Tag Archives: GUMSHOE

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 […]

First preview of the Eternal Lies Suite

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 […]

Arkham Detective Tales Update

There were a few not unreasonably mutterings that Arkham Detective Tales did not contain any adventures set in Arkham.  There were also mumblings that the editing, credited to a certain Simon Rogers, was not up to our usual standards. We have taken steps to resolve this. First, Simon Rogers has been removed from editing duties.  […]

The Book of Unremitting Horror Reviews

Reviews from rpgnow.com BOUH is our most critically acclaimed book, with it and its d20 cousin receiving a clean sweep of eight five star ratings on rpgnow.com.  Read the reviews of the d20 version (a subset of the GUMSHOE version) here and the GUMSHOE version here. From the art and fiction to the abilities and […]

Eternal Lies: Meet the composers

This is the last of the introductions to the composers for the Eternal Lies suite. My name is Yaiza Varona, I’m Spanish, born in Barcelone but lived most of my life in Tenerife, Canary Islands. I am a musicologist and  composer. When James Semple offered me the chance to be part of this project, even […]

ENnie Award Nominations

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 […]

Ashen Stars Update – The Gun-Nanny

We’ve got 25 playtest groups who have jumped through the first hoop – answering a simply questionnaire. I haven’t had this level of participation since Trail of Cthulhu. Ashen Stars is very different to Trail, with starship combat, high-tech equipment, multiple races, the necessity of earning enough from contracts to stop your equipment falling apart […]

Pelgrane Non-English Licensing

Pelgrane products have been translated into four languages, with Portuguese the most recent. RetroPunk, our Portugeuse licensee have been working quickly, and we already have their cover image for Trail of Cthulhu (upper left). We are very fortunate with our licensees that they are reliable, produce excellent translations, and pay promptly. French: 7eme cercle Italian: […]

Glowing Review of The Black Drop

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 […]

Black Drop

The Black Drop is a one-shot adventure for Trail of Cthulhu written by Jason Morningstar, the award-winning designer of the Shab-al-Hiri Roach and Fiasco. Something slowly gathers strength beneath the frozen basalt of the remote Kerguelen archipelago – a monstrous thing once worshipped and then betrayed, a terrible god from the antediluvian past. It’s time […]

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