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!
