In the latest episode of their exquisitely paced podcast, Ken and Robin talk vamping for time, Houska Castle, Sarah Richardson, and Albert de Rochas.
The holiday season is quickly approaching and we’re looking forward to spending quality time with family and friends. The Pelgrane office will be closed from December 25 through January 1. Holiday Shipping Dates for the US and Canada Orders received by December 7 should be received by December 25 but this cannot be guaranteed. Because we […]
Ken and Robin wear no masks. No masks! In a special all King in Yellow edition, they talk Robert W. Chambers, annotation, Belle Epoque food & drink, and Leo Taxil.
GUMSHOE is a system for designing and playing investigative roleplaying games and adventures, emulating stories where investigators uncover a series of clues, and interpret them to solve a mystery. In a GUMSHOE game, the player characters discover something which triggers their investigation, and then the Game Moderator (GM) narrates them through a number of scenes, […]
During the Kickstarter for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game, I laid out one method of serving Shock and Injury cards to players electronically, as image files sent to a mobile-enabled platform. At that time, I recommended using Google Photos for this purpose. Belatedly I realize that there was a better way to do it, using […]
In the latest episode of their ineluctably sly podcast, Ken and Robin talk pulling switcheroos on players, the Chicago film fest, GUMSHOE 101, and the Easter Rising.
NPC followers of icons like the Priestess, Emperor, and Archmage aren’t usually monsters—but that doesn’t stop player characters from wanting to fight them! Icon Followers will focus on playable monster-stats for human and humanoid NPCs of the Dragon Empire. Want stats for a city guard, gladiator, traveling priest, bardic college student, or Imperial Legionnaire? Icon Followers […]
In the latest episode of their unswervingly faithful podcast, Ken and Robin talk game fickleness, Steve Kenson, and this year’s raid on Powell’s Books Portland.
Roleplaying games are fascinatingly mediated. In almost every other storytelling medium, the audience perceives the action directly. They see the actors on the stage or screen, the characters in the computer game, the voices in the radio play. In prose, true, the author can play tricks with an unreliable narrator or writing in a very […]
Late autumn is upon us, and it’s the season to curl up in front of a roaring fire with a good book. New books in autumnal green and brown are the limited edition versions of The Fall of DELTA GREEN and the 13th Age Bestiary 2, available in the webstore this month, alongside a compendium of […]