As you know, we’re big fans of tabletop RPG soundtracks. We have several official soundtracks to our games for sale in the Pelgrane Store thanks to the brilliance of James Semple and his collaborators. (Scroll down and click on Music to open that section.) But ours are not the only possible soundtracks! Fans of Pelgrane games have […]
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Organized play isn’t just about adventures and swag: there’s also cosplay! Here are some tips on cosplaying characters in 13th Age. Connect With The Icons Every 13th Age player character has a relationship (positive, negative or conflicted) with one to three icons. These are the 13 most powerful and influential non-player characters in the game’s default setting of the Dragon Empire, and […]
Earlier this month, Phoenix Online Studios invited us to co-sponsor a short-short-short fiction competition to promote The Last Door Collector’s Edition. We’re all for creepy 8-bit Lovecraftian horror, and gladly joined in. Five prize winners got a Pelgrane PDF of their choice (and all of them chose either Trail of Cthulhu or Bookhounds of London); and […]
by Rob Heinsoo New 13th Age players often ask whether the escalation die could be applied to all monster and NPC attacks as well as to player character attacks. The short answer is “No” because the math of 13th Age expects that only the PCs (and dragons!) get the escalation die. Adding the escalation die […]
Gen Con is almost here, and we have some great seminars lined up. Pelgrane Press has also submitted a GUMSHOE panel as well as an overall Pelgrane Press panel, and we hope to see those go live soon. 13th Age Adventure Design Date & Time: Thursday at 1:00 PM Duration: 1 hours Location: Crowne Plaza […]
Pelgrane Press has received 15 nominations in 11 categories for 9 products in this year’s ENnie awards, in a field festooned with stellar games and publishers. And this year, 13th Age is up for Best Game, Best Rules, and Product of the Year. BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE. Midgard Bestiary: 13th Age Compatible Edition from Kobold Press (designed by ASH LAW and […]
Now that the 13th Age Bestiary is about to ship, and design on 13 True Ways is finished, we can turn our attention back to other important things. Like announcing a contest winner! We invited readers to submit captions for Rich Longmore’s great illustration of a bronze golem looming over an owlbear cub. We selected […]
While the 13th Age Bestiary was in playtesting, we heard some fun stories about groups that temporarily allied with monsters and wanted guidelines about how to handle their unlikely allies. Here’s Jonathan’s advice to GMs on handling this unusual situation, along with a paragraph I’ve inserted that addresses healing. –Rob Heinsoo By Jonathan Tweet 13th Age […]
By Rob Heinsoo The text below is from a 13 True Ways Kickstarter update I posted yesterday. Since it talks about material that will also interest everyone buying 13 True Ways on pre-order or ordering it from their hobby shop, I’m posting the update here as well. By now most of you will have seen […]
If you got your hands on a copy of Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s Free RPG Day adventure Make Your Own Luck, you may have noticed that it’s a great adventure. You may have also noticed a couple of typos. Wizard pre-gen: the descriptions for abjuration and evocation are switched. Rogue pre-gen’s powers: the rogue’s powers accidentally got left off – here’s […]