by Yohann Delalande [Editor’s Note: Yohann ran the the One Sheet GUMSHOE competition on RPG Geek, which had an extraordinary 18 entries. Congratulations to all the entrants .You can download all the entries here.] One of the recurring obstacles every GM has met at least once concerns time vs preparation work. After all, it is […]
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The Eternal Lies Limited Edition Eternal Lies is our tribute to the great epic Call of Cthulhu adventures such as Masks of Nyarlathotep and Beyond the Mountains of Madness. Eternal Lies was released at GenCon 2013, won two ENnie awards and has its own fan community and now has an alternative ending. We printed 125 […]
Following on from my 2012 post about unappreciated Pelgrane products. I present to you two more such treasures, and my speculation as to why they are neglected. The Gaean Reach RPG “…this is a dead simple, easy to learn, quick to play science-fiction romp well worthy of a few evenings and weekends of your life.” […]
There has been talk on our social media channels about the orientation of the 13th Age GM’s Screen. It’s going to be portrait, and I wanted to talk about that choice. Our Keeper’s Screen for Trail of Cthulhu is three-fold and portrait-oriented. We’ve just reprinted it. Strangely, I have never had any push back or […]
[Update: it will definitely be potrait. Find out why here.] The original team of Lee Moyer and Aaron McConnel are creating the artwork for the 13th Age GM’s Screen. I believe you need a dragon on an f20 screen, and we don’t want to do things by halves, or even thirds, so our screen features […]
The entire Pelgrane team will be at GenCon Indianpolis until next week – please be patient with any support requests during this busy times. This is our biggest GenCon ever, featuring nine seminars, more than 100 events, new releases and the ENnie Awards! As usual we are sharing a booth (#609) with ProFantasy Software. You’ll […]
It’s been an utterly packed month, with Games Expo, Origins and the Dracula Dossier occupying all our time. Yesterday, we uploaded four books to the printers – Dracula Unredacted, the Director’s Handbook, Cthulhu Apocalypse Doomsday Edition and the Forgotten Monk. Despite all our best intentions, and because GenCon is early this year, we’ve pushed very, […]
This article offers a way you can use the 13th Age Escalation Die in your GUMSHOE games. GUMSHOE games and 13th Age manage the narrative flow of combat – the emotional upbeats and downbeats – very differently. In all GUMSHOE games, players usually start a battle with more combat resources than when the battle is […]
This month most of our resources have been concentrated on getting the Dracula Dossier Director’s Handbook near to layout. Kevin Kulp has edited or rewritten 55% of the Timewatch core book. 13th Age Monthly features the Eidolons – bizarre, other-dimensional creatures present themselves as aspects of mortal concepts, and KWAS 3 offers an artifact with […]
Released for Free RPG Day 2015, this adventure is available as part of the 13th Age Monthly Vol. 1 and the Ken Writes About Stuff Vol. 3 subscriptions. It’s also available through your local bricks-and-mortar retailer. TWO QUICK-START ADVENTURES – ONE BOOK Night’s Black Agents – The Harker Intrusion Once, you were a spy. From Moscow to […]