You may have noticed additional activity on the website this month, with more regular columns from Robin D. Laws, Kenneth Hite and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, as well as a monthly update on what’s happening over at the Stone Skin Press site – currently pairing tasty beverages to short stories. We’ve rounded up the month’s articles below in case you missed any, and included Simon’s latest View from the Pelgrane’s Nest.
As well as adding new content to the website, we’ve been pulling together some great new products. With the centenary of World War 1 nearly upon us, Dulce et Decorum Est: Great War Trail of Cthulhu is now available for pre-order. Containing three adventures as well as an extensive campaign frame for running Trail of Cthulhu during the Great War, it’s a fantastic resource for any World War 1 game. We’ve also got the whopping great first installment of Kenneth Hite’s latest KWAS, GUMSHOE Zoom: Voodoo 1 – Magic, with new rules for introducing voodoo magic into your GUMSHOE game. And we’ve got the latest Series Pitch of the Month – Robin D. Laws’ Art and Murder – available through the Series Pitch of the Month subscription.
New Releases
- Dulce et Decorum Est: Great War Trail of Cthulhu – Available to pre-order now, this set of three adventures and a campaign frame by Adam Gauntlett looks at the Great War through the lens of Trail of Cthulhu
- GUMSHOE Zoom: Voodoo 1 – Magic – the second edition of the new subscription of Ken Writes about Stuff is the first in a bumper two-part series about Voodoo
- The new subscription of Ken Writes about Stuff – order now for another year of Hitely goodness (now available in bookmarked PDF, EPUB and MOBI format)
- Series Pitch of the Month – This month’s edition is Art and Murder, by DramaSystem creator Robin D. Laws
Articles
- View from the Pelgrane’s Nest – Find out what’s new from Simon Rogers
- Rights Holders – Robin D. Laws uses a headline ripped from the news to create a Mutant City Blues adventure seed
- Shadows of Eldolan – the Evolution of a Cover – Simon goes through the process of art direction, using the cover of Shadows of Eldolan as an example
- How Documentaries Show Us DramaSystem Scene Structure in Real Life – Robin D. Laws breaks down Yung Chang’s documentary China Heavyweight
- Correspondents in Trail of Cthulhu – Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan looks at Correspondence as a General Ability for Trail of Cthulhu
- Check Out this DramaSystem LARP Report – A post about the first LARP using the DramaSystem LARP rules as detailed in Blood on the Snow
- See P. XX: Five Places to Look for Quandos Vorn – Robin D. Laws explains where everyone’s favourite enemy might be found
- Call of Chicago: Is Two Voodoo Too Voodoo? Kenneth Hite explains his fascination with voodoo, and how that’s led to not one, but two Voodoo KWASes
- The Return of the Mysterious Legend of the Enigmatic Icon; or, What’s New at Stone Skin for May – The Enigmatic Icon updates us on the latest over at Stone Skin Press
- The Moon Stealers – Robin D. Laws uses a headline ripped from the news to create an Ashen Stars adventure seed
- May playtesting – This month’s line-up includes the final playtest section of the Eyes of the Stone Thief, plus our new convention scenarios for Trail of Cthulhu, Ashen Stars, Esoterrorists 2nd Edition and Night’s Black Agents
13th Age
- 13th Age Updates – Wade Rockett provides updates on our various 13th Age projects
- 13th Sage: 13 Campaign Uses for Devils -Chapter Five of 13 True Ways is all about devils, so Wade Rockett gives suggestions for inventive uses of those malevolent creatures from the Pit
- 13th Age Organized Play: May 2014 Update – Wade talks about the OP program, Origins and Gen Con events
- The 13th Age Bestiary Limited Edition – Black is Back – Details about the 13th Age Bestiary Limited Edition, now available to Bestiary pre-orderers