There are, broadly, two approaches to a campaign book. You can do a book that’s one big adventure: there may be sidetracks and optional encounters and subplots, but there’s a central spine that runs through the whole thing. The Dracula Dossier and Eyes of the Stone Thief use that model; everything revolves around Dracula or […]
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Our big news this month is happening right now on Kickstarter, with Ballad Hunters now crowdfunding. In Tristan Zimmerman’s brilliant game of musical mystery, you play agents from the gritty side of the Regency era investigating a weird phenomenon that brings folk song lyrics to terrifying life. Its design pushes the boundaries of our signature […]
You might think that the horrendous rhythmic buzzing you hear emanating from our humble crag foretells doom, but never fear, it’s only the Great Pelgrane, snoring. The big fella slumbers deeply in his nest, hung over and sated from holiday feasting. Shall we all tell ourselves it was only cheese and crackers he was devouring […]
Pelgrane Press seeks swashbuckling playtesters to strap on their swords and smite some sorcery to playtest Pillars Built on Sand. Written with the trademark verve of acclaimed designer Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, this book of linked scenarios features: A quarantined ship harboring a fatal secret. An avatar of war on a predatory night time hunt. A covert […]