In the latest episode of their leafy, verdant podcast Ken and Robin talk idiot plotting in rpg mysteries, Project Azorian, the Green Man, and Erich von Daniken.
In the latest episode of their leafy, verdant podcast Ken and Robin talk idiot plotting in rpg mysteries, Project Azorian, the Green Man, and Erich von Daniken.
In the latest episode of their leafy, verdant podcast Ken and Robin talk idiot plotting in rpg mysteries, Project Azorian, the Green Man, and Erich von Daniken.
Ballad Hunters Poll As you know, we’re launching Ballad Hunters Kickstarter campaign this month. We have a question for you, coming right from old ballads.
Your part of the world may be balmy or merely damp but here at the Pelgrane’s Nest winter retains its grip on the land. Like our other cold-blooded staff members, the Great Pelgrane gets cranky at this time of year. With prey hiding beneath the snow he must spend more time on the wing, hunting. […]
In the latest episode of their sturdily constructed podcast, Ken and Robin talk creating protagonists for Page Turners, architect Julia Taylor, Ballad Hunters with Tristan Zimmerman, and Sam Phillips’ Cuba diplomacy.
Page Turners, my game of dramatic interaction for one player and one GM, enables you to create stories resembling the character-driven narratives of films and literary fiction. Unlike the GUMSHOE One-2-One line of one player one GM games, it doesn’t focus on solving external problems. Instead it centers the protagonist’s journey from one emotional state […]
You are terrifyingly invited to test a scenario—or two if you and your group have the time—for Sudden Frights, an upcoming anthology of Fear Itself one-shots. In Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s “Faust Blood,” a college camping trip goes horribly wrong—or horribly right—when the students stumble across the home of infamous occultist John Tradowski. What secrets does he […]
By Jason Kraus Electronic games have popularized in-game achievements, while apps have seized that idea to drive user engagement. Pelgrane Press’s ENnie Award-winning Night’s Black Agents by Kenneth Hite expanded the use of achievements for TTRPGs by awarding immediate Ability refreshes during play. What follows is an effort to add Achievements to The Fall of […]
Pelgrane’s forthcoming RPG Ballad Hunters — described in this Page XX article — is about the Child Ballads. They’re named for their compiler, Harvard folklorist Francis James Child. His five-volume collection, published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the late 1800s, is today the standard. Child did not tramp through the British countryside […]