A striking new cover by Pascal Quidault for the forthcoming Fear Itself supplement, Invasive Procedures.
The latest Page XX is out now, with a distinctive end-of-the-world feel, with all our new releases, a poll, and a competition.
New releases for March 2011, all available in the store. Click individual links in the text, or see all them listed below (click here if you can’t see them). Trail of Cthulhu On Pre-Order, with PDF Now: The Occult Guide for Trail of Cthulhu. Out Now, Cthulhu Apocalypse and Bookhounds of the London for Trail […]
Wedded bliss is only a few relatives away… The Wedding is the brand new setting for Skulduggery, the roleplaying game of verbal fireworks and sudden reversals! You are guests at the wedding of Emma Blunt and Martin Sharpe, held at the moderately-swanky Elysian Country Club. Emma’s father, Gerald Blunt, owns a processed-cheese empire, Martin’s one […]
This month’s See Page XX has a distinct Apocalyptic feel to it. Firstly we have the Apocalypse Competition to celebrate the release of The Dead White World. Next we have an article on the forthcoming stand-alone, post-apocalyptic game Razed by Will Hindmarch. Nathan Russell is the author of The Fallout, a post-apocalyptic, Mad-Max-esque playset for […]
by Kenneth Hite The Cold War? Over. The War on Terror? Over. For you. You used to uncover secrets, or maybe kill to keep them. You used to serve your country in the shadows, doing things – or stopping things – that couldn’t be shown in daylight or on the evening news. Then you stopped. […]
by Will Hindmarch Apocalyptic tales pit us—all of us, as a people—against great and terrible threats. Razed, which is as apocalyptic as it is post-apocalyptic, is about characters living through hellacious times, facing the end of a known world and the imposition of something new, something alien, something frightening and mysterious. It’s about how we […]
by Robin D. Laws It’s not true that there’s one in every group. But when there’s one in your group, it sure feels like there is. I’m talking about That Guy. The overbearing, dysfunctional participant who dominates the room and sucks the fun from the game. He hogs the spotlight. He turns every discussion in […]
by Robin D. Laws In response to a previous installment of this column, mxyzplk writes: My group hasn’t gotten around to playing GUMSHOE yet despite me owning several of the books, but we have played games with somewhat similar mechanics before, and it seems like it runs the risk of either a) hoarding points or […]
by Nathan Russell [Editor’s note: Fiasco is a roleplaying game designed by Jason Morningstar, writer of The Black Drop and the forthcoming Many Fires.] Fiasco is a game about powerful ambition and poor impulse control. It’s designed to help players make their own Coen brothers movie in about the time it would take to watch […]