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Pelgrane Press Cthulhu Confidential RPG: Even Death Can Die

Even Death Can Die features nine twisting, turning, adventures in a world both hardboiled and cosmically horrific, for the protagonists of Cthulhu Confidential. Langston Wright is an African-American war veteran and scholar in WW2-era Washington, D.C. Vivian Sinclair is The New York Herald's most determined scoop-hound in 1930s NYC. And Dex Raymond is a hard-boiled PI with a nose for trouble in 1930s LA. Each is a lone investigator, equipped with smarts, fists, and just maybe a code of honor, uncovering the secret truths buried under the noir nightscape of hardboiled-era LA, New York, or D.C.Country of Origin: United States

Pelgrane Press Yellow King RPG: The Missing & the Lost (Novel)

Imperial America has fallen. Emperor Castaigne, who ruled the nation with secret police and even more secret sorcery, has fled. The portals that connected him to his rumored source of power, the alien realm of Carcosa, have been destroyed. Along with his loyal crew, the man they called the Technician helped win the struggle. Now he seeks a return to civilian life. Specifically, he wants to eliminate his job. He repairs the suicide machines known as the Government Lethal Chambers. But when the body of a murder victim shows up in flagship Lethal Chamber in Washington Square, the Technician sees that the skill set of his crew hasn't quite gone out of fashion. The ensuing investigation takes him on a journey through the secrets of the old regime, with fugitive war criminals, haunted hide-outs, urban firefights and dread parageometrical rituals along the way. Read The Missing and the Lost as a thrilling, thought-provoking mystery of a dread-drenched alternate reality. Or use it as a model for your sessions of The Yellow King Roleplaying game when you play in its mind-bending Aftermath setting.

Pelgrane Press The Yellow King: Absinthe in Carcosa

The City Guide That Shatters Reality! At the end of the 19th century, an American art student went to Paris, read a play called The King in Yellow, and lost his grip on reality. Head reeling from absinthe, bedeviled by unseen adversaries, he realized that the alien world the play described, Carcosa, had sunk its traces throughout the City of Lights. As he explored Paris in search of its decadent influence, he created a scrapbook. A guide for himself, and for those who would come after him. Yoked together from existing travelogues, newspapers, and the disquieting ephemera of the occult tradition, it laid out a skewed portrait of a haunted city. Absinthe in Carcosa is an indispensable city guide for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game and a stunning, full-color visual artifact in its own right.

Trail of Cthulhu: Hideous Creatures: A Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos

A collection of 31 Lovecraftian monsters, written for Trail of Cthulhu but usable in any Mythos horror game. Featuring nine all-new creatures that have never taken stat-block form in any game before! Lovecraft created his "shadowy congeners" because the stories of vampires and werewolves had become too familiar and formulaic to evoke true horror. Almost a century later, his own monstrous races have likewise begun to seem like comfortable story furniture rather than unnerving signals that the world is horrible and wrong.In Hideous Creatures: A Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos, we present a comprehensive look at Lovecraft's hideous creatures, from as many angles as we can. Our goal is contradiction, surprise, and most especially the uncanny: the recognition of something familiar as something weird. Creatures are not just antagonists to fight or flee from; they are entire adventures by themselves, leaving physical traces, occult clues and madness in their eldritch wake.Hideous Creatures: A Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos is the Trail of Cthulhu bestiary written by Mythos giant Kenneth Hite and fellow experts Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Becky Annison, Helen Gould and Ruth Tillman, in the tradition of the award-winning Book of Unremitting Horror and the 13th Age Bestiary.

