Regular readers may notice something different around here – specifically, over there ——->
Yes, it’s an ENnies winner sticker! After many years of nominations, See Page XX has finally been recognised by the ENcademy as a good website. Huzzah! Of course, this was slightly lost in the flood of Pelgrane- and Pelgrane-adjacent wins at the 2016 ENnies – in case you missed it, Simon has more on this in his article, below.
This month sees a bumper double issue of See Page XX, crammed full of articles and the usual post-Gen Con flood of new releases, like the first new GUMSHOE corebook of our tenth anniversary year, Fear Itself 2nd Edition, and The Esoterrorists globe-spanning Worldbreaker campaign. For one month only (or while stocks last), we’ve also got some of the metal 13th Age Icon Tokens from our friends at Campaign Coins. The newly-released Dracula Dossier Thriller bundle gets an outing in PDF, and there are two editions of 13th Age Monthly available now – July’s Shades of Fey, and August’s Alarums & Incursions: Downtime for Six Icons.
New Releases
- 13th Age Icon Tokens – A set of gorgeous metal tokens for the 13th Age icons, created by Campaign Coins
- Fear Itself 2nd Edition – The newest (re)addition to the GUMSHOE core book stable, featuring the most up-to-date GUMSHOE GM advice for running horror one-shots, miniseries and campaigns
- The Dracula Dossier: Thriller bundle PDF – This collection for the Dracula Dossier features The Edom Field Manual, The Edom Files, and The Thrill of Dracula in PDF format (also available separately)
- Worldbreaker – An appalling summoning, demons of the depths, slaughter on your mapping app, ebola, and of course, murder clowns feature in this globe-spanning campaign for The Esoterrorists
- Shades of Fey – Ten intriguing alternatives with consequences for story and mechanics, similar to what was done for devils in 13 True Ways is July’s 13th Age Monthly edition by Steven Warzeha.
- Alarums & Incursions: Downtime for Six Icons – Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s fun random tables, to generate mini-stories for player characters between adventures, is the latest edition of 13th Age Monthly.
Articles
- View from the Pelgrane’s Nest – Simon Rogers on what’s new in the Nest
- See P XX: Recreational Drugs in Ashen Stars – Robin D. Laws turns on and tunes into recroviros in the Ashen Stars RPG
- Call of Chicago: One Shot At Dracula, Twice – Kenneth Hite on his second One Shot Dracula Dossier game – and what The Belgrade Betrayal is about
- The Eyes of Rudolf Esper – An opening scene for Trail of Cthulhu by Robin D. Laws
- Gen Con 2016 Report – Simon Rogers on his 2016 Gen Con experience
- The Plain People of Gaming: No Screw-Ups – Gareth Ryder-Hanrhan on how he corrected some scenario misreadings during GMing, without the players realising
- She Sees the Membrane – A scenario hook for The Esoterrorists, by Robin D. Laws
- Conventions Seeking GMs – A monthly post where we flag up conventions looking for Pelgrane GMs
- Invasive Insects of the Gaean Reach – Robin D. Laws on why one should never travel through the Gaean Reach with a forensic entomologist (unless the Thorax Cacophony priestesses are match-fixing)
- Call of Chicago: Task Force Alpha – Kenneth Hite on Southeast Asia’s largest air-conditioned building of the 1960s, and other miracles of that age
- ENnie Awards 2016, Battling Vampires and Eleven out of Ten – Simon Rogers crunches some ENnies data
- Those Two Pesky Cards (A Variant Hillfolk Procedural Rule) – Robin D. Laws looks at an alternative rule to tips the odds just that bit closer to ever in your favour
- August playtesting – Playtest one of three GUMSHOE One-2-One adventures for Dex Raymond, by Robin Laws
13th Age
- 13th Sage: Rolling for Complications – Rob Heinsoo experiments with a twist on the icon relationship rules in his Dragon Empire 13th Age campaign
- 13th Age Organized Play Update: July/August 2016 – Wade Rockett keeps you current with the 13th Age Alliance
- Make Your Own Luck on Roll20 – Wade Rockett on the 13th Age launch on Roll20, with the Make Your Own Luck adventure.
- 13th Age: Race to Starport – ICYMI, Wade Rockett introduces the ENnie-award-winning Organized Play adventure, Race to Starport
- Welcome to Nocturne – Darren W. Pearce introduces us to the land of Sombria, in the 13th Age–compatible setting of Nocturne
See Page XX Poll

Father Brown
Rebus!
Eva Thornblad
Arsène Lupin
Many great ideas above, but how about:
-Winnetou
-Sandan Glockta
Another vote for Glockta!
Harry Paget Flashman VC.
You’re killing me. I want more than one choice.
Here’s my list, descending: Poirot, Vimes, Ms Marple, Holmes, Lockhart
All of them! And Thomas Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, because you never know whether the ghost is real or not.
Though I answered Smiley, it occurs to me that Father Cadfael would also be cool.
(Oops, Brother Cadfael)
Veronica Mars (or Jessica Jones).
Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin. I would guess Archie is the PC and Nero is a resource.
Jackson Elias!
Voted Sarah Lund but will settle for Kurt Wallender as well.
Veronica Mars
Sean from Psych
Jack Reacher
Miss Lemon!
Inspector Shen
Columbo. The correct choice is Columbo, right?
Mark
DCI John Luther
Pryne Fisher (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries)
Carnacki or Silver John… although I prefer original characters and not pre-mades of any type.