The nature of Trail lends itself to carefully planned, highly detailed adventures. The investigators analyse each clue, each location and object in forensic detail, deploying their highly specialised investigative abilities to ferret out the tell-tale clue. Trail scenarios support this by providing lots of suggested nuggets of information the players can pick up. However, the […]
Page Turners, the game of dramatic interaction for one player and one game moderator, provides rules for play in any genre that revolves around interpersonal conflict. It includes eleven fully fleshed scenarios ranging from screwball comedy to doomed vampire romance, from a behind-the-music rock ‘n’ roll saga to the emotional journeys of the last […]
In the latest episode of their delicious, almond-coated podcast, Ken and Robin talk bending world logic toward fun, Nicolo Zeno’s Friesland maps, Toulouse-Lautrec’s snake cake, and preventing the Wilson administration.
Although the rules don’t call for it, some GUMSHOE groups add a narrative wrinkle to the spending of pool points from general abilities. They call on players to justify why they’re spending the number of points they’ve chosen to add to their die rolls. “I really want to get over this fence so I’m going […]
In the latest episode of their subjectively numinous podcast, Ken and Robin talk planning a time slip scenario, a field trip to Roswell, an ill-fated bridge in Providence, and Giza megastructures.
When preparing to run a pre-written scenario, processing all the information can be overwhelming. A good scenario, after all, includes lots of alternate scenes, optional encounters, plots and subplots. (While your humble scenario writer tries to make everything as clear as possible, the scenario also needs to be entertaining to read, detailed enough to be […]
In the latest episode of their prodigiously strong podcast, Ken and Robin talk weaselly patrons, 18th century thief Barbara Erni, the shooting of a white stag, and occultist production designer Albin Grau.
Pelgrane Press seeks playtesters for Boundary of the Darkness, the Trail of Cthulhu sourcebook of dread investigation during England’s age of Enlightenment. It presents two exciting campaign frames, ripped from the broadsheets of the 1770s: Phil Masters’ In Lunar Service, in which the Investigators act as Secret Associates for Birmingham’s most notable thinkers, scientists and […]
A big shout-out to our estimable Patreon backers! Thanks to Peter, Jim, Emma, Phil, Bryant, P. Troilus, Michael M, ScottKey, Michael B, Andreas, Ranting John, Michael H, Mark, Daniel, Jiří, Marcus, Cena and Thomas!! NEW AT PELGRANE: Robin D. Laws! I’m incredibly excited to announce that, after many years of cajoling, oystering-up, and outright begging, […]