by Chris Sanderson As I write this, our store has been open for exactly eight years. We opened with little to no fanfare, with no real plan and with a marketing budget of “my mates.” My goal: a place to hang out and play RPGs together. Sure, we’d been hanging out and playing RPGs together […]
In The Yellow King Roleplaying Game, Kickstarting soon at a Kickstarter near you, players portray characters linked across various eras and timelines corrupted by alien supernatural influence. In the third of these linked settings, Aftermath, the investigators are all ex-partisans who fought in a successful rebellion against a tyrannical regime backed by Carcosa. Now they […]
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THE BARD By ASH LAW In this series by ASH LAW, we feature two different builds for every 13th Age character class, at all levels. ASH suggests how the builds might be used, and offers tips on playing each character. Stats are based on the point-buy method, and the characters have no non-standard elements. This time, we […]
In the latest episode of their high-profile podcast, Ken and Robin talk premise rejection, war movie evolution, Keisha Howard and the Old Man of the Mountain.
Those of you receiving your Cthulhu Confidential books will notice an unsettling difference between the print version and the PDF: an empty, white void at the top of page eight. The missing text is a bit of GM advice that’s repeated in all our other books, and it’s in the PDF version of Cthulhu Confidential. […]
In the latest episode of their vibrant, street-level podcast, Ken and Robin talk Night’s Black Agents convention GMing, Tom Thomson, the geek spots of Chicago and Toronto, and Jane Jacobs versus Robert Moses.
One day, the mystery of the Ocean Game will be revealed. Until then, hints and fragments skitter at the edge of perception in articles like this. Art and setting text by Dave Allsop. The Phantom Birds bear a strong resemblance to Earth’s Marabou Storks – spindly, ugly, carrion creatures with bald, scab-encrusted heads. Phantom Birds […]
This month, we are delighted to announce that we will be publishing the nano-game anthology, #Feminism. Originally crowdfunded and published by Fëa Livia, a Swedish non-profit organisation which has published roleplay- and larp-related books and magazines since 1993, we hope to expand its presence into RPG stores through our arm of pelgrane deliverers, and mainstream book stores […]
This month sees the release of the pre-order of #Feminism, available in both pre-order print and PDF format. We’re also releasing the signed limited edition of Cthulhu Apocalypse, and eagle-eyed observers will spot a new section in our webstore, where we’ve added all our limited editions, which will be available while stocks last in each shipping […]
a column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws On a recent episode of our podcast, Ken and I talked about adapting Dreamhounds of Paris as a GUMSHOE One-2-One setting. In a moment of rash exuberance I promised to provide character cards for some of its key figures. Use these as a model for your own […]