Pelgrane Press Trail of Cthulhu: The Book of the New Jerusalem

It is 1927. As Britain continues her slow recovery, August Darcy, a young journalist, is seized with a strange obsession. He must recover the very essence of England - her traditions, customs, and legends - and he must do that even at the cost of his livelihood; even if he loses the woman who is to be his wife.Then, in the early 1930s, England experiences the first portents of a magical war. Darcy's mythic sites are the hidden battle fields; and that forbidden knowledge, the esoteric ordnance of the forthcoming conflict.The Book is replete with mythic sites, occult rumours, and clues which will guide you on your quest for forbidden knowledge.Within these covers are the never-before-published early writings of the author of the The Book of the Smoke. Sketches of English life, in his unique style, are interspersed with private letters and diary extracts to offer an extraordinary insight into the victim of England's most notorious occult crime. These are not romantic yearnings for a golden age long gone, but a timely reminder that the terrors of our forefathers still linger on the fringe of modernity.Written as the companion volume to Fearful Symmetries for Trail of Cthulhu, The Book of the New Jerusalem can be used as a Keeper's resource as well as an in-game artefact for players in any Mythos game, and it stands alone as an entertaining guide to English folklore.

Pelgrane Press Trail of Cthulhu: Fearful Symmetries

Albion, the primeval and perfect England of William Blake, is broken - by war in heaven, and turmoil amongst mankind. Heroes arise to build Jerusalem anew in the Green & Pleasant Land guided by Blake's visionary poetry.In this supplement to Trail of Cthulhu, you play a group of magicians exploring the magickal revival; wielding the terrible, double-edged power that grants both dominion and degeneration.With its companion volume, The Book of the New Jerusalem, Fearful Symmetries gives the Keeper guidelines for building an improvised campaign with dangers drawn from English folklore and Mythos abomination. Four systems of magic are described, along with locations, threats, tomes, and characters. Use Fearful Symmetries to flesh out the struggle between the lurking horror, and the shrivelled good intentions of those who think such power can be contained, and controlled, by mere mortals.

Pelgrane Press Trail of Cthulhu: Cthulhu City

Cthulhu City is a setting for Trail of Cthulhu, usable for a full campaign in its own right or as a nightmarish intrusion into an existing game. The Investigators find themselves in a strange, corrupted Arkham, a ghastly metropolis. People - humans - live in the city, and seem bizarrely normal on first encounter - their concerns are the same mundane, day-to-day passions and trials of anyone in the modern world - but scratch the surface, and the Mythos spills forth. Motorcars drive down streets lined with sullen-eyed basalt cyclopean buildings raised by no human hand; at night, loathsome and titanic shapes move behind the clouds. It's a city where priests masked with yellow silk proclaim the majesty of God from the churches; a city occupied by alien powers. The old-money families have names like Marsh and Whately and Curwen, and the worst crime imaginable is defying the will of the living gods. Humans shouldn't survive here, but they do, blindly adapting to the horror all around them. Are the Investigators dreaming? Insane? Have they travelled in time? Is this an alternate reality? An illusion? Or have they somehow had their minds swapped with denizens of the city? Or has it always been this way, and they can no longer deny the truth?

Pelgrane Press Trail of Cthulhu: Adventure: Out of the Woods

The shadowy depths of the primeval forest are the ancient source of our collective fears. But there is worse in the woods than timber wolves and fairy tales; you can lose not just your way, but your mind, too. This brand new collection of Trail of Cthulhu adventures explores hidden groves and endless avenues - the hideous soul of Lovecraft's forest.

Pelgrane Press Trail of Cthulhu: Cthulhu Apocalypse

On November 2nd, 1936, the world died. Finally, the stars had come right; and things that lurked under the seas for eons rose to claim their rightful place. Now, they rule the earth, stalking it like titans. Millions of women and men died - yet you survived, doomed to wander the ruins, searching for answers. What went wrong? Are there others like you? How can you stay alive? And is there a way to put this right? Cthulhu Apocalypse is a survival horror supplement for the Trail of Cthulhu roleplaying game that takes Investigators into a terrifying post-apocalyptic world. Using the award-winning Apocalypse Machine, GMs can destroy the world any number of ways - including the death rays of alien tripods, a plague of white flowers, or the rising of Great Old Ones - and run adventures of investigation and survival in a land transformed beyond recognition. Made in the USA.

