A great and thorough review of Trail of Cthulhu from A Game of Whit’s. You can read the full review here. Trail of Cthulhu overall provides a very complete gaming system that has a well thought-out structure and encourages investigative play by closely following the spirit of the genre. It may be a bit revolutionary […]
Pookie has posted a review of Jason Morningstar’s Many Fires on Reviews from R’lyeh. You can read the full review here. Many Fires is strong in terms of its atmosphere, the eerie aridity of northern Mexico enhanced with oddity of the encounters… Many Fires fairly sizzles along before breaking out into a roaring inferno.
Andrew Brehaut has posted a review of Graham Walmsley’s The Dying of St Margaret’s on his site, A Lazy Sequence. You can read the full review here. The Dying of St. Margaret’s is an excellent adventure and I hope to get an opportunity to run some of the other purist scenarios in future. This may […]
The first round of playtesting for 13th Age is now closed. The next round will open in April. Stay tuned! 13th Age System: New Written by: Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinsoo Deadline: Preliminary feedback 30th April. Full feedback 30th May. What it’s about: 13th Age is a love letter to D&D: a rules-light, story-oriented RPG […]
The March issue of See Page XX is out now to commemorate the 75th anniversary of HP Lovecraft’s death. To celebrate this we have asked some Lovecraftian luminaries to tell us about how HPL has influenced their life. Robin D Laws talks about ratings and pools, there are some exciting new playtesting opportunities and most […]
Welcome to the March issue of See Page XX. This is a special issue to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the death of HP Lovecraft. To celebrate this we have a SALE on four of our best but as yet under-appreciated products and a brand new Bundle for Trail of Cthulhu Keepers. HPL has influenced […]
The first round of playtesting for 13th Age is now closed. The next round will open in April. Stay tuned! Please email me if you if you are interested in the New World playtest. 13th Age System: New Written by: Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinsoo Deadline: Preliminary feedback 30th April. Full feedback 30th May. […]
by Robin D Laws The GUMSHOE rules break with roleplaying tradition in several notable ways. Most obviously, its information gathering skills, here called investigative abilities, default toward automatic success, with a point-spend mechanism to allow for extraordinary successes and additional benefits. Also, its general abilities—those governing activities where failure is as likely to lead […]
By Simon Rogers I’m a small publisher. I’ve been publishing roleplaying games for ten years usually in the traditional model – that is I pay people to write and draw stuff, and it’s usually work for hire. So, I’ll pay a word rate based on the writer’s experience and the amount of work we need […]