Last time I talked about allowing the structure of a session or campaign to arise organically, as opposed to imposing it in advance. Let’s drill deeper into that idea with some techniques and examples. Organic structures are built on disparate story threads that eventually converge. The best source of story threads are your players. These […]
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When we elect to play RPGs in story-driven mode, we have an array of different narrative forms to draw inspiration from. All of them, from drama to fiction to comic books and movies, offer different lessons. Like magpies, we can steal the most applicable ideas and techniques from each form. By synthesizing these with techniques […]
A set of Guidelines for running mysteries in the style of Robert van Gulik’s “Judge Dee” stories using the Trail of Cthulhu rules The Judge Dee stories are a series of mystery novels and short stories written in the 1950’s and 1960’s by Dutch diplomat and Sinophile Robert van Gulik. Based on traditional Chinese stories […]
News from Pelgrane Press This month is last month of the Dying Earth, and we have sale to commerate it. We also release our first purely Purist Trail of Cthulhu adventure, offer you an Esoterrorists competition, and give you tidbits of our future releases. We’ve also launched a new, improved store which accepts Paypal, in […]
This month sees the end of the Dying Earth RPG, with a 50% off stock clearance sale in our new store. The game is still as fresh as a daisy, and it would be a shame to miss out. Gregor Hutton provides a new setting for 3:16, his game gung-ho space-grunts, Robin D Laws discusses 4th […]
I am pleased to present two new illustrations for a French game published by 7eme Cercle : Kuro Tenseï, the team that published the French version of Trail of Cthulhu entitled simply Cthulhu. Click an image for a higher resolution version. Kuro Tenseï will be presented at the upcoming event Salon du jeu de société on 25 […]
Aldo Ghiozzi is a senior industry professional, who has weathered the ups and downs of the roleplaying games industry. He runs Impressions, a company which consilidates and fulfils orders for his publisher clients in the game hobby trade. Exceptionally, he promotes his clients games to distributors and retails through personal contact, email and trade shows. He has been performing fulfilment for […]
[Editors’ Note: 3:16 is a fantastic, highly playable and easy-to-learn game of combat amongst the stars. It works on many levels, from the simple visceral thrill of combat, via a satirical take on gung-ho militarism, to a sombre examination of dehumanization. Because of this, it works for almost every player. Now you can look up […]
A primary goal, if not the primary goal, of fourth edition D&D is to bring balance to fight sequences. The latest build of the RPG mothership seeks balance across several axes: between players, so that everyone gets to be effective during a fight throughout combat, so that you can do something useful even after firing […]