Tag Archives: Trail of Cthulhu

New Eternal Lies Resources

There are lots of great resources being created for Eternal Lies at the moment, so here are just some of what people are doing for the game. Be warned – these links will contain game spoilers, so if you haven’t read the campaign or you’re hoping to play it, don’t read these! Andrew Nicholson’s Eternal […]

Trail of Cthulhu Resources page updates

Tony Williams has very kindly designed some great Pulp and Purist character sheets for the Trail of Cthulhu Resources page.  He’s also produced a neat Condensed version of the Trail of Cthulhu rules. Here are the links to the new documents: Pulp character sheet (A4) – Download Pulp character sheet (US letter) – Download Purist […]

Tell Me Lies, Tell me Sweet Little Lies – Part 1

Tell Me Lies, Tell me Sweet Little Lies Converting Pelgrane’s ‘Eternal Lies’ Campaign to Call of Cthulhu By Andrew Nicholson Part One: Fools Rush In It started as a way to persuade a group of gamers to try Trail of Cthulhu instead of their more usual fare. “Hey”, I said, “…it turns out Pelgrane are […]

Eternal Lies FAQ

This is a FAQ for people who already have Eternal Lies and want to run it. If this is not you, please do not read it as it contains buckets of spoilers. [spoiler title=”Eternal Lies Frequently Asked Questions”] Next, let’s reiterate: every adaptation of Eternal Lies is different and distinct. One adaptation may flow from […]

Call of Chicago: Which of These 7 Never-Before-Adapted Lovecraft Monsters Is Right For You?

Simon says I need to have grabbier headlines on these posts, so I went a little Buzzfeed up there. Hope you like it. The Call of Cthulhu 6th Edition corebook contains 38 monsters. I’m not including the Great Old Ones, Outer Gods, or such, just monsters. When you add in the similar creatures, races, servitor […]

Creating an Eternal Lies One-Shot

by Ruth Tillman As someone who’d begun running Trail of Cthulhu this past year, Eternal Lies was already a temptation before I learned that my good friend Leah Huete would be doing some of the artwork. After that it became a must-buy and I began planning how I would run it. Unlike some Trail supplements, […]

September playtesting

If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line.   Ashen Stars Character Builder DC has been working on an Ashen Stars version of the free Black Book character generator. It will be fully ready for testing next Monday. It will include […]

Call of Chicago: Re-skinning, Genre-Drifting, and Triskaidekasizing

One of the chiefest joys of roleplaying is the joy of taking an iconic hero or monster and re-skinning it in the light of your own campaign. I’ve put Frankenstein’s monster on stage in two or three games, recast Batman as a people’s antihero in an alternate Soviet Union, and made demigods of Aaron Burr […]

Converting new players to Trail of Cthulhu…and it feels awesome!

The following is a post from the RPG.net forums by PTiKachu about his experiences running RMS Titanic: The Millionaire’s Special with a group of artists in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Warning: may contain game spoilers, so read at your own risk! —————————————- [GUMSHOE] Converting new players to Trail of Cthulhu…and it feels awesome! So, there is […]

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