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Author Archives: Beth Lewis
Michael Wolf over at Stargazer’s World has written a detailed and balanced review of Kenneth Hite’s newest GUMSHOE offering, Night’s Black Agents. You can read the full review here. It’s very well written, basically allows you to run or play in every spy thriller subgenre with vampires or not, and it adds a lot to […]
Kafka over at RPGNet has given an in-depth, 9/10 review of Out of Space. There is a slight error in the review when he says we have included nothing extra in the book, when in fact there is an extra 10% (8,000 words) but this is acknowledged in the thread below the review. You can […]
By Robin D. Laws A while back I foisted on an innocent social media landscape the following roleplaying koan, written to meet Twitter’s telegraphic character count: If your RPG sentence has the verb “should” and a subject of “players”, “GM”, or “group”, change verb to “can.” This occasioned a surprising amount of debate, due largely […]
by Beth Lewis If the last 3 years at Pelgrane have taught me anything, it’s the difference between satsumas and any other small citrus fruits. This is an important lesson, not only has it taught me precision in labelling which I’ve applied to my day-to-day work, but it has also given me greater appreciation and […]
A shorter than usual Page XX this month as it’s a shorter than usual month, but what we’re lacking in length we’re making up for in quality. In this edition, Robin D Laws talks about how significant a difference to your game writing a simple verbal change can be in Can vs Should, and Kenneth […]
January is often seen as the most depressing month of the year, the weather is awful, the holiday weight just won’t shift and you’ve already broken your New Year’s Resolutions. Let Page XX rid you of your January Blues with a bumper January/February edition including articles from Robin D Laws and Kenneth Hite, a new […]
Dead Horse Corner System: Trail of Cthulhu Author: Adam Gauntlett (Flying Coffins, Sisters of Sorrow) Duration: 1-2 sessions Deadline: 1st April Description: Formerly titled ‘A Better Hole’. The investigators discover that a trench which ought to have been occupied by their fellow soldiers has been abandoned. Twenty men vanished without a trace, food still on […]
Ralf Schemmann of Profantasy Software and long-time fan of Ashen Stars, has made up some Tech Cards. These are to aid in tracking tech, gear and viroware and contain all the info players need to keep all their add-ons in order. You can download the zipped PDFs here.
by Ryven Cedrylle “The mannusiha is a creature unknown to the world prior to the time of the current Priestess. Four ascetics serving different gods were independently give the same vision – ‘go to the village called Sittwe; when you arrive a woman will give birth. That daughter is the next Priestess.’ The ascetics travelled […]