Stone Skin Press is our fiction imprint, set up because of Simon Rogers’ enthusiasm for genre-crossing writing from writers like Michael Chabon, Iain Banks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin and Adam Marek. Its goal – to mine the wealth of talented writers, both mainstream and genre, who enjoy writing to a challenging brief. Stone […]
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by Bryant Durrell The Yellow King RPG can be daunting for a Keeper: four different settings, potentially lengthy campaign arcs, and to top it all off the canonical kick-off asks the Keeper to improvise connections between the Deuced Peculiar Things invented by the players and her carefully crafted scenario. I’ve always struggled a little bit […]
by Steven Hammond Lockdowns and quarantines are vitally important, and you want to keep your game going if for no other reason than to have something to do and stay sane. Remote gaming has been a thing for several years, but did you know The Black Book offers functionality tailored to run GUMSHOE games online? […]
We’ve been so relieved and excited that the Yellow King RPG is finally available to non-Kickstarter backers that it’s still dominating our thinking here in the Pelgrane’s Nest, even to the extent of adding a new YKRPG product (the basic Shock & Injury decks) to our webstore. However, don’t let that distract you from the big […]
March is a big month for birthdays here in the Pelgrane’s Nest, with Gareth, Noah, me, and Rob all celebrating this month. March also feels like spring is finally here; winter is past, and the world begins anew, tf. ***NEW*** The Book of the Underworld This month’s latest release is the campaign setting Book of […]
by James Semple The Yellow King Suite is included free as a digital download with The Yellow King RPG, and separately from the link below. Buy the YKRPG Suite MP3s now Listen to a sample here: https://site.pelgranepress.com/files/YellowKing/The%20King%20In%20Yellow_sample.mp3 The Yellow King Suite covers 4 different settings. In addition it presents a theme for […]
By Jason Morgan In GUMSHOE One-2-One, the player is alone against the Elder Gods in Cthulhu Confidential or the Vampire Conspiracy in Night’s Black Agents: Solo Ops. Previously, we provided advice for how GMs can convert any scenario to the GUMSHOE One-2-One system. Here, long-time One-2-One player, Nick Keller, (a.k.a. Langston Montgomery Wright from a […]
by Adam Gauntlett In Night’s Black Agents, the Network ability represents your network of professional contacts. It works something like Cover in play; at any time, you may reveal or remember the existence of a member of your network in a given city … Walther PPK, 7.65 millimeter. Only three men I know use such […]
We’re looking for GMs to run our games at Gen Con Online 2020 and other virtual conventions! If you’re interested in joining the GM crew at Gen Con, please use this form to let us know what you’d like to run. If you’d like to run Pelgrane games at other conventions, please email support@pelgranepress.com (click […]
The insidious reach of the Yellow King has broken through into the world we know, and you may have seen his otherworldly influence percolate through Facebook and Twitter posts. Show your allegiance to the Yellow King – or be part of the Resistance against him – with these social media banners: Twitter banners Facebook banners […]