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The cult is an important part of the Cthulhu Mythos mystery ecology, Cultists leave the clues that the investigators find to figure out what’s going on. They provide the soft resistance that can be defeated. Cthulhu may be immortal and powerful but the cults can be stopped providing one more day...

I have a hit or miss relationship with tie-in materials. On the one hand, Dragonlance was my first fantasy series before Lord of the Rings and because of that I am unbelievably excited for the new books coming out this year. On the other hand, as much as I love Vampire The Masquerade, I found...

The key is the carrot vs. the stick approach. If you do the thing the person wants by spending a string, you get XP. You can still refuse if you are not into the idea of flirting with that character.

Between the original Thirsty Sword Lesbians Kickstarter and the one for Advanced Lovers & Lesbians, Evil Hat raised about 395k for these books. The AL&L Kickstarter number is even more impressive because everyone who backed the original already had the PDF. That's nearly 100k of folks who came...

Heartstrings are openly borrowed from Monsterhearts. There's also a bit of Masks and other PbtA games in here. My interview with April Kit Walsh talks about her design influences openly.

Included with the basic moves are Heartstring moves. Entice is the flirt move that gets Strings on a character, which can then be spent to try to get them to do what you want in exchange for XP or affect their roles. Yes, you can flirt with a bad guy just to fluster them. Figure Out A Person...

For a variety of reasons, romance is a challenge in many tabletop RPGs. While discussing how a character simultaneously eviscerates and decapitates a Big Bad Evil guy comes naturally to many, fewer people feel comfortable playing out love and romance scenes with their friends. That’s one of the...

The Void is really what splits the two for me. There's weird stuff in Mothership but it always feels like it's some alien tech that you accidentally push a button on somewhere. DIS feels much more like the universe is collapsing and the laws of physics have left early to beat traffic.

No worries. If I had a nickel for every time someone said "but what about X" when I mention X in the first paragraph, I could fly to Gen Con every year in a golden helicopter.

Far too often, genres outside of Dungeons & Dragons style fantasy get pigeonholed into one game. There are hundreds of riffs on swords, sorcerers and elves on shelves at gaming stories around the world, but put out a Weird Western game and there’s always at least one person who thinks all we...

The popularity of Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition is obvious. Many publishers are doing their best to try and take advantage. So far, most publishers have avoided the pitfalls of the Third Edition era in making a play for that 5e customer dollar.. Some of my first design work was on...

Yes. RGS is planning on rereleasing Chicago By Night, Fall of London and Cults of the Blood Gods to game stores, plus non-POD releases of a handful of other OP V5 books.

Vampires and vampire hunters go together like peanut butter and chocolate. What is Dracula without Van Helsing? Blade without Deacon Frost? One of the most warmly remembered books from the early days of Vampire: The Masquerade was The Hunters Hunted which did a lot of great work in showing fans...

Good RPG advice can be hard to find. There are often some nuggets in the GM section of the core book, but those are usually too busy running through the rules for broader topics like theme and feel. Star Trek stories play out in a certain way, usually with a moral quandary in the center, with...