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Note: This text was written without me reading to much about the game Eclipse Phase. After reading more about the game, some details hereunder is flawed. My point, however, is still valid (and hopefully inspirational) so I post it anyway There’s a sub-genre of science fiction called transhumanism. The core idea is that we as [...]

Pelgrane Press Ltd » Blog Archive » GUMSHOE Cheat Sheets I while ago I replied to a tweet from Simon Rogers of Pelgrane Press about writing Cheat Sheets that summarized the rules for pool point recovery. They are now published in the latest issue of pageXX, the official webzine from Pelgrane. I am quite happy [...]

This post is my trying to write a mystery story for a low-fantasy setting. Instead of just presenting it I’ll try to capture how it grew from the initial idea. Hopefully it can help others who, like me, have problems with coming up with stories. The initial scene is (and this was basically just a [...]

So, earlier this week, the new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying from MWP was released as a PDF. The tradition whenever I get a new Super Hero RPG is that I build my first ever Super Hero rpg character. His name is Steelfist, and he was originally created for the Golden Heros SHRPG   His backstory was [...]

Pelgrane Press Ltd » Blog Archive » Lorefinder Lorefinder seems to be a fantasy add-on to Pathfinder, bringing the GUMSHOE rules to Pathfinder. It also contains advice for the fantasy GM about how to run mysteries.

In my previous post I wrote about what made DnD “click” for me. It’s a game about horror. Now, with that cleared, another problem suddenly arises: The rules and structure of DnD doesn’t feel like horror. The worst part of that is what the monster stats look like. They are WAY to technical. A while [...]

I’ve never really gotten into DnD. And believe me, it’s not for lack of trying. Even though it’s become one of the games I’ve played the most over the last 10 years (both 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0), I still didn’t get it. I wanted it to be what it said that it was. I wanted [...]

So, it seems this years GenCon is having a few surprises up it’s sleeve. Not many days ago, the Star Wars-license was revealed. Now, not long ago, Margaret Weis Productions announced that they will be releasing a Marvel Comics rpg. Nothing is published yet, I’ll just quote tweets from Fred Hicks: Margaret Weiss Productions gets [...]

The Isomage’s House contains a couple if decent random map-generators (among other things). For those playing Traveller, there’s also a random subsector-generator, and a world generator.

Recently, Fantasy Flight Games announced that they have the license to produce a line of games in the Star Wars setting. Even though I’m not a big fan of licenses as such, such a big license is always interesting to see how they manage. So, let’s take a look at games they already have designed, [...]