A review of The Black Drop on yog-sothoth. “Taken as a whole, The Black Drop is a fantastic scenario and one of the strongest scenarios which, in turn, makes it one of the strongest Cthulhoid RPG scenarios published in recent times whether you play Trail of Cthulhu or BRP Call of Cthulhu.”
Category Archives: Trail of Cthulhu
The Big Green Existential Menace has been good to me lately, so when the squamous hordes at the Flames Rising horror webzine sought me out for a contribution to their ongoing Cthulhu week, I could hardly decline. Pop on over for “Inmates”, a Trail of Cthulhu campaign frame that starts where the careers of many […]
Ok I promised that I would give out a preview of the Eternal Lies Suite. Here is a piece from early in the game. It’s an ambient piece designed to be played as a loop during a specific scene and it introduces an important theme that will be heard throughout the suite. Melancholy ambient theme […]
We are looking for playtesters for a short campaign set in the UK in the 1930s following a global, Mythos-related disaster in the 1930s. I’ve played through this, and it’s great, and very different to any other Cthulhu adventure. It’s written by Graham Walmsley, who wrote The Dying of St Margarets and The Watchers in […]
A review of Armitage Files on Flames Rising.
A review of Watchers in the Sky, courtesy of Matthew Pook.
The ENnie award nominations are in. Armitage Files has been nominated for best adventure, with Shadows over Filmland taking an honourable mention. And Jérome gets a richly deserved nod for his cover artwork on Rough Magicks. Last July in Page XX, Jérome let us into the secrets of his photomontage technique in creating this amazing […]
Brad Harmer, on the wonderfully-named Emotionally Fourteen blog, gives The Watchers In The Sky 8 out of 10. The Watchers In The Sky is a truly grim, nasty and Lovecraftian horror adventure. It is, simply, Trail of Cthulhu doing what it does best.
Following on with the music blog, I’m going to let Mike Torr introduce himself… I’m a composer with a broad spectrum of experience and influences. A long history as a keyboard performer (and one-time double bass player) has taken me through a landscape of Electronica, Blues, Classical, Jazz, and Rock; via the usual grind of […]
Dan Harms reviews The Black Drop Overall, the Black Drop is a fantastic scenario and one of the strongest scenarios in the Trail line – which, in turn, makes it one of the strongest Cthulhoid RPG scenarios published in recent times. As always, it’s worth getting even if you play Call of Cthulhu instead of […]