Since the last issue in July, we’ve had our most successful GenCon ever, released two new products, gained an employee won an ENnie award and announced a fiction imprint. A New Employee The big news for Pelgrane Press is that we’ve taken on an employee – Beth Lewis. It certainly wasn’t my intention to employ […]
Search Results for: how to play gumshoe
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 Mike Drew In a game as focused on books as The Bookhounds of London, it is worth taking some time to consider what makes up a book and how to describe them effectively. Book Sizes Start with a large sheet of paper and fold it once vertically. You now have two leaves and four pages, […]
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 […]
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 two 5-Star reviews of Mutant City Blues from RPGNow. “I loved the way that this linked in with the esoterrorist system. The quade diagram and the ability to create great drama with the system WITHOUT depending on the players getting the clues…..just asking the right questions. When I set it in Detroit […]
RetroPunk, our Portuguese translators, interviewed Trail of Cthulhu author Kenneth Hite and allowed us to publish the untranslated version here. How long have you been into RPGs? I’ve been playing (and mostly GMing) RPGs since 1979; I got into it with Basic Set D&D and then right into AD&D; from there, it was an explosion […]
Author: José Muñoz Espadero, Illustrator: Alex ‘Koña’ García The mere existence of bloodthirsty creatures and the risk of facing them is one of the leitmotivs of The Esoterrorists and many other terror and investigative games. Realizing the existence of such vile creatures, full of claws, jaws or prehensile appendages and their blind and intrinsic hate […]
It’s been a year since the last Page XX, and there is still work to be done updating the archive into the new format and adding useful tags. I’m pleased with the new look and all the functinality of WordPress, a distinct improvement from the original Dying Earth website, and my humble follow up to […]
RetroPunk, our Portuguese translators, interviewed game designer and Pelgrane Press stalwart Robin D Laws and allowed us to publish the untranslated version here. How long have you been into RPGs? I started playing with blue box Dungeons and Dragons in 1979. Do you have a regular game group? What are you playing right now? A […]