The nominations for the 2019 ENnie Awards have been released, and we’re delighted to announce that Pelgrane Press has been nominated in four categories:

• Best Adventure: The Persephone Extraction, by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Heather Albano, Emma Marlow, Will Plant, and Bill White
• Best Monster/Adversary: Hideous Creatures: A Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos, by Kenneth Hite, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Becky Annison, Helen Gould, and Ruth Tillman
• Best Setting: The Fall of DELTA GREEN, by Kenneth Hite
• Best Supplement: The Book of Ages, by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

Beloved Pelgranistas Ken & Robin have also been nominated in the Best Podcast category, for Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.

Congratulations to all the nominees! It really is a privilege to be recognised among such an outstanding – and this year in particular, wide variety – of games.

We’d be honoured if you would consider voting for us. Click on this link to vote for your favourites! Voting for the 2019 ENnies will be open until July 21st.

May you live in interesting times, goes the alleged Chinese curse; and it’s hard to think of more interesting times than the UK is currently experiencing. Many friends of the Nest have expressed concern about what Britain’s vote to exit the EU means for Pelgrane Press (and more importantly, their Dracula Dossier campaigns); Simon and Gareth tackle both issues in this month’s articles, below. Speaking of which, the Dracula Dossier is one of they many fine Pelgrane products which been nominated for some ENnies – vote here! For those of you who didn’t back the Kickstarter and want to know what all the fuss is about, this month sees the release of the remaining Dracula Dossier books, available either singly or as a discounted bundle. And continuing this month’s vampire theme, the latest edition of 13th Age Monthly, Temple of the Sun Cabal, sends the PCs to rescue a vampire from a neighbouring sun cult.

New Releases

• The Edom Field Manual – This supplement for the Dracula Dossier describes Edom’s history, methods, and tradecraft, initiating you into the innermost secrets of the British vampire program.
• The Edom Files – Eight desperate missions against the Un-Dead of the Dracula Dossier take you from the mountains of Bulgaria to the streets of Berlin; from the Russo-Turkish war to the War on Terror, and from 1877 to the present day.
• The Thrill of Dracula – Kenneth Hite takes apart Dracula into his component pieces, and shows you how to build new, yet mythic, stories about the King of the Vampires for your  Dracula Dossier or other horror game
• Temple of the Sun Cabal – To save the world, you have to save a vampire – from the not-so-friendly neighborhood sun cult. A one-shot adventure by Wade Rockett is the latest edition of 13th Age Monthly.

Articles

• View from the Pelgrane’s Nest – Simon Rogers on what’s new in the Nest
• Pelgrane Press and Brexit – Pelgrane Press will never surrender, promises Simon Rogers
• GUMSHOE One-2-One, Playtest Feedback and Acceptable Enjoyment Parameters – Robin D. Laws on incorporating playtest feedback into a game design
• Call of Chicago: Bufflegumshoe – Kenneth Hite on how to run the other sensitive teen girl vampire slayer series using Bubblegumshoe and Night’s Black Agents
• The Prisons of TimeWatch – Kevin Kulp on what happens to the chronal miscreants whose schemes TimeWatch troubleshooters thwart
• Cult of Redeeming Light – A new cult for Trail of Cthulhu, by Robin D. Laws
• Brexit Freely And Of Your Own Will – Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan looks at what the Brexit means for your Dracula Dossier campaign
• The Private Life of Elder Things – Adam Gauntlett talks about his new project, a short story collection
• Forgotten Sins – An adventure hook for Trail of Cthulhu, by Chris Spivey
• Conventions Seeking GMs – A monthly post where we flag up conventions looking for Pelgrane GMs
• June playtesting – Playtest an adventure set in Cthulhu City, an upcoming setting for Trail of Cthulhu by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

13th Age

• 13th Sage: Skill Checks in 13th Age – Rob Heinsoo on how he and Jonathan Tweet ask for skill checks in 13th Age
• 13th Age Organized Play Update: June 2016 – Wade Rockett keeps you current with the 13th Age Alliance
• 13h Age: Mooks, Destined to Die! – Sean Clark talks us through how he uses the 13th Age Mook rules

Resource Page Updates – Trail of Cthulhu

• The RPGGeek GUMSHOE competition-winning Purist adventure, The Keepers of the Woods by Frederick Foulds, is available to download now.
• An updated Enchiridion of Elucidation, a guidebook for both players and Keepers, with advice on playing the game, by Tony Williams
• An updated Condensed Rules by Tony Williams

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Congratulations to the many and varied publishers who have been nominated for this year’s ENnie award. The judges have selected the products they like the best, and now it’s down to the popular vote.

