In a hole in the ground… they found a body. I know! Here in our beautiful, bucolic village, with its neat hedgerows and picturesque taverns and delightful crumpet shops, we’ve got a murder to solve! It’d be unthinkable if this wasn’t the third murder this week. The bodies are just piling up. Better get cracking […]
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In the latest episode of their rashly demobilized podcast, Ken and Robin talk safe HQs for PCs, fictional army maneuver enemies, late 50s fantasy films, and the Hammersmith ghost murder case.
It feels like a mere month since I last peered out from the nest to let you know what’s up with Pelgrane Press. That’s because it was a month. Among our efforts to ramp up our activities with my coming on board as Creative Director, we’re endeavoring to return to regular publication for this very […]
In the latest episode of their precisely coined podcast, Ken and Robin talk the double meaning of roleplaying, surrealist occultist Ithell Colquhoun, early 50s fantasy films, and using the time machine to change a critical term.
by Tristan Zimmerman ‘My boy was scarcely ten years oldWhen he went to an eerie landWhere wind never blew, nor cocks ever crewWoe for my son, Leesome Brand!’– Leesome Brand, Child Ballad 15 Britain, 1813. You are amateur folklorists working as agents of the Crown. Across the island, the folk ballads of the common people […]
In the latest edition of their accurately branded podcast, Ken and Robin talk player characters who aren’t who they think, cattle rustler Rufus “Climax Jim” Nephew, postwar fantasy films, and occult immortality methods.
In the latest episode of their conch-listening podcast, Ken and Robin talk campaign frames, the Margate Shell Grotto, wartime fantasy films, and the Michigan Dogman.
A column about roleplaying By Robin D. Laws After a four decade restoration project, a book shrine found in a lake has gone on display at the National Museum of Ireland. Only seven others of its kind survive. Known as cumdachs, these elaborately decorated cases of metal-shod wood were fashioned to contain precious devotional […]
In the latest episode of their arrow-deflecting podcast, Ken and Robin talk research librarian listserv campaigns, St. Cuthbert, early 40s fantasy films, and a longer-lived Attila the Hun.