Bill Barbato at The Final Frontiersmen, the Star Trek Adventures YouTube channel, reviewed Redacted and issued a number of red and yellow alerts for things he really liked. Highly rcommended viewing if you are curious about the game. View the episode here!
2025-11-25Our Cthulhu by Gaslight Christmas carol Marrow & Mistletoe, featuring old Ebenezer Scrooge back in style, just hit Copper status on DTRPG, in just one week after its release. We think you need to check it out – click here!
2025-11-09Just two days after its release, Marrow & Mistletoe –our Cthulhu by Gaslight hommage to Charles Dickens – hit the top spot on Miskatonic Repository! Don't miss out, join the crowd and get the scenario on DTRPG, just click here!
2025-11-11Our publishing streak of thrilling scenarios for Call of Cthulhu continues with the chilling Christmas carol Marrow & Mistletoe, which revisits old Ebenezer Scrooge in a soot-stained 1880s London, where he once again is up to no good. You can purchase the scenario on DTRPG if you click here! Watch a preview of the book here!
2025-11-09Our Call of Cthulhu scenario The Island of Insanity has hit Electrum level on DriveThru RPG, which means we are now eligible to offer it as a print-on-demand product. This is the third of our Call of Cthulhu products to reach this coveted status, the others being Shattered Reality and The White Circle. You can purchase the scenario here!
2025-11-04The Yellow Hand proudly announce the launch of our 6th proprietary role-playing game, Redacted – a sibling to the previously released miniatures skirmish wargame Saucer Squadron, set in the same tongue-in-cheek retro-styled universe, where aliens are real and saucers criss-cross the skies of Earth. In Redacted, the sky isn’t the limit – it’s just the first step. You can purchase the game on DTRPG, right here!
2025-10-30We've Struck Gold! Our best selling product, Shattered Reality – a modern day horror anthology for Call of Cthulhu – just passed 500 copies sold. A major milestone for The Yellow Hand. Onward and upward! Click here to check out our gold-selling nugget!
2025-10-25The Cursed Idol of Manco Capác is our brand new pulp adventure for Tales of Menace & Mystery, in which player characters will be drawn into a race against time to find and return a stolen Incan idol before a sinister cult can enact a cataclysmic ritual. Click here to get the race started!
2025-10-03The impressive spread seen to your left is the anchorpoint of Yellow Hand's own Al Spader's presence at this year's GraniteCon, in Manchester NH. A big heap of Yellow Hand products will be available for sale, and you also get to say hi to HelloBot. Find out how to locate Al at GraniteCon here!
2025-09-19Sci-Fi maestro and Yellow Hand stalwart Aaron Pollyea took to YouTube and the Star Trek Adventures: Continuing Conversations podcast to talk about Saucer Squadron and the upcoming Redacted RPG, set in the same universe. Click here to check out the episode, hosted by none other than Yellow Hand member Michael Dismuke! (Also don't miss the website, SaucerSquadron.com!)
2025-09-19The Threat of the Toxic Totem is The Yellow Hand's newest scenario for Call of Cthulhu, out now on DriveThruRPG. It involves a frantic hunt for a cursed Egyptian artifact, and the search for the envoy who was hired to retrieve it. Click here to experience the chill of the threat!
2025-08-24Shattered Reality, our anthology of modern day Call of Cthulhu scenarios, is now available in print – our first Call of Cthulhu scenario to earn this privilege. Hurry on over to DriveThruRPG and secure your copy – we can attest it looks pretty darn snazzy, worth every cent. Click here!
2025-08-16Web of Shadows, our engrossing Monster of the Week scenario, has been meticulously and lovingly adapted for Call of Cthulhu and is out now at the Miskatonic Repository! Don't miss out on this exploration of a mysterious, embedded cult of a nefarious spider god in the desolate hilly regions of Nevada – get the scenario here!
2025-08-11After a heroic promotional push, our bundled Call of Cthulhu scenarios (The White Circle, Shattered Reality, and The Island of Insanity) suddenly took a big jump, total sales increasing by 30% over the course of just two days!
Clearly, people are on to what a great deal this bundle is. Check it out for yourself here!
2025-08-10Nestled along US Route 50, “The Loneliest Road in America,” the isolated town of Eureka, Nevada, hides a terrible secret. A series of unexplained disappearances has shaken the locals but the truth runs deeper. For centuries, the town has served as a stronghold for the cult of Atlach-Nacha...
Web of Shadows is a complete, engrossing 56 page mystery that marks The Yellow Hand's return to Monster of the Week, pitting the hunters against a mysterious, embedded cult of a nefarious spider god in the desolate hilly regions of Nevada. Head on over to DTRPG to purchase the mystery here!
