By Jason Kraus Electronic games have popularized in-game achievements, while apps have seized that idea to drive user engagement. Pelgrane Press’s ENnie Award-winning Night’s Black Agents by Kenneth Hite expanded the use of achievements for TTRPGs by awarding immediate Ability refreshes during play. What follows is an effort to add Achievements to The Fall of […]
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By Jason Kraus Historically significant personalities, events, and locations in bold. Japanese names are written in the Western convention. Authors Note: Elements of this scenario reflect HP Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth”. Players unfamiliar with Lovecraft’s work (yes, there are a few) may be less paranoid than those who’ve enjoyed his oeuvre. For players more […]
By Jason Kraus Historically significant personalities, events, and locations in bold. Japanese names are written in the Western convention. PremiseTwo Delta Green-connected ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) officers went missing in Tokyo while investigating heroin smuggling out of Vietnam with possible supernatural ties. The agents, tasked with finding them, uncover a tangled web of yakuza, […]
By Jason Kraus The late 1960s were a heady time for society. Classified, compartmented military and intelligence programs on both sides of the Iron Curtain experimented with previously unutilized chemical compounds to gain advantage over their adversaries and insight into the human mind. In the shadowy corridors of Langley and Lubyanka, the competition to win […]
By Jason Kraus Manipulating an opponent’s mind from within is much more difficult than lashing out with a telekinetic punch or willing the evidence in an interrogator’s hands to burst into flame. It is the dream of every special agent, spy, and clandestine operator to control the way an opponent thinks and feels, experiences reality, […]
In the latest episode of their high and dry podcast, Ken and Robin talk urban fantasy university, Dayton’s Great Flood, late 30s fantasy films, and occult 60s rocker Graham Bond.
In the latest episode of their cleverly escaping podcast, Ken and Robin talk gaming the French Revolution, English spy George Blake, ground rules for fantasy film essentials, and Kabbalists vs Hitler.
Recorded live at Gen Con, Ken and Robin talk the US-UK intergalactic financial war, game book info presentation, what we drink in Indy, and investigating the cult in your real-life neighborhood.
In the latest installment of their bibliomaniacal podcast, Ken and Robin talk Bookhounds of Timewatch, Peter Adkison, the Borellus Connection, and astronomer George Ellery Hale’s elf adviser.
In the latest episode of their dreamlike podcast, Ken and Robin talk Temu horror, Project Coldfeet, Maya Deren, and the 1826 Lao rebellion.