Halflings and Dwarves and Pooka, Oh My

by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan In Merryshire, you’ve got a choice of four Kin to pick from – halflings, dwarves, pooka, and boggarts. Players need ways to distinguish their characters from each other. There’s probably another game out there in the Halflings Solving Mysteries And Farting Around Possibility Space that doesn’t include anything but halflings. (I know […]

Design by Subtraction

Every so often someone gets in touch with me to ask for an easily cited reference to a concept Ken or I at one time or another floated on the podcast. Even more occasionally I remember to create such a reference here so I’ll have something to point to. Please join us for another thrilling […]

Five Friends and a Goose: Our Merryshire Detective Club Playtest Characters

By Kevin Kulp I’ve now run fourteen Merryshire Detective Club mysteries (using three scenarios and a whole lot of playtesters) in preparation for writing several mysteries in The Dreadful Hare, MSDC’s accompanying book of adventures by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, with additional scenarios by Robin D. Laws and myself. I can’t yet show the actual character sheets […]

View from the Pelgrane’s Nest – Send in the Scones Edition

With July comes the sultry summer heat that leads the Great Pelgrane to fly away to bask on one of his favorite rocks. Though distressing to the villagers dwelling below that lofty perch, it gives me the opportunity to creep into the nest to review the progress of various projects here at Pelgrane Press. This […]

The Giffard Auction

by Adam Gauntlett A Trail of Cthulhu scenario set provisionally in Lovecraft Country, in which the investigators are hired as protection for an auction bid. Some of the action in this seed uses material from Chaosium’s Arkham Unveiled, specifically the legend of witch Goody Fowler on Hangman’s Hill. The Keeper should feel free to amend […]

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