A day of tons of new releases. On the Pelgrane Press store or IPR.
For GUMSHOE:
- We've released Stunning Eldritch Tales, a collection adventures by Robin D Laws for Trail of Cthulhu. Gosh, they are good, and well playtested. The street date is 13th May.
- The Trail of Cthulhu PDF. As it says. People who preordered have been emailed a voucher for a free copy. People who have ordered to date have been sent a voucher for a reduced price copy. If you haven't heard, email me.
- Trail of Cthulhu Player's Guide The ToC Player's Guide is a subset of the ToC (99 pages) and includes all non-GM material, but (and I whisper this) you can run GUMSHOE games using this alone.
- Trail of Cthulhu Game Group PDF Bundle (1 x ToC and 3 x ToC Player's Guide). The bundle is an interesting experiment in the spectrum of honesty of PDF users. If I sell lots of these, I'll be pleased but slightly surprised. The idea is, the GM gets the Trail of Cthulhu PDF, the players get three copies of the Player's Guide between them.
For the Dying Earth RPG: - We've released after a slight hiatus Tooth, Talon and Pinion :The Excellent Prismatic Spray 7/8 Double Issue. It's full of creatures which you might eat, might eat you, or there might be some negotiation involved to determine who is eaten. There are also adventures and a walking tour by the famed Grashpotel.
I've emailed all of our subscribers for updated addresses. If you are a subscriber and you haven't heard, please contact me.
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Albion's Ransom: Little Girl Lost, is now available from the Pelgrane Press Store. This Esoterrorists campaign, written by Ian Sturrock was inspired by William Blake's eponymous work. It's set in Britain, but slanted towards a team of American investigators, with an appendix for American GMs unfamiliar with the UK and Manchester in particular. One of our (US-based) playtesters described it as "I'm British, Spank Me"!
We've also released Fields of Silver, Lynne Hardy's campaign and sourcebook for Turjan-level characters. In the Dying Earth RPG, there are three styles of play, reflecting the three collections of tales Jack Vance wrote. The least powerful of the protagonists (in game terms) was the picaresque Cugel upon who, most DERPG PCs are based, and the most powerful Rhialto, who nonetheless suffer similar ignominious irritations. In the middle in power terms, but very different in terms of challenges, are driven warrior magicians based on Vance's early work - Turjan of Miir. It is these characters who will explore the campaign setting Lynne has provided. The background is more sombre and bizarre, with elements of the horror of Clark Ashton Smith. Mention of Smith brings me on to Lovecraft: Fields of Silver has some of the flavour of Chaosium's world-spanning Cthulhu adventures.
In the Dying Earth RPG Robin Laws mentions the following lists of elements for Cugel-style adventures:
Odd Customs, Crafty Swindles, Heated Protests and Presumptuous Claims, Casual Cruelty, Weird Magic, Strange Vistas, Ruined Wonders, Exotic Food, and Foppish Apparel
An adjusted list (written by David Thomas) in Turjan's Tome goes as follows:
Essential Elements - Opportunity for bloodshed
- Horror
- Ruined Wonders
- Lost Knowledge
Important Elements- Casual Cruelty
- Weird Magic
- Strange Vistas
- Odd Customs
Inessential Elements- Crafty Swindles
- Heated Protests and Presumptuous Claims
- Exotic Food
- Foppish Apparel
Lynne has hit all of the essential and important elements been unable to avoid the odd crafty swindle, exotic food and elements of dark humour. All in all, this book is more suited to traditional roleplayers than the Cugel- and Rhialto- style high jinx, and includes episodes of genuine horror.
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With the release of the Compendium of Universal Knowledge, the time of the Dying Earth draws slowly to its end, but we are not quite there yet. Lynne Hardy's vibrant Fields of Silver, a Turjan-level campaign book has just been released, and next month we will have The Excellent Prismatic Spray 7/8 winging its way to subscribers. Ian Thomson also has loose ends in his excellent DERPG campaigns to tie up.
The license finishes in October, and I do have the option of renewing it, which may be financially viable if only for our extensive back catalog. However, we have done what can be done with the system, and done it proud.
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I now have Albion's Ransom (an adventure by Ian Sturrock) and Fields of Silver (Lynne Hardy's long awaited Turjan-level Dying Earth supplement). I'll get them up for sale tomorrow, and they should be in stores soon.
Those spatulate fingers are Sasha's ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pond823. We are in the office talking about... stuff.
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A new issue of Robin Law's column See Page XX is now available. It includes an example of clue gathering in the GUMSHOE system, news and a Dying Earth release from Ian Thomson - The Lords of Cil.
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The latest See Page XX is now available on the Pelgrane website. Ian Thomson presents new Dying Earth material, and Robin Laws gives us Red Herrings and Ticking Clocks: Narrative Devices in the Investigative Scenario.
If there are any topics you'd like to see Robin cover, then let me know here.
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A large Dying Earth project, the Compendium of Universal Knowledge, is on hold because the layout artist has happily gained a lucrative full-time position requiring overtime, and it no longer able to complete it. We have a layout template, front and back cover design and the letters A through C have been partially completed.
The layout is in Quark InDesign on a Mac. I suspect that it will be about 320 pages in total; 47 are complete. We can pay a little cash plus a selection of ProFantasy software and/or Pelgrane products. We are after an experienced layout artist, preferably someone with a good knowledge and love of the Dying Earth setting.
Edit: I thought it was Quark - it was in fact in design.
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