Downton Abbey meets Hillfolk. Players play an aristocratic family in a player-led dramatic game of emotional needs and wants for 4-5 players.

Hazelwood Abbey uses Pelgrane Press' DramaSystem rules engine to create a story of high-stakes interpersonal conflict. During the session, we will create family members with conflicting needs and goals. And then we will find out what happens.

Hazelwood  Abbey consists of two sets of playbooks - one for upstairs (the family) and one for downstairs (the servants). 

Hazelwood Abbey on itch.io

Players play members of a successful pop band in a player-led dramatic game of emotional needs and wants for 4-5 players.

Success2Soon uses Pelgrane Press' DramaSystem rules engine to create a story of high-stakes interpersonal conflict. During the session, we will create band members with conflicting needs and goals. And then we will find out what happens.

Success2Soon on itch.io

It is December 1985. The National Trust has just taken over Calke Abbey in Derbyshire. During renovation works, two workmen uncover a mysterious room - and are attacked by something on their way home. One workman is dead, another so terrified he cannot speak...

Count Magnus' Descendent is a ghostly system-agnostic scenario (no game stats) ideal for Cthulhu Dark, Casting the Runes or Liminal by Steve Hatherley. It is heavily based on Count Magnus by MR James and set at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. It typically takes three hours to play.

Count Magnus' Descendent on DriveThruRPG

Count Magnus' Descendent on Itch.io

Design notes

PERFECT ORGANISM: a cinematic scenario for Free League's ALIEN roleplaying game.

In 2021 I ran a short campaign using The Dee Sanction. I talked about it on my blog and I wrote up the adventure I ran.

Abaddon's Puppet

In 2020 I ran a lot of Liminal, Dr Mitch's British urban fantasy rpg in which the players solve mysteries. I talked about it on my blog, and I wrote up one of my encounters.

Hardknott Roman Fort ghost realm

Liminal-themed Tales of Terror

I really like Cthulhu Dark, and wrote about it on my blog. I’ve adapted In Whom We Trust (which I originally wrote for Call of Cthulhu) for Cthulhu Dark

In Whom We Trust - scenario

Session notes

I find PbtA games very enticing - I love the concept but I'm too much of a traditionalist to understand how they work. Monster of the Week is like a stepping stone between trad games and PbTA - it uses all the rules, but also has a "scenario" in the traditional sense. So I wrote one.

The Seeds of Doom scenario

Discussions about Monster of the Week (including session notes) from my blog.

Revised playbooks suitable for one shots and my notes here.

Traveller was my first RPG, but I didn't write all that much for  it. (By the time I had picked up the bug of writing I'd moved on to Call of Cthulhu.) Anyway here are six linked  Amber Zones that were published in the Cerebretron fanzine in the late 1980s.

• Search for the Stardrive

• The Skywhale

• The God Monster

• Where Eagles Dare

• The Derelict

• The Poseidon Adventure

Kastajhan's Carpet is a  set of generic adventure seeds that was published in issue #3 of The Last Province.

I recycled bits of it in The Carpet for Tales of Terror.

Cargo of Death is  a short scenario for 2300AD that was published in the November 1990 issue of Games Master international.

Cargo of Death scenario