I knew that procedural storytelling had taken over pop culture but it wasn’t until I promised to find examples of character-driven dramatic narratives new enough to not have Humphrey Bogart in them that I realized just how true this is. When running roleplaying games, we depend on fictional reference points to share assumptions about what’s […]
Category Archives: Page Turners
In the latest episode of their bona fide podcast, Ken and Robin talk deepfake scenario hooks, People’s Park, big lugs, and Arabic geomancy.
In the latest episode of their lumberjack-taunting podcast, Ken and Robin talk staying true to your Page Turners doom, a Brazilian forest monster, and Ken’s Bay Area book raid.
In the latest episode of their cane-wielding podcast, Ken and Robin talk PCs on the run, General Ludd, stern matriarchs, and bartitsu.
In the latest episode of their petal-bedecked podcast, Ken and Robin talk creating supporting casts for Page Turners, a Chicago mobster’s flowery funeral effigy, and our top films of 2025.
Your part of the world may be balmy or merely damp but here at the Pelgrane’s Nest winter retains its grip on the land. Like our other cold-blooded staff members, the Great Pelgrane gets cranky at this time of year. With prey hiding beneath the snow he must spend more time on the wing, hunting. […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]