A quick postcard from the Nest this month as we prepare for the Origins Game Fair, in Columbus, Ohio in mid-June. We’re excited to be sharing the Indie Press Revolution (IPR) booth #823 with excellent RPG-publishing colleagues like Evil Hat, John Wick Presents, and Bully Pulpit – it’s a boothapolanza not to be missed! We’re also proud to have been nominated for an Origins award for Cthulhu Confidential, our one player, one GM Mythos noir game – if you’re able to vote for it at the show, please do!
This month sees the release of the Book of Ages – if you’ve ever wondered what came before the 13th Age, the Engine of the Ages is a collaborative method for designing the ancient history of your campaign, and the Book of Ages includes more than a dozen sample Ages you can borrow from, too. And in case you missed last month, we now have a snazzy 13th Age dice tray to roll your dice in, alongside the Book of Demons, the collected Battle Scenes adventures for 13th Age, and the long-awaited pre-order of the full-colour hardback 13th Age Glorantha. And, of course, The Fall of DELTA GREEN is available to pre-order; backer copies are shipping now, so we’re hoping to start shipping the pre-orders this month.
New Releases
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- The Book of Ages – Pre-order this collection of now-gone icons, fantastic treasures, brooding monsters, perilous dungeons, and ancient secrets from the previous twelve Ages
- 13th Age dice tray – Roll your successes in a custom dice tray for 13th Age
- The Fall of DELTA GREEN – Pre-order the full-colour GUMSHOE adaptation of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game and get the PDF now
- Book of Demons – Get the new Demonologist class for 13th Age
- The Battle Scenes Complete Bundle – Get High Magic & Low Cunning, The Crown Commands, and Fire & Faith – plus the Map Folios – in print or PDF format
- 13th Age Glorantha – Pre-order the full-colour new Glorantha setting for 13th Age, from our good friends at Chaosium
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Articles
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- View from the Pelgrane’s Nest – Simon Rogers on what’s new in the Nest
- See P. XX: Good Cop, Mutant Cop – Robin D. Laws looks at using Mutant City Blues for a buddy cop duo game
- Call of Chicago: Sous les Pavés, Carcosa! – Kenneth Hite on the mythos implications of the “May ’68”
- Cuttings from Hideous Creatures – Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan with some of the in-character documents that didn’t make it into Hideous Creatures: A Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos
- The Black Book: Character Generator Update – Steve Hammond with a video showing the complete character generation experience for Trail of Cthulhu
- Running DramaSystem at conventions – Wade Rockett brings the benefit of his experience
- Read this Before Running GUMSHOE – Part Two – Simon Rogers with advice on running improvised GUMSHOE adventures
- Sheeple – Robin D. Laws looks at some particularly baarbarous ODEs for The Esoterrorists and Fear Itself
- Privacy Policy update – We’ve been making the Nest more GDPR compliant – here’s how
- The Plain People of Gaming: The Broken Princess – Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan looks at an icon from the Book of Ages in all her Fallen glory
- Shatter your reality with the glory of the Yellow King Art Reveal
- June playtesting – Dodge the worst NBA has to throw at you, alone, in June’s playtest of Night’s Black Agents: Solo Ops
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13th Age
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- 13th Sage: Bad Wine, New Campaign – Rob Heinsoo with a couple of spirits-related spirits
- Book of Demons: Demonologist Path Mechanics – Rob Heinsoo on the mechanical feel of the characters you can create using the different demonologist paths in the Book of Demons
- The Iconic podcast is going strong! You can listen to the latest episodes here:
- 13th Age Character Builds. In this series by ASH LAW, we feature two different builds for every 13th Age character class, at all levels. ASH suggests how the builds might be used, and offers tips on playing each character. Stats are based on the point-buy method, and the characters have no non-standard elements
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