See Page XX: Improv and GUMSHOE Scenario Structure

A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws GUMSHOE core games present the GM with a default scenario structure you can use when creating your own mysteries to challenge your players. By following it you can ensure that the investigators have at least one, and preferably many, routes to solve the adventure’s key question, whether […]

View from the Pelgrane’s Nest: December 2017/January 2018

This will be a short and snappy View. The Dragonmeet convention was a great success – we sold more books than ever before, and hosted a jam-packed investigative masterclass seminar. Gareth ran Fall of Delta Green for the entire Pelgrane crew. PAX Unplugged has the potential to grow to be a top-tier RPG convention, matching […]

The Dracula Dossier card deck

A Secret History Unearthed. A Legendary Horror Walks Again. The Dracula Dossier is an epic improvised campaign for the Night’s Black Agents Roleplaying Game. Do your Agents have what it takes to face the Lord of the Undead himself? The Dracula Dossier follows in the fully improvisational path of the award-winning The Armitage Files campaign. Players follow up leads in the margins […]

13th Age Character Builds: Multi-Attack Ranger

The ranger is one of the simplest classes to build and play, but your choices of talents will determine what kind of ranger you are. Rangers can vary from animal-companion assisted trackers, deadly archers, to frighteningly efficient melee characters. The ranger is a simple class, nothing flashy. Basic attacks, modified with expanding crit ranges or […]

13th Age Character Builds: Easy Crit Ranger

The ranger is one of the simplest classes to build and play, but your choices of talents will determine what kind of ranger you are. Rangers can vary from animal-companion assisted trackers, deadly archers, to frighteningly efficient melee characters. The ranger is a simple class, nothing flashy. Basic attacks, modified with expanding crit ranges or […]

January playtesting

If you are interested in playtesting any of these games, please email us with the adventure you wish to playtest in the subject line.     Title: The Yellow King RPG System: GUMSHOE Author: Robin Laws Deadline: February 28th Number of sessions: 2-4 Description: Join phase 2 of The Yellow King Roleplaying Game playtest to help us hone one of […]

Call of Chicago: Building the Mystery Block by Byock

It might take more than one swallow to make a summer, he said from a city where it would take about eighty Fahrenheit degrees along with any number of migratory birds to make it summer right now. But it only takes one monster to make a mystery. That, at least, is the thesis, or among […]

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