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March 2025 Edition
New In Store!
Hamlet’s Hit Points
Hamlet’s Hit Points presents a toolkit that helps make storytelling in any RPG easier and more fun by classifying story beats and letting you track their ups and downs from hope to fear and back.
ORDER NOW!Beating The Story
The most compelling stories move us emotionally. Up and down, between hope and fear, in ways we don’t always expect—but that you can harness as a writer, editor, and critic. This book shows you how to track, map, and understand the rhythm of a story. Whether you’re writing or rewriting, editing a manuscript or dismantling your favorite television episode, Beating the Story helps you understand how stories get hammered into shape.
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Friendly Local Game Store
Build the Store Your Community Deserves
Tabletop gaming is on the rise. If you love games like Catan, Magic: The Gathering, or Dungeons & Dragons; like the sound of being your own boss; and are willing to dive deep into what it takes to build a successful business, then this is a book for you.
ORDER NOWThe Bones: Us and Our Dice
The Bones gathers writing about fandom and family—about gamers, camaraderie, and memories— and ties them together where they meet: our dice. These are essays and anecdotes about the ways dice make us crazy, about the stakes we play for and the thrill we get from not knowing what the next roll will bring.
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Things We Think About Games
Will Hindmarch and Jeff Tidball think a lot about games. At their commentary website, Gameplaywright.net, they think out loud about what it means to play games, make games, sell games, and love games. They are gamers.
Here, with fellow game designers and notable game players, they think out loud on paper in the first Gameplaywright book.
ORDER NOWThe White Box Essays
The White Box is a learning, planning, and prototyping tool for tabletop game designers.
The White Box Essays is a book of 25 essays on game design and production. It covers subjects like where to find a great concept, how to use randomness, what to ask playtesters, whether you should self-publish, how to crowdfund wisely, and what to do at game conventions.
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Threat Profiles
This sourcebook for Night’s Black Agents does for vampires and their ilk what Hideous Creatures did for the Cthulhu Mythos, offering a ravening pack of new monsters as well as reinterpretations and variants of existing horrors to catch even experienced Agents off guard. Each threat’s write-up gives potential clues and investigative vectors, as well as a sample lair, potential minions, a Conspiramid node or three – and Vampyramid responses and tactics. Status: Being written
Page Turners
First Edition is the game of personal storytelling for one player and one GM. Incorporating new rules by GUMSHOE One-2-One and DramaSystem designer Robin D. Laws, First Edition features an accessible framework for creating compelling solo protagonist narratives.STATUS: Final text completed & art is being commissioned.
Cassilda’s Song
A massive scenario series by Robin D. Laws for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game, which spans all four of its core sequences.Its overarching plot turns on a contest between the two daughters of the King in Yellow, Cassilda and Camilla, who race with one another to destroy the timelines, winning the favor of their pallid father. Camilla seeks a cataclysm of blood and fire. Cassilda intends to dissolve reality into hallucinatory delirium.STATUS: In copyediting.
A Poison Tree
A campaign for Trail of Cthulhu, a generational saga that spans the globe and 350 years of history as the players take on different roles across five chapters and three interludes. The campaign culminates in world-changing events in the present day, as the players correlate all of their findings, and decide on the destiny of humanity itself!A Poison Tree was originally conceived and written by Matthew Sanderson, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, and has been developed and updated by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan.STATUS: First draft manuscript done and in editing.
Boundary of the Darkness
The Lunar Society are a dining club of natural philosophers, industrialists, and radical intellectuals, the embodiment of the Enlightenment. They have wealth, knowledge, and principles. Simultaneously, members of the Bluestockings Society, who meet to discuss art, literature, and politics, have—in their most secret meetings—formed Friends of Blue, a private organisation set up to protect the world from the devastating knowledge of the Mythos. Boundary of the Darkness is an 18th century campaign frame for Trail of Cthulhu by Phil Masters and Sarah Saltiel.STATUS: Being converted to 2nd Edition.
VIEW FROM THE PELGRANE’S NEST: In the March 2025 edition of “View From the Pelgrane’s Nest,” Cat Tobin announces that Robin D. Laws has been appointed as the company’s new Creative Director, highlighting his longstanding collaboration and influence on their projects. Cat also has updates on Paragon Blade and Page Turners.
PELGRANE PRESS WELCOMES ROBIN D. LAWS AS CREATIVE DIRECTOR: We are beyond thrilled to announce that, after two decades of brilliant collaboration, Robin D. Laws has officially stepped into the role of Creative Director at Pelgrane Press. Read more in the article!
A GUMSHOE ONE-2-ONE CHARACTER AND SETTING: John Harness introduces Danny Boone, an 11-year-old kid detective in a quirky small-town 1990s setting, complete with tailored investigative abilities and nostalgic mystery hooks designed specifically for GUMSHOE One-2-One games.
ALLIED AND ENEMY SQUADS: Robin D. Laws explains how to build squads of foes or allies in The Yellow King RPG and beyond, enhancing tactical depth and group dynamics at your table.
THE BOOK OF SANDBOXES II: Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan expands his advice on creating rich narrative cities in player-driven campaigns with more practical tools and story structures for building them, sandbox-style.
PLAYTESTING: HIGH ELVES (NON-HUMAN HEROES) IN SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE: Kevin Kulp presents mechanically potent, magically privileged high elves for high fantasy SotS games, complete with deadly flair and ancient arrogance.
BORDERLANDERS: Robin D. Laws introduces a gritty DramaSystem series pitch set in a fractured borderland where loyalty, survival, and conflict shape every relationship.
Crowdfunding News
Fear Itself: Shattered Veil Edition
We are running a Gamefound campaign for Fear Itself: Shattered Veil Edition, featuring a hardback cover, improved art, and The Ocean Game expansion, launching March 4th, 2025.
Eternal Lies Reprint Crowdfunding
We’re excited to announce plans for a crowdfunding campaign to reprint Eternal Lies! This edition will feature exciting improvements, which we’ll reveal soon. While no exact date is set, we’re aiming for late August or early September. Stay tuned for more details!
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