Yes, it's been a while since I posted anything. (Sorry.) This has mainly been because I've been working on publishing my first scenario...

As regular visitors will know, one of the strands here on the blog is If…, where I look at the storytelling of movies and TV shows and...

Here's another idea for a scenario based on a historical event. The setting involved - the United States in the 1920s - inevitably points...

Time to look at another movie and see what ideas we can find to improve a role-playing game session or campaign. This week, the 1974...

As usual, let's start a new week with an idea for a scenario. Rather than an actual event, this one is based on a genuine bit of slightly...

One thing which perpetually gets discussed in relation to Call of Cthulhu and many other investigation-oriented games is that of skill...

In If... was an RPG... I'll be looking at books, movies, and other kinds of storytelling to see what we can learn (and, more importantly,...

This Monday's scenario seed is another example of how you can easily find inspiration for horror-mystery ideas simply by doing a little...

Here's the thing: I've played a lot of Call of Cthulhu over the years, mainly as GM; I've also dabbled in the one-player variant of Trail...

Here’s a scenario seed to get the week started, most likely for a Cthulhu Mythos game. It’s based on true events (for a given value of...

For an idea which is only tangentially connected to Lovecraft’s best-known stories, the Dreamlands have a substantial presence in the...

Different people get different things out of playing and gamesmastering an RPG. I enjoy the process of actually running a game very much...

So here we are in yet another new year, which so far doesn't look like much of an improvement on the last one. But let's try to be...

I always knew 2020 was going to be a leap into the dark, but this? I don't think anyone was expecting this. You don't need to read...