By Jason Kraus Electronic games have popularized in-game achievements, while apps have seized that idea to drive user engagement. Pelgrane Press’s ENnie Award-winning Night’s Black Agents by Kenneth Hite expanded the use of achievements for TTRPGs by awarding immediate Ability refreshes during play. What follows is an effort to add Achievements to The Fall of […]
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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.
Every year, Pelgrane Overlord Simon Rogers runs a 13th Age game for his long-running group, and every year, he commands me to come up with some distinctive custom monsters. Here’s this year’s mushroom-themed crop of horrors. They’re designed to behave as a monstrous ecology, moving gobbets of fungus magic called Mycorrhizal Pulses around. These pulses […]
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 […]
by Tristan Zimmerman Pelgrane’s forthcoming RPG Ballad Hunters — described in this Page XX article — is set in 1813 England and Scotland. This is the Regency era of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, of the Napoleonic wars, and of the Luddite revolts. It’s called the Regency because the reigning monarch, George III, is incapacitated […]
A Trail of Cthulhu Scenario Hook Some pharaohs lived in easier times than others. In turbulent eras, when war sapped the economy and royal coffers emptied, indignities might strike your earthly husk even after death. Though your nine-sectioned soul had made its way to the Western Lands, your mummy wasn’t safe from interference. Never mind […]