This article offers advice on how to run suspect and witness interviews in Mutant City Blues. It incorporates some real police techniques, as well as those TV cops sometimes use. This is not a game about corrupt cops who beat suspects. I’ve added a couple of techniques which will get Internal Investigations on your back […]
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In the latest episode of their croquetas-consuming podcast, Ken and Robin talk Shadowcon, the sights and foods of Barcelona, and the rest of Ken’s Potomac book raid.
Exploring a graveyard under Arkham, detective Martin Harvesson glimpses a hideous goat-headed, cloven-hoofed monster gnawing on a human skull. Stricken with horror, Martin turns and flees blindly down the tunnel – only to emerge into the grand concourse of a huge subway station, a vaulted ceiling of marble arching high above him, and engraved on […]
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“In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner. I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, for, though the moonlight was behind them, they threw no shadow on the floor. … There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing […]
by Travis Johnson When you’re heading down into the ghoul tunnels or about to mount that final, fateful raid on the vampire lord’s lair, you’re going to want a little more bang for your buck than you can find at your local sporting goods store. Sure, the judicious use of Preparedness and Network can tip […]
In the latest episode of their well-structured podcast, Ken and Robin talk playing paladins well, Tudor historian John Leland, the weak third acts of today’s action movies, and Icelandic medium Indriði Indriðason.
In the latest episode of their tightly formatted podcast, Ken and Robin talk the tyranny of structurelessness and GM-less games, the mystic who designed Canberra, hominid fossils in space, and the Roman assault on Anglesey.
I was about to write up an article about the weird, quasi-Venician city of Tyros Ashem in the upcoming Paragon Blade setting, but we’ve also got the weird quasi-Venician city of Eversink in Swords of the Serpentine, and the less-Venician-but-even-weirder city of Drakkenhall in 13th Age (doge? No, no, Dragon), which triggered two thoughts in […]
Dearest Mother, I was so pleased to receive your latest communication, taking particular delight in your account of the spring cotillion. If only I could have been there to witness Cecily’s debut! Please assure the great aunts that they needn’t worry about me in Paris. I have fallen in with a cadre of fellow Americans, […]
In the latest episode of their meticulously reconstructed podcast, Ken and Robin talk recurring gamemaster characters, the fortresses flooded by the building of the Aswan dam, hardboiled fiction 101, and Jazz Age Satanist Maria de Naglowska.