The OneBookShelf team – known for DriveThru RPG, DriveThru Comics and DriveThru Fiction are having a Christmas sale. Yes. It’s July. Yes. It’s a Christmas sale. It’s a huge sale with hundreds of publishers in. Here are just a few random highlights! RPG: Chaosium and Beyond the Mountains of Madness Beyond the Mountains of […]
Who’s leading the Ennies 2012 pack?
The nominees for the 2012 Ennies have be announced ahead of Gen-Con. There’s just shy of 40 different publishers, excluding blogs, who have a nomination this year which proves what a diverse and well balanced industry RPG publishing is. Looking at the publishers with the most nominations we discover that the top five all have […]
Superhero Week: 10 superhero RPGs battle it out
We’re halfway through superhero week for 2012 and it’s about time we dug out the roleplaying games. RPGs have given superhero genre plenty of attention over the years. We’ve had some fantastic games. Which is your all time favourite superhero RPG? Check out the list below. Is your favourite game included? Leave a note in […]
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 Trail of Cthulhu wallpapers to inspire you this Halloween
Pelgrane Press’s The Apocalypse Machine is about the end of the world. It happened on November 2nd, 1936 and humanity perished in as millions of men and women died. The Apocalypse Machine has two different methods of play; Wasteland and Aftershock. In Aftershock mode players are in the thick of it, the earthquake has just […]
Pelgrane Press boosts Ashen Stars
Ashen Stars is a new game from Pelgrane Press. It hit the shelves at the start of the month. The game uses the Gumshoe system by Robin D. Laws and draws on the artistic talents of Jerome Huguenin and Chris Huth. In this gritty space opera game, the PCs are Lasers, freelance troubleshooters and law […]
The runners and riders of Ennies 2011
The 2011 Ennies have been announced. Who are the runners to pay attention too? There are 8 entries for Green Ronin, 11 for Cubicle 7, 10 for Paizo Publishing, 4 for Pelgrane Press, 8 for Wizards of the Coast, 6 for Posthuman Studios, 3 for Gaming Paper, 5 for Arc Dream Publishing, 6 for Catalyst […]
30 years of Call of Cthulhu
This may make you feel old, but 2011 is the 30th anniversary of Call of Cthulhu. Zip back in time to 1981. Sandy Petersen – he of Doom fame, yeah; the computer game – pitched a concept to the RPG publisher Chaosium that made use of Lovecraft’s Dreamlands setting. The original game, Dark Worlds, was […]
Trail of Cthulhu book cover posters
I think Jérome Huguenin Rough Magicks cover is one of my favourite Cthulhu RPG illustrations. As it happens, Pelgrane Press has it and two others for sale in A2 poster form. If I bought one… just not sure where I’d put it. On the wall behind my desk at the office? Rough Magicks Arkham Detective […]
The Depiction of Women in Gaming
While the following flow chart is doing the rounds – making people laugh because it’s true, making people think because it’s true – I thought it hightime that Geek Native pointed out the fantastic post by Anna Kreider over at Pelgrane Press’ See Page XX on The Depiction of Women in Gaming. Kreider brings science […]
