A detailed and insightful review of Dead Rock Seven for Ashen Stars by kafka – 9/10. Dead Rock Seven again demonstrates Pelgrane’s superior skills aptitude with design by creating a truly beautiful product. It brings over some the same similar layout, font and formatting used in the Ashen Stars core book- with but with a […]
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This review by Matthew Pook is worth considering if only for the terrible pun of the title, Tome Team. Given the lack of a sourcebook detailing London within the genre of Lovecraftian investigative horror, Bookhounds of London is a much, much needed resource. Although its focus is primarily the book and the booktrade, the information […]
The November issue of See Page XX is out. We have more articles than you can shake a pelgrane at, the Night’s Black Agents pre-order and the release of The Black Book character builder. Check it out here.
There is a review of Ashen Stars over on Flames Rising by Todd Cash. It’s a positive review giving 4 out of 5 stars. There are not many sci-fi settings that I like; however, this is a damn good setting. Law populates Ashen Stars with interesting alien races, an excellent back-story, and tons of ideas […]
Dragonmeet 2011 is on the 26th November (this Saturday!) at Kensington Town Hall. You can find map here. Pelgrane Press and our sister company ProFantasy Software are long-time sponsers of the one day convention. We will be in our usual spot to the right as you enter the Great Hall. We have some great stuff […]
Commenter Carl, over at my See P. XX intro to DramaSystem, asks about the role deceit plays in the game. Is there a mechanism to ensure that characters who are deceived act accordingly? It depends on whether the interaction is procedural or dramatic. In the first instance, it occurs in pursuit of a pragmatic goal, […]
At Dragonmeet last year, we released a simple print version of Bookhounds which sold out almost instantly. This year we’re continuing the tradition with Night’s Black Agents, Kenneth Hite’s superb new vampire spy thriller. This will be a simple, spartan design with a full colour cover and will be limited to 50 copies. Dragonmeet this […]
DieHard Gamer reviews Dead Rock Seven for Ashen Stars If you’re going to run or are thinking about running Ashen Stars, go ahead and pick this up. These stories are smartly written and presented. They provide many ways for the GM to tune the experience. If you think that a mystery adventure has to follow […]
DieHard Game Fan offers this in-depth review of Ashen Stars from a reviewer who is not keen on the GUMSHOE system’s resource management. Ashen Stars breaks new ground in that genre with its narrow focus on mysteries and problem solving. GUMSHOE fans and those looking for a new sci-fi setting with an emphasis on drama […]
Dan Harms continues his series of reviews of Trail books with this one of Repairer of Reputations. …a great one-shot for Trail players looking to try something different, and it does an excellent job of adapting and presenting Chambers’ version of the Twenties into a setting that future roleplayers can explore.