2025-07-26Welcome to Saucer Squadron, The Yellow Hand's first miniatures boardgame, set in the conspiratorial world of the 1950s, replete with alien abductions, lurking cryptids and government cover-ups. In Saucer Squadron, the sky isn’t the limit – it’s just the first step. You can purchase the game on DTRPG, right here!
2025-07-26We've just released The Violet Current, a standalone 1920s scenario for Call of Cthulhu. The scenario takes place in 1920s New York City, and especially in the underground queer clubs, bars, and other meeting-places of the Jazz Age era. It features 26 pages rich with intriguing details and plot points, and includes NPCs and pre-generated characters. You can purchase it on DTRPG, right here!
2025-07-25Shattered Reality, our anthology of modern day Call of Cthulhu scenarios, just hit Electrum status on DriveThruRPG. This means we are now eligible to put it out in print – watch this space for information about when the print version is released!
2025-07-25Now it's Ashland's turn to be repackaged in a bundle that provides you with all you need to get started. the bundle includes the hardcover version of the Core Rule Book, the No Safe Haven adventure, the Fillable Character Sheet, and the digital Game Master Screen inserts. Don't miss out on this tasty deal – click here!
2025-07-16The Sentience Kickstarter fulfillment has concluded! We are happy to report that all print orders have been placed and should be on their way to backers now. If you backed the project and have not seen your rewards yet, reach out to us at crowdfunding@theyellowhand.com.
2025-07-08The Island of Insanity, our hommage to H.P. Lovecraft's classic horror short story The Call of Cthulhu, just hit Copper status on DriveThruRPG, in just two weeks! See what the fuss is about right here!
2025-07-05Check out our special starter set för Tales of Menace & Mystery, out now! Includes the hardcover version of the Core Rule Book, the Island of Insanity adventure, the Fillable Character Sheet, the digital Game Master Screen inserts, and the Pulp Adventurers PDF of pre-gens. Grab this crazy good deal here!
2025-07-01YouTube channel RPG Elite recently dove into our pulp action RPG Tales of Menace & Mystery for a reaction video, and it's fair to say the reaction was very positive. Check out the video here!
2025-06-20The Island of Insanity, our hommage to H.P. Lovecraft's classic horror short story The Call of Cthulhu, is now appropriately adapted for Call of Cthulhu 7nd edition. Expanded to 28 pages, as before packed with plots, handouts, maps and NPCs. Get it right here!
2025-06-17Tales of Menace & Mystery gets another adventure boost with Island of Insanity, our hommage to the classic horror short story The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft. 26 pages packed with plots, handouts, maps and NPCs. Get it right here!
2025-06-04Right now, we have a very attractive bundle going over on DriveThru RPG: both our lauded Call of Cthulhu scenarios The White Circle and Shattered Reality are on sale, bundled together at $ 50% off! This gives you hours and hours of thrills and all the maps, handouts and NPCs you need. What are you waiting for? Claim this extravagant deal right here!
2025-05-26Sentience creator and GM Al Spader recently ran a session on Wanderer's Haven to benefit mental health awareness. Check out the episode here!
2025-05-17The Sentience Kickstarter fulfillment has begun! After a highly successful Kickstarter campaign, funding in less than a day, and ultimately beating the goal by over 6x, we can now announce that fulfillment has started. All backers should now have received their digital rewards - if you backed the project and have not seen your rewards yet, check your spam and if you still can't find the fulfillment email, reach out to us at crowdfunding@theyellowhand.com. Fulfillment of printed rewards will commence in about 2 weeks.
2025-05-17Shattered Reality, our jam-packed 7-adventure anthology for modern era Call of Cthulhu, keeps forging full steam ahead, now hitting Silver status on DTRPG. Don't miss out, buy the PDF here! And if you're still hesitating, check out another great review here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJPdRMyt1WG/
2025-05-07Our acclaimed pulp adventure RPG, Tales of Menace & Mystery, just hit Silver status on DriveThru RPG! It follows our illustrious robot RPG Sentience to do so, but it certainly won't be our last. You can buy the game PDF here, or check out a great video review here: https://youtu.be/3-EsF3JeDK0?si=50Ks4snByypdTfVp
2025-05-03Our baby is celebrating a 2nd anniversary!! Ashland, the Post-Apocalyptic RPG, was first released in its original edition this week, two years ago. That deserves a celebration! If you order the Core Rule Book and/or the adventure No Safe Haven within a week of this post being released, we will take off 20%. Email us with the code "Blaze" at discount@theyellowhand.com to claim your rebate.
2025-05-02Right as we're gearing up for fulfillment of our highly successful Sentience RPG crowdfunding campaign, electronic artist BusyBusyBusy (a.k.a. Yellow Hand alumnus Magnus Häglund) is releasing a brilliant 4-track download of the Theme from Sentience! Check out the tracks here! Oh, and don't forget: the pre-order store is open on BackerKit now, click here!
