Each GUMSHOE game takes the background-neutral GUMSHOE core and makes changes to suit the game. Mutant City Blues has investigative abilities which let cops gather evidence of super-powered malfeasance. Night’s Black Agents has pools of points for spy networks, and thriller combat options. Fear Itself lets your group build and Escape Pool to flee the […]
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The Night’s Black Agents book is big, heavy and beautiful, but it can be intimidating to new GMs. The Night’s Black Agents game is a pulse-pounding thrill ride, pursued by vampires. How can we get from the big book to spy action, when the players are new, and you’ve never run NBA at a convention […]
Fire up your time machine, and hunt down your evil double with these TimeWatch RPG resources. All official downloads as a zip file. Articles Running your first TimeWatch game An Overview of TimeWatch for GUMSHOE GMs – Part One, Characters An Overview of TimeWatch for GUMSHOE GMs – Part Two, Gear An Overview of TimeWatch […]
This month has been dominated by the aftermath of Gen Con. We’ve been implementing the Pelgrane Plan for 2016 we decided in the Pelgrane Summit, followed up with licensees and distributors and generally bathing in the afterglow of the ENnie awards and meeting our lovely GMs and players. This month Cat and I have also […]
The ENnies are annual awards which celebrate and reward the year’s best roleplaying game releases. They are run by ENworld – a huge and popular forum devoted primarily to roleplaying games. Each year at Gen Con they host a ceremony which acknowledges and rewards that year’s roleplaying game highlights. As with many awards the recipients […]
Gen Con stretches across the publishing year like a huge rollercoaster. In the first half of the year there is the slow, ratcheted climb to the peak. You can do what the hell you want in your carriage, you might even forget you are committed, but nothing it stopping the ride. As you get higher […]
The entire Pelgrane team will be at GenCon Indianpolis until 10th August – please be patient with any support requests during this busy time! This is our biggest GenCon ever, featuring eight seminars, 144 games, five new releases and the ENnie Awards! As usual we are sharing a booth (#419) with ProFantasy Software, next to […]
The ENnie award nominations have been announced, and Pelgrane Press is up for ten awards – more than any other publisher! Congratulations to all the nominees – we are in august company. Dracula Dossier – Director’s Handbook was nominated for Best Adventure, Best Writing and Product of the Year. The Dracula Dossier: Hawkins Papers got […]
[by Sean Clark – orginally published on his Heavy Metal GM blog.] As stated many times before, 13th Age is designed to make your characters feel awesome and immensely powerful without making it a ridiculous cake-walk. It seems like in the past, the genre had started to move in that direction with the minions […]
The UK government held a referendum to decide whether United Kingdom should remain within the European Union. The refererendum result was 52% in favour of leaving the EU (so-called Brexit). The UK will remain part of the EU for at least two more years, and that clock starts ticking when the Prime Minister gives notice […]