Ah, I didn't see that.
Nice to see that it hasn't just faded away

I'm putting this here for dissection and critique of the members of the forum. As some of you know, I am planning a new Dark Conspiracy campaign and a big part of the game flavour will derive from the technology differences between the various wealth levels of society, particularly when it comes to ...

Seems as though New Horizon is one of the very few alternatives available if you want Cthulhu in space. River Of Heaven is no longer available on DriveThruRPG, arguable one of the best places for it to be to gain any sort of publicity. It's still available through the company online store but they h...

Thanks for the link Linden, interesting reading and I'll say it again... JFK assassination! But on a serious note, I have a tendency to believe that with the decline in importance of religion in the Western World, some people appear to be seeking some other form of connection to the "bigger pic...

Thanks for the link to that interview. I find it quite interesting hearing more detail on GDW and how things went with the scuffle between them and TSR but it was also interesting to hear Lester talk about his examination of dice mechanics and the rationale behind his D13 system. Naturally I would h...

Saw this in relation to another RPG (Synthicide, a Sci-Fi RPG where humans are second class to robots) where bounties are posted on a forum and the reward money is gained from crowdfunding. It's an interesting idea and one that I am musing over in relation to the DarkCon campaign I am putting togeth...

Bloody Hell!
I didn't realise just how egotistical and narcissistic he is

Yeah, I'm also glad he was disassociated from DarkCon before he turned the full-on scoundrel knob up to 11

Personally I think it's a good thing that the DPI edition happened years before Ken gained his extremely poor but definitely deserved reputation as a rip-off merchant :? Oh? That's a tidbit that I haven't heard. I got the DPI Basic Player's and Ref's books as they were the only DPI products that ev...

I think you're absolutely right in wanting to your DC game a separate identity from Call of Cthulhu. The first campaign I ran I had some difficulty getting out of of the Cthulhoid mindset. I'd run old CoC scenarios from magazines with only minimal work, excising references to tomes, spells and insa...

Ouch! Glad you got something for your work (I own a copies of all three released Sin City adventures - took a while to track down physical copies but I got 'em eventually!) The tale about Ken further supports the notion of "fans keeping the game alive". I knew he was a fan but it's still s...

And I think to add to that, when the 2nd edition came out, it was a specific attempt by someone who was a fan of the game, to keep it alive. He had the resources to do so and did so. Arguably 3rd edition was a similar situation. These weren't big companies known for their RPGs (although I believe Dy...

After reading the interview I did exactly what he mentioned, I went to his website and dropped a message into his inbox saying that I had read the interview you did with him and that I wanted to tell him how much I enjoyed DarkCon and was still playing it 30 years after it's release date. That might...

That's a bit of a coup Marcus, quite comprehensive.
There's a lot of detail in that interview that I don't think I've read anywhere else.

Thanks for the thoughts and feedback Linden. I think I was settling into a mindset of "bare minimum" use of Darklings because I was perhaps too focused on detaching DC from CoC and I was actively thinking of scenarios without Darklings of any sort (I would use humans, human tech and Beasti...

Had a random thought last night - how about a seer who really is getting messages from "elsewhere"? Unknown by the "seer" however, is that the messages they get are delivered through a brain implant. The implant is a transceiver and sends audio-visual feed back to the group contr...