Since the last issue in July, we’ve had our most successful GenCon ever, released two new products, gained an employee won an ENnie award and announced a fiction imprint. A New Employee The big news for Pelgrane Press is that we’ve taken on an employee – Beth Lewis. It certainly wasn’t my intention to employ […]
In this special Halloween issue of Page XX, Mystic Moo investigates a haunting, Robin D Laws offers a useful GUMSHOE technique from Ashen Stars and there’s a treasure-trove of information for Book-Hounds of London by a real book-hound, Mark Drew. Finally, Ian Thomson teases you for the re-release of The Dying Earth with some magical […]
By Robin D Laws Each time we create a GUMSHOE rules set for a fresh setting and genre, we discover specific needs for new rules structures. Will Hindmarch’s post-apocalyptic Razed will include new rules treating scavenging as a form of information gathering. Kenneth Hite’s Bookhounds of London, an imminent sourcepack for Trail of Cthulhu, includes […]
By Mike Drew In a game as focused on books as The Bookhounds of London, it is worth taking some time to consider what makes up a book and how to describe them effectively. Book Sizes Start with a large sheet of paper and fold it once vertically. You now have two leaves and four pages, […]
By Mike Drew In a lot of roleplaying games a character’s profession can become just an excuse on which to hang a skill-set, or become replaced by the generic aspect of ‘adventurer’ or ‘investigator’. Whatever 9-5 they were originally doing becomes replaced by saving the world. Bookhounds should be a little different. The character’s jobs […]
Hello Non-Bovines, I’ve been out of touch with my two-legged followers for too long I know, but we’ve been busy. Hamish’s online shortbread business has taken off and we’ve been knee-deep in caster sugar since April, trying to pre-empt the Christmas rush. Then the other week a letter dropped into my hayrack. Here’s what it […]
It’s no longer quiet on the Western Front. An ancient horror is stirring and something dark walks the halls of Hospital Number Five. Bullet-ridden, bruised and bloody, the Investigators, soldiers and nurses in the Great War, are brought from the fontline to Military Hospital Number Five. Haggard staff make their rounds, the doctors experiment after […]
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Here is a proposal for the cover of Cthulhu Apocalypse. Please do let us know what you think. (Edited to add: Thank you for all your feedback on this. We aimed for a cosy British apocalypse with this picture, which we got, but it’s clear we need to have a rethink. Your comments have been […]
Pookie over at Reviews from R’lyeh has re-reviewed the extended edition of Arkham Detective Tales which is due for release in November. You can read the full review here. Ultimately, what “The King’s Men” does is nicely round out the quartet in Arkham Detective Tales and make it a quintet. In doing so, it draws […]