The Primer of Practical Magic

Give your d20 magician a taste of the Dying Earth

The Primer of Practical Magic is filled with extraordinary spells, items and new powers for the magicians in your campaign. Whether you wish to spin your enemies to death with Phandaal's Gyrator, or control them like a puppet with Clambard's Rein of the Long Nerves, this is the libram for the discerning wizard's library.

The Scaum Valley Gazetteer

 Reviews

"There is probably enough gaming material here to keep a once-a-week Dying Earth game going for well over a year. This is not just the most directly usable, useful TDE supplement I have yet read; it’s probably the most directly usable, useful RPG supplement I have ever read..."

Ian Sturrock - rpg.net

Pelgrane Press continues its stri...   [click here for more]

All's Fair at Azenomei (FoF:1.1)

A new adventure for the Dying Earth RPG! Part of the Footsteps of Fools (FoF) series.

This pdf-exclusive adventure is set in the bustling town of Azenomei during the annual Great Fair. At this time of year the town is packed to bursting, and opportunities for the wily entrepreneur are almost innumerable. It is the first episode (1.1) in the huge Cugelesque adventure-arc: The Foot...   [click here for more]

Night's Black Agents: The Zalozhniy Quartet

From the Ukraine, through Vienna and Baghdad, you must fight your way to the top of the conspiracy, past Soviet spies, con men and the supernatural horrors all out for your blood.

The Lisky Bratva, a Russian mafiya brotherhood, will do anything to stop you.

Keep running. Keep fighting. Make that ...   [click here for more]

Cugel's Compendium of Indispensable Advantages

The first supplement for the Dying Earth RPG, and full of useful advice for non-Dying Earth swindlers and ne'er-do-wells.

For sound commerical reasons, we have made this supplement indispensable to both players and Game Moderators alike. A mere sample of this supplements contents offers proof:

A new power, the Tweak: Procure advantage in specific situations. Negate a blun...   [click here for more]

Albion's Ransom

Little Girl Lost is a full-length campaign for The Esoterrorists. Written by Ian Sturrock (Conana, BESM d20), it's a race against time to rescue the daughter of your Ordo Veritatis boss. It's set in the UK, but designed for US operatives.

Investigators Abroad

You're all experts in your field. The amount you know about the dire work of the Esoterrorists, i...   [click here for more]

Ascolais and the Land of the Falling Wall:Excellent Prismatic Spray 4/5 double issue

To Ascolais, the Falling Wall and Beyond! Once the heart of the reach of Grand Motholam, the Land of the Falling Wall and Ascolais are now picturesque ruins. The people are strange, the places stranger, the opportunities and diversions unparalleled.

This double issue of The Excellent Prismatic Spray is your well-nigh irresistible invitation to discover the Dying Earth’s heartlands...   [click here for more]

Ashen Stars: Dead Rock Seven

Some mysteries, you really don't want to solve. If the thing at the centre of the labyrinth starts hunting you, you'll wish you'd never started searching in the first place. Some truths are buried for a reason. The sound of claws on metal grew louder. Something scraped at the outside of the sealed hatch.

'This is impossible. They're dead.' ...   [click here for more]

Beyond the Mountains of Magnatz (FoF:4)

A picaresque series of adventures for the Dying Earth, featuring the evolving exploits of advancing Cugel-level characters.

BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS OF MAGNATZ (Footsteps of Fools: Part 4)

You may have thought your adventurous rogues were trapped in the barren north until the sun went dark. But no, the former Lords of Cil are on the move again. Initially reprising their roles as the...   [click here for more]

Cthulhu Apocalypse: The Dead White World

The first part of the highly anticipated Cthulhu Apocalypse series.

The Investigators are rendered unconscious by a train crash. When they wake they discover the world has died. White flowers cover the ground and they see, beneath the delicate petals, the faces of the dead. No other human is in sight, everyone is gone.

The struggle to survive the apocalypse takes the Inve...   [click here for more]

Fear Itself

A new stand-alone horror game based on the GUMSHOE system

Fear Itself plunges ordinary people into a disturbing contemporary world of madness and violence. Players take the roles of regular folks much like themselves, who are inexorably drawn into confrontation with the creatures of the Outer Black, an unearthly realm of alien menace. With or without its distinctive mythol...   [click here for more]

GUMSHOE Zoom: Martial Arts

Not everything can support a game of its own, or even a big sourcebook. For those things, we present the GUMSHOE Zoom, a sort of supplement focused on a key game mechanic and its possible applications. In general, Zooms are interesting potential hacks, or intriguing adaptations of the main rules. Some apply to on...   [click here for more]

Hideous Creatures: Deep Ones

In this series, Kenneth Hite looks at the creatures, species, and monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos from every non-Euclidean angle. Alternate versions and new explanations provide the same jolt of mythic bisociation that the gods and titans receive in the TRAIL OF CTHULHU corebook. Hite traces these foul things through their legendary history, and p...   [click here for more]

Invasive Procedures

The kids all say Our Lady's Hospital is haunted. You can see why, when you look at it, that big gloomy pile of staring windows and rusting beds. They should have torn the place down years ago, instead of letting it linger on like this. I'd hate to be a patient there. They send you there to die.

