, the Fred Harvey Company, and Gerald Gardner.
by Jay Godden, edited by Isaac Rolfe and Rob Heinsoo, art by Aaron McConnell/Lee Moyer Read the introductory post here. The many pantheons of nymphs, spirits, gods and fey worshipped in the Elf Queen’s woods are varied, capricious, and undocumented, least by the elves themselves. They have no formal priesthood, and not even the Priestess […]
In the latest episode of their permission-granting podcast, Ken and Robin talk roadblock removal in scenario writing, rhino horn heists, Tik Tok tics, and Lord Byron’s new horror novel.
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Jul
Jul
A scenario hook for Yellow King: Paris In late February of 1895, an unusually strong winter blast wallops Paris. The Seine freezes over. Work crews struggle to clear all the snow. Doubtless those of our art student heroes who hail from the northern US may use this as an opportunity to brag of the […]