One of the great pleasures of working on the GUMSHOE line has been the opportunity to watch the blossoming of illustrator Jerome Huguenin. His stuff just keeps getting better and better. Jerome art...This latest preview is the cover for a Trail Of Cthulhu supplement Pelgrane honcho Simon Rogers is hoping to have for Gen Con, print deities willing. The book is so secret that I’m not sure what it is.
Please indulge me as I thank the Origins Awards juries, and the retailer voters, for their kind acknowledgements of Trail Of Cthulhu (nominated in the Roleplaying Game category) and “Hungerblade”...category.) The latter, fiction written in support of Red Juggernaut’s World Of Terris setting, first appeared as a web serial and can now be downloaded in its entirety in PDF format , free of charge.
After a run-in with that ultimate force of dread and cosmic indifference, the printer’s error , Shadows Over Filmland has now finally shipped. This 192-page hardback Trail Of Cthulhu supplement...horror movies of the 1930s by Kenneth Hite and myself. Look for it at your DLGS (the D is for “discerning”) or order in print or PDF from IPR or the Pelgrane Store . Check out a PDF excerpt .
April’s issue of See P. XX has dropped. This installment of Pelgrane Press’s webzine includes, as is its wont, my column of the same name. The topic this time is compartmentalization in game design...market. Physical books and PDFs at the aforementioned Pelgrane Store. IPR has some too, I believe. And PDFs at RPG.NOW. Right now, they’re half price?From May 1st on, it's nothin' but Ebay, baby.
Through liberal use of StumbleUpon, I found the “When we play the game, it has this cover” thread on Story Games. The basic idea is for the participants to produce covers for the RPG books they use as...two to resolve their differences. Over it all, a dragon breathes fire that is about to engulf the group.
Via: Highmoon’s Ponderings
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Need inspiration for your next Trail Of Cthulhu investigator, complete with headshot for your character sheet? Check out this glam image and quick bio of medium Eileen Garrett . It appears on...book of the same name. It’s a history of the parapsychology lab at Duke University, of J. B. Rhine fame. Believers and skeptics alike will find plenty of plot hooks for period horror RPGs at her site.
This is a graph of cumulative sales just through distribution for the five best selling GUMSHOE products to date. Mutant City Blues has sold in the first two weeks about as many as Esoterrorists had by...the Screen, but whether I'll sell them all I don't know. Shadows Over Filmland is a bit of a gamble as a duotone hard back, but it had to be that for aesthetic reasons. I just hope the sales warrant it
Shadows over Filmland is available for pre-order exclusively on Indie Press Revolution, to ship out on 6th March. The pre-order will get you the PDF free, now. It will be up on the Pelgrane Store and available in your FLGS 10th March.
robin_d_laws has completed the first draft of The Armitage Files, a campaign setting for Trail of Cthulhu, and I'm looking for playtesters. Please "> email me subject Armitage Files if you'd...see fit. As the players choose which leads to follow and which to leave on the backburner, the Keeper improvises a series of scenarios allowing them to avert the future cataclysms the files foretell.
As the holiday weekend approached, Pelgrane Press put up another installment of its webzine See P. XX . Included is my column of the same name, this time wrapping up the two-parter on transitioning...from Mystic Moo, Sasha Bilton's look at swords and sorcery in 4E, another Trial Of Cthulhu cartoon from Jérôme Huguenin, and a deal on the Encompass series of PDF map products from ProFantasy.