2025-04-18YouTube channel Dungeons & Dyslexia took the jump into the Blaze and reviewed our post-apocalyptic RPG Ashland, giving it an 8/10 grade! Check out the video here!
2025-04-11Our anthology of modern CoC scenarios, Shattered Reality, just hit Copper status on DTRPG, in less than a week! It's our fastest selling product so far. Buy the PDF here! Check out a great video review here: https://youtu.be/pk1OwX1QW5Y?si=r-MgDGoWmm34y-dy
2025-03-23In case you're curious about The Yellow Hand and our product offering of RPG adventures and games, the YouTube channel Dungeons & Dyslexia produced a very nice overview, with plenty of complimentary comments on many of our products. Check out the video here!
2025-03-20Hot on the heels of our successful 1920s Call of Cthulhu scenario The White Circle, we are following up with an anthology of seven (!) modern CoC scenarios, all guaranteed to thrill and frighten even the most hardened player. Buy the PDF here!
2025-03-18Dungeons & Dyslexia gave Tales of Menace & Mystery the full deluxe treatment, covering all the aspects of the game in a very thorough, complimentary review, ultimately giving the game two thumbs up, 8.5/10. Watch the video here!
2025-03-09Ashland, our post-apocalyptic 2d20 RPG, gets its first upgrade with the standalone adventure No Safe Haven, a 42p module that will lead into our upcoming faction books for the Ashen, the Metropolins and the Oceanicans. Check it out here!
2025-03-01We're very proud to announce that The Yellow Hand's Kickstarter campaign for our 2d20 Sentience robot RPG ended this morning, funded at 527%. Huge thanks to all the backers, all the supporters, and all the contributors! Check out the campaign here!
2025-02-21Our first supporting anthology of adventures for Tales of Menace & Mystery is out now: 134 pages chock full of thrills, intrigue and action, loaded to the brim with handouts, maps and NPCs. Enough to keep your gaming sessions fueled for months. Check it out here!
2025-02-19Yellow Hand founder Jay Sojdelius went on Really Dicey to chat about Tales of Menace & Mystery, our pulp adventure RPG set in the 1930s. What came out is an in-depth discussion on the ins and outs of the pulp genre, and how to adapt it for role-playing. Watch the episode here!
2025-02-18Dungeons & Dyslexia continued the foray into Yellow Hand games, visiting Ashland and Once Upon with a thorough walkthrough of each. Watch the episode here!
2025-02-18Dungeons & Dyslexia took a closer look at the two Yellow Hand RPGs Draconicus and Tales of Menace & Mystery. Click here to check out the episode!
2025-02-05Designer and Yellow Hand alum Al Spader returned to RandomWorlds to do another Q&A session in the wake of the Kickstarter launch. Click here to read the transcript!
2025-02-04Sentience and its Kickstarter campaign were just given a very thorough and complimentary review on Dungeons & Dyslexia. Click here to check it out!
2025-02-03Tabletop Sentinel astutely dove into the nature of Sentience: robots becoming more like humans, and what it really means to be human. Click here to read it.
2025-02-01What was originally intended as a Kickstarter Launch Party for Sentience ended up being a celebration of success, since the campaign was fully funded before this episode of SkyHammer Press was recorded. Click here to watch!
2025-02-01The Sentience Kickstarter coverage continues over at Fluff n' Crunch with an introduction to the Sentience game and its Kickstarter edition in a conversation with designer Al Spader. Click here to listen!
2025-01-29The Sentience Kickstarter coverage begins with an engaging panel discussion between the writers of Sentience adventures on The Final Frontiersmen. Highly recommended. Click here to watch!
2025-01-29Well, that was quick... We hardly had time to get ads posted before Sentience was fully funded on Kickstarter...! Now, we set our sights on knocking off as many stretch goals as possible. Click here!
2025-01-27Join Al Spader and Jay Sojdelius on SkyHammer Press over on their Twitch channel for a launch party, as we celebrate our first Kickstarter campaign, hopefully sending Sentience into the stratosphere! Monday 1/27 at 8pm. Click here to join!
2025-01-26The Menace & Mystery RandomWorlds Q&A session has been concluded and the transcript can be viewed here. Enjoy!
2025-01-12Once again, The Yellow Hand will visit RandomWorlds to conduct a Q&A session on Discord, this time about Tales of Menace & Mystery. Lead designer Jay Sojdelius will walk participants through the ins and out of the game. Set your alarms for Sunday 7:30pm CST 1/12/2025 and join in the fray, right here!
2025-01-11Even though it's eleven months until next Christmas, we just couldn't resist opening this particular package: the print-on-demand version of our Once Upon sourcebook A Believer's Guide to the North Pole, which came out as a digital release before last Christmas. Watch the unboxing video here, and buy the book here!
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