The following article originally appeared in an earlier iteration of See Page XX in June 2008. You can find James’s soundtrack work for Trail of Cthulhu here, for Night’s Black Agents here, and for Esoterrorists here. by James Semple James Semple has written the Trail of Cthulhu Theme to go with his inter-scene stings. He’ll […]
The following article originally appeared in an earlier iteration of See Page XX in June 2008. by Simon Rogers In this issue Robin D Laws discusses the use of genre conceits in Mutant City Blues, we have more music from James Semple, and a second interview by Luke Crane. This issue sees the return of […]
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Game Moderators seeing the Push rules in The Yellow King Roleplaying Game and now second edition Mutant City Blues sometimes ask how to import them into previous GUMSHOE games. To recap how Pushes work, players get two of them per scenario. They can spend Pushes to gain non-informational benefits from their investigative abilities. For example: […]
Following on from this explosion of 19th century French vampire weirdness… There is a little-known place which is undoubtedly the strangest in the world. The people who inhabit the barbarous lands around Belgrade sometimes call it Selene, sometimes Vampire City, but the vampires refer to it among themselves by the names of the Sepulchre and […]
Did you know that Pelgrane Press once conducted audio interviews with prominent game designers? Neither did I! The following interview originally appeared in an earlier iteration of See Page XX in April 2008. Luke Crane and Vincent Baker In this first in the podcast series, Luke Crane (Burning Wheel) talks to Vincent Baker (Dogs in […]
The following article originally appeared in an earlier iteration of See Page XX in April 2008. It discusses several technical details about podcasting, which the reader should bear in mind are now over 12 years old. By Paul MacLean [Editor] Paul, also known as Paul of Cthulhu is the head honcho over at Yog-Sothoth, and […]
The following article originally appeared on an earlier iteration of See Page XX in December 2007. by Steve Dempsey This article discusses an improvised variant of the GUMSHOE rules. It can be just as easily used for Esoterrorists, Fear Itself or any of the forthcoming books. Most games of GUMSHOE are played using a scenario that […]
In the latest episode of their unstoppable podcast, Ken and Robin talk about stuff Live from Gen Con Online.
The following article originally appeared on an earlier iteration of See Page XX in April 2008. You can find James’ soundtracks for Trail of Cthulhu, Night’s Black Agents, and Esoterrorists. by James Semple As a composer and roleplayer, I’ve been very interested in using music in my games. At the moment I game once a week […]
The following article originally appeared on an earlier iteration of See Page XX in April 2008. A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Give a Clue The heart of the GUMSHOE system is its method of ensuring that players always gather the clues essential to the solution of a mystery and lots of other […]