Improvising telling but subtle details on the fly is tricky, especially if the players catch you off-guard. They’ve suddenly flown to Iceland to follow a lead you hadn’t prepared, and now you’re scrambling not only to get back ahead of the Agents, but also get a handle on where the overall campaign is now going. […]
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There will be no November 2015 See Page XX – we’ll have a double issue in December. Why? Well, we are changing our online store this week. The new store clean and easy to use. It will have a bookshelf to list out all your downloads and subscriptions from past orders on the old store, […]
Jonathan and I usually agree on the mechanics of 13th Age, but our memories don’t always agree when it comes to how key mechanics were created.* The escalation die is a prime example. I remember using the escalation die in a bizarro 4e game, fighting minions of Torog, back before we started work on 13th Age. […]
See P. XX A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Lovecraft specialized in tales of cosmic horror, in which the insignificance of mere personality pales when confronted with the utter indifference of a materialistic universe. His heroes go mad or are destroyed by monstrous stand-ins for a reality that takes no note of human […]
In this month’s See Page XX, pre-order the 13th Age GM screen, grab new free fiction, scenario seeds for Esoterrorists and Mutant City Blues, and more Dracula Dossier news than you can shake a stake at. Our new releases include the pre-order for the 13th Age Game Master’s Screen and Resource book, Cthulhu Apocalypse PDF, The Long Con PDF, final 13 […]
If you hang around my social media presence (or Ken’s, whose twitterings are to mine as Dracula is to a small fruit bat), you may have seen this funky diagram floating around. It’s a map of every (or nearly every) node in the Dracula Dossier and the connections between them. I ostensibly built it as […]
Happy Halloween! Our festivities have focused around Dracula, as he has landed in various homes all over the world – like some kind of horrible Santa Claus. Our backers have been kind enough to snap him in various guises as he arrives – you can see their photos here, or on the Dracula Dossier Facebook page […]
If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. GUMSHOE One-2-One: The Fathomless Sleep System: GUMSHOE One-2-One Author: Robin D. Laws Deadline: 31st December Description: How exactly did fast-living society girl Helen Deakin come down with a case of catatonia? Her sultry […]
Pre-Order the 13th Age Gamemaster Screen and Resource Book, and download the PDF now! “We have targeted the game toward experienced gamemasters and players at all levels of roleplaying experience.” – 13th Age core book 13th Age assumes you already know how to run an F20 roleplaying game—in fact, you’ve probably already done it more than a few times. You’re […]
The upcoming Edom Files, yet another part of the I-can-justifiably-use-the-word-epic-at-this-point epic Dracula Dossier series, is an anthology of eight missions, ranging from 1877’s Stoker: First Blood to the present-day Harker Intrusion . These missions can be used as one-shots with or without reference to the larger Dossier series, or as Flashbacks within a regular Dossier campaign, or – for the truly heroic – as part […]