A column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Hillfolk and Blood on the Show present a couple of series pitches that cross the streams with our flagship GUMSHOE games. Chris Lackey’s “The Whateleys” lets you play in Lovecraft territory from the cultists’ point of view. My own “Mutant City: HCIU” flips the police procedural […]
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See P. XX A column on roleplaying by Robin D. Laws Roleplaying offers a pleasure we don’t much mention or, for that matter, particularly think about. When you play with a group, you get to see how each of its members thinks. Here I’m speaking not so much of the content of their thought—about resource […]
by Paul Fanning When Paul sent us this larger-than-life character class he said, “A Fighter can accomplish many great deeds, fighting more fearsome foes and saving villages then regions then the world. But the Fighter is also essentially an action movie hero: more skilled than the average warrior or soldier, a little luckier, with grit […]
by Christopher Allen Christopher describes his vanguard character class as “a warrior-type designed to have more active in-combat choices and resource management than the Fighter — a complex Fighter, if you will — with a dash of healing capability.” What do you think of the vanguard? Join the discussion on the Pelgrane Forums. Vanguard To be a […]
The world has changed. Again. China wasn’t supposed to colonize 15th century North America, right? And yet you find yourself being attacked by eunuch swordsmen in what should be San Francisco. Some time traveler told the Golden Fleet about the Pacific oceanic gyre that would lead them to a rich new land. Someone you’ll have […]
13 Oracles by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan Inspired by the oracles of Vincent Baker’s In A Wicked Age, these 13 Oracles may inspire improvised encounters or even whole adventures in your 13th Age campaign. There’s one Oracle for each icon, and each Oracle has four tables – places, objects, people and circumstances. There’s no right way to […]
If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. The New World System: The New World Author: Bill White Duration: 3-4 sessions Deadline: 31st December Description: The New World is a story-telling game about cultures in collision, and about the […]
We hope those of you already celebrating the holiday season are having a good time; here in dreary old London, the time for cheery mince pies and mulled wine seems horribly remote, despite the best effort of the shops. Luckily, the latest See Page XX is here to bring some Bollywood cheer to your November, […]
Kazekami has created some Escalation Die templates, which, when used with a 8.5 cm × 8.5 cm (3.5 inch × 3.5 inch) photo cube like this one (UK) or this one (US) create the lovely dice you can see in the images on the left. You can find the PDF files to make your […]
There’s been quite a lot of fantastic new downloadables posted on the Night’s Black Agents Downloads page, too. In case you missed our earlier post about this, Pedro Ziviani’s spent some time planning for his Zalozhniy Quartet campaign, and has put together some great resources for it, including: Flowchart of scenes and events from The […]