If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. Ashen Stars Character Builder DC has been working on an Ashen Stars version of the free Black Book character generator. It will be fully ready for testing next Monday. It will […]
GUMSHOE and 13th Age are set free! This month we release the GUMSHOE and Archmage Engine system reference documents for publishers and members of the community, joining the DramaSystem in our troika of systems. The Bestiary receives an update, ebook lovers, stop your finger-drumming as Eternal Lies, Hideous Creatures:Ghouls and Owl Hoot Trail are available […]
As I once more turn my hopeful eye upon The Dracula Dossier, digging back into things vampiric and espionagical, it occurs to me that it might be fun to wonder just who we talk about when we talk about Dracula. In The Dracula Dossier, every player knows going in that the Big Bad up on […]
Hallowe’en is nearly upon us, but there’s no toothy pumpkins or plastic skellingtons around here ! We do have some old-fashioned horror in the epic Trail of Cthulhu campaign Eternal Lies, now available in PDF – and as a Call of Cthulhu conversion, thanks to Andy Nicholson – find out how he converted it below. […]
[Editorial Note: We’re trying out formats for city writeup PDFs, between this and next month’s Ken Writes About Stuff on Mumbai. Let us know in the comments how you’d like to see our city PDFs look going forward. This one, for example, resembles a more detailed version of the “Quick and Dirty” writeup from […]
HERITAGE FEATS by Paul Fanning Races, as well as Backgrounds and One Unique Things, are very rules-light in 13th Age. Heritage feats represent aspects of your character’s heredity and history that aren’t easily covered by these mechanics, or by existing classes. Heritage feats aren’t necessarily for all campaigns, or all characters. Players should consult with […]
The Dragon Empire – Through A Mirror, Darkly by Aaron Roudabush The Dragon Empire, bitterly cold and dangerous from border to border — whether in the depths of the wilds or the heart of a city — is as cruel, unfriendly land. The people here have long been oppressed and controlled by a line of […]
Version 4.0 adds Bestiary 2 to the earlier core book, Bestiary 1, and 13 True Ways! [updated March 30, 2023] This is the home of the 13th Age / Archmage Engine System Reference Document. For licensing information, go here. It contains all the open content from the 13th Age RPG – the Archmage Engine. Whether […]
As a result of the Hillfolk Kickstarter, GUMSHOE is now available under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Unported License. The document is a reference for game designers, and is not tuned to teach the game, or provide a playable game experience. If you’re looking for a playable game, seek out such Pelgrane Press titles as […]