Once again I will be attending the flagship Dragonmeet in London, which happens on November 28th. I would have said that I was happy to be going and left it that. However, I am indebted to spencerpine , who kindly reminded me via the Twitter earlier this week, that certain persons react with profound unease to simple declarations of happiness. Knowing that some of these folks might...

I'm listening to the Marriage of Figaro , at the prompting of simonjrogers . It's pleasant enough but I couldn't say that it's engaging. I said I'd listen to it three times so perhaps it will grow on me.

For the second year in a row, I started the last day of the show with an appearance on the brain-dead Sunday morning edition of Ryan Macklin's This Just In From Gen Con podcast. I teamed with my erstwhile death match companero John Wick in the guest chairs, while Pulp Gamer's Derek Rex co-hosted. My brain death quotient was supplied when I not just repeatedly but determinedly mangled the name...

As Pelgrane’s Simon Rogers revealed last week, I am currently at work on Skulduggery , a genericized version of the Dying Earth RPG rules. As of this writing, I’ve done the initial draft, am playtesting in house, and am about to shoot the results to Simon before taking a quick vacation. (If you want to participate in our outside playtesting, drop Simon a line.) I’m basically tweaking and repackaging...

I just love drawing menacing cultist ! I like the enigmatic face, questionning the viewer, is it a mask ! A cthulhu face ? my grandma ? This last pic is for the "suprise" book for Trail of Cthulhu that might be (if the stars are with us) at gencon indy. I now have my plane tickets for gencon so you will see me there (well if you want to !) I will be signing books at Pelgrane place. Well, maybe...

Act V, Scene Vc : A) Confronting a priest, the priest in charge of Ophelia’s funeral, Laertes demands greater ceremony for Ophelia’s funeral, and is rebuffed. If we were treating Laertes as a PC, this would be a failed persuasion interaction for him. Since we’re concerned about Hamlet, who watches unseen, we have to see this from the vantage of his procedural or dramatic progress. It serves...

Ganked from Pelgrane Press' blog: SKULDUGGERY The Roleplaying Game Of Verbal Fireworks & Sudden Reversals by Robin D. Laws Join Your Friends For an Evening Of Scheming, Betrayal and Temptation Need a break from five foot squares and attacks of opportunity? Looking for an alternative when half the group bails on your in-depth saga of super-serious emoting? Seek no further than Skulduggery, Pelgrane...

After a run-in with that ultimate force of dread and cosmic indifference, the printer’s error , Shadows Over Filmland has now finally shipped. This 192-page hardback Trail Of Cthulhu supplement is a tribute to the classic horror movies of the 1930s by Kenneth Hite and myself. Look for it at your DLGS (the D is for “discerning”) or order in print or PDF from IPR or the Pelgrane Store...

The Dying Earth RPG and associated supplements are currently on sale at 50% off. I know it's wearisome to say 'this is a game system like no other!' but in this case it is the God's honest truth. I have only been able to play one game of The Dying Earth, expertly presided over by serpentstar , and I ended up doubled over and breathless because of the sheer hilarious catastrophe of it all...

As Simon posted on his blog , we'll be releasing two free new mapping styles for registered CC3 users next week. It occurred to us that at least one of these should come with a "mapping guide", as we do for the Cartographer Annual styles. This is the map that I created while writing the mapping guide: (Click on the map to see a larger version) The mapping guide will be included with the download...