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, […]
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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 […]
by Robin D. Laws The Armitage Files, my recent, Silver-Ennie winning, campaign sourcebook for Trail of Cthulhu, has been hailed for an innovative approach—one I will now encourage you to steal. If you’ve yet to check it out, Armitage presents a new take on the epic Cthulhu campaign. It provides building blocks for a player-driven, […]
by Steve Dempsey You enjoy the investigative genre, you dig the GUMSHOE system, you’ve got Cthulhuesque horrors all lined up for Trail of Cthulhu, Super Criminals bursting out all over in Mutant City Blues or a Jungian monster from the Id for Fear Itself. There’s just one thing that’s bugging you. You don’t want to […]
Here at Pelgrane we’ve increased our production over the past four months so we have a lot of new projects that need playtesting in exchange for our eternal gratitude and a credit in the relevant book/PDF. If you’re interested in helping us out with the playtests, please email me stating the name of the playtest […]
By Anna Kreider [Ed: Anna took this post as the genesis of her Go Make Me A Sandwich blog, which you can fund here.] The Inspiration: Simon’s request and a 2007 LiveJournal Article At GenCon this year, I was asked by Simon Rogers to write an article about sexism in gaming for a new issue […]
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 […]
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 […]
Editor: This is the foreword, written by Steve Dempsey, to Augustus Darcy’s Guide to Occult London – the companion book to Book-Hounds of London. The Guide is written by Paula Dempsey. The image is by Jérome H, from the forthcoming Book-Hounds of London. Augustus Darcy is dead. This news will come as a shock to […]