Roses are red Violets are blue The Great Pelgrane is hungry And so are you …for tidings of the newly bustling Pelgrane production line. While the Great Pelgrane flaps lazily over unsuspecting cities and towns looking for chocolates to snatch from the grasp of unsuspecting Valentine’s celebrants, we can once again rifle his nest for […]
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A Trail of Cthulhu Scenario Hook Some pharaohs lived in easier times than others. In turbulent eras, when war sapped the economy and royal coffers emptied, indignities might strike your earthly husk even after death. Though your nine-sectioned soul had made its way to the Western Lands, your mummy wasn’t safe from interference. Never mind […]
a column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws As teased in a previous View from the Pelgrane’s Nest, for the Pelgrane gang’s annual game on Dragonmeet Eve, I ran “Ragnarok at the OK Corral.” While creating this DramaSystem pitch for THE KRAKEN back in the spring of ‘25, I noticed, uh, certain elements that would […]
Thanks to the existence of Paul StJohn Mackintosh’s Casting the Runes, I don’t have to answer the question of how to do M. R. James in GUMSHOE. Still, as the holiday season rolls nearer, reminding me of the Jamesian tradition of ghost stories told in the yule log’s glow, I can’t help but hear a […]
A chill pervades the air here in Toronto, but our production pipeline is hot, hot, hot with fresh developments. Projects moving closer to you this month come swinging swords, waggling tentacles, or creeping their way through cozy parlors on sturdy, fur-topped feet. In our biggest bit of news, 13th Age 2nd Edition print copies are […]
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 […]
As a company that makes horror games, Pelgrane looks forward to the Halloweeny month of October. From tentacled gods of cosmic indifference to cognitively dissonant demons to pallid-faced Carcosan aristocracy, we celebrate many terrors. One fear I don’t care to truck with, however, is a frozen production schedule. Let’s head down into the basement […]
A Yellow King: Paris Scenario Spine On March 23rd, 1895, the group’s Muse or Belle-Lettrist brings the rest of the art students to the Cafe de la Paix on the Boulevard des Capucines, near the Opera Garnier in the 2nd arrondissement. They arrive during the cafe’s sleepy midday hours to meet a distressed, humbly garbed […]
It feels like a mere month since I last peered out from the nest to let you know what’s up with Pelgrane Press. That’s because it was a month. Among our efforts to ramp up our activities with my coming on board as Creative Director, we’re endeavoring to return to regular publication for this very […]
A column about roleplaying By Robin D. Laws After a four decade restoration project, a book shrine found in a lake has gone on display at the National Museum of Ireland. Only seven others of its kind survive. Known as cumdachs, these elaborately decorated cases of metal-shod wood were fashioned to contain precious devotional […]