by Robin D. Laws In response to a previous installment of this column, mxyzplk writes: My group hasn’t gotten around to playing GUMSHOE yet despite me owning several of the books, but we have played games with somewhat similar mechanics before, and it seems like it runs the risk of either a) hoarding points or […]
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We have three new playtesting opportunities available at the moment. If you’re interested in playtesting any of these please email me with the name of the game in the subject field (e.g. Love of Money Playtest), stating whether or not you’ve playtested for Pelgrane before. The deadline for these playtests is the end of March. […]
At Dragonmeet we ran a seminar on investigative gaming featuring (from left to right) Gareth Hanrahan, Robin Laws, Ken Hite, and yours truly . Please forgive the initial plugging of forthcoming Pelgrane Press products at the beginning – the bulk of the seminar concentrates on investigative gaming and the touchy subject of railroading. This lead […]
Three Fourteen Games will be producing adventure materials and supplements in both English and Spanish for Fear Itself and Esoterrorists. Their first release will be called The Last Guest (detailed below). The Last Guest He got some painful souvenirs from his time in the war in Iraq. He was too close when a grenade exploded. […]
What non-adventure supplements would you like to see for GUMSHOE (other than Trail)? Edit: Those are some great core setting suggestions, but I’m after either current-setting-specific suggestions, or else general GUMSHOE supplements.
This is too cool not to show.
A review of Esoterrorists: … the game does deliver on its promise. You could easily explain the rules to someone in 15 minutes enough so that they could play. You can also learn them enough to run the game in about an hour. There are some spots you’d still need the book (for tables and […]
The music of Eternal Lies is split into three categories: ambient music to play during most of the game, short stings to be played at specific instants and ‘action loops’ to be played during combats, chases and other stressful scenes. These action loops are each 2 minutes long and generally of a frantic disposition to help […]
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 […]
Another sneak peak at an Ashen Stars species, bought to life by Jerome. The Tavak At an average seven feet in height and topping the scales at close to half a ton, you are a tavak, the most physically robust of the seven peoples. Descended from armadillo-like creatures of your homeworld, Tav, you are covered […]