Wherein we look at the administrative stuff that’s been happening in Pelgrane Press over the last month. Please send any questions or comments to us at support@pelgranepress.com. Bookshelf Kickstarter PDFs It’s been a month or two now since we launched the new bookshelf, which is where you’ll now find all your PDF download links from your orders. (You […]
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The revised edition of Fear Itself offers a toolkit approach to building campaigns. Let’s use that toolkit to build that hoary staple of the horror roleplaying genre – a zombie apocalypse. One-shot zombie games tend to be extended exercises of combat-and-running (brainless, or braaaaiiins-full fun, so to speak), so let’s tackle the more interesting question […]
We get a number of emails every month from conventions looking for GMs to run Pelgrane games, particularly 13th Age, Trail of Cthulhu and Night’s Black Agents. If you’re interested in running a Pelgrane Press game at one of the conventions below, please email me with the following details: Convention name Your name Number of 2-hour […]
Most roleplaying games have some sort of diminishing resource that limits the player character’s ability to keep going. The commonest example are hit points and similar measures of health – if you’re running low on hit points, you need to stop and heal up. F20 games like 13th Age also treat some of your characters’ […]
March is here, and with it comes spring (hooray!), an occasional glimpse of sunshine, and a host of Pelgranista birthdays, with Gareth, Cat, and Rob Heinsoo all celebrating another spin around the sun this month (congrats!). This month, we’re releasing the Night’s Black Agents PDF adventure The Dubai Reckoning (which includes the EPUB and MOBI). The third installment of the 13th Age Monthly […]
by Victor J Raymond PhD [Editors’ Note: Victor Raymond acted as a cultural consultant on Trembling Giant, an adventure for Out of the Woods, our forthcoming collection for Trail of Cthulhu. Victor J. Raymond, PhD, is a sociologist, writer and longtime gamer. A founding member and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Carl […]
Many years ago – the fabled year of 2003, or so – I wrote a largely forgotten book called OGL Horror for Mongoose Publishing. It was designed to be a toolkit for running modern-day horror games, using (somewhat awkwardly) the d20 system. As it was based on the Open Gaming Licence, Pelgrane was able to […]
Page XX A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws “Okay, so now that the monks are locked inside the tower, I set fire to it. That’ll teach them to look down their noses at me! Burn, monks, burn!” “As soon as it’s my turn to guard the prisoner, when I’m sure the others are […]
If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. The Other Ocean or Paradigm Beta System: Ashen Stars Author: Jakob Schmidt Deadline: 30th April Number of sessions: 1 Description: Contact with the water-dwelling inhabitants of the ocean moon Abzu, and a research station […]
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