By Robin D. Laws In this, the first in a two-part series, I’ll be looking at ways to inject additional combat options into your Ashen Stars games. Next month’s selections adapt existing combat add-ons first found in the Esoterror Fact Book to throwdowns in the Bleed. This column floats a new rule concept in unplaytested […]
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A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws In my book Hamlet’s Hit Points I present a way of looking at stories called beat analysis. The system, when internalized, sharpens your understanding of narrative technique. As a GM, it allows you to make good choices on the fly. Among the tricks revealed there are […]
We had a huge number of entries for the Your Own Private Apocalypse Competition. This competition was to celebrate the release of Graham Walmsley’s Apocalypse Machine, the second installment of the Cthulhu Apocalypse series. We gave you the chance to end the world your way in 500 words. Prizes: First place wins a limited edition […]
False Dawn is a Trail of Cthulhu campaign setting by Michael Daumen. You can download a PDF for printing here. Genocide is not merely a brutal tool of the concentration camps liberated by the Allied advance. A more insidious form has stalked the territories subjugated by Hitler for a decade. Nazi intellectuals and party officials […]
Pelgrane Press is pleased to announce the release of 8 brand new wallpapers. Following on from the success of Ashen Stars, we have 5 images for you to download, some from the core book (Jerome Huguenin & Chris Huth), one from Dead Rock Seven (Pascal Quidault) and one from the currently in playtest, Terra Nova […]
A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws It’s about time I expanded the boundaries of roleplaying again. (This sentence is a trial project of the Commonwealth Anti-Effacement Alliance. This non-governmental organization assists Canadian game designers and British publishers in their attempts to self-promote themselves with all the zest and vigor the present age demands.) […]
This GenCon was definitely the best I’ve attended in very many respects. First, the con itself was packed, and the atmosphere was very upbeat. I was concerned that the absence of many creator-owned publishers might have affected this, but the residue of their presence (Games on Demand, for example) meant that their good work continues. […]
[Editor’s note: Graham’s final Purist adventure, The Rending Box is out now.] Stealing Cthulhu is my guide to Lovecraftian storytelling for roleplaying games. The central idea is: by stealing, adapting, combining and reusing Lovecraft’s ideas, you can create scenarios that seem new and horrific. In this article, I’ll describe some techniques from the book and […]
TOOTH, TALON & PINION: Excellent Prismatic Spray Double Issue #7/8 The second double-issue of the Excellent Prismatic Spray magazine to be so voluminous as to (in this case literally) claw its way into being a DERPG sourcebook in its own right! Stranger, stay your hand a while… Wonder at the pets of the Dying Earth, […]
Welcome to the Dying Earth RPG’s magnificent, nay superlative, index of publications Here you will find a brief listing of all the products available: each title linked to a full page of information RULE BOOKS Dying Earth RPG (the original rulebook) Turjan’s Tome of Beauty & Horror (advanced rules for Turjanic play) Rhialto’s Book of […]