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.
Tag Archives: Yellow King RPG
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Oct
Oct
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 […]
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Aug
Aug
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.
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Jul
Jul
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.
In the latest episode of their brazenly heady podcast, Ken and Robin talk sidekick-based play, Vladislav Surkov, the kingdom of Ys, and Roger Bacon.
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Apr
Apr
The reality of the final This is Normal Now sequence of The Yellow King Roleplaying Game dials up or down in weirdness. In its more openly unreal modes, Ironic Normal and Normalcy Shift, new quasi-Carcosan lifeforms stalk the land. The most terrifying of these are the deadly rampagers, which come in various shapes and sizes. […]
In the latest episode of their mystically abstract podcast, Ken and Robin talk gremlin warnings, Arkham in 2022, Wassily Kandinsky’s Yellow Sound, and the Octopus conspiracy theory.
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Apr
Apr
The series outlines for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game now reaches the last of the canonical four sequences, This is Normal Now. Previous installments cover Paris Part One and Part Two, and The Wars, Part One and Part Two, and Aftermath, Part One and Part Two. As before, this outline presents one way to do […]