Ashen Stars Station Duty – Introduction

Ashen Stars uses the episodic ‘planet-of-the-week’ or ‘case-of-the-week’ approach to adventures – the Lasers get an assignment, show up, solve the mystery, and move on to some other part of the Bleed. It’s Have Starship, Will Travel.In a Station Duty campaign, the Lasers are on permanent assignment to a particularly troubled system or sector, a […]

Thirteen Things Tucked Into That Grimoire

A blurry photograph of the room where the investigators found the tome. Shadow shapes that might be the result of a double exposure or some damage to the photographic plate are visible, as if the room is haunted. Photography coupled with Chemistry might replicate the experiment and yield more information. The binding of the book […]

View From the Pelgrane’s Nest – March 2023

First off, a massive THANK YOU to our Patreon backers, Charles Paradis, Peter Nix, Bryan, Clark Olson-Smith, Jim McCarthy, Emma Marlow, Craig Maloney, Vivienne Dunstan, Phil LaDouceur, Michael Knowles, S. Go, P. Troilus, Michael Maneval, ScottKey, Michael Bowman, Todd W Crone and Andreas Meier! NEW RELEASE: Message in a Bottle In early 2021, GUMSHOE designers […]

See Page XX: Sketching Out Your Yellow King: This Is Normal Now Series (Part Two)

This wraps up the series outline from a previous installment of See P. XX. Cult Activity A friend or loved one joins the Temple of Hali, willingly embracing the new unreality as more vivid and exciting than boring old regular life. Can the team dig up a sinister truth that will release this person from […]

A Taxonomy of Investigations

GUMSHOE, as we always say, is the game system where you always find a clue. If you’ve got the right Investigative Ability, you get the information. When designing scenarios, however, it’s useful to divide those pieces of information into different categories. My usual mental breakdown (building on the Clue vs Lead division) Leads: A piece […]

March playtesting

Please email support@pelgranepress.com for instructions on how to take part in this playtest! Title: Cassilda’s Song: The Wars section System:The Yellow King RPG Authors: Robin D. Laws Deadline for return of feedback: Friday 28th April 2023 Number of sessions: 1-2 sessions per each of the four adventures Description: Like the YKRPG itself, Cassilda’s Song consists of four […]

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