Category Archives: Trail of Cthulhu

Pitching Skulduggery

Over on my main blog I’ve talked a lot about the importance of having a clear 25-word-or-less pitch statement to explain a new game you’re selling at a booth. Obviously, it helps you to get a few more copies into people’s hands. However, designers, in particular, should have that pitch in mind as they create […]

Non-Euclidean loops! Music for chase scenes

The music of Eternal Lies is split into three categories: ambient music to play during most of the game, short stings to be played at specific instants and ‘action loops’ to be played during combats, chases and other stressful scenes. These action loops are each 2 minutes long and generally of a frantic disposition to help […]

Trail of Cthulhu Review

Here we have a very thorough and in-depth review of Trail of Cthulhu and the GUMSHOE system from Paco G Jaen of G*M*S Magazine. Jaen talks very positively of Trail and how it fits in with Lovecraftian themes, as well as how the GUMSHOE system deals with the investigative aspects of the Mythos. “The Gumshoe […]

The Purist Adventures

This Product is now Out of Print Gathered together for the first time in this Special Edition bundle are Signed & Numbered Limited editions of The Dying of St Margaret’s, The Watchers in the Sky, and the brand new monstrous adventure, The Dance in the Blood. Signed, numbered and designed by the author, Graham Walmsley, […]

Cthulhu Apocalypse cover

We’re working with a new artist for Cthulhu Apocalypse, Graham Walmsley’s new campaign frame. We are launching this series with a collection of three post-apocalyptic advetnures. Please do let us know what should be on the cover. What should be on the cover of Cthulhu Apocalypse? The skyline of devastated London, with Big Ben in […]

Eternal Lies Design Notes #1

Reposted from Game Playwright: by Jeff Tidball Eternal Lies is a beast of a campaign, and although it was announced a while ago, don’t let the relative radio-silence fool you. Will and I have been hard at work conceiving, breaking down, and then writing the locales and make up the greater campaign. If you follow […]

Review of The Black Drop

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.”

Inmates Trail Of Cthulhu Campaign Frame at Flames Rising

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 […]

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