Please email support@pelgranepress.com for instructions on how to take part in this playtest! Title: The Paragon Blade System: Fantasy GUMSHOE One-2-One core book Author: Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan Deadline: Friday, October 30th 2020 Number of sessions: 1-2 sessions per protagonist character Description: Play a hero in a fantastical land, still scarred by the evil of […]
Monthly Archives: August 2020
The following article originally appeared on an earlier iteration of See Page XX in October 2007. Paula Dempsey, alias Mystic Moo, predicts your gaming future. The cattle truck has just left and Hamish is putting the kettle on. We’re home from GenCow and we’ve had quite a time of it. You wouldn’t think cows would […]
The following art samples from the Dying Earth RPG originally appeared on DyingEarth.com in the mid-2000s. Front cover by Greg Staples The following artwork is by Ralph Horsley The Dying Earth — and its rules-lighter version the Revivification Folio — take you into the world of master fantasist Jack Vance, where a flashing sword is […]
The following news items and diary entries originally appeared on DyingEarth.com in 2001 and 2002. You can find the entries for 1998-2000 here. You can find the entries for 2006-2009 here. ☀ Editor’s note: A few of these news items were not categorized by month or year – I have done my best to approximate their […]
The following news items and diary entries originally appeared on DyingEarth.com between 2006 and 2009. You can find the entries for 1998-2000 here. You can find the entries for 2001-2002 here. ☀ Editor’s note: A few of these news items were not categorized by month or year – I have done my best to approximate their […]
The following news items and diary entries originally appeared on DyingEarth.com in 2000. You can find the entries for 2001-2002 here. You can find the entries for 2006-2009 here. ☀ Editor’s note: A few of these news items were not categorized by month or year – I have done my best to approximate their chronology, and have […]
In the latest episode of their temptingly powerful podcast, Ken and Robin talk cursed items, DELTA GREEN’s Bay of Pigs, blind French organists, and iridology.
He’s written several books and more than one chapter on the subject. In this Pelgrane Press video dispatch, GUMSHOE and DramaSystem designer Robin D. Laws distills it all down to his top game mastering tip.
The following article originally appeared on an earlier iteration of See Page XX in October 2007. A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Mixing and Matching With GUMSHOE In addition to its primary goal of rethinking the way we run investigative scenarios, GUMSHOE is also an ongoing experiment in rules modularity. Along with whatever […]
The following article originally appeared on an earlier iteration of See Page XX in October 2007. News from Pelgrane Press Since the last missive, we’ve attended GenCon, released three new books and playtested the first pass of Trail of Cthulhu. Three new manuscripts have been laid out and are queued for printing, one awaits layout […]