I’ve been running a mini-series of Night’s Black Agents – the third season since I started the game. This post describes game prep. The team have a vampire encased in a block of concrete which they kept in a silo in the Crimea – but the Russians invaded, so they moved the body and the […]
Some GUMSHOE scenarios give players the opportunity to pick up small temporary pools. In Trail, for example, reading the collected letters of a crazed physicist might give a 2-point temporary pool that can be spent on Occult, Physics or Astronomy. The players can use these points as they would regular points from their character sheets. […]
In the latest episode of their fierce, red-headed podcast, Ken and Robin talk weirdness levels in The Yellow King, Bellingcat, dramatic interaction in tabletop, and a French werewolf confession.
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A Yellow King: Paris scenario hook Laurette Clemson, a wealthy American art patron of the groups’ acquaintance, asks them to meet her at her suite in the Hotel Metropol. They find her pallid, feverish and restive. With trembling hand, she produces a photographic print of a woman with roses in her hair. Laurette engaged a […]
The Cult of the Devourer, as seen in Eyes of the Stone Thief, are the descendants of enemies of the Emperor. They were exiled from the Dragon Empire, and ended up riding along in a living dungeon that they intended to one day turn into a weapon against the ‘usurpers’. The cult’s original goal of […]
In the latest episode of their open to the photo page podcast, Ken and Robin talk Watergate burglary as game fodder, the most specialized books Ken owns, the Russian airline stowaway mystery, and the White Ship disaster.
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A DramaSystem Series Brief For years the Ashton family has enriched itself on the record-breaking sales of their pharmaceutical company’s supposedly safe and effective opioid. Now the pain is coming for them. Characters Encourage players to create characters from the Ashton clan, majority shareholders of the BinghamHealth pharma corporation. With a larger group you might […]
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A Trail of Cthulhu location Residents of Arkham have taken to referring to the abandoned building near the corner of Alliance Street and Whitston Road simply as the Old Bank. Though the signs have been taken down, any local historian can tell you that it was originally incorporated as Mather and Sons, and went out […]
In the latest episode of their steely, status-enhancing podcast, Ken and Robin talk Ulfberht swords, the new cycle of female-centric horror cinema, spending your Dracula points, and the strange tale of astrologer Isaac Bicksterstaff.