In the latest episode of their sturdily constructed podcast, Ken and Robin talk creating protagonists for Page Turners, architect Julia Taylor, Ballad Hunters with Tristan Zimmerman, and Sam Phillips’ Cuba diplomacy.
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Page Turners, my game of dramatic interaction for one player and one GM, enables you to create stories resembling the character-driven narratives of films and literary fiction. Unlike the GUMSHOE One-2-One line of one player one GM games, it doesn’t focus on solving external problems. Instead it centers the protagonist’s journey from one emotional state […]
You are terrifyingly invited to test a scenario—or two if you and your group have the time—for Sudden Frights, an upcoming anthology of Fear Itself one-shots. In Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s “Faust Blood,” a college camping trip goes horribly wrong—or horribly right—when the students stumble across the home of infamous occultist John Tradowski. What secrets does he […]
Pelgrane’s forthcoming RPG Ballad Hunters — described in this Page XX article — is about the Child Ballads. They’re named for their compiler, Harvard folklorist Francis James Child. His five-volume collection, published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the late 1800s, is today the standard. Child did not tramp through the British countryside […]
In the latest episode of their grandmasterly podcast, Ken and Robin talk introductory adventures, a 4th century Saracen vampire, the disapproving father character, and magical chess.
a column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws As reported in November, Polish archaeologists recently found a spiked iron tool establishing that druids local to the area, as they did elsewhere, once practiced trepanation. Until around the 19th century, cultures spanning historical and geographical boundaries did what they could to treat apparent brain ailments, by […]
In the latest episode of their smoothly informative podcast, Ken and Robin talk providing clues to players, the saint with the highest body count, and Ken’s previously undocumented raid on NYC’s Strand Books.
In the latest episode of their double-pupiled podcast, Ken and Robin talk Mr. Johnson and why he is bad, a weird ancient beliefs quiz with guest stars Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and James Wallis, writing compelling exposition, and a murder case ghost.
Icon Followers: Cover Art Query by Rob Heinsoo Bestiary 3: Icon Followers won’t be crowdfunded until 2027, but it’s time to get its cover illustration handled. Like the covers of the Heroes’ Handbook and Gamemaster’s Guide, the cover of Icon Followers will be a collaboration between Lee Moyer and Aaron McConnell. What’s going to be […]
Roses are red Violets are blue The Great Pelgrane is hungry And so are you …for tidings of the newly bustling Pelgrane production line. While the Great Pelgrane flaps lazily over unsuspecting cities and towns looking for chocolates to snatch from the grasp of unsuspecting Valentine’s celebrants, we can once again rifle his nest for […]