At heart, Ghouls are haunters of the dead, spending their time around the bodies of the deceased, primarily as a source of sustenance, but also seeking out grave goods. In a lot of horror fiction beyond Lovecraft, they have become the pathetic, fawning groupies of greater monsters – failed vampires, would-be liches, and the almost […]
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Guess What’s Coming to Dinner: Reviewing The Esoterror Summoning Guide
The Membrane is a border between our reality and the Outer Dark, a dimension filled with terrors and darkness. The Esoterrorists, a scattered and ill-organised group of occultists and outright mad men, work tirelessly to tear down that barrier between worlds to loose the floodgates to ultimate power. Unfortunately, this very act will open our […]
I Want to Believe: A Review of Moon Dust Men
Trail of Cthulhu has been effectively and efficiently stepping on Call of Cthulhu‘s coattails for a short while now, offering a take on Lovecraft’s unfathomable and otherworldly horror that offers a fresh approach. While Call of Cthulhu‘s percentile system had a tendency to make or break situations where you could kill a trail stone cold […]
Robin D. Law’s Hillfolk and the DramaSystem
Robin D. Law’s is a well known games designer who brought us the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system. He tends to work closely with Pelgrane Press, who have a number of GUMSHOE products, and is actually the Creative Director at Stone Skin Press which is Pelgrane’s fiction imprint. His latest project, foreshadowed by his book Hamlet’s […]
Pelgrane Press’s 20% GUMSHOE sale
Pelgrane Press have a 20% sale going on all five of their GUMSHOE core books. That’s 20% off Trail of Cthulhu, Ashen Stars, Mutant City Blues, Fear Itself and The Esoterrorists. The sale is over at RPGNow.com Trail of Cthulhu, is an ENNie winning, is a clever blend of investigation and Cthulhu horror. I’ve played […]
Three Fourteen Games steps into GUMSHOE with The Last Guest
Three Fourteen Games have announced a deal with Pelgrane Press to produce games for the GUMSHOE system. GUMSHOE is a system designed to ensure that players get all the clues they need in an investigation game. The premise being the game is no fund if the entire party sits there, scratching their heads, being stuck. […]
An introduction to GUMSHOE
The GUMSHOE rules system was created by Robin D Laws – the creator of the Dying Earth RPG – and is designed to work best for investigation games. Since it’s launch GUMSHOE has picked up other big names; including Kenneth Hite who produced a new version of Call of Cthulhu called Trail of Cthulhu with […]
