More reviews from Lowell Francis over at RPGGeek, this time of the Dying Earth RPG and the Kaiin Player’s Guide. Dying Earth RPG review – Physically this is a gorgeous product. Beautifully laid out, with plenty of narrative text, quotations, examples and digressions on the nature of this system. It certainly manages to convey the […]
It’s in Swedish. Here is a direct link, and here is Google’s plausible translation. In short, the whole book a real pleasure to read. It combines in a really fun way the spirit of the classic horror films with Lovecraft’s Mythos, and raises the result to something new and exciting. All of the adventures may […]
Pelgrane books have been nominated for the Golden Geek awards. These awards are given out annually at BGG Con, and this year for the first time roleplaying games have been included. Armitage Files has been nominated both for Best Artwork and Presentation, and for Best RPG Supplement, and Shadows Over Filmland for Best RPG Supplement. […]
A review of Esoterrorists: … the game does deliver on its promise. You could easily explain the rules to someone in 15 minutes enough so that they could play. You can also learn them enough to run the game in about an hour. There are some spots you’d still need the book (for tables and […]
Over on my main blog I’ve talked a lot about the importance of having a clear 25-word-or-less pitch statement to explain a new game you’re selling at a booth. Obviously, it helps you to get a few more copies into people’s hands. However, designers, in particular, should have that pitch in mind as they create […]
The music of Eternal Lies is split into three categories: ambient music to play during most of the game, short stings to be played at specific instants and ‘action loops’ to be played during combats, chases and other stressful scenes. These action loops are each 2 minutes long and generally of a frantic disposition to help […]
No, we haven’t been taken over by spammers: Battlefield Bangkok, the premier Thai roleplaying game store will be creating a Thai language version of the The Esoterrorists. I’m rather excited by this – it’s a completely unknown market to us. Anyway, here is what they have to say: หลังจาก การปรึกษาหารือและค้นคว้ามาพอสมควรแล้ว ในที่สุด Battlefield Bangkok ก็ค้นพบเกม และสำนักพิมพ์ที่จะอณุญาติให้เราแปลและจัดพิมพ์หนังสือ […]
Here we have a very thorough and in-depth review of Trail of Cthulhu and the GUMSHOE system from Paco G Jaen of G*M*S Magazine. Jaen talks very positively of Trail and how it fits in with Lovecraftian themes, as well as how the GUMSHOE system deals with the investigative aspects of the Mythos. “The Gumshoe […]
We are converting Esoterrorists into epub and mobi format for use with ebook readers. If it proves popular, we’ll release all our books in this format. Please help us out by letting us know which ebook reader you use. By the end of the year, what ebook reader are you likely to be using? I […]