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Fear Itself (role-playing Game)
''Fear Itself'' is a role-playing game published by Pelgrane Press in 2007. Description ''Fear Itself'' is one of the games to use the Gumshoe System. Set in a similar world to that of ''The Esoterrorists'', ''Fear Itself'' instead focuses on ordinary people who are drawn into confrontation with the creatures of the Outer Black. The game introduces psychic powers to the ''Gumshoe System''. Publication history Robin Laws designed ''Fear Itself'' (2007) for Pelgrane Press's ''GUMSHOE System, GUMSHOE'' system. Reception Reviews *''Pyramid (magazine), Pyramid'' References {{Rpg-stub British role-playing games Horror role-playing games Pelgrane Press games Robin Laws games Role-playing games introduced in 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fear Itself, Role-playing Game
Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perception, perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat. Fear in human beings may occur in response to a certain stimulus (physiology), stimulus occurring in the present, or in anticipation or expectation of a future threat perceived as a risk to oneself. The fear response arises from the perception of Risk, danger leading to confrontation with or escape from/avoiding the threat (also known as the fight-or-flight response), which in extreme cases of fear (horror and terror) can be a freeze response or paralysis. In humans and other animals, fear is modulated by the process of cognition and learning. Thus, fear is judged as rational or appropriate and irrational or inappropriate. An irrational fear is called a phobia. Fear is closely related to the emotion anxiety, which occurs as the resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelgrane Press
Pelgrane Press Ltd is a British role-playing game publishing company based in London and founded in 1999. It is co-owned by Simon J Rogers and Cat Tobin. It currently produces GUMSHOE System RPGs, '' 13th Age'', the Diana Jones award-winning '' Hillfolk'' RPG, '' The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'', and other related products. It publishes fiction under the Stone Skin Press imprint. History Pelgrane Press was founded in 1999, and was initially owned by Simon Rogers, ProFantasy Software, and Sasha Bilton. It is co-owned by Simon J Rogers and Cat Tobin. GUMSHOE System The GUMSHOE System was designed by Robin D. Laws for running investigative, clue-finding games: * '' The Esoterrorists'' and '' Fear Itself'' by Robin D. Laws, based on the ''Book of Unremitting Horror'' by Adrian Bott and Dave Allsop * '' Trail of Cthulhu'' by Kenneth Hite * '' Mutant City Blues'', a near-future gritty police procedural Superhero setting by Robin Laws * '' Ashen Stars'', a darkly rebooted invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gumshoe System
The Gumshoe System (stylised as ''The GUMSHOE System'') is a role-playing game system created in 2007 by Robin Laws, designed for running investigative scenarios. The premise is that investigative games are not about finding clues, they are about interpreting the clues that are found. The ''Gumshoe System'' is used in various games published by Pelgrane Press. As a result of the Hillfolk kickstarter, the SRD for the ''Gumshoe System'' has been made available for use under two open licenses: the Open Game License (OGL) and Creative Commons Attribution. Of the games in the line, '' Trail of Cthulhu'' won the 2010 Lucca Games award for best role-playing game and '' Ashen Stars'' was a 2011 nominee for the Origins Award for best RPG. Concept The ''Gumshoe System'' is designed around the idea that investigative scenarios are difficult to run with most role-playing systems. The problem is identified as important clues being missed due to failed dice-rolls, resulting in play grind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Esoterrorists
''The Esoterrorists'' is a Contemporary Occult tabletop role-playing game, written by Robin D. Laws, and published by Pelgrane Press in 2006. Description ''The Esoterrorists'' is one of the games to use the GUMSHOE System. As elite investigators of the Ordo Veritatis, the characters combat occult terrorists who are intent on tearing the fabric of the world by exposing it to the creatures of the Outer Dark. In ''The Esoterrorists'' setting, two players receive 32 ''investigative'' build points each, while five or more players receive 20 build points each. Any number of investigative build points can be spent on an investigative ability, though more than 3 or 4 points is rarely useful. In ''The Esoterrorists'' setting players receive 60 ''general'' build points each. Any number of general build points can be spent on a general ability, as long as the second highest rated ability is at least half that of the highest rated. After a scenario is completed, player characters receive n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Laws
Robin D. Laws (born October 14, 1964 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer and game designer who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of a number of novels and role-playing games as well as an anthologist. Career Robin D. Laws has been a professional game designer and an author since the early 1990s. Game designer Robin D. Laws has been playing role-playing games since he was a teenager and has worked as a game designer since the early 1990s. John Nephew of Atlas Games convinced Jonathan Tweet to publish a game he had been writing about in '' Alarums & Excursions''; Laws talked with Tweet about the game in ''A&E'' and contributed to the final product as well, the result of which was '' Over the Edge'' (1992). Daedalus Games began when Laws approached Jose Garcia in 1993 with an idea for a Hong Kong Action Cinema RPG; while Garcia liked the idea, his first priority was his own setting, '' Nexus: The Infinite City'' which was published in 1994 with Garcia as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GUMSHOE System
The Gumshoe System (stylised as ''The GUMSHOE System'') is a role-playing game system created in 2007 by Robin Laws, designed for running investigative scenarios. The premise is that investigative games are not about finding clues, they are about interpreting the clues that are found. The ''Gumshoe System'' is used in various games published by Pelgrane Press. As a result of the Hillfolk kickstarter, the SRD for the ''Gumshoe System'' has been made available for use under two open licenses: the Open Game License (OGL) and Creative Commons Attribution. Of the games in the line, '' Trail of Cthulhu'' won the 2010 Lucca Games award for best role-playing game and '' Ashen Stars'' was a 2011 nominee for the Origins Award for best RPG. Concept The ''Gumshoe System'' is designed around the idea that investigative scenarios are difficult to run with most role-playing systems. The problem is identified as important clues being missed due to failed dice-rolls, resulting in play grind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyramid (magazine)
''Pyramid'' was a gaming magazine, publishing articles primarily on role-playing games, but including board games, card games, and other sorts of games. It began life in 1993 as a print publication of Steve Jackson Games for its first 30 issues, though it has been published on the Internet since March 1998. Print issues were bimonthly; the first online version published new articles each week; the second online version is monthly. ''Pyramid'' is headquartered in Austin, Texas. It replaced Steve Jackson Games' previous magazine '' Roleplayer''. ''Pyramid'' features general gaming articles by freelance authors, as well as Designer's Notes by Steve Jackson Games product developers, industry news, cartoons, and gaming product reviews. Although articles tend to concentrate on Steve Jackson Games products such as '' GURPS'', it has published articles on other games such as '' d20 System'', '' Talisman'', '' Nobilis'', '' Hero System'', and has featured various comic strips and sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Role-playing Games
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *'' Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Role-playing Games
Horror may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Genres *Horror fiction, a genre of fiction **Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction **Korean horror, Korean horror fiction *Horror film, a film genre *Horror comics, comic books focusing on horror *Horror punk, a music genre *Horrorcore, a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror *Horror game, a video game genre **Survival horror, a video game subgenre of horror and action-adventure *Horror podcast, a podcast genre Films *Horror (2002 film), ''Horror'' (2002 film), an American film by Dante Tomaselli *Hashtag Horror, ''#Horror'', a 2015 American film by Tara Subkoff *''Horror'', Italian title for the 1963 Italian-Spanish film ''The Blancheville Monster'' Fictional characters *Horror (Garo), Horror (''Garo''), fictional monsters in the Tokusatsu series ''Garo'' *Horror icon, a significant person or fictional character in a horror genre Music Groups and labels * Ho99o9 (pronounced Horror), an American hip hop group * The Hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Laws Games
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