Technical Difficulties by Andrew Brehaut Modern technologies, such as cellphones and the internet, are often a thorn in the side of the horror or thriller GM. Typical responses involve negating the use of this technology, be it through remote locations (no signal), dead batteries, villainous forethought (the cell towers have been damaged), the people contacted […]
Author Archives: Cat Tobin
If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. Ashen Stars Character Builder DC has been working on an Ashen Stars version of the free Black Book character generator. It will be fully ready for testing next Monday. It will include […]
by Ryven Cedrylle From time to time a shout will arise in a d20 gaming community like The Wave, travelling rapidly from group to group only to die out a couple cycles later in a whimper. “Death to Ability Scores!” 13th Age took care of a lot of these problems in moving to a Background […]
The Everwayan points out that with “…all the excitement over the release of 13th Age, it might be easy to overlook another excellent new release from Pelgrane Press, the Western RPG Owl Hoot Trail.” Further along is mentioned “The setting is mostly up to you. You can dial up the Weird Westerness or dial it […]
Handouts Matthew Breen has designed a lovely one-page character sheet for Owl Hoot Trail – download it here. Download the two-page extended character sheet from the rulebook here. Download the three Perdition map handouts from the rulebook here. Adventures The Box is a one-shot adventure by Clinton Dreisbach – read it here. Articles and Resources Kevin […]
User Baz King on the UK Roleplayer forums says that Owl Hoot Trail makes him want to tear up all his notes. He continues, “The system in OHT is simple and light, but with all the buttons that OGL games press. On a quick read though, I’m impressed and want to know more.” Read the […]
The latest edition of ENnie-nominated See Page XX is out now, with more new products than you can shake a stick at. Check it out here!
“You wanna shoot me, Marshal? You ain’t fast enough, and my posse has a pyromaniac gadgeteer who’s already aiming at ya. You ain’t got the grit. You want me, I’ll be traveling the owl-hoot trail.” – Calabash Twigg, orcish outlaw, part-time bounty hunter and a very bad man To ride the owl-hoot trail: to take […]
You may have noticed that we’re running a bit late with ENnie-nominated Page XX this month – a quick look at the new releases on the shop will explain why – we’ve been working hard to get all our new products off to the printers before GenCon – more than ever before. Read about Trail of […]
by Kevin Kulp My first mistake was in thinking Owl Hoot Trail was D&D with guns. I was just starting to develop and polish Clinton R. Nixon’s remarkable, streamlined game of old western fantasy, and I thought I was on well-trodden and familiar ground. I set up a sample encounter, one which I expected […]