Pelgrane Press Trail of Cthulhu: Dreamhounds of Paris

The Dreamlands Have Never Been Stranger. Following on from the success of Bookhounds of London comes this comprehensive campaign guide for Trail of Cthulhu. Recreate the mundane and mystical adventures of the Parisian surrealists, from the 1920s to the coming of the Occupation as they stumble onto the Dreamlands, a fantastical realm found far beyond the wall of sleep. At first by happenstance and later by implacable design, they can remake the Dreamlands in the fiery image of their own art. Will they save the world, or destroy it?

Pelgrane Press Trail of Cthulhu: Adventure: Out of Space

Trail of Cthulhu: Out of SpaceOut of Space contains five adventures that will take Investigators from the mountains of northern Mexico to the skies above Germany, to the smog and disease of gaslight London and the raging tides of the Atlantic Ocean. It will even take you to a world that could only exist in your worst nightmares. Created GUMSHOE designer and gaming luminary, Robin D. Laws, Trail of Cthulhu veteran Adam Gauntlett, and Jason Morningstar, award-winning creator of Fiasco and the Shab-al-Hiri Roach, Out of Space features:-"The Repairer of Reputations"-"Flying Coffins"-"Many Fires"-"Hell Fire"-"The Millionaire's Special"Out of Space also features extensive handouts, pregenerated characters and exclusive new essays from the authors.

Pelgrane Press The Trail of Cthulhu Corebook

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Pelgrane Press Swords of the Serpentine Corebook

Swords of the Serpentine is a sword & sorcery game of daring heroism, sly politics, and bloody savagery, set in a fantasy city rife with skullduggery and death. The rules adapt the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system to create a fantasy RPG with a focus on high-action roleplaying and investigation inspired by the stories of Fritz Leiber, Terry Pratchett, Robert E. Howard, and others.Your characters will discover leads that, if followed, propel them headlong into danger and forbidden knowledge. A lead might point the way to sunken treasure, jungle ruins, the missing key to a sorcerous trap, or the true identity of a notorious murderer. The GUMSHOE game mechanics ensure that you'll always notice leads if you look for them. It's up to you to choose which one you'll follow into whatever perils lie ahead, in hopes of fortune, glory, justice, or just staying alive another day.If you want to track down foul sorcerers in a corrupt and decadent city, clamber through underground ruins to sneak into an enemy's home and rob them, or wage a secret war against a rival political faction, you're in the right place.

Pelgrane Press Night's Black Agents: Solo Ops

One player. One Gamemaster. This corebook combines the award-winning Night's Black Agents setting with the innovative GUMSHOE One-2-One rules, designed for the thrilling intensity of head-to-head play. Create your own Agent, or take on the role of Leyla Khan - an ex-MI6 officer who must confront her own half-remembered past as a thrall of the vampires. Play through three complete adventures for Leyla Khan, or use them as templates to create your own mysteries. We'll give you the tools you need to battle the undead princes and crime lords, all alone. But will it be enough? Find out, with Night's Black Agents: Solo Ops!

Pelgrane Press Cthulhu Confidential

Cthulhu Confidential is a roleplaying game designed for one player and one game master. It's powered by the GUMSHOE One-2-One game system which retunes, rebuilds and reimagines the acclaimed GUMSHOE investigative rules set, as seen in such hit roleplaying games as Trail of Cthulhu and Night's Black Agents, for one player and one GM. Together, you create a story that evokes the classic solo protagonist mystery format. Cthulhu Confidential drops your hero into the noir nightscape of hardboiled-era Los Angeles, New York or Washington, DC. Meet powerbrokers and politicians, rub shoulders with Hollywood studio bosses and fiery evangelists. Face narrow-eyed G-Men, bent cops and dangerous crime lords. But beneath it all, under the scrim of all this human endeavour, lives corruption so old and inhuman you'll need all your courage and resourcefulness to face it. Choose one of three heroes with their own settings and adventures: Langston Wright is an African-American war veteran and scholar in WW2-era DC with a keen intellect. Dex Raymond is a hard-boiled private detective in 1930s Los Angeles with a nose for trouble. And Vivian Sinclair is The New York Herald's most determined scoop-hound. Each is a lone investigator, equipped with smarts, fists, and just maybe a code of honor, uncovering their town's secret truths. But what happens when you scratch the veneer of human malfeasance to reveal an eternal evil-the malign, cosmic indifference of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos?256 pages, Hardcover, Full color

