View From the Pelgrane’s Nest – Sept/Oct 2020

Current News: The Dracula Dossier in the Bundle of Holding

Long-term readers of See Page XX will know about my very personal connection with the Dracula Dossier, and it still remains one of the Pelgrane projects I’m most proud of. The two-book core set (The Dracula Dossier Director’s Handbook, and Dracula Unredacted) together form a complex and ambitious sandbox campaign for Night’s Black Agents, wherein the events of Dracula the novel are the redacted after-action report of a real incident when the British Naval Intelligence Division decided to recruit a vampire. Needless to say, it went badly; so they hunted him down, and killed him with extreme prejudice. Or so they thought…

Decades later, Dracula resurfaced in Eastern Europe; he’s the brilliant handler of a mole in (what has in the meantime become) MI6 in the 1970s; and now, in the modern day, your players must hunt down and kill Dracula – for good, this time.

As well as the core set, Bundle of Holding purchasers also get the Night’s Black Agents core book; introductory adventure The Van Helsing Letter; the adventure collection The Edom Files; Dracula Dossier cards, with instructions on how to use them; the Edom Field Manual, revealing the best and brightest of MI6’s secret vampire-recruiters; heartbreaking work of staggering genius The Hawkins Papers (digital only!), and Ken’s The Thrill of Dracula, a whirlwind tour of the myth, legend and media of the legendary vampire himself. Get this extensive high-octane thriller collection for a limited time only in the Bundle of Holding.

NEW: The Dracula Vector

And if you’re looking for a way to introduce your players to the Dracula Dossier, but worried about jumping in too quick, check out our PDF adventure, The Dracula Vector. Set in London, an old contact gets in touch with the PCs, concerned there’s a supernatural cause to his daughter’s illness. Designed by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan as an introduction to the fast-paced and cut-throat world of modern espionage in Night’s Black Agents, this one- or maybe two-shot adventure does double-duty as an entry point into a longer Dracula Dossier campaign. It includes the usual shady bunch of pregenerated characters, but works just as well with your own PCs.

NEW: Elven Towers PDF

Pre-orderers of the print book of this champion tier 13th Age adventure by Cal Moore can now download the final PDF, and Aileen’s colour map folio, from their bookshelves. For those already possessed of groaning bookshelves, who are more interested in the digital version, that is now available, and also includes the map folio.

Work in progress: The Borellus Connection

This globe-spanning campaign for The Fall of DELTA GREEN features eight linked operations, each one playable as a standalone investigation, or as part of an epic hunt for an infamous enemy, using the heroin trade and the BNDD as a narrative spine.

The final manuscript is so massive that we’ve had to hack chunks out of it just to fit it all into one book! (For Handlers only: find a wealth of articles cleaved from the final under the “FINEST EFFECTS” tag).

It’s now finally finished its sensitivity read, and Shao’s delivered an extensive, and really insightful, report from a Southeast Asian perspective. Ken and Gareth are going through her notes now and writing up the edits; once they’re done, I’ll make the changes to the master manuscript, and pass it over to the incredibly talented Jen McCleary, who’s going to do the interior art and layout. We’re hoping to release this on pre-order next month, and have the final to pre-orderers in March 2021.

Work in progress update: Saigon ’68

This ideal companion to The Borellus Connection, this Looking Glass-style writeup of the Vietnamese “Pearl of the Orient” has also finished its sensitivity read, and Ken’s currently going through the edits, at which point it’ll pass it over to the incredibly talented Jen McCleary, who’s going to do the interior art and layout. We’re hoping to release this on pre-order next month with Borellus.

Work in progress update: Even Death Can Die

I’m delighted to report that Christian has finished the final PDF for the printer, and pre-orderers can now download this from their bookshelves. He’s currently working on the cover, and once that’s finished, it’ll be off to the printer. We’re hoping to get this out to pre-orderers in January.

Work in progress update: Swords of the Serpentine

Due to the massive size, I put out a call for artists and got more than 400 responses! Which is a good problem to have, but going through so many portfolios really slows down the art process, so we haven’t made as much progress on this as I’d have liked. We’re now looking at 2021 to have this to pre-orderers. Rich Longmore’s belting through the art he’s doing, though – here’s his Buzzing Acolyte:

Work in playtesting update: The Paragon Blade

Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s fantasy setting for the GUMSHOE One-2-One system, currently-but-still-provisionally titled The Paragon Blade, is currently in playtesting until the end of October. Play heroes barbarian Conn the Unslain, Aletheia the Scholar, or mysterious thief Puc, in a fantastical land still scarred by the evil of the fallen Hellbound Empire. Full details on how to take part in the playtest are here.

Work in progress update: The Yellow King Bestiary

Only recently announced, Robin and the other writers have been hard at work on this compendium of Carcosan creatures, and have submitted the final manuscript now. This is nearly finished copyediting, and we’ll shortly be starting art direction on it. Expect a pre-order for it either late this year or early 2021.

13th Age work in progress update:  Elven TowersCrown of Axis, and Drakkenhall: City of Monsters

Rob Heinsoo’s very kindly already written this bit for me, and you can read it here.

And finally, a request.

Wherever you live in the world, but most especially if you live in the USA, please vote.

 

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