by Tristan Zimmerman Pelgrane’s forthcoming RPG Ballad Hunters — described in this Page XX article — does something new for Pelgrane Press’ GUMSHOE games. Ballad Hunters adventures are only two or three hours long. Each adventure is centered around a single traditional folk ballad, and such songs contain only so many gameable details. If […]
By Jay Godden In this series, I’m presenting two different pregenerated builds for every 13th Age Heroes’ Handbook character class, at all levels. My goal is to present complete mechanical builds using only standard elements and rules from the Heroes Handbook, ready for you to apply your own backgrounds, icon relationships, and One Unique Thing. […]
By Kevin Kulp Swords of the Serpentine adversaries are designed to be easily tweaked and modified. But what if you want a foe that’s quite different from those in the core rules? This month we are going to walk through creating a non-human adversary, then look at how to create variants of it. When you […]
In the latest episode of their not-to-scale podcast, Ken and Robin talk smoking scrolls, secret maps at the British Library, and Ken’s London book haul — with a shocking twist!
Thanks to the existence of Paul StJohn Mackintosh’s Casting the Runes, I don’t have to answer the question of how to do M. R. James in GUMSHOE. Still, as the holiday season rolls nearer, reminding me of the Jamesian tradition of ghost stories told in the yule log’s glow, I can’t help but hear a […]
As an inexhaustibly patient Pelgrane gamer, you may be wondering when that project you’ve been waiting for will actually appear. As we work to regularize our schedule and shock the world with a string of releases in 2026, our books are shaping into a clearer production stream. We have in-house release dates in mind for […]
In the latest episode of their nunchuck-brandishing podcast, Ken and Robin talk dim mak in 70s NYC, busted Bulgarian spies, cutting your manuscript for length, and Douglas MacArthur shamanism.
Located in rural or urban noise-dense areas Writing: Jim McCarthy; Art & Design: Graham Roewe; Illustration: Kim Diaz Holm A formless parasite that seeps in through sound. It starves in silence, but every scream feeds it, twisting space and time into a nightmare maze. Abilities: Aberrance 10, Athletics 10, Health 10, Scuffling 10 Hit […]
In the latest episode of their detectably lexical podcast, Ken and Robin talk the vital sense rpg designers need, invisible consort Zhongli Chun, words Elizabethan playwrights gave us, and the murders of Morton the Regent.