Michael Wolf over at Stargazer’s World has written a detailed and balanced review of Kenneth Hite’s newest GUMSHOE offering, Night’s Black Agents. You can read the full review here. It’s very well written, basically allows you to run or play in every spy thriller subgenre with vampires or not, and it adds a lot to […]
Kafka over at RPGNet has given an in-depth, 9/10 review of Out of Space. There is a slight error in the review when he says we have included nothing extra in the book, when in fact there is an extra 10% (8,000 words) but this is acknowledged in the thread below the review. You can […]
The Naperville Freaks, Geeks and Weirdos meetup group hosted a One-Shot RPG gathering at Fair Game in Downers Grove, IL. Ben Roby ran a modified version of the Blood & Lightning adventure from 13th Age and sent us the following play report. Ben and his co-GM Sarah are running 13th Age again in March. Register for […]
Rob Heinsoo recently flew down from the skies on a fire-breathing dragon, igniting several thatched-roof cottages before soaring off. The scorch marks he left behind spelled out this update on 13 True Ways: There are three Alchemist-tier 13 True Ways Kickstarter backers who gave us magic items to illustrate. The first item is the Feathered […]
A shorter than usual Page XX this month – Robin D Laws talks about the significance of verbal changes, Kenneth Hite talks about monster wrangling in the 13th Age Bestiary, Wade Rockett gives tips on teleportation spells in 13th Age, and James “Baron Munchausen” Wallis talks about the Kickstarter for Alas Vegas. As well as […]
by James Wallis Alas Vegas, the first new RPG by James ‘Baron Munchausen’ Wallis in fifteen years, is running a Kickstarter campaign that ends on 28th February. Aiming to raise £3000 to cover the game’s art, the pledge drive has so far had more than £12,000 pledged, and unlocked stretch goals by game authors including […]
By Robin D. Laws A while back I foisted on an innocent social media landscape the following roleplaying koan, written to meet Twitter’s telegraphic character count: If your RPG sentence has the verb “should” and a subject of “players”, “GM”, or “group”, change verb to “can.” This occasioned a surprising amount of debate, due largely […]
My name’s Cat Tobin, and I’m going to be taking over from Beth when she leaves in (sob!) a few weeks. I first started roleplaying a long time ago in a country far, far away (well, Ireland – where I’m from) and I’ve helped out in a variety of different ways in gaming groups, events […]
by Beth Lewis If the last 3 years at Pelgrane have taught me anything, it’s the difference between satsumas and any other small citrus fruits. This is an important lesson, not only has it taught me precision in labelling which I’ve applied to my day-to-day work, but it has also given me greater appreciation and […]
A shorter than usual Page XX this month as it’s a shorter than usual month, but what we’re lacking in length we’re making up for in quality. In this edition, Robin D Laws talks about how significant a difference to your game writing a simple verbal change can be in Can vs Should, and Kenneth […]