What Would You Create With All Our Stuff?

If you could use Pelgrane Press artwork, settings, and original characters for original, fan-made materials, what would you create?

If you could create your own GUMSHOE game, 13th Age compatible supplement or game powered by the system which powers the 13th Age what would you do?

This article doesn’t answer those questions – but it does address how you can!

Create Non-Commercial Content

What Esoterror investigations would you have the Ordo Veritatis send player characters on? What crimes would challenge the mutant detectives in your webcomic about the Heightened Crimes Investigation Unit? What cool smartphone lock screen would you design for agents of TimeWatch, or the vampire hunters in Night’s Black Agents? What would your custom 13th Age Character class look like?

Let’s find out!

With the Pelgrane Press Ltd Community Use Policy, our community can use our artwork and game world elements in free, fan-created adventure campaigns, wikis, fan fiction, and so on.

A few important notes, though:

• Professional publishers are not allowed to use this content.
• This policy applies to every Pelgrane Press product except the 13th Age product line—that game has its own policy over at Fire Opal Games’ website.
• If you want to design playable GUMSHOE-compatible materials, you’ll also need to follow the Open GUMSHOE terms in either the Open Game License or Creative Commons License. Read more here.

Create Commercial GUMSHOE Content

• We’ve made a number of the GUMSHOE settings available as part of the GUMSHOE Community program. These include Ashen Stars, The Esoterrorists 2nd Edition, Fear Itself 2nd Edition, and TimeWatch. All the information and resources you need to create your own commercial content for these settings, distributable via DriveThruRPG, is on the DriveThru website.

Make Your Own GUMSHOE, 13th Age and DramaSystem Games

You can create your own GUMSHOE game not based on Pelgrane Press intellectual property and sell them or give them away. In fact, it’s already been done.

For the GUMSHOE system there’s Bubblegumshoe – the game of teen detectives, Harlem Unbound, a Mythos RPG set in 1920s NYC and for Ars Magica Tales of the Quaesitors. For DramaSystem there’s Malandros in which you play characters in a tight-knit community in the final year of the Empire of Brazil. There are a whole bunch of supplements for 13th Age including the Kobold Press range such as the Midgard Bestiary.

• GUMSHOE is available under two licenses – choose the one which suits you. There is a cut down rules summary (SRD) which you can use to form the basis of your game. More information and links to the SRD can be found here here.
• DramaSystem is available under two licenses. There is a cut down rules summary (SRD) which you can use to form the basis of your game.More information and links to the SRD can be found here.
• 13th Age has two licenses, one stricter than the other. There is an overview here. The stricter 13^th Age Compatibility license allows professional publishers to use our Open Content to create commercial products compatible with the 13^th Age Roleplaying Game and to put our “13^th Age Compatible” logo on them.
• The 13^th Age Archmage Engine license allows professional publishers to use our Open Content to create commercial products and to put our “Archmage Engine” logo on them. The difference is that your product does not have to strictly rely on the 13^th Age Roleplaying Game.

So now, go create!