Well, THIS is a nice Christmas present. All week long, you can listen as 13th Age co-designer Rob Heinsoo runs the new fantasy RPG for the crew at BJ Shea’s Geek Nation, a podcast spinoff of the popular KISW radio morning show. They’ll post a new episode each day, starting today with introductions and the beginning of […]
Dedicated Night’s Black Agents Director R. B. Bergstrom urges you to use up those Shooting points and kill some damn mooks. Read his hard-won and heartfelt advice on running and playing combat scenes in GUMSHOE (in Night’s Black Agents specifically, but the advice is applicable across the lines) in his latest Transitive Property of Gaming […]
In their final episode of 2012, Ken and Robin talk book hauls, play-by-post, the Affair of the Poisons, and of course, today’s apocalypse.
So you’ve got yourself a copy of the fantastic new RPG, 13th Age. You’ve printed out the free PDF you get when you pre-order and you’re raring to go but your players aren’t as enthusiastic. They want to give it a go but maybe not a full session, maybe just a taster, an hour or […]
Calling all agents: This burst transmission contains the classified outline for Double Tap: The Night’s Black Agents Expansion Book. Use this intel at your discretion. Which is to say, read it, share it with your Night’s Black Agents game group — or the people who would be your Night’s Black Agents game group if they […]
Jontheman over at TheRPGSite.com has reviewed the new music for Ashen Stars, All We Have Forgotten, by James Semple, Marie-Anne Fischer and Yaiza Varona. All in all it’s an excellent album with some great music, and it’s suitable not only for Ashen Stars but for any science-fiction game. I can see this music working well […]
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.
Simon joins Ken and Robin before a live Dragonmeet audience, where they proceed to talk digital tools, dino-riding samurai, and crowdfunded exhumations.
We would like to share our Christmas cheer with you in the form of a sleigh-full of Page XX goodies with articles by Kenneth Hite, Robin D Laws, Graham Walmsley and a slew of 13th Age writers.
The GUMSHOE system by Robin D. Laws revolutionized the investigative roleplaying game, and is the basis for RPGs that will appeal to fans of many genres: space opera, spy thriller, Lovecraftian horror and two-fisted pulp adventure — with more to come. Its central premise, though, can be challenging for newcomers to wrap their heads around. What […]