Pelgrane Press Night's Black Agents: Director's Screen & Resource Guide

Four sturdy panels with beautiful Night's Black Agents artwork, and a 56-page Resource Guide packed full of advice for Directors! Night's Black Agents player characters are highly trained super-spies, veterans of dozens of covert operations, ready to use guile and lethal force to overcome any obstacle. Night's Black Agents players are even tougher. Ready yourself for the inevitable conflict with our Director's Screen, keeping your notes and maps hidden until that final dramatic reveal. On one side, stunning artwork; on the other, vital reference tables for your eyes only. Constructed of high-grade hardcover book stock, this durable screen is perfect for convention play or regular home game use. Accompanying the screen is the practical Resource Guide, containing:Initiation Scenes to kick off your campaignNew Monsters and enemy Operatives to bolster the ranks of the ConspiracyCombat Options and Thriller Scene rules for when you need to zoom in on the actionMission Skeletons and Location Plans to help build your adventures!

Pelgrane Press Night's Black Agents: The Persephone Extraction

The Persephone Extraction is a collection of five interlinked adventures for the award-winning Night's Black Agents system, which can be run in any order as a campaign, or as stand-alone adventures. Five desperate adventures to save the living from the hungry dead! They are so old they cannot remember their names. They are pale, spindly things, with hollow eyes, and long fingers that scuttle like cave-spiders. They are strong - immensely, inhumanly strong - but act like old, arthritic people, shuffling along painfully, conserving their strength for when they need it. They are fast - terrifyingly, breathtakingly fast - but they move slowly, cautiously, fearfully. Their fear outweighs their preternatural gifts; for centuries, survival and control have been their watchwords, their overriding goals. We must not die, they whisper in the dark, even though they can no longer recall what it is to live. And if the world must die so they can live, so be it.The Persephone Extraction is a campaign for Night's Black Agents, combining primal horrors from classical mythology with the modern terrors of conspiracy and bioterrorism, and tracking the undead from Paris to the ultra-rich set in Barcelona, through the closed cities of Arctic Russia, to the islands of Greece and the classical underworld in ancient Turkey.

Pelgrane Press Nights Black Agents: The Thrill of Dracula

THE FORTY FACES OF DRACULA! From the first medieval atrocity stories about Vlad the Impaler to Bram Stoker's immortal novel to the most recent Universal blockbusters, Kenneth Hite's The Thrill of Dracula zooms through centuries of blood, bats, and - ballet? - to bring you the most complete look at the Count's story ever! Richly furnished with story seeds and ideas for your Night's Black Agents campaign, or any RPG featuring vampire mythology. Richly furnished with story seeds and ideas for your Night's Black Agents campaign, or any RPG featuring vampire mythology. So sharpen your stakes and prepare for the thrill of your Un-Lifetime - The Thrill of Dracula! Made in the U.S.

Pelgrane Press Night's Black Agents: Adventure: The Edom Files

Eight desperate missions against the undead for Night's Black Agents! Operation Edom is the top-secret section of MI6 dedicated to thwarting and, ultimately, controlling Dracula and his spawn. Play MI6 agents, their predecessors...and even their foes! The Edom Files stands alone as a compendium of one-shot adventures, but combine it with the Dracula Dossier Director's Handbook to flash back into Edom's history, or play through it all as a century-spanning epic. The Edom Files includes EIGHT adventures. Open the Edom archives and read the sealed files to learn the true shape of the 20thcentury. From the mountains of Bulgaria to the streets of Berlin. From the Russo-Turkish war to the War on Terror. From 1877 to the present day. For the Dead Travel Fast... Made in the USA.

