With July comes the sultry summer heat that leads the Great Pelgrane to fly away to bask on one of his favorite rocks. Though distressing to the villagers dwelling below that lofty perch, it gives me the opportunity to creep into the nest to review the progress of various projects here at Pelgrane Press. This […]
In the latest episode of their elephant-soothing podcast, Ken and Robin talk alternate eras for Fall of DELTA GREEN, animal attack forensics, deaccesioning our libraries, and the pilots dropping ticks conspiracy theory.
by Adam Gauntlett A Trail of Cthulhu scenario set provisionally in Lovecraft Country, in which the investigators are hired as protection for an auction bid. Some of the action in this seed uses material from Chaosium’s Arkham Unveiled, specifically the legend of witch Goody Fowler on Hangman’s Hill. The Keeper should feel free to amend […]
By Jay Godden In this series, I’m presenting two different pre-generated 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. […]
In the latest episode of their emotionally rollercoastering podcast, Ken and Robin talk up and down beats at the gaming table, Darkspace with designers Than Gibson & Derek White, revolutionary war slang, and the Sun Language Theory.
I knew that procedural storytelling had taken over pop culture but it wasn’t until I promised to find examples of character-driven dramatic narratives new enough to not have Humphrey Bogart in them that I realized just how true this is. When running roleplaying games, we depend on fictional reference points to share assumptions about what’s […]
by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan Mysteries are undeniably tricky things. They’re closely related to crosswords. When you’re doing a crossword, bits of the solution come early and easy. 1 Across, six letters, “the crime of killing another person”. MURDER 3 Across, eight letters, “figure of speech, not unlike a simile”. METAPHOR Other bits are a little more […]
In the latest episode of their speedily delivered podcast, Ken and Robin talk narrative beats at the gaming table, unauthorized biolabs, prerequisites for a horror mythos, and mail order occultist Sydney Flowers.
In the latest episode of their rubbernecking podcast, Ken and Robin talk Robin’s new book Hamlet’s GM Screen, a long-necked yokai, Jared Twing and his game Of Hearth & the Harrowing, and the missing scientists conspiracy theory.
In the latest episode of their nondestructive podcast, Ken and Robin talk hooking pregens into a scary house one-shot, a book of occult alphabets, DNA extraction from old manuscripts, and the Cadaver Synod.