You are a patient in an old, rambling hospital. Part of it is shut down, part o...   [click here for more]

Ken Writes About Stuff: Annual Subscription

Ken Hite has recently joined Pelgrane as a full-time writer, and we’ve come up with a clever way of using his considerable writing talents. Now,  you can subscribe to Ken Writes About Stuff, featuring new and original Hite goodness every month for twelve months. It costs $24.95 and as well as giving you a generous 30% discount on the individual ar...   [click here for more]

Mutant City Blues

Ten years ago, 1% of the population gained mutant powers.

1% of the citizens means 1% of the criminals!

...and you're the cops who clean up the mess.

EVER SINCE the Sudden Mutation Event, people have been able to fly. Phase through walls. Read minds. Shoot bolts of energy from their fingertips. Walk into dreams.

Profane Miracles

Not all miracles are holy

Profane Miracles is designed for a group of 3-6 players looking for a fast-paced, action-packed adventure to set the blood pumping.

It’s easy to pick up and play.

Jonathan Bentley, millionaire financier, has been raised from the dead at a Los Angeles charity ball by self-styled "psychic ...   [click here for more]

RMS Titanic: The Millionaire's Special

First Class on the Titanic is exciting in itself but when you are invited to a private viewing of one of the world’s great curiosities, you jump at the chance. The mummy of Hettunaway, Priestess of Amun-Ra, the Unlucky Mummy is being shipped to New York and donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by...   [click here for more]

Six Packed

A fast-play adventure for The Esoterrorists

A mutilated corpse is found hanging a slaughterhouse, bullet wounds in the shoulders, elbows and knees. It looks like a terrorist punishment killing, but there are subtle clues pointing at Esoterrorist involvement...

Can you stop a terrible chain of events before the world wakes up to headlines which weaken the Membrane and let the creatur...   [click here for more]

Skulduggery: Black Smoke

Black Smoke is the brand new setting for Skulduggery, the roleplaying game of verbal fireworks and sudden reversals! 

The previous pope, Celestine, has died under mysterious circumstances so it's time for the cardinals to gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new leader. This is where the conniving, back-stab...   [click here for more]

The Birds Comic Collection Vol 1

The Birds is award-winning writer Robin D Laws' comic strip.

"I look forward, near-slavering, to those days that Robin's blog reads, "CLICK HERE for another installment of the Birds." Where most squeaky-clean comic strips are trying to channel After-School Specials, The Birds is strictly Saturday Night Special."- John Kovalic, Dork Tower

Pete,...   [click here for more]

The Esoterror Fact Book

Ripped from the secret files of the Ordo Veritatis, the the Esoterror Fact Book briefs you on what you need to send players into intrigue-filled confrontation with forces of international terror bent on supernatural apocalypse.

This 152-page player-friendly sourcebook for The Es...   [click here for more]

Tooth, Talion and Pinion, XPS 7/8

Stranger, stay your hand a while

Wonder at the pets of the Dying Earth, frolic in the icy streets of The Hidden City in the Mountains, gawp at Bildazan, God of Merchants and Thieves. Once again Pelgrane Press spares no expense or effort to bring to your attention what they most modestly assure me must surely be the finest collection of scenarios, background information and plo...   [click here for more]

Trail of Cthulhu: Bookhounds of London

These cycles of experience, of course, all stem from that worm-riddled book. I remember when I found it - in a dimly lighted place near the black, oily river where the mists always swirl.- The Book

Forbidden Tomes

Bookhounds of London is a brand new campaign setting for Trail of Cthulhu, packed with period detail, where the Investigators seek out books about horror...   [click here for more]

Trail of Cthulhu: Flying Coffins

Early winter, 1918. You are members of the Royal Flying Corps stationed near the Front and rumour has it, the next big push is about to begin. The squadron’s being worked to death, and its champion ace is on the verge of cracking up. Meanwhile the new Hun Circus is racking up kill after kill – but is it the enemy or so...   [click here for more]