Pelgrane Press Night's Black Agents: Edom Field Manual

You're on the inside now. For more than a century, the top-secret operation within MI6 codenamed 'Edom' has defended the United Kingdom from the machinations of the Un-Dead. This book describes the operation's history, methods, people and tradecraft, initiating you into the innermost secrets of the British vampire program. Players can create their own Edom officers and hunt vampires with the sanction of the British government with eyes-only documents and briefings, and use the Fields of Edom campaign frame to play the spies hunting for the stolen Dracula Dossier - or defy their masters and complete the original mission by taking Dracula down for good. Directors can build their own Edom with a guide to the operation's structure and methods, which includes two dozen non-player characters to give a varied supporting cast for Edom-centred games. Advice and campaign options help bring the operation to a thrilling conclusion - or a bloody catastrophe. The Edom Field Manual stands alone as a guide to a vampire hunting program. Combine it with the other books in the Dracula Dossier series for insight into Edom its machinations. Made in the USA.

Night's Black Agents: Dracula Dossier: Adventure: Directors Handbook

A secret history unearthed. A legendary horror walks again.The Director's Handbook, together with Dracula Unredacted, comprises The Dracula Dossier -- an epic improvised, collaborative campaign for Night's Black Agents, Pelgrane Press's award-winning vampire spy thriller RPG. Dracula is not a novel. It's the censored version of Bram Stoker's after-action report of the failed British Intelligence attempt to recruit a vampire in 1894. The Dracula Dossier: Director's Handbook turns Dracula into a fully improvised campaign for Night's Black Agents, inspired by the award-winning Armitage Files campaign for Trail of Cthulhu. Inside you'll find hundreds of characters, locations, items, and conspiratorial nodes, any of which might be a potential asset for the player characters-or part of Edom's century-long conspiracy, or even a minion of the immortal Dracula. Players choose which leads to track, which scarlet trail to follow. The Director, using the clear step-by-step techniques in the Director's Handbook, improvises a suitably blood-soaked thriller in response to their choices. Clear advice to players and Directors on improvisation, with extensive examples and guidelines, helps you set the scene. Follow the clues to end the story once and for all, and close Project EDOM forever. You will find, hunt, and kill Dracula, the king of the vampires. If you survive that is. Made in the USA.

Pelgrane Press Night's Black Agents: Double Tap Expansion

Double Tap is an expansion book for the very ENnie-award nominated Night's Black Agents. Filled with more gear, more guns, more abilities, and more information to help agents uncover and succeed against Conspiracies of all sizes, it allows extra room to play in, expanding possibilities and illustrating potentialities we didn't have room for in the core book.

Pelgrane Press Night's Black Agents: Adventure: The Zalozhniy Quartet

The Zalozhniy Quartet is a series of four linked adventures from acclaimed RPG writer Gareth Hanrahan, and designed by Night's Black Agents creator Kenneth Hite.This operation is a Bourne-style "run and gun." It starts off as a conventional investigation, but rapidly becomes a lesson in why crossing the Lisky Bratva is a very bad idea. When an investigation goes wrong, the agents are pursued by Russian mafiya assassins. Their only hope of survival is to make it to the safe city of Vienna. Keep the pressure up at all times as you chase the agents across Eastern Europe. Make that red line on the map a trail of blood...The operation is divided into five smaller ops, each centred on a different city.

