Located in rural or urban noise-dense areas Writing: Jim McCarthy; Art & Design: Graham Roewe; Illustration: Kim Diaz Holm A formless parasite that seeps in through sound. It starves in silence, but every scream feeds it, twisting space and time into a nightmare maze. Abilities: Aberrance 10, Athletics 10, Health 10, Scuffling 10 Hit […]
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by Tristan Zimmermann “Compass verses” are the best mechanic in Pelgrane’s forthcoming RPG, Ballad Hunters, a game described in this Page XX article. It’s the mechanic my playtesters consistently talk about after they play the game: how much fun they had with their verse, and how differently the game would have gone if they’d had […]
by Martin Killmann To celebrate the fresh off-the-print Second Edition of 13th Age, I would like to send a little love letter to the system. Let me showcase two of the innovations that set the 13th Age RPG apart from other d20-based tabletop RPGs, Icons and talents. The Icons represent archetypes of powerful NPCs […]
By Jason Kraus Historically significant personalities, events, and locations in bold. Japanese names are written in the Western convention. Authors Note: Elements of this scenario reflect HP Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth”. Players unfamiliar with Lovecraft’s work (yes, there are a few) may be less paranoid than those who’ve enjoyed his oeuvre. For players more […]
By Jason Kraus Historically significant personalities, events, and locations in bold. Japanese names are written in the Western convention. PremiseTwo Delta Green-connected ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) officers went missing in Tokyo while investigating heroin smuggling out of Vietnam with possible supernatural ties. The agents, tasked with finding them, uncover a tangled web of yakuza, […]
By Steven Hammond, Northland Creative Wonders A New Digital Tool for Pelgrane Games There has been an explosion in Virtual Table Tops in recent years. These applications provide numerous features to help people play online. I’ve played with friends who tried using a VTT for in-person play, and I was always left frustrated with the […]
by Adam Gauntlett … for the purpose of this resolution, ‘dark fleet’ or ‘shadow fleet’ means ships that are engaged in illegal operations for the purposes of circumventing sanctions, evading compliance with safety or environmental regulations, avoiding insurance costs or engaging in other illegal activities … Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’: Bringing the threat to light: […]