Carcosan energies coalesce around folkloric traditions, creating actual monsters from creatures of legend. Outside of Paris, no part of France spawns more of these beings than the haunted shores of Brittany. Befriend otherwise menacing ankou and korrigans with this orchard-based variant of the classic julep. 1 oz. Bourbon 1 oz. Calvados 1/2 can club soda […]
This wraps up the series outline from a previous installment of See P. XX. Cult Activity A friend or loved one joins the Temple of Hali, willingly embracing the new unreality as more vivid and exciting than boring old regular life. Can the team dig up a sinister truth that will release this person from […]
A Scenario Seed for The Yellow King: Aftermath Not knowing who to trust, a fellow ex-insurgent now working for the Federal Police turns to the crew for assistance. A top-secret tribunal has sentenced a key war criminal of the Castaigne regime to death. The hitch: the convict is an egregore, an insubstantial malign being from […]
A Foe for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game: Paris Monsieur Anguillerose, or Mr. Eelrose as he translates his name into English, is a singular Carcosan being who enjoys the Parisian nightlife, and killing the people who inhabit it. After spoiling a royal plan in the days before the city of Ys sank, the Pallid King […]
In the latest episode of their winged, dusty podcast, Ken and Robin talk faeries in The Yellow King RPG, the Mothman Festival, character complexity levels in fiction, and Cotton Mather.
A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Early phases of Yellow King scenarios often find the investigators looking into subtle symptoms of Carcosan reality shifting. While they talk to initial witnesses and hit the books to orient themselves in some research, not much in an overtly horrific or supernatural vein might be happening […]
A scenario hook for Yellow King: The Wars Having learned of their weird knack for solving problems, particularly when the problems too are weird, the squad’s commanding officer gives them a top secret assignment. Supply convoys carrying medicines from home front to battlefront have been under attack. Well, not obvious attack, specifically. But somehow morphine, […]
In the latest episode of their mighty-thewed podcast, Ken and Robin talk historical settings for swords and sorcery, Gwen Marshall, egregores, and free love priestess Edith Maida Lessing.
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 […]
In the latest episode of their lavishly attired podcast, Ken and Robin talk professional GMing, John Stonehouse, Carcosa at the Met Gala, and mysterious Sahara markings.
