View From the Pelgrane’s Nest – December 2024

We’re just back from another brilliant Dragonmeet, held – for, we hear, the last time – in the Hammersmith Novotel in London. Ken, Robin, Gareth and myself joined Simon and booth stalwarts Jay Godden and Elina Gouliou for the fastest day of the year. It was great, as always, to catch up with everyone, and if you missed the Pelgrane Swords, Spies and Shoggoths panel, you can listen to it on our YouTube channel here.

We kicked off the panel with an acknowledgement that, on 8 November 2024, Pelgrane Press turned twenty-five years old! In RPG publisher years, I think that’s actually 175. If you have memories of Pelgrane back in the day – or better still, photos – let us know!

Other things we talked about at the panel were updates on our crowdfunding plans. We did two campaigns this year, 13^th Age Second Edition and Trail of Cthulhu Second Edition, including Boundary of the Darkness. Work on both of those is ongoing; if you missed out on either, find it on pre-order on Backerkit now. Next year, we’re planning a revised hardback edition of Fear Itself Second Edition, using the swanky art and layout our Spanish translators at Shadowlands originated for their translation, in the spring; plus a boxed set of the currently out of print Eternal Lies campaign for Trail of Cthulhu, which will be tweaked to be more in line with Trail 2e, in the autumn. Watch this space for more details of those!

We also talked about a couple of our works in progress. Some, like Gareth’s Shires Out!, Robin’s newly-renamed Page Turners, and his Cassilda’s Song and Hamlet’s GM Screen, and Threat Profiles for Night’s Black Agents, we had already mentioned. We also discussed A Poison Tree, which we’re hoping to release as a book of thematically linked adventures.

New projects we’re working on are GUMSHOE: Solo, the solo rules for GUMSHOE (which Robin then came up with a smashing format for during a nap); Ballad Hunters (amateur folklorists in 1813 England and Scotland fight magical ballads as agents of the Crown; a Pleasant Green setting for Trail of Cthulhu Second Edition, based on Julian Simpson’s excellent BBC audio dramas, and incorporating modern rules for Trail of Cthulhu; plus, You Are Providence, a Trail of Cthulhu 2e intergenerational campaign setting using one of Lovecraft’s most favourite locations.

Until next time,

~Cat