Pelgrane Press seeks playtesters to run and provide feedback on a one-shot scenario for the upcoming Fear Itself anthology Sudden Frights. In Tristan Zimmerman’s “Dead Man Walking,” detectives are investigating an out-of-place murder in a dying western town are drawn into the occult, the monstrous, and the horrific in a noir police procedural. Run for […]
By Jason Kraus Historically significant personalities, events, and locations in bold. Japanese names are written in the Western convention. PremiseTwo Delta Green-connected ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) officers went missing in Tokyo while investigating heroin smuggling out of Vietnam with possible supernatural ties. The agents, tasked with finding them, uncover a tangled web of yakuza, […]
By Steven Hammond, Northland Creative Wonders A New Digital Tool for Pelgrane Games There has been an explosion in Virtual Table Tops in recent years. These applications provide numerous features to help people play online. I’ve played with friends who tried using a VTT for in-person play, and I was always left frustrated with the […]
by Adam Gauntlett … for the purpose of this resolution, ‘dark fleet’ or ‘shadow fleet’ means ships that are engaged in illegal operations for the purposes of circumventing sanctions, evading compliance with safety or environmental regulations, avoiding insurance costs or engaging in other illegal activities … Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’: Bringing the threat to light: […]
In the latest episode of their haunting podcast, Ken and Robin talk peace deals in rpgs, Cosmere rpg project lead Lyla Fujiwara, late 80s fantasy films, and Cambridge ghosts and weirdness.
“Had his work … been the start of his imaginative flights, or was the tendency innate, so that his choice of occupation was merely one of its manifestations? At any rate, the man’s work was very closely linked with his notions.” —“The Horror in the Museum” In our previous column (“Trail of Cthulhu Today”), […]
In the latest episode of their high-speed podcast, Ken and Robin talk Formula One roleplaying, whether Elizabeth Bathory was framed, RVIFF streaming movie highlights, and a feud over fossils.
If you’re curious to see Page Turners, the upcoming game of dramatic interaction for one player and one GM, in action, Guy and Jag of Unconventional GMs are here for you. In this video they tackle “The Beacon,” my F. Scott Fitzgerald pastiche. Of the many scenarios offered in the book, I steered Guy toward […]
“The more Zamacona studied these things, the more apprehensive about the future he became; because he saw that the omnipresent moral and intellectual disintegration was a tremendously deep-seated and ominously accelerating movement.” —“The Mound” Outside his early Dunsanian works, and the anomalous “The Tree,” Lovecraft sets his stories in his own time, his own […]