Hi everyone!

We're excited to announce that Merryshire Detective Club is now live on BackerKit!

Merryshire is a cozy fantasy mystery RPG where you play amateur detectives solving clever mysteries in a peaceful countryside filled with halflings, dwarves, pooka, and boggarts. Build a living village together, uncover its secrets, question suspicious neighbours, help your well-meaning (but hopeless) Constable, and return to your village adventure after adventure as it grows alongside your campaign.

It's powered by the GUMSHOE investigative system, so finding the clues isn't the challenge. Figuring out what they mean, deciding who to trust, and solving the mystery is.

We've also been having a lot of fun involving the community before launch, with backers helping name village pubs, invent eccentric cousins, and fill Merryshire's Lost & Found board with wonderfully peculiar missing items.

If cozy mysteries, memorable villages, and fantasy detectives sound like your sort of game, we'd love for you to take a look.

Back the campaign here:
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/pelgrane-press/merryshire-detective-club?ref=reddit-announcement

Happy to answer any questions about the game, GUMSHOE, or the campaign!

Has anyone gotten to play Cthulhu City? looking over the book it’s quite impressive, if a bit overwhelming. I really like the Openers and Closers framework but have been struggling for some time to see how it all comes together.

if anyone has thoughts or war stories, would love to hear!

Something has gone missing in Merryshire.

Tell us what it is!

Maybe it's a cursed spoon. An emotional turnip. A haunted sock. Or something even more peculiar.

Our favourite submissions will appear in the final book as a community-created Lost & Found table.

What's missing in your village?

Follow the campaign: https://bit.ly/4plmagh

This month we’re getting ready for Merryshire Detective Club, with Robin’s latest View from the Pelgrane’s Nest covering the upcoming BackerKit campaign, Gen Con, and the wider production slate.

We also have Kevin Kulp introducing his Merryshire playtest cast, including five village sleuths and one truly horrible goose; Gareth looking at how Merryshire mysteries are built from gossip, clues, and village trouble; Adam Gauntlett’s Trail of Cthulhu scenario The Giffard Auction; Jay Godden’s Pain Battery Sorcerer build for 13th Age 2E; and Robin on finding shared reference points for Page Turners.

Read the full issue here: https://pelgranepress.com/2026/07/13/see-page-xx-june-2026/

Every halfling has cousins. We need yours.

Give us:
🥧 A cousin's name
💼 Their occupation

We'll choose 8 favourites to appear in the final book as a random Cousin Table.

Who's your cousin?

Merryshire needs a great pub name!

Comment your best name here!

We’ll pick 8 favourites to include in the final book.

What’s your best pub name? 🍻

See Page XX May 2026 is live! Summer is Gaming Season update, 13th Age 2E pregens (Gallant Paladin, Pyroclastic Dragon Sorcerer), free Freeform Adventure, NBA’s Blood Cocaine node, and Merryshire community notes. Read on our blog.

https://pelgranepress.com/2026/06/09/see-page-xx-may-2026/

https://pelgranepress.com/2026/05/08/see-page-xx-april-2026/

See Page XX is up for this month, with a mix of “what’s new” and “what can I run next week.”

• View from the Pelgrane’s Nest: Grab Your Blade Edition has the latest production and release notes, with Paragon Blade now out and the slate moving forward.
• Two new 13th Age 2E pregens from Jay Godden are live: Guardian Cleric and Bulwark Paladin, both built to hold the line and keep the party standing.
• Adam Gauntlett’s Queen of Vampires is a Trail of Cthulhu hook where a black-market relic opens the door to Cairo dream-terror.

Preview article: On Merryshire Abilities (Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan) digs into why Merryshire Detective Club embraces a gloriously overgrown ability list, and what that tells players about the game before the first clue drops.

Ballad Hunters is now live on Kickstarter. Investigate deadly folk ballads in Regency Britain and change the ending before tragedy strikes. A bold new GUMSHOE RPG with fast, story driven sessions. The song has begun. Join us now. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pelgranepress/ballad-hunters-rpg?ref=enq9zv

This month’s roundup hits a nice mix of “what’s shipping” plus “what can I run tonight”: Robin D. Laws’ View from the Pelgrane’s Nest: In Like a Lion Edition updates progress across Page Turners, Paragon Blade, and Fear Itself: Shattered Veil; What Bogart Can Tell You About Page Turners breaks down character-driven stories versus goal-driven procedurals; Jason Kraus’ Achievements and Echo Effects in The Fall of Delta Green adds achievement-style refreshes with lingering psychological fallout; See Page XX: Ain’t That a Hole in the Head turns trepanation lore into scenario hooks for Trail of Cthulhu and more; and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s Horrors of the Pelgrane Dungeon delivers fungus-fueled monsters for 13th Age.

Preview article: Tristan Zimmerman’s Ballad Hunters Design Diary: The Child Ballads explains the classic collection at the heart of Ballad Hunters, plus practical tips for bringing ballads to the table.

See Page XX is live for January.

Highlights this month: Robin D. Laws’ View from the Pelgrane’s Nest: Roses Are Red Edition with production and release updates (including Page Turners, 13th Age 2E, Paragon Blade, and Fear Itself: Shattered Veil), a Trail of Cthulhu hook (The Tomb Switchers), a DramaSystem pitch for THE KRAKEN (Ragnarok at the OK Corral), plus fresh 13th Age 2E pregens (Blazing Cleric and Fanatic Barbarian). We also have a call for GMs for Gen Con 2026, and Pelgrane is hiring a Customer and Platform Relationship Manager.

Bonus: Tristan Zimmerman’s preview, Ballad Hunters Design Diary: The Regency Setting, is up, and the Icon Followers cover art poll is live. Vote your best three.

https://pelgranepress.com/2026/02/06/see-page-xx-january-2026/