In the latest episode of their 2016 ENnie-nominated podcast, Ken and Robin talk Tsan-Chan, Westerns 201, pre-nuclear steel, and Trois-Echelles.
The ENnie award nominations have been announced, and Pelgrane Press is up for ten awards – more than any other publisher! Congratulations to all the nominees – we are in august company. Dracula Dossier – Director’s Handbook was nominated for Best Adventure, Best Writing and Product of the Year. The Dracula Dossier: Hawkins Papers got […]
May you live in interesting times, goes the alleged Chinese curse; and it’s hard to think of more interesting times than the UK is currently experiencing. Many friends of the Nest have expressed concern about what Britain’s vote to exit the EU means for Pelgrane Press (and more importantly, their Dracula Dossier campaigns); Simon and Gareth tackle both […]
[by Sean Clark – orginally published on his Heavy Metal GM blog.] As stated many times before, 13th Age is designed to make your characters feel awesome and immensely powerful without making it a ridiculous cake-walk. It seems like in the past, the genre had started to move in that direction with the minions […]
If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. Cthulhu City System: Trail of Cthulhu Author: Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan Deadline: 15th August Number of sessions: 1-2 Description: You know – through certain unreliable and maddening accounts, and now through your own dreadful experience – there […]
A scenario hook for Trail of Cthulhu by Chris Spivey Father David Baker is an ally who may have performed an exorcism, or provided the Investigators access to ancient church records. He has requested that they come to the church immediately. When the Investigators arrive, the usually-collected older man of the cloth speaks with a […]
Frequent contributor and friend of the Pelgrane Adam Gauntlett is here to talk about The Private Life of Elder Things. ——————— Right! Hello again. So nice to see you. I have something I’d like to tell you, about a short story collection I’ve been working on: The Private Life of Elder Things, due out this September. […]
In the past three weeks or so, more people have written op-ed pieces about Brexit and the ensuing fallout than actually voted in the referendum, but oddly, very few have discussed its effect on vampires (other than a few passing swipes at George Osbourne). What might Brexit mean for Dracula and your Dracula Dossier campaign? […]
By Kevin Kulp Independent, self-reliant TimeWatch troubleshooter teams are generally given discretion to execute, imprison, punish, mind-wipe or even recruit the chronal miscreants whose schemes they thwart. Sometimes the difficult decision of what to do with a prisoner resolves itself; certain alien species such as the parasitic Europans or roach-like Ezeru receive a “destroy on […]
The UK government held a referendum to decide whether United Kingdom should remain within the European Union. The refererendum result was 52% in favour of leaving the EU (so-called Brexit). The UK will remain part of the EU for at least two more years, and that clock starts ticking when the Prime Minister gives notice […]