In big news this month, our Production Assistant Alex Roberts is leaving Pelgrane to focus on applying to grad school, as well as the sundry other plates she magnificently keeps spinning. It’s been wonderful having her around, and we’ll miss her! We’re currently recruiting for an Administrative Assistant to replace her, and we’ve had a fantastic response, with more than 50 applications so far. Applications are open until October 11th, and all the details are here.
In other big news, Steven Hammond from Northland Creative is taking on the task of revamping our Black Book character generator. We use this a lot for our convention adventure and one-shot PCs, and we’re very excited about the improvements he’s got planned. But first, he needs your help to understand how you use our character sheets – check out his article for more details, and the chance to win a $15 voucher for our webstore.
With all the excitement, our production line has slowed down slightly. Fire and Faith, the final volume in the Battle Scenes series, is out on pre-order this month; pre-order it with the accompanying Map Folio as a bundle, and we’ll add the text file to your bookshelves on Wednesday, October 4th. The latest PDF for Cthulhu Confidential, the Langston Wright adventure One For the Money, is also available now, with the final PDF also being available on your bookshelves on Wednesday.
New Releases
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- Fire and Faith – Battle Scenes for Four Icons pre-order- The final volume in the Battle Scenes series features battles themed for the Crusader, Priestess, Great Gold Wyrm, and Diabolist
- Fire and Faith – Battle Scenes for Four Icons Map Folio pre-order – Featuring 36 maps from Fire and Faith – Battle Scenes for Four Icons, in glorious full color by expert cartographers
- One For the Money – A Langston Wright PDF adventure for GUMSHOE One-2-One
- The Valkyrie Gambit PDF – A collection of three adventures for the TimeWatch RPG
- The TimeWatch GM Screen and Resource Guide PDF – Featuring art by Rich Longmore and Lee Moyer, and a 40-page resource book filled with advice and time seeds.
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Articles
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- View from the Pelgrane’s Nest – Simon Rogers on what’s new in the Nest
- Pelgrane Press Seeks Administrative Assistant – We’re recruiting for a new person to join the Pelgrane Press team.
- Call of Chicago: The Ravensrodd Horror – Kenneth Hite with Ravensrodd adventure seeds for Trail of Cthulhu and Night’s Black Agents
- See Page XX: Occultists of the Belle Epoque – Robin D. Laws with a sneak preview of one of The Yellow King RPG‘s Kickstarter stretch goals
- Designing a New GUMSHOE Online Character Generation Tool, and How You Can Help – Steven Hammond on the Black Book character generator, with a character submission competition
- The Sinful Elect – Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan cut this Damned Conspiracy from the upcoming Night’s Black Agents One-2-One book
- Surprise Outcomes in DramaSystem – Robin D. Laws with a new rule for when a scene caller wants to be surprised by an external event’s outcome
- September playtesting – Playtest drone, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s collaborative cyberpunk dystopian psychodrama.
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13th Age
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- 13th Sage: Return of the Nigh-Dead Lancer – Rob Heinsoo stats up some of Rich Longmore’s 13th Age Bestiary art the way it deserves
- 5e or 13th Age: Which Is Right For Your Group? – Wade Rockett collects wisdom from across the internet about how the two games compare
- 13th Age Character Builds. In this series by ASH LAW, we feature two different builds for every 13th Age character class, at all levels. ASH suggests how the builds might be used, and offers tips on playing each character. Stats are based on the point-buy method, and the characters have no non-standard elements.
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See Page XX Poll
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In the last few years: L5R, Nobilis 2E. Hoping to get Blades in the Dark or old WoD:Changeling to the table in the next few months.
Ha, and of course 13th Age.
Other systems: (new) World of Darkness, Abberant, FFG Star Wars,
Also FFG Star Wars.
Well, the poll does not allow multiple answers, so…
Apocalypse World games and their relatives.
Currently enjoying Blades in the Dark.
Story games a few times a year at cons such at Dexcon etc.
Thanks! We’ve updated the poll to allow multiple answers.
I play Mutant: Year Zero system.
On a regular basis, Savage Worlds and D&D 5e; on an occasional basis, FATE; every once in a while, various homebrew systems I or another player in my group puts together.
Your poll suggests that you may want more than one answer but only allows one.
Recently played: FFG Star Wars, Apocalypse World, praxis, Blades in the Dark
Currently playing: Urban Shadows, 7th Sea, Mouse Guard
Gearing up to play: some flavor of F20, Golden Sky Stories, Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine
Thanks for noticing – the poll has been updated to allow multiple answers.
Tales from the Loop, 13th Age, Cthulhu Dark, Intrepid, Drone, Star Wars, I’m sure there have been others this year.
I also play Feng shui and Warhammer (1st/2nd ed).
Right now pretty much the only system that I am playing IS Gumshoe!
Storytelling System has seen the most use for me in the last 10 or so years. Before that, Cyberpunk 2020, WFRP1 and Kult (BRP, I guess) have been my go to systems.
In the last few years, BRP and someone’s homebrew system.
Storyteller system (White Wolf Original World of Darkness).
This year:
Savage Rifts
Mutants & Masterminds
Numenera
Conan: In an Age Undreamed of
Shadow of the Demon Lord
Apocalypse World 2e
Delta Green
The main campaign I’m running right now is Force & Destiny.
We drift between these; Blade of the Iron Throne – its son of The Riddle of Steel, for our S&S.
The Dark Eye. Mindjammer. Tekumel. Glorantha – using Heroquest. Coriolis.
Like to start Blades in the Dark and some other AW spin-offs like Alas for the Awful Sea, Badlam Hall, Upwind, but not sure how it will go with only one player.
non-d20, non-GUMSHOE: Ryuutama, 7th Sea 2nd Edition, Fiasco, Feng Shui, Hikikomori.
d20, non-GUMSHOE: 13th Age, D&D 5E, D&D 4E, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
That’s… quite a number of RPGs that I played/ran and enjoyed, now that I think about it :O
Playing Rogue Trader and SoE. Next games: Conan (2d20) and Forbidden Lands (MY0 Engine).
Ah, forgot Zweihänder or WFRP 4th Edition, depends on the new ruleset of the 4th Ed. – sorry.
Mutant: Year Zero ruleset (Mutant: Year Zero, Coriolis, Tales from the loop) by Free League.
13th Age!
Previously ran some 13th Age.
Current games involve D&D 4e (long-standing home games at this point), and Red Markets. Hoping to start Blades in the Dark very soon, as well as Spark System/Sig.
I have just started with World of Darkness d10 based system which I like, albeit my favourite setting is Geist-Sin Eaters which is a bit of a rules mess but its tweakable. The core mechanics of WOD are very accessible.
Also- Lone Wolf Adventure Game. Very simple d10 mechanics that has some character traits and skills that seem to work very similar to GUMSHOE core rule system.
Poll: Besides Gumshoe, Cypher, Ap. World and BRP, I’ve recently played some Fantasy AGE, which is nice, but actually made me check out OSR to get back to the roots of that particular tradition in gaming. At the moment I’m reading Lamentations of the Flame Princess and planning to give it a try soon.
Playing CoC (BRP) and D&D5e, running 13thAge & The One Ring
When not using GUMSHOE. . .
Modern and Scifi Future: Unisystem (Buffy, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, conspiracy X)
Scifi Fantasy: Zweihänder