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May 2026 Edition
VIEW FROM THE PELGRANE’S NEST: SUMMER IS GAMING SEASON EDITION by Robin D. Laws: Studio update for convention season, with Paragon Blade and Page Turners out in the wild, 13th Age 2E on shelves, and production notes on Fear Itself: Shattered Veil, Pillars Built on Sand, Hamlet’s GM Screen, Trail of Cthulhu 2E, Outside Entities, and Merryshire Detective Club.
13TH AGE 2E PREGENERATED CHARACTER BUILDS: PYROCLASTIC DRAGON SORCERER by Jay Godden: 13th Age 2E build focused on breath spells and big elemental damage, with a clear level-by-level plan and downloadable sheets.
BLOOD COCAINE by Adam Gauntlett: Night’s Black Agents node where a new scarlet party drug hides an occult supply chain, sending agents after the source, the syndicates, and what the Conspiracy is really buying with the chaos.
13TH AGE FREEFORM ADVENTURE IS UP by Rob Heinsoo: Announcement of a free two-hour 13th Age 2E adventure with GM guidance, reusable monster stats, and a simple magic item set built to get new groups playing fast.
13TH AGE 2E PREGENERATED CHARACTER BUILDS: GALLANT PALADIN by Jay Godden: 13th Age 2E build for a charismatic duelist who blends Smite and Lay on Hands with extra options, plus a full level plan and sheets.
THIS MONTH’S PREVIEW
On Community for Merryshire Detective Club
by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
Gareth talks about chasing the best part of convention play: different tables tackling the same starting setup, then comparing wildly different outcomes afterward. He brings that energy into Merryshire Detective Club by putting a shared village map at the center of play, having everyone claim a house, add neighbours, and build the supporting cast session by session, so the village becomes both home base and the “board” you play on. For anything your map does not already include, he introduces the Environs, a flexible outside-the-village space where you can drop whatever location your next mystery needs.
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Pillars Built on Sand
Plunge the heroes of your Swords of the Serpentine game into an epic campaign of mystery, intrigue, and swashbuckling action with Pillars Built on Sand. Designed with dark bravura by fantasy master Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, this thrilling cycle of five interconnected investigations features warring merchant houses, resourceful urchins, ancient curses, loot-hungry pirates, and marauding toad folk.
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Page Turners
Page Turners is the game of personal storytelling for one player and one GM.
Acclaimed tabletop roleplaying designer Robin D. Laws won the coveted Diana Jones Award for his game of dramatic group play, Hillfolk.
Page Turners scales its dynamic down to the intimate scale of a single main character whose fiction you weave on the fly with one other creator.
The Paragon Blade
Enter a realm of powers and perils!
In The Paragon Blade, you play a hero in a fantastical land, still scarred by the evil of the fallen Hellbound Empire. Mystery and magic collide in tales of conspiratorial wizards, monstrous foes, and arcane intrigue.
Gather your wits, your allies, and your blade!
You can track the status of planned releases and works-in-progress from the Google Sheet in this article:
Pillars Built On Sand
A ruthless cabal of power brokers and hidden cultists schemes to undermine Eversink’s divine blessing, its river-fed trade, and its promise that anyone can rise, shaking the city’s future to the mud beneath its canals. The campaign offers five tightly linked Swords of the Serpentine scenarios you can run in sequence for a full arc or lift as standalone adventures. STATUS: In Pre-Order.
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: Proofreading complete.
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: Art is being commissioned.
Merryshire Detective Club
In Merryshire Detective Club, an upcoming core GUMSHOE game from the brilliantly comforting mind of superstar writer-designer Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, you play amateur detectives in a cosy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little village you’ll design together. Gameplay mixes deduction and investigation with comic absurdity and plenty of cakes. (No giant tentacle monsters or vampiric conspiracies, we’ve quite enough of those, thank you.) STATUS: Art is being commissioned.
Outside Entities
Raging from the indifferent depths of a hostile universe, gods and creatures cut from Trail of Cthulhu Second Edition come rampaging back in Outside Entities. Chill once more to revamped envisionings of Daoloth, Mordiggian, Quachil Uttaus, and Y’golonac. Send your Investigators into deadly confrontations with sand-dwellers, shan, and lloigor. Submit to the bizarre imaginings of Trail of Cthulhu designer Kenneth Hite as he fever-dreams of a new titan, avatars of Y’golonac, those strangely under-utilized space vampires the Nioth-Korghai, and the malitia vetus, a never before gamified beastie straight from Lovecraft’s nightmares. STATUS: Art is being commissioned.
13th Age Starter Set
Rob Heinsoo and Wade Rockett have been working on a 13th Age Starter Set. This slimmed-down rules set and a one-arc introductory adventure in a box will serve as a lower-cost entry point than the full two-book Second Edition slipcase. STATUS: Being written.
Crowdfunding News
Merryshire Detective Club
We’re preparing Merryshire Detective Club, a cosy-fantasy core GUMSHOE game of village mysteries, quick wits, and plenty of cake, and we’re ready to launch it on BackerKit on July 21st, 2026. Follow our updates for previews, playtest notes, and first looks at art and case material. Click here to get the preview PDF!
Fear Itself: Shattered Veil Edition
We successfully funded a Gamefound campaign for Fear Itself: Shattered Veil Edition, featuring a hardback cover, improved art, and The Ocean Game expansion. Late pledges available!
Eternal Lies Boxed Set 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. Eternal Lies Boxed Set crowdfunding is postponed to late 2026. Follow our updates for first looks inside the box, schedule news, and a preview link ahead of the late 2026 campaign.
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