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June 2026 Edition
VIEW FROM THE PELGRANE’S NEST: SEND IN THE SCONES EDITION by Robin D. Laws: Studio update focused on the imminent Merryshire Detective Club BackerKit campaign, Gen Con prep, Fear Itself: Shattered Veil at print, Hamlet’s GM Screen on preorder, and progress across Trail of Cthulhu 2E, Outside Entities, the Yellow King Solo game, and upcoming 13th Age titles.
THE GIFFARD AUCTION by Adam Gauntlett: Trail of Cthulhu scenario set in 1930s Lovecraft Country, where investigators are hired to protect an auction bid as debt, local fury, and old witch-haunted debts converge on a struggling farm.
13TH AGE 2E PREGENERATED CHARACTER BUILDS: PAIN BATTERY SORCERER by Jay Godden: 13th Age 2E build for a risk-reward Sorcerer who uses pain, staggered-state tricks, and temporary hit points to survive close to the danger while powering up their magic.
FINDING REFERENCE POINTS FOR PAGE TURNERS by Robin D. Laws: Looks at how Page Turners uses shared fictional reference points to support character-driven drama, and why modern pop culture makes those touchstones harder, but not impossible, to find.
FIVE FRIENDS AND A GOOSE: OUR MERRYSHIRE DETECTIVE CLUB PLAYTEST CHARACTERS by Kevin Kulp: Introduces Kevin’s Merryshire Detective Club playtest cast, including halflings, a dwarf, and a horrible pooka goose, showing the cosy chaos and character tone the game encourages.
THIS MONTH’S PREVIEW
On Mysteries of Merryshire
by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
How does Merryshire Detective Club keep a mystery on track when the detectives are amateur sleuths bouncing between gossip, tangents, and village chaos? Gareth compares mystery design to crosswords: some clues arrive early and clear, while others only make sense once the whole pattern appears. He explains how Merryshire Detective Club keeps the classic GUMSHOE structure of clues leading to a pre-determined solution, but shifts the feel toward small-stakes, characterful village mysteries where the baddies are greedy aunts or murderous postmen, not world-ending monsters.
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Hamlet’s GM Screen
In Hamlet’s GM Screen, Diana Jones and ENnie award winning roleplaying game designer Robin D. Laws applies his rigorous story beat analysis to the staple moments of a roleplaying session. Sharpen your game moderating decisions with directly actionable advice teased from a close study of sessions zero, opening sequences, information gathering, character interaction, and combat. Explore the paradox of choice. Remove the buzzkill from treasure finding. Learn how to rescue the mood when an ultra-competent PC gets Worfed. Plumb the emotional mysteries of the Total Party Kill.
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: layout complete (character sheet pending).
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: Holding for print.
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!
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.
Pelicon 2026 is on the way
Planning to run a game at Pelicon 2026? GM registrations will open later this July! If you’d like to share your favorite Pelgrane game with players from around the world, keep an eye on our website and social channels for the announcement.
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Is there an estimate when the new Fear Itself books are going to be released on to the webstore?
Hello,
They are printing right now and will be available as soon as we’re able to.
You can track project statuses from this document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kyMM2zvqjndP7zvrOFVaOPAYeV0EvXNUUdXOFsasj4s/edit?usp=sharing
-Ibrahim