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Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan trades cosmic dread for cosy village crime in Merryshire Detective Club

June 29, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pelgrane Press drops a free GUMSHOE preview for Merryshire Detective Club, a cosy fantasy murder mystery roleplaying game by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit, free to download, Gareth Hanrahan, gumshoe, Pelgrane Press, robin d laws, simon rogers

Night’s Black Agents: Dracula Dossier

November 17, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this Campaign] In this history Dracula isn’ta novel. It’s a censored version of British Intelligence’s attempts to recruit a vampire. In Night’s Black Agents from Pelgrane Press players are secret agents going up against the forces of darkness. It won two silver ENnie awards (best Game and Best Writing) and picked up additional nominations […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Kenneth Hite, kickstarters, Night’s Black Agents, Pelgrane Press, simon rogers, vampires

The Angus Abranson interview: A look inside Chronicle City

February 8, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Angus Abranson is very well known within RPG circles and is associated with games like The One Ring, Doctor Who and The Laundry Files. Along with Dave Allsop he co-founded Cubicle 7 in 2003, secured backing from Rebellion in 2009 and took it fulltime. The surprise came in November 2011 when Angus announced he was […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: airship pirates, Chronicle City, cubicle 7, Dresden Files, Paizo Publishing, simon rogers, The One Ring

Interview with Simon Rogers – Night’s Black Agents

April 14, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Authors Robin D Laws and Kenneth Hite are both talking about a vampire spy thriller game called Night’s Black Agents. It’ll be coming out Pelgrane Press and will be a Gumshoe title. So, what’s a vampire spy thriller? Hite uses some popular movies to describe how the game will feel; “Imagine the movie Ronin. All […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Kenneth Hite, Night’s Black Agents, Pelgrane Press, simon rogers, Trail of Cthulhu, vampire

An introduction to GUMSHOE

March 17, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gumshoe, Kenneth Hite, Pelgrane Press, rpg, simon rogers

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