…And I’m back. Some of you may have wondered where I’d gotten to in the last few months, seeing as I hadn’t updated the site since May. The short answer is that I’ve been distracted, thankfully by mostly good news.…
Here There Be Dragons!
“Some construction workers digging up a foundation hit an old sealed pocket of swamp gas. Nawlins is built on a swamp you know, and the concentrated fumes has emerged and ignited. Now I’m getting some unconfirmed reports that the initial…
Detectives and Father Christmas
I’ve uploaded (to Flickr) some more creative commons images of character that could pass for police detectives. The good news is that only one of these images is a white guy. Sadly only one of them is a woman, either.…
Halloween in SINS
Last night I ran episode 13 of my playtest game. It just happened to be a Halloween special of the series and I had a lot of fun coming up with the case they ended up in the middle of. …
New Version of SINS Playtest
I’ve updated the current rules for Special Investigations: NightShift to version 2.1. The existing download link is still valid, as I’ve simply updated the file. The new version includes some new Edges, including Silver Tongued, Silver Tongued Devil, and Mentor. …
S01.E04: Queen and Country
← Episode 3 This was the fourth episode in the SINS playtest game I ran. It was talked in a previous blog post as well. This episode was played on Memorial Day, and so like a TV show, featured an…
S01.E03: Half the Story
← Episode 2 Episode 4 → This was the third episode in the SINS playtest game I ran, and features all 4 players. Previously on SINS… We see flashbacks of Detective Tohbi sensing subtle power flowing through the walls of…
S01.E02: Children of the Night
← Episode 1 Episode 3 → For this second SINS episode I gained two new players, bringing in Detective “Carl” and Detective Caine to join Tohbi and Lagneux. As a playtest episode, there are a few things that went wrong. …
S01.E01: Pilot
Episode 2 → I’ve got some requests to for write-ups of the playtest SINS episodes I’ve been running, so I thought I’d give it a try. The player characters for this game are: Detective Riley Tohbi-Issi, a tall half-black half-native…
Playtest Draft 2
I’ve completed a number of tweaks to the playtest draft of the rules, and uploaded it to the Google Drive account for Mock Logic. I’ve updated the link on the Playtest posting to this new version. Although I still haven’t…