Quote from: Akrasia;799758Pelinore was the UK TSR's home setting (for their short-lived Imagine magazine).

... and written by authors who, after the demise of the magazine, went to GW to work on WHFRP.

Paul Cockburn commented on that exodus in the final Gamemaster module (which bore a GW logo, btw, and was set in a Pelinore with slightly different names).

A few of the names were changed for the first 3 GM Publications - mostly the maps. Interestingly, the map of Cerwyn in GM5 was identical to the one published in Imagine, so Cockburn most likely took the artwork with him when he left TSR UK. It's unknown whether the Pelinore articles published in GM Pubs were similarly taken from a pile at IMAGINE or if they were new submissions. In any case, they must have been somewhat, but not very much, worried about IP infringement at first to change some of the names - at one point they even mentioned that Pelinore was still technically a property of TSR but didn't like to mention that part. In any case, by the last two issues of GM Pubs any attempts to sorta-conceal things was discarded and the modules and associated articles made blatant mention of the setting and the original names.

As for the original Pelinore campaign itself, it was initially devised by Tom Kirby for his long-running group of players. Around the time IMAGINE folded, he passed the DM's hat to Cockburn who continued to run the game using the Beast Enz module Halls of the Dwarven Kings (later to become first part of WFRP's Doomstones series) and the GM publications modules In Search of New Gods and The Awakening. By that point the PCs were all around 9th-level. This was all concurrent with the writing of WFRP, and before any of the authors had secured full-time jobs with GW. When that happened, Cockburn relocated to Nottingham to work for GW and presumably the ongoing Pelinore campaign game ended.

Thanks for doing this!

I read one or two of the Pelinor articles back in the day, but Imagine was hard to come by in the US. The setting seemed neat, but I'd mostly forgotten about it until you posted this material.

Looking forward to giving it a go with my group at some point.

Quote from: Kellri;797695If there is enough interest, I'll be putting together a companion volume of new original material, such as random City League events and encounters, new locations, instructions for setting the U and UK module series in Pelinore and general tips and game-aids for running a Pelinore campaign, as time permits. This pdf has no page numbers so any later new material can just be inserted into the campaign notebook or a pdf without another major update.

The Collected Pelinore.pdf
264pp
62mb

Sorry for the thread necro, but whatever happened to this idea Kellri? Did you ever finish it? I am interested. Love the setting, just wish I could complete it (all GM adventures, etc.)

I've got a bunch of Pelinore stuff in various states of completion, but I've been pretty busy doing my own book for OSRIC entitled Dangerous Dungeons. It's somewhere in the 600-page range and a way bigger project than I've ever attempted before, so that's overshadowed everything else.

Hi Kellri

Nice to see the old files collected in one place.

All of the maps in "In Search of New Gods" were drawn by me. Including the Domains map double page spread at the end.
A credit wouldn't go amiss.

Best wishes

Sam Vail

Quote from: samvail;944451Hi Kellri

Nice to see the old files collected in one place.

All of the maps in "In Search of New Gods" were drawn by me. Including the Domains map double page spread at the end.
A credit wouldn't go amiss.

Best wishes

Sam Vail

Welcome to theRPGsite, Sam!