A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws GUMSHOE core games present the GM with a default scenario structure you can use when creating your own mysteries to challenge your players. By following it you can ensure that the investigators have at least one, and preferably many, routes to solve the adventure’s key question, whether […]
Category Archives: See Page XX
This will be a short and snappy View. The Dragonmeet convention was a great success – we sold more books than ever before, and hosted a jam-packed investigative masterclass seminar. Gareth ran Fall of Delta Green for the entire Pelgrane crew. PAX Unplugged has the potential to grow to be a top-tier RPG convention, matching […]
If you are interested in playtesting any of these games, please email us with the adventure you wish to playtest in the subject line. Title: The Yellow King RPG System: GUMSHOE Author: Robin Laws Deadline: February 28th Number of sessions: 2-4 Description: Join phase 2 of The Yellow King Roleplaying Game playtest to help us hone one of […]
Have you, or someone in your game group, always wanted to give GMing a shot, but haven’t yet taken the plunge? What if we told you that by the first week in February, you could be an honest-to-goodness GM—and it’ll be easy! January is New Gamemaster Month, and we’re joining our friends at Monte Cook […]
The latest edition of See Page XX is out now! Featuring the 13th Age Demonologist class among other hellish goodies in the Book of Demons, along with Ex Astoria, the next Vivian Sinclair PDF adventure; meet Colleen Riley, the newest Pelgranista; hand something out to your players, and find out how the character generator is progressing. […]
A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Having appeared on GM advice panels for lots of years, I’m always on the alert for changes in the types of questions audience members put forward. These can vary quite a bit depending on the convention. An expensive destination show like Gen Con, or one directed to […]
We’re just back from a fantastic Dragonmeet, where we got to catch up with colleagues and friends new and old, and none of us lost our voices until after the show. But our most exciting news this month comes in the form of our new Administrative Assistant, Colleen Riley, whose introduction you can read below. Having […]
Hello, everyone! I’m Colleen Riley, Pelgrane’s new administrative assistant. Once described as a robot from a future where grammar rose up and destroyed mankind, my previous game industry experience is primarily as an editor. I also playtest, and enjoy working on games’ entire life cycle, from idea to publication. My introduction to roleplaying games was the […]
by Steven Hammond First let me open by saying that https://theblackbook.io is live and taking email addresses for anyone who wants to take part in the alpha or beta tests, or get notified when the new Black Book goes live. You may recall that during the months of September and October we asked all of you […]
by Tony Williams (Download a crib sheet for this variant rule). Greetings. I am a fan of GUMSHOE and, more specifically, Trail of Cthulhu. I’ve been playing RPGs since the early eighties and skew mostly towards Call of Cthulhu and Trail of Cthulhu. I enjoy Trail so much I have created several items to try […]