But wait, there's more!
• The GM screen is finished, and Alessandro's final is so moody and atmospheric! I can imagine a whole campaign taking place in these remote desert ru...
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Pelgrane Press
21 days ago
Update on print books
Hey all,
Gareth & Ken have finished the writing, and I've finished my edits, of the Trail of Cthulhu 2e core book, which included incorporating feedback from some above-and-...
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Pelgrane Press
3 months ago
Tariffs, Uncertainty, and Our Commitment to You
Hey everyone,
I’ve been holding off on this update in the hope that we’d reach more certainty on tariffs, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen any time soon. Here...
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Pelgrane Press
4 months ago
Delayed February update
Hey all,
Apologies for the delay with this update - I'll make sure we're posting these monthly going forward.
The radio silence has masked work progress on all fronts. I'm ...
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Pelgrane Press
6 months ago
Update-update
Thanks to all of you who pointed out that the poll links in the previous update weren't working - I'm really sorry about that!
Here are the corrected poll links:
• Which of...
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Pelgrane Press
6 months ago
January update
Hey all,
Hope you had a great holiday season, and best wishes for an amazing New Year in 2025!
We're motoring along with Trail 2e on a number of fronts.
Helen Gould has tu...
Gareth & Ken have finished the writing, and I've finished my edits, of the Trail of Cthulhu 2e core book, which included incorporating feedback from some above-and-beyond-going backers (you know who you are! 😅)
Now that we've revised the core book adventures - the Purist Afterlight and Pulp Hammer of the Gods - we're looking for playtesters for them. If you're interested, email us at the usual address ([email protected]) and we'll send you through the details.
We're still waiting for some of our HUNTING HORROR backers to get back to us with details of the NPCs they want included. If you backed at that level, consider this a gentle reminder to check your inboxes for an email from Gareth, and send us the details of your custom NPC. We want to move on with getting the book into layout, so if we haven't had a response from you by the end of July, we'll include your NPC in a future supplement.
We've decided to revise the Pulp and Purist icons, so our resident Foundry VTT expert Neil has designed these beauties, which we feel better represent the two modes:
Cartography for the four main corebook maps - Bishop, Chicago, The Armitage Inquiry and Lovecraft Country - is ongoing, as are the adventure maps for Afterlight and The Hammer of the Gods.
New interior art for the corebook is also ongoing. Here's a WIP sketch of Whitney Maers from Afterlight, by artist M. Wayne Miller:
While I'm working on the corebook, Robin's steaming ahead with Boundary of the Darkness. The adventures have just finished a round of external playtesting, and Robin will be making the final text adjustments once he gets back from his holiday. IIRC, about half of the art for BotD is finished; here are some sneak peeks of completed art, also from M. Wayne Miller:
I'm reviewing the existing Kingsbury Horror at the moment, to see how we can expand it to make it a printable book - it's only 14 pages at the moment, which is too short. I'll be bringing it more in line with what we've done in 2e, as well as adding a scene flow diagram and scene lead-ins and lead-outs, but expect some new interior content, too.
And finally, Ken's finished writing the Outside Entities stretch goal. The issue is, it refers to the 2e book which isn't yet laid out, and so there are loads of "see page XX" references throughout. So a question for you all: would you like it now, without these being linked, or would you prefer to wait until we can include the 2e page references? (We will be updating it once we have the final page numbers, of course). LMK in this poll!
The GM screen is finished, and Alessandro's final is so moody and atmospheric! I can imagine a whole campaign taking place in these remote desert ruins. Here's a crop of the middle section:
The dice are being manufactured as I type, by a great USA-based company (we're taking no chances!)
We've commissioned our good friends at All Rolled Up to make the dice bags, which can either feature the 1e Pulp and Purist logos, or the new 2e logos - I've done another poll.
Steven Hammond has finished the Black Book update for 2e. We've had some back and forth about when to kick off the one-year subscriptions; my feeling is that it's best to wait until we've sent you at least the final text, if not the final PDF. If you're already playing with the Alpha draft and would like your Black Book sub to start now, email us at the usual address ([email protected]).
A different Steve has finished the Syrinscape soundscape for Stranger Shores, the quickstart adventure, and is about to add James Semples' evocative Trail of Cthulhu soundtrack to it. I had a play around with it recently, and was impressed by what they did for the "research" part of the adventure 😁 Here's a screenshot of the dashboard:
Rudy at Metamorphic, who's working on the Roll20 Trail of Cthulhu character sheet, recently sent me through a draft to play around with. It's not how I pictured it, but it looks good and the functionality is really cool. If you'd like to test it out and give feedback on it, get in touch and we'll give you access to the test PC.
Okay, I think that about covers it for now - until next time!
