by Adam Gauntlett As I write this, The Many Deaths of Edward Bigsby has been out for about a month. It’s been favourably received – many thanks to those who reviewed it, and I hope those who play it enjoy it – and I’m told sales are going well! Especially the limited print run that […]
Author Archives: Cat Tobin
by ASH LAW At the beginning of April 2014 I had my first development meeting with Rob Heinsoo for Shards of the Broken Sky. The book stood at 66,000 words, and it was a good point to stop and discuss things before I wrote more. Most of the book will probably stand as-is, but some […]
Over on the Pelgrane Press forums, there’s been some discussion about how to run Hillfolk as a one-shot game at, for example, a convention. You can read the thread here. To help GMs run it as a one-shot, Joe_Sixpack has created some pre-generated characters for the Hillfolk core setting. As well as including space to […]
Who runs TimeWatch? by Kevin Kulp TimeWatch isn’t just the name of the GUMSHOE time travel RPG, it’s also the name of the elite organization of time cops for whom the PCs work. It’s worth a few moments for GMs to consider who founded TimeWatch, who runs it, and how that might set the tone […]
If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. Heaven in a Wild Flower System: Trail of Cthulhu Authors: Matthew Sanderson Deadline: May 31st Description: In late 1931, Professor Harold Bradley, a botanist, was part of a scientific team sent […]
Limited Editions of Hillfolk and Blood on the Snow are now available. These are deluxe faux leather embossed versions of the core books. You can see an image of a Blood on the Snow limited edition here, and there’s an unboxing video here featuring the Hillfolk limited edition. You can buy these individually or as […]
In DramaSystem, all participants, including the GM, collect and spend tokens throughout the course of an episode. Red, yellow and green tokens are called procedural tokens, and are used to call procedural scenes your character is not in and determine how many cards you draw to resolve procedural scenes. Blue tokens are recommended to represent […]
TimeWatch pledging is now closed. The TimeWatch RPG will be available for pre-order from the Pelgrane Store in a few months.
Avoiding the Gimmick by Kevin Kulp TimeWatch, Pelgrane Press’s recently Kickstarted game of investigative time travel, falls into the same category of games that play quite differently as a one-shot than they do as a continuing campaign. Feng Shui, Trail of Cthulhu, and Night’s Black Agents fall into this category as well, as does Paranoia… […]
Hello, my name is Kendall Jung and I’m one of the mods on the Pelgrane 13th Age forums, host of Vault of the 13th Age (http://www.13thage.org) and I have also taken up the mantle of “Official GM Wrangler” for GenCon and Origins this year. Together with Cat Tobin and Wade Rockett, we’re feverishly working towards […]