For Shadows Over Filmland, a new Trail of Cthulhu adventure series, Jee is working on a silver screen style with spooky lighting and dry ice. Here's an example from his blog:
Edit: As Robin points out in the comments, I mis-titled this. I'll save the "GSL Goodness" for another day.
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Now for the second stage of the caption competition to win the leather bound Trail of Cthulhu. Vote for the caption you think is best. Voting closes Friday 20th June when I arrive at work.
Caption 1:
The Live Action edition of Mousetrap had one or two early teething problems.
Caption 2:
Linling sighed, as she sat thinking to herself;
"Always the bridesmaid, never the executioner".
Caption 3:
Too distracted by the theatrics on stage, the audience failed to see the thing rising out of what they thought was a painted lake.
Caption 4:
Nyarlathotep's marriage guidance service gets its first clients.
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Advanced copies of the second print run of Trail of Cthulhu arrived today. There are a couple of very minor typos corrected (three pages was all we could get away with and still have the book out in time), and Leonard Balsera is now in the credits for some excellent suggestions he made outside the normal channels. He wept so much when he saw we'd neglected him in the first print run you'd have thought I'd stolen his Barbie.
In addition, I have some of these:
I'll do the second stage of the leather bound competition tomorrow. There'll be a couple of others available through various channels between now and GenCon. We'll sell some there, sell some more online, and then the last few at Dragonmeet in December.
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We've got a new Trail of Cthulhu supplement - Shadows over Filmland - to playtest. Think Gothic films and monster movies meet HPL. We got seven short scenarios to test, as well as an intro and roleplaying guide for the setting. If you are interested, please send an email to simon@dyingearth.com, subject "Shadows Over Filmland."
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The Trail of Cthulhu reprint is due to be completed mid-June, so I've put in a cautious street date of 1st July. I've gone for 2000 copies. The 50 leather-bounds are being printed, too, and I'll complete the long-awaited caption competition when they arrive.
We still have copies of Trail of Cthulhu left at the Pelgrane store for customers not from the US or Canada. At Indie Press Revolution, we are offering Trail of Cthulhu on pre-order - get the PDF now at no extra charge.
I'm pleased with the PDF sales for the Trail of Cthulhu - it gave us our best month on rpgnow.com. The take up of the Game Group Bundle and Player's Guide I mentioned here was higher than I expected. 23% of our Trail sales were Player's Guides, and 10% were bundles. So, there are a lot of honest people out there.
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GM Skarka is writing the first Adamant Entertainment Trail of Cthulhu adventure, entitled The Empty Men, to be released in July. It will support both Pulp and Purist styles of play.
Based on the title, what do you think it might be about?
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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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All the Trails of Cthulhu destined for the distribution are now sold. ACD swooped in nabbed the last hundred or so from Aldo while I was away. If stocks dwindle, I'll keep an eye on channels on line and highlight those retailers who still have stock. For example, Leisure Games in London and End Game in California. If you are retailer stocking Trail, you might consider posting here.
IPR and Pelgrane have 71 left between them for direct sale in the US. I've got about 50 in the UK. Chaosium have none (and I shipped them 100), which is pretty spectacular.
So, basically, woot! 2000 copies sold, pretty much.
Because the Trail printer found it difficult to deal with a foreign company (they insisted initially on invoicing me for tax and I wouldn't pay until they corrected it), the reprint won't be for a few weeks.
I've got to choose between another 1000, or else 1500 for the next print run. Tough decision. It's just south of $2 difference per copy.
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Please listen to this Trail of Cthulhu music and let me know what you think (good or bad).
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We'll be releasing the Trail of Cthulhu PDF a little earlier than I had originally anticipated - early may. As promised, those who pre-ordered will get a free copy. Other Pelgrane and IPR customers will be able to get a PDF at a substantially reduced price - we'll email you.
One other thing we'll be releasing is the Trail of Cthulhu Player's Guide PDF. This is all the player's stuff from Trail of Cthulhu, including the complete Trail GUMSHOE system, character creation, equipment lists, tips and forms. It weighs in at 100 pages, compared with the potent 248 Ken Hite-ened pages of the full Trail.
The Trail of Cthulhu Player's Guide: half the calories, none of the madness.
Edit: I said Ken-Hite-ened. That is funny, isn't it? Sometimes I worry about my copy.
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Here's a comprehensive review of Trail of Cthulhu, and some interesting comments on the GUMSHOE system.
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The excellent Edge Entertainment are developing a Spanish language version of the full GUMSHOE range, starting with Trail of Cthulhu. They've published Spanish language versions of Heroquest, Conan, Feng Shui, and the former Hogsheads New Style games, so they have an excellent pedigree.
Edit:
Here is the announcement. They are releasing Los Esoterroristas, too.
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Adamant Entertainment will be creating PDF adventures for Trail of Cthulhu under their imprint. They do good quality stuff, they've worked with other licensors and it will extend the range of ToC material for Keepers. A more detailed press release will follow next week.
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Here is Jerome's cover for the forthcoming GM's Resource Book and Screen. Simon Carryer, who wrote three excellent articles for See Page XX has produced the first draft of the resource book. For abilities and occupations it includes historical information, practices, equipment, clues and special benefits for point spends, as well as a collection of useful NPCs .
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I received these images from Mark Walker. He has created these extraordinary Lovecraftian artefacts using a combination of printing and reprinting, pasting images (no, not using software) creating entire scripts as AutoCAD blocks, and paper ageing techniques. I've made a number of suggestions, but if you have any ideas as to how Mark might sell his work, by all means post here, or contact him.
  
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Here is a review for Trail of Cthulhu.
"If you are intrigued with the genre, pick it up. If it doesn't give you new ideas and new enthusiasm, read it again." And another here for Esoterrorists. I'm sure Robin must be blushing at the quote. "The best Mystery/Investigative RPG ever" Also, The Game's the Thing podcast covers Esterrorists in their latest issue. It can be found here. The Eso bit starts at about 26.50, and describes actual play. "They hit it.""It felt very natural"
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From Jerome, and for the GM's Resource book to be included with GM's Screen:
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The Trail of Cthulhu website is now up, complete with English-language trailer. The pre-order books are starting to arrive now in Europe and as far as Australia. Our distributor wasn't able to send the books out last week because of lack of other products to ship, but should be in stores early next week.
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A positive review of the Dragonmeet version of Trail of Cthulhu, here.
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