Pelgrane Press Night's Black Agentss Corebook

The Cold War is over. Bush's War is winding down. You were a shadowy soldier in those fights, trained to move through the secret world: deniable and deadly. Then you got out, or you got shut out, or you got burned out. You didn't come in from the cold. Instead, you found your own entrances into Europe's clandestine networks of power and crime. You did a few ops, and you asked even fewer questions. Who gave you that job in Prague? Who paid for your silence in that Swiss account? You told yourself it didn't matter. It turned out to matter a lot. Because it turned out you were working for vampires. Vampires exist. What can they do? Who do they own? Where is safe? You don't know those answers yet. So you'd better start asking questions. You have to trace the bloodsuckers' operations, penetrate their networks, follow their trail, and target their weak points. Because if you don't hunt them, they will hunt you. And they will kill you. Or worse. Night's Black Agents brings the GUMSHOE engine to the spy thriller genre, combining the propulsive paranoia of movies like Ronin and The Bourne Identity with supernatural horror straight out of Bram Stoker. Investigation is crucial, but it never slows down the action, which explodes with expanded options for bone-crunching combat, high-tech tradecraft, and adrenaline-fueled chases. Updating classic Gothic terrors for the postmodern age, Night's Black Agents presents thoroughly modular monstrosity: GMs can build their own vampires, mashup their own minions, kitbash their own conspiracies to suit their personal sense of style and story. Rack silver bullets in your Glock, twist a UV bulb into your Maglite, keep watching the mirrors ... and pray you've got your vampire stories straight.

Pelgrane Press Fear Itself 2nd Edition

The Roleplaying Game of Personal Horror. Fear Itself 2nd Edition plunges ordinary people into a disturbing contemporary world of madness and violence -and inexorably draws them into confrontation with creatures of the Outer Dark, a realm of alien menace. GMs can re-create all the shudders and shocks of the horror genre at their table, whether they use the game's distinctive mythology or one of their own choosing. Powered by the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system, this expanded edition of the classic Fear Itself supports multiple different types of play, from bloody one-shots to extended investigative campaigns, and includes extensive advice for GMs on designing and running mystery games. Its updated rules draw from more than ten years of GUMSHOE development and play experience, to deliver the ultimate in personal horror roleplaying. Fear Itself includes three sample scenarios, from a one-night adventure, through a mini-series, to a full campaign. Made in the USA.

Pelgrane Press 13th Age: Shards of the Broken Sky

Flying realm down! A 13th Age Roleplaying Game sandbox adventure for player characters level 1-7 (and a bit beyond). When the flying realm of Vantage crashes to earth in the Dragon Empire, a long-kept secret is revealed: it was the control point for magical wards that kept a dozen ancient evils in check. The icons have offered you rival opportunities for glory, plunder, and/or heroic sacrifice in Vantage. Will you rescue its survivors? Restore its magical wards? Or loot everything that isn't nailed down while trying to stay one step ahead of the apocalypse? Use Shards of the Broken Sky as an entire campaign in and around this fallen flying realm, a one-shot or mini-arc, or a source of new races, monsters, and magic items!

Pelgrane Press 13th Age: Loot Harder

Think you've looted as hard as you can? Get ready to LOOT HARDER! Loot Harder: A Book of Treasures brings you hundreds of new magic items for your 13th Age game, including true magic items, consumables, and items for new classes. Brave adventurers (and GMs) will also find game-changing, campaign-defining iconic relics; magical treasures that require no attunement; and of course (or should we say, "of curse"), those rare riches that exact a price. Plus: adventure hooks, new item types (scepters, chalices, orbs), lair items, linked thematic item sets, and iconic artifacts!

Pelgrane Press 13th Age: The Book of Loot

Yes, the 13th Age Roleplaying Game is all about the story and the awesome action, but we've all got a treasure-hungry munchkin inside of us, and it's time to let that grubby-fingered kid out to play. The Book of Loot for 13th Age is full of more magic items to be found, stolen, given as rewards or otherwise looted by the player characters. We've also thrown in a short chapter on ways to make mundane treasure more interesting, and a selection of new one-use magic items. Made in the USA.

Pelgrane Press 13th Age: 13th Age Corebook

Veteran game designers Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet 's love letter to their favorite dungeon-crawling fantasy roleplaying game! 13th Age is the highly-anticipated new rules-light fantasy RPG from two legendary game designers, combining an old-school approach with indie story game design. Players take the roles of fortune-seeking adventurers in a world where powerful individuals called Icons pursue goals that may preserve an ancient empire, or destroy it.. By defining each character's relationship to the Icons, along with a rich background and a trait that makes him or her unique in the world, 13th Age lays the groundwork for epic stories that emerge through play.