Here is an in-depth review of Trail of Cthulhu by Michael Harnish. Mr Harnish understands why GUMSHOE is not “railroady”, too. By now it should be evident that I really love Trail of Cthulhu. I think it manages to capture the feel and style of HPL’s stories, particularly when played in Purist mode, with rules […]
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This GenCon was definitely the best I’ve attended in very many respects. First, the con itself was packed, and the atmosphere was very upbeat. I was concerned that the absence of many creator-owned publishers might have affected this, but the residue of their presence (Games on Demand, for example) meant that their good work continues. […]
Episode 90 of Ron and Veronica Blessing’s The Game’s the Thing podcast focuses on Ashen Stars, with your humble game designer as the guest. Join us as we talk about the game’s premise, genesis, development process and additions to the GUMSHOE toolkit. Also up for discussion are Hamlet’s Hit Points, why players only think they […]
We are away for GenCon, returning on Monday 8th August. All mail orders will be shipped out on Tuesday, though PDF versions will be available as usual within minutes. We will be in intermittent email contact.
Aldo of Impressions Advertising, together with Pelgrane Press other ImpAdv clients are helping proactive retailers garner preorders for forthcoming products, and giving retailer customers get a taster of games which aren’t yet out. Aldo has started Game Preview Events, and Pelgrane Press is the guinea pig. Aldo has been running FreePRGDay for years now, and […]
The latest issue of Page XX, our free webzine is out now , with news a poll and articles. There are still a very few copies left of the Ashen Stars Leatherbound Edition from the store There are new releases including Out of Time and Repairer of Reputations for Trail of Cthulhu, Dead Rock Seven for Ashen […]
We have a very few copies of the Ashen Stars Limited Leatherette edition left, now available to all from the Pelgrane store.
Limited Edition ordering is now open to everyone at the store. Edit: The Ashen Stars limited edition email has gone out. If you have problems with the url, please try again. There was a little slip up over file naming. If you haven’t had your email, please contact me. In the next couple of hours, […]
The Eternal Lies playtest is going well. It appears from the following comment that more Pelgrane freelancers have good reason to be slightly smug.: I’ve just finished reading the entire campaign. To say that I’m speechless would be quite an understatement. From what I’ve learnt beforehand about Eternal Lies, I suspected it would be some […]
Limited edition ordering is now open to everyone at the Pelgrane Press store. We are making one hundred copies of this limited leatherette edition of Ashen Stars. Fifty of these are available exclusively to Ashen Stars pre-orderers, and they’ll include ten exclusive Ashen Stars tokens for starship combat. We’ll pick one from the image below. […]