All articles about Gumshoe
2021
2020
A Gumshoe Drives hack
A rule variant for Gumshoe to make drives more significant.
2019
Gumshoe: an overlooked feature of spends
Trail of Cthulhu with pushes
An overview of character mechanics that need to be resolved when adapting Trail of Cthulhu to use Pushes from the Yellow King RPG.
Gumshoe: encoding genre with abilities
Gumshoe: adjudicating interpersonal skills
Gumshoe: antagonist spends
A look at the math and narrative ramifications of spending antagonist pool points in the Gumshoe RPG systems.
Gumshoe: What is competence?
Gumshoe: the investigative to general ability exchange rate
Gumshoe: the kernel of the game
This is the first post in a series looking at the Gumshoe role-playing game system.
Gumshoe’s sense trouble ability
2018
Fall of Delta Green Lethality rules
Trail or Call of Cthulhu?
With two great marquee Cthulhu role-playing games available, how do you decide which is right choice for your game?
The Dying of St Margaret’s, again
2012
Silver screen Cthulhu
An assortment of thoughts about Shadows Over Filmland for the Trail of Cthulhu RPG.
Night's Black Agents: Vampires
A worked example of an alien vampire type for the spy-thriller role-playing game Night's Black Agents by Kenneth Hite.
Night's Black Agents
A review of vampire spy-thriller role-playing game Night's Black Agents by Kenneth Hite.