Trail of Cthulhu - Hardcover

Kenneth Hite; Robin D Laws

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1934859079 ISBN 13: 9781934859070

Publisher: Pelgrane Press, 2008

Synopsis

Trail of Cthulhu is a new standalone GUMSHOE system game under license to Chaosium, set in the 1930s. It supports both Pulp (for Indiana Jones, Robert E. Howard, thrilling locations sorts of games) and Purist styles of play(for intellectual horror and cosmic dread). HP Lovecrafts work combined both, sometimes in the same story. It includes a new take on the creatures, cults and gods of the Lovecrafts literature, and addresses their use in gaming. It adds new player backgrounds, and bulk out the GUMSHOE system to give intensive support for sanity, incorporating into the rule set the PCs desire to explore at the risk of going mad. Trail of Cthulhu won two Ennie awards for Best Rules and Best Writing, as well as receiving an honourable mention for Product of the Year.

About this title

Review:

Trail of Cthulhu takes a fresh look at Lovecrafts Mythos with a strong focus on investigation, excellent writing, and plenty of play support. Style: 5 (Excellent!) Substance: 4 (Meaty) --CW Richeson, rpg.net

Overall, this is a masterful melding of the Gumshoe system with classic Cthulhu Mythos gaming, an inspired match. Theres so much goodness in this that Ill be back again and again, not just to play but to mine for ideas whatever I am doing --Megan Robertson, One Book Shelf

About the Author:

Robin D. Laws is a writer and game designer. His roleplaying game designs for Pelgrane Press include The Dying Earth, The Esoterrorists¸ Mutant City Blues and Skulduggery . His other roleplaying game designs include Feng Shui , HeroQuest and Og: Unearthed Edition. Among Robins six novels are Pierced Heart, The Rough and the Smooth, and Freedom Phalanx. Always ready to take an intriguing career detour, his various past projects include collectible card games, computer games, and comic books. Google his name to find his blog, a cavalcade of hobby games, film, culture, narrative structure and gun-toting avians. Kenneth Hite claims to have bought the first copy of Call of Cthulhu sold in Oklahoma City in August 1981. Since then, he has moved to dread and night-haunted Chicago, written all or part of seventy or so roleplaying game books (including Nightmares of Mine, Dubious Shards, and Adventures into Darkness), and acquired the requisite Lovecraftian cat. His Tour de Lovecraft: The Settings column appears in Weird Tales magazine; his Suppressed Transmission column explores the Higher Strangeness in Pyramid. His wife Sheila knits.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pelgrane Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1934859079
• ISBN 13: 9781934859070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248
• Illustrator: Jérôme Huguenin