Joined: Dec 09, 2008 Posts: 394 Location: Sweden (Malmö)
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:50 pm Post subject: Upcoming products for Trail of Cthulhu?
It would be really nice to know a bit more about upcoming products for Trail of Cthulhu, beyond the [very soon to be released] Rough Magicks and Arkham Detective Tales (and the Watchers in the Sky-PDF).
Can some light be shed on the mentioned huge campaign? What's the status?
I can't seem to get enough of material for ToC... _________________ /Watson
Next up is The Armitage Files, in which the Keeper and players improvise an adventure based on a series of peculiar documents apparently sent from the future by Dr Armitage. Robin wrote this one.
Ken is working on Bookhounds of London, and I expect to see the first 25,000 words at the end of September. This is a large campaign frame set in the seedy world of antiquarian book selling.
Graham has two more Purist adventures sketched out, and ready for playtesting.
I still haven't had a proposal that I'm sufficiently enamoured with for the huge campaign, but I'm sure it will come. We've been throwing around some ideas.
We've decided against pursuing Delta Green because, not unreasonably, Pagan would not have let us produce new material set in the modern day. That said, we want to produce a modern mythos setting, probably tied in with Esoterrorists, at some point.
I'm hoping we'll have some Trail of Cthulhu dice out, as well.
I am of course open to suggestion for Trail supplements. We will definitely continue to support the line, as it is continues to go very strongly, and is widely played. _________________ Simon Rogers
Pelgrane Press Ltd
Joined: Dec 09, 2008 Posts: 394 Location: Sweden (Malmö)
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:06 am Post subject:
Thanks for the info, Simon! It's always nice to have some insight in regards to the upcoming products! All of the mentioned products seems really good. _________________ /Watson
Joined: Dec 09, 2008 Posts: 394 Location: Sweden (Malmö)
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:09 am Post subject:
msk wrote:
I am *soooo* looking forward to Bookhounds of London.
It's these kind of products that makes ToC even more exciting - kudos to Pelgrane Press for putting out this kind of product (i.e. that are neither a normal sourcebook nor scenarios nor regular rules). _________________ /Watson
It's these kind of products that makes ToC even more exciting - kudos to Pelgrane Press for putting out this kind of product (i.e. that are neither a normal sourcebook nor scenarios nor regular rules).
Frankly, I could do with a few more scenarios. I love playing ToC (or CoC for that matter) but I'm hard pressed for time with family and work often intruding in preparing my sessions. One of the advantages in playing CoC is the sheer scenario support the game has. I can open almost any book and start playing with only the preparation required to read the scenario and optimize it for my group which, to be fair, is considerably less than creating your own scenarios.
Hopefully, Pelgrane will continue producing fantastic scenarios (which I'm enjoying immensely) and a full-length campaign to keep my players busy for many nights and rainy days to come.
As for the campaign frames, I'm eager to know more about The Armitage Files since I have a soft spot for the Lovecraft Country. Is it a kind of expansion for the Armitage Inquiries in the ToC rulebook? Can we know a bit more about it?
As for the campaign frames, I'm eager to know more about The Armitage Files since I have a soft spot for the Lovecraft Country. Is it a kind of expansion for the Armitage Inquiries in the ToC rulebook? Can we know a bit more about it?
From Pelgrane's Nest:
"The Armitage Files brings improvisation to the GUMSHOE system, and to Trail of Cthulhu. It’s still Keeper-led, but players contribute, too. The heart of the book is a series of documents and pictures sent from the future (or is it an alternate time line?) by Dr Henry Armitage. The PCs must follow the leads, and prevent disaster. "
"Dr. Armitage has no recollection of having written them, nor of the people or events laid out on their grime-stained pages. Speculation rages as to the provenance of the files. Is this an elaborate prank, or a hoax played by one of the Inquiry’s growing list of occult enemies? Or do the weird warnings in these impossible documents portend real doom, if not investigated?"
"The Files have been subject to rigorous playtesting, and now include extra practical material on improvising in actual play for both players and the Keeper. Oh, it’s written by Robin Laws."
It is an expansion of the ToC campaign frame, but also introduces a new way of playing the game. _________________ Simon Rogers
Pelgrane Press Ltd
Joined: Dec 09, 2008 Posts: 394 Location: Sweden (Malmö)
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject:
I must also say that if I could choose one thing to have more for ToC, then that would be scenarios (or even better, a loooong campaign). _________________ /Watson
I must also say that if I could choose one thing to have more for ToC, then that would be scenarios (or even better, a loooong campaign).
Wow! We've done tons, I thought, with Shadows, Arkham and Stunning, plus the Purist adventures. I have commissioned another two though, this week. _________________ Simon Rogers
Pelgrane Press Ltd
Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Posts: 249 Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject:
PelgranePress wrote:
WatsonSE wrote:
I must also say that if I could choose one thing to have more for ToC, then that would be scenarios (or even better, a loooong campaign).
Wow! We've done tons, I thought, with Shadows, Arkham and Stunning, plus the Purist adventures. I have commissioned another two though, this week.
Yeah, there's quite a bit. I wish my group went through them quickly enough to always be clamoring for more!
But it is great to see a strong desire for scenarios written specifically for ToC, even though many (if not the majority) of players have backgrounds in CoC, with access to a multitude of scenarios that could be converted. Having done a number of conversions myself, both for personal use and for Miskatonic River Press, I know that ToC and CoC scenarios are very different animals.
Me, I'm most excited by projects like Shadows over Filmland, and am anticipating The Armitage Files and, particularly, Bookhounds of London. They provide different ways of looking at the setting. I know they don't necessarily have the ultimate flexibility that some look for in a collection of scenarios.
Joined: Dec 09, 2008 Posts: 394 Location: Sweden (Malmö)
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject:
PelgranePress wrote:
WatsonSE wrote:
I must also say that if I could choose one thing to have more for ToC, then that would be scenarios (or even better, a loooong campaign).
Wow! We've done tons, I thought, with Shadows, Arkham and Stunning, plus the Purist adventures. I have commissioned another two though, this week.
Absolutely! Pelgrane have been very good in releasing scenarios for ToC - I love that. Everything that has been released for ToC has been excellent in terms of quality and content - really top notch! It's just that I want more... _________________ /Watson
I'm not sure what to think about tying a modern lovecraftian setting to Esoterrorists - I think the investigators in Esoterrorists are far less DOOMED than in CoC/ToC, and that the two universes should be kept seperate.
Making them compatible for those who want to play the two together is good: connecting the universes officially would make the new modern setting less appealing to myself and probably a lot of other GM's and players.
Personally, I'd love to see something that expanded the Pulp-ier side of Trail.... for the Indiana Jones', Simon Templars' and Bulldog Drumonds' of the world
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