A Ripped From the Headlines Scenario Premise for Ashen Stars As this article reveals, the conversion of mortgages into complex financial instruments did more than provoke the 2008 global financial meltdown. The data-tracking process used to spin fragments of mortgages off into a tradeable derivative—creating a sort of mortgage slurry, if you will—now makes it […]
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The bumper January/February edition of See Page XX is now out. Read about Ashen Stars combat options, improving your scenario writing, constructing and destroying conspiracies in Night’s Black Agents and loads more. Also take our Page XX Poll where we ask your opinion on options for a new GM Screen. We have playtest opportunities, an […]
A Ripped From the Headlines Plot Premise For The Esoterrorists When viral videos appear on the Internet documenting a mystery sound heard in farflung locations throughout the world, skeptics declare them obvious fakes. It doesn’t take a sound engineer to tell that they’re electronically generated, possibly from a sample of the Godzilla scream. But the […]
From the keyboard of Kenneth Hite… For those of you who have somehow been occupying yourselves with other pursuits than my game design career, perhaps I should mention that a pre-order edition of my vampire spy thriller RPG Night’s Black Agents is available now from Pelgrane Press. More on that below, where the horrid, horrid […]
Following on from the previous post, this is how gross $ sales break down by outlet. The net margin picture (which includes a lot of guess work) looks a little different: PDF sales declined as a percentage of net margin, because of the mammoth Ashen Stars and Bookhounds pre-orders, but increased overall. […]
This post covers the relative success of the different lines of lines of products. If you have any questions, post in the comments. Core Book Sales This pie chart shows the proportion of sales we’ve had for each of our core lines, since we started. The second, how each fared in 2011. What I note […]
This post compares this year and last. I’ll look at my 2011 predicitions as I go through the figures. Another post will look at a few sales numbers. The first thing to say is that this has been a great year for Pelgrane. Our turnover more than doubled, and it’s twice the turnover of the […]
The Game’s The Thing Podcast features guest star Kenneth Hite, and they discuss Night’s Black Agents at length. Apparently, Night’s Black Agents is really, really neat.
Kakfa reviews the Trail of Cthulhu adventure Hell Fire by Adam Gauntlett. (8/10) …in the hands of a skilled Keeper this adventure would be truly fantastic.
According to a conspiracy theory both odd and oddly un-sinister, a youthful Barack Obama, as part of a secret CIA program, used to teleport to Mars. Why, the official denials only serve to confirm it! To rip this from the headlines into an Ashen Stars scenario… Teleportation technology doesn’t appear in the game setting. It’s […]