Pelgrane Press has achieved fifteen nominations in eleven categories for nine products in this year’s ENnie awards, in a field festooned with stellar games and publishers.  Hillfolk, Eternal Lies and 13th Age get three nominations a piece, James Semple and his team of composers and musicians were regonised for the Complete Eternal Lies Suite and Dust and Mirrors in the Best RPG Related Product. I’m pleased that Clinton and Kevin  got some recognition for Best Writing for Owl Hoot Trail and Cat Tobin for Page XX.  Blood on the Snow perhaps has more contributors than any RPG product to date and is nominated for Best Supplement. The Noteboard is in with a chance for Best Aid and Accessory.

In addition to the Pelgrane nominations, Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff received a nomination for Best Podcast, and the Midgard Bestiary: 13th Age Edition from Kobold Press also received a well-deserved nod.

Here are the Pelgrane nominations, by product, then by category, followed by all nominees:

• 13th Age (Best Game, Best Rules, Product of the Year)
• Blood on the Snow: A DramaSystem Companion (Best Supplement)
• Complete Eternal Lies Suite (Best RPG Related Product)
• Dust and Mirrors: Music for Night’s Black Agents  (Best RPG Related Product)
• Eternal Lies for Trail of Cthulhu (Best Adventure, Best Production Values, Product of the Year)
• Hillfolk (Best Game, Best Rules, Product of the Year)
• Noteboard (Best Aid / Accessory)
• Owl Hoot Trail (Best Writing)
• See Page XX Best Website

Listed by category:

Best Adventure

• Trail of Cthulhu: Eternal Lies 

Best Podcast

• Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Best Aid/Accessory

• Noteboard
  

Best Production Values

• Trail of Cthulhu: Eternal Lies
  

Best RPG Related Product

• Complete Eternal Lies Suite
  
• Dust and Mirrors: Music for Night’s Black Agents
  

Best Rules

• 13th Age
  
• Hillfolk
  

Best Supplement

• Blood on the Snow: A DramaSystem Companion
  

Best Writing

• Owl Hoot Trail
  

Best Game

• 13th Age
  
• Hillfolk
  

Best Website

• See Page XX

Product of the Year

• 13th Age
• Hillfolk
  
• Trail of Cthulhu: Eternal Lies

Voting Open! Vote now for your favourites!

Pelgrane Press has received ten nominations for the ENnie Awards 2012 in six categories, including three of the five Best Adventure and Best Setting categories. We are all rather chuffed, and I will take a flask of tea to the ceremony. This is the first time we’ve entered Page XX to the ENnies and are thrilled that it has been nominated for Best Website. Graham and Ken are both nominated in their own right, too.

Voting begins today (Friday 20th July) and runs until Sunday 29th.

Here are all the Pelgrane Press nominations.

Best Adventure

• Dead Rock Seven Gareth Hanrahan and Robin D Laws
• Invasive Procedures Gareth Hanrahan
• The Rending Box Graham Walmsley

Best Electronic Book

• Cthulhu Apocalypse: The Apocalypse Machine Graham Walmsley

Best Rules

• Lorefinder—The Pathfinder / GUMSHOE Mashup Gareth Hanrahan

Best Setting

• Ashen Stars Robin D Laws
• Cthulhu Apocalypse: The Apocalypse Machine Graham Walmsley
• The Investigator’s Guide to Occult London Paula Dempsey with Kenneth Hite and Steve Dempsey

Best Website

• See Page XX – The Pelgrane Press Webzine

Best Writing

• The Investigator’s Guide to Occult London Paula Dempsey with Kenneth Hite and Steve Dempsey