Color me honored to appear as a guest on the landmark 50th episode of the G*M*S Podcast. Join ace interviewer Paco Jaen as he grills me on Stone Skin Press, Hillfolk, and how we coerced Simon into greenlighting Dreamhounds of Paris. Regarding the post-interview discussion, I hate to ruin a thrilling mental picture but have […]
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The latest Page XX – our ENnie nominated free webzine is out now.
Voting Open! Vote now for your favourites! Pelgrane Press has received ten nominations for the ENnie Awards 2012 in six categories, including three of the five Best Adventure categories. We are all rather chuffed, and I will take a flask of tea to the ceremony. Graham and Ken are both in in their own right, […]
A revolt against a planetary despot disrupts your rescue mission. Do you intervene or stick to the brief? The latest installment of my StoryCraft column for The Ancient Scroll is eminently suitable for Ashen Stars. Check it out.
Today saw the much anticipated launch of the Stone Skin Press Kickstarter. Stone Skin Press is our fledgling fiction imprint. We have four anthologies of amazing fiction lined up already and the Kickstarter will help fund these and allow us to commission more. Already we’ve had takers for the $75 and $150 reward levels and […]
[ Ed: Steven Sander‘s has produced this distinctive image for Will Hindmarch’s GUMSHOE game Razed.] My approach to detailing the alien threats and adversaries of Razed was inspired by Ken Hite’s multifaceted approach to the Mythos in Trail of Cthulhu. Each style of enemy is not a single vision of alien menace but a category […]
Andrew Brehaut at The Lazy Sequence has given a detailed and very positive review of the [REDACTED] Edition of Night’s Black Agents, Kenneth Hite’s new GUMSHOE vampire/spy thriller. You can read the full review here. Hite and Pelgrane have put together another game that tugs at my attention and screams ‘Play Me Now’… I found […]
The post-playtest first draft of 13th Age is now available for download for Escalation Edition customers. I’ve sent them an email with the details. Rob’s introduction detailing the changes in since the playtest draft follow the cut
We’ve just learned that 13th Age will be featured on the cover of Kobold Quarterly’s big summer issue, coming out in mid-July! Kobold-in-Chief Wolfgang Baur was interested in previewing 13th Age, and asked us for something crunchy and useful that his readers could bring to the table right away. Rob Heinsoo obliged with an article that focuses on one […]
An Ashen Stars scenario by Robin D. Laws Driven crazy by the muddled motivations and blatant idiot plotting of a certain eagerly-awaited SF movie franchise reboot? Exorcise your frustrations by giving your players the chance to do it right. Under contract to the Shrawley-Gosha corporation, hard-bitten interstellar operatives investigate the demise of a survey mission […]