A chill pervades the air here in Toronto, but our production pipeline is hot, hot, hot with fresh developments. Projects moving closer to you this month come swinging swords, waggling tentacles, or creeping their way through cozy parlors on sturdy, fur-topped feet. In our biggest bit of news, 13th Age 2nd Edition print copies are […]
Pelgrane Press seeks playtesters to run and provide feedback on a one-shot scenario for the upcoming Fear Itself anthology Sudden Frights. In Tristan Zimmerman’s “Dead Man Walking,” detectives are investigating an out-of-place murder in a dying western town are drawn into the occult, the monstrous, and the horrific in a noir police procedural. Run for […]
By Jason Kraus Historically significant personalities, events, and locations in bold. Japanese names are written in the Western convention. PremiseTwo Delta Green-connected ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) officers went missing in Tokyo while investigating heroin smuggling out of Vietnam with possible supernatural ties. The agents, tasked with finding them, uncover a tangled web of yakuza, […]
by Adam Gauntlett … for the purpose of this resolution, ‘dark fleet’ or ‘shadow fleet’ means ships that are engaged in illegal operations for the purposes of circumventing sanctions, evading compliance with safety or environmental regulations, avoiding insurance costs or engaging in other illegal activities … Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’: Bringing the threat to light: […]
In the latest episode of their haunting podcast, Ken and Robin talk peace deals in rpgs, Cosmere rpg project lead Lyla Fujiwara, late 80s fantasy films, and Cambridge ghosts and weirdness.
In the latest episode of their high-speed podcast, Ken and Robin talk Formula One roleplaying, whether Elizabeth Bathory was framed, RVIFF streaming movie highlights, and a feud over fossils.
If you’re curious to see Page Turners, the upcoming game of dramatic interaction for one player and one GM, in action, Guy and Jag of Unconventional GMs are here for you. In this video they tackle “The Beacon,” my F. Scott Fitzgerald pastiche. Of the many scenarios offered in the book, I steered Guy toward […]
As a company that makes horror games, Pelgrane looks forward to the Halloweeny month of October. From tentacled gods of cosmic indifference to cognitively dissonant demons to pallid-faced Carcosan aristocracy, we celebrate many terrors. One fear I don’t care to truck with, however, is a frozen production schedule. Let’s head down into the basement […]
by Guy Milner A few weeks ago, I got to take the upcoming one-on-one DramaSystem game from Robin Laws, Page Turners, out for a spin. It’s a tight, intense system that, for me, stiffens up some of the looser improv-heavy stuff in Hillfolk, and really delivers a satisfying one-shot experience. But don’t just believe me […]