We’ve really ramped up production here at Pelgrane Press, with more than eighteen projects passed the planning stage. Three new Trail of Cthulhu products are out right now. We are also really pleased to announce more details of our new fiction imprint Stone Skin Press, and the first stage of our Vancean relaunch. The Dying […]
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Welcome to the December edition of See Page XX. We have a host of great articles for your yuletide delectation; John Stavropoulos gives some excellent Batman-inspired GMing tips, Robin D Laws lets us in on the thoughts behind the new fiction imprint, Stone Skin Press, Anna Kreider delves deep into the world of women in […]
Game-mastering tips from John Stavropoulos Batman: Then why do you want to kill me? Joker: HAhahAhaHaha! I don’t want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, NO! You… you… complete me. – The Dark Knight (2008) For you, the GM/Storyteller/Maestro-of-the-ongoing-roleplaying game campaign, it’s the […]
By Anna Kreider [Ed: Anna took this post as the genesis of her Go Make Me A Sandwich blog, which you can fund here.] The Inspiration: Simon’s request and a 2007 LiveJournal Article At GenCon this year, I was asked by Simon Rogers to write an article about sexism in gaming for a new issue […]
by Dave Allsop [Ed’s note – a little taster of what to expect in the new Book of Unremitting Horror – the Ocean Game] The Phantom Birds bear a strong resemblance to Earth’s Marabou Storks – spindly, ugly, carrion creatures with bald, scab-encrusted heads. Phantom Birds tend to be much larger though, possessing all too […]
Or, Buy These Books and I Won’t Use the Word “Synergy” By Robin D Laws (The following column will make greater sense to you if you check out this press release before proceeding further.) Whenever I run across discussion within the mainstream publishing industry about the transformative effects of emerging, disruptive technologies such as print-on-demand, […]
Since the last issue in July, we’ve had our most successful GenCon ever, released two new products, gained an employee won an ENnie award and announced a fiction imprint. A New Employee The big news for Pelgrane Press is that we’ve taken on an employee – Beth Lewis. It certainly wasn’t my intention to employ […]
In this special Halloween issue of Page XX, Mystic Moo investigates a haunting, Robin D Laws offers a useful GUMSHOE technique from Ashen Stars and there’s a treasure-trove of information for Book-Hounds of London by a real book-hound, Mark Drew. Finally, Ian Thomson teases you for the re-release of The Dying Earth with some magical […]
By Robin D Laws Each time we create a GUMSHOE rules set for a fresh setting and genre, we discover specific needs for new rules structures. Will Hindmarch’s post-apocalyptic Razed will include new rules treating scavenging as a form of information gathering. Kenneth Hite’s Bookhounds of London, an imminent sourcepack for Trail of Cthulhu, includes […]
By Mike Drew In a game as focused on books as The Bookhounds of London, it is worth taking some time to consider what makes up a book and how to describe them effectively. Book Sizes Start with a large sheet of paper and fold it once vertically. You now have two leaves and four pages, […]