Swords, Spies & Shoggoths: The Pelgrane Press Panel
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Join Simon Rogers, Cat Tobin & others from the Pelgrane team for a behind-the-scenes look at what the award-winning RPG publisher's been up to this year, & what they've planned for the coming year.
Sometimes you need to break a few laws to save society. This is an unusual adventure where you have the flexibility to tackle a loathsome judge through every nontraditional mean at your disposal.
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You're six of the most powerful and influential citizens in the city, tasked with eliminating a corrupt magistrate any way you can. Problem is, he's politically untouchable and damned hard to kill. Find his weakness, apply leverage, and make the world a better place. This is an unusual adventure where you have tremendous flexibility to tackle a loathsome judge through creative problem-solving and every nontraditional means at your disposal. No rules knowledge necessary.
In search of a missing vampire, you come upon fanatical sun cultists. They plan to "purify" the empire by exterminating all other religions. Can you prevent the dawn of a terrifying new age?
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On your quest you’re led to a volcanic island in the Midland Sea occupied by fanatical sun cultists. The cultists plan to sacrifice the vampire in a ritual to summon and control a long-lost flying temple to the sun gods, and use its power to “purify” the Dragon Empire by exterminating all other religions. Can you prevent the dawn of a terrifying new age, ruled by a ruthless theocracy of fire? Level 5 characters provided, or bring your own.
In search of a missing vampire, you come upon fanatical sun cultists. They plan to "purify" the empire by exterminating all other religions. Can you prevent the dawn of a terrifying new age?
Description:
On your quest you’re led to a volcanic island in the Midland Sea occupied by fanatical sun cultists. The cultists plan to sacrifice the vampire in a ritual to summon and control a long-lost flying temple to the sun gods, and use its power to “purify” the Dragon Empire by exterminating all other religions. Can you prevent the dawn of a terrifying new age, ruled by a ruthless theocracy of fire? Level 5 characters provided, or bring your own.
Something terrible has befallen Ernest Wheeden. His body bears curious marks that medicine cannot yet explain, he has nightmares, and cannot recall his movements for the last several weeks.
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Ernest Wheeden's sleep is disturbed by constant nightmares, and his body bears curious marks that medicine cannot yet explain. He cannot recall his movements in the last several weeks. His family, worried for his health and sanity, have assembled a group of experts in diverse fields to solve the mysterious case of Ernest Wheeden.
A pulp-mode scenario, involving dark mysteries and peculiar secrets in 18th century England, concerning heroes in service to the Lunar Society.
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The year is 1778, and Mr. James Watt is in Cornwall, supervising the installation of Boulton & Watt steam engines in the mines in those parts. However, one small mine is giving no end of trouble, with a rash of unpleasant accidents – and the superstitions of the local workers have made Mr. Watt most suspicious. And so Mr. Watt has written to his friends in the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and the Lunar Society, which has learned of some strange secrets over the years not to be mentioned in their regular correspondence, have despatched a band of their Associate Members to put paid to these nonsensensical tales of curses – whether or not they be true. Characters will be supplied.
Your intrepid band of absinthe-soaked art students seek to stop Notre-Dame Cathedral's eccentric organist from opening a gate between our world and the horrific realm of Carcosa.
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For more than seven centuries Notre-Dame Cathedral has loomed over the life and legend of Paris. Now, impelled by alien frequencies, the church's eccentric organist uses a captive entity to turn its Gothic ironwork into a gate between our world and the horrific realm of Carcosa. Only your intrepid band of absinthe-soaked art students stand in his way.
Your intrepid band of absinthe-soaked art students seek to stop Notre-Dame Cathedral's eccentric organist from opening a gate between our world and the horrific realm of Carcosa.
Description:
For more than seven centuries Notre-Dame Cathedral has loomed over the life and legend of Paris. Now, impelled by alien frequencies, the church's eccentric organist uses a captive entity to turn its Gothic ironwork into a gate between our world and the horrific realm of Carcosa. Only your intrepid band of absinthe-soaked art students stand in his way.
Your intrepid band of absinthe-soaked art students seek to stop Notre-Dame Cathedral's eccentric organist from opening a gate between our world and the horrific realm of Carcosa.
Description:
For more than seven centuries Notre-Dame Cathedral has loomed over the life and legend of Paris. Now, impelled by alien frequencies, the church's eccentric organist uses a captive entity to turn its Gothic ironwork into a gate between our world and the horrific realm of Carcosa. Only your intrepid band of absinthe-soaked art students stand in his way.
You've hunted the vampire across London, destroying his refuges and hiding places. Maybe tonight will be the night you catch him and come face to face with your enemy.
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You're on the vampire's trail. You've hunted him across London, destroying his refuges and hiding places, denying him his coffins. Maybe tonight will be the night you catch him and come face to face with your enemy. Time is running short. Unless you kill him, he'll spread his curse like a disease. Think of the vampire as a pathogen, a plague.