By Robin D. Laws In this, the first in a two-part series, I’ll be looking at ways to inject additional combat options into your Ashen Stars games. Next month’s selections adapt existing combat add-ons first found in the Esoterror Fact Book to throwdowns in the Bleed. This column floats a new rule concept in unplaytested […]
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This month’s Page XX is a bumper January/February edition. Our line-up this month includes the incomparable Robin D Laws with three columns. Two give advice on combat rules in Ashen Stars and the last holds a treasure-trove of writing tips, both for general prose and for roleplaying scenarios. A playtest group has provided us with […]
A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws In my book Hamlet’s Hit Points I present a way of looking at stories called beat analysis. The system, when internalized, sharpens your understanding of narrative technique. As a GM, it allows you to make good choices on the fly. Among the tricks revealed there are […]
We had a huge number of entries for the Your Own Private Apocalypse Competition. This competition was to celebrate the release of Graham Walmsley’s Apocalypse Machine, the second installment of the Cthulhu Apocalypse series. We gave you the chance to end the world your way in 500 words. Prizes: First place wins a limited edition […]
A Brief Commentary Upon the Natal Chart of A Darcy, born 11.17am on Friday 12th November 1897 in Thetford, England Report by Soror Cupitor, Student of Astrology Sun Sign The subject’s sun sign is Scorpio. Persons born under the sign of the Scorpion tend to have abilities in research and detection, so may […]
Things have been a bit quiet in the cowshed of late. Saturn’s doing something peculiar which has plunged all of us, cows included, into recession. The bottom’s fallen out of the bovine prognostications market so I’ve been forced to take a part time job in Tesco’s to make ends meet. It’s not all bad news […]
As you may remember we ran a competition to celebrate the release of The Dead White World, the first part of the Cthulhu Apocalypse series. The second part, the rules for creating your own apocalypse scenarios, The Apocalypse Machine is also available to buy from our shop. You can find the questions to the competition […]
The Competition Ken Hite’s new vampire/spy thriller was released on pre-order at the end of November and sales have surpassed expectations so to celebrate this, we are running a competition to design your own Night’s Black Agents Conspyramid. The section on Conspiracies starts at page 155 of Night’s Black Agents but we have included the […]
Christmas has come to Pelgrane Towers and Santa has delivered a sackful of Page XX goodies. Nary an ugly Christmas jumper or pair of socks in sight, this Page XX is chock-full of top quality articles, advice, and competitions. We have the round-up of all things Pelgrane from Simon Rogers. Mystic Moo drops by to […]
This month sees the release of Love of Money, a high octane adventure for Esoterrorists, and the Out of Time collection for Trail of Cthulhu as a PDF from the store. The epic Eternal Lies playtest draws to a close, and I give an overview of this year, and a teaser for next year. An […]