After a brief break to complete another commitment, I am once again at work assembling Hillfolk. Here’s an update for backers and future buyers. All of the key art for Hillfolk and its companion volume, Blood on the Snow, is now in. We’ll need a few spot illos for the LARP and Master Class sections […]
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Hillfolk backers, hackers and gawkers take heed—it’s time for me to pop up from a pile of virtual manuscripts and illustration submissions with a progress report. A shockingly high percentage of series pitch writers have gotten their pieces in ahead of this Thursday’s deadline, making my job easier and giving me a big head start […]
Alan Ball, creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood, is about to launch a new cable show, Banshee, about an ex-con who, through the peregrinations of an opening plot twist, becomes sheriff of a small town in Amish country. This will give Ball another chance to air his issues with conservative Christianity and presumably […]
With the holidays in the rearview mirror, it’s time for another Hillfolk progress report. I continue to receive great contributions from stretch goal writers ahead of the Jan 31st deadline. This grants me a useful head start, one I’m sure I’ll need when February 1st rolls around and the task of assembling the full books […]
A tip of the Pelgrane hat goes out to Michael Rees’ new blog, The Game Is Afoot, dedicated to all things GUMSHOE and DramaSystem. Entries so far include a Bookhounds of London adventure, Burmese Trail of Cthulhu doings, and Bone Wars, a DramaSystem series pitch in which you play rootin’-tootin’ paleontologists.
Christmas has come early in Pelgrane Towers, even old HPL is excited. We would like to share our Christmas cheer with you in the form of a sleigh-full of Page XX goodies. You will experience the festive delights of the Feast of Gold, the mid-winter celebration in 13th Age’s Dragon Empire. Lowell Francis has placed […]
By Robin D Laws In DramaSystem, the engine of our upcoming game Hillfolk, GM-run characters who appear on a regular basis are called recurring characters. This denotes their importance to the storyline and the main cast of player characters. The series protagonists care about them enough to seek emotional rewards from them, engaging them in […]
We are still reeling from the success of the DramaSystem / Hillfolk Kickstarter, which raised $93,845, but we have not taken our eyes off other projects – this month sees the release of The Love of Money for Esoterrorists the Out of Space collection in print, plus the PDF of Zalozhniy Quartet for Night’s Black […]
In the fourteenth episode of their above-named podcast, Ken and Robin talk Chicago film fest, DramaSystem vs. Skulduggery, gangland mapping and the burnings of the libraries of Alexandria.
The Hillfolk Kickstarter has been an unprecedented success, we never thought it would reach $25,000, let alone the $85,000 it’s currently on (13 hours to go), with over 2000 backers, so thank you all for your support. The kickstarter has some fantastic deals, from just $10 for the PDF version, $25 for the print and […]