A column about roleplaying By Robin D. Laws In the last installment of this column, I laid out the rules for a simple, super low-prep system for casual one-shot games. Let’s follow that up with a look at the scenario I ran for the Pelgranes present in London on the night before Dragonmeet in 2022. […]
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A column about roleplaying By Robin D. Laws Sometimes you want to run an entirely casual tabletop session that requires next to no prep on your part, and zero learning curve for the players. For example, you might want to run a game around a dinner party, maybe with a break in the middle for […]
A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws This wraps up the series outline from the previous installment of See P. XX. Cult Activity A friend or loved one joins the Temple of Hali, willingly embracing the new unreality as more vivid and exciting than boring old regular life. Can the team dig up a […]
A Fear Itself scenario outline In this one-shot horror scenario, the players portray a heist crew that targets the wrong office building for its latest job. Create pregenerated characters for this premise, fitting the investigative point spends to your number of players. Ignore Sources of Stability. Asking each player to specify, in a private communication […]
First off, a massive THANK YOU to our Patreon backers, Charles Paradis, Peter Nix, Bryan, Clark Olson-Smith, Jim McCarthy, Emma Marlow, Craig Maloney, Vivienne Dunstan, Phil LaDouceur, Michael Knowles, S. Go, P. Troilus, Michael Maneval, ScottKey, Michael Bowman, Todd W Crone and Andreas Meier! NEW RELEASE: Message in a Bottle In early 2021, GUMSHOE designers […]
This wraps up the series outline from a previous installment of See P. XX. Cult Activity A friend or loved one joins the Temple of Hali, willingly embracing the new unreality as more vivid and exciting than boring old regular life. Can the team dig up a sinister truth that will release this person from […]
If you’re attending Gen Con 2023, we’d love you to run Pelgrane RPGs at it! GMs get t-shirts, swag bags, Pelgrane webstore discounts, and if you run more than three sessions, you also get a GM badge giving you free entry to Gen Con 2023! March 11th is the closing date for game submissions, so […]
