Derek Guder (he/him)Mar 16

#BundleOfHolding launched a big #TrailOfCthulhu deal with the core book and a whole slew of advetnures.

This is my second favorite iteration of the classic Cthulhu investigation kind of RPG, behind #DeltaGreen, and Trail really popularized the "you don't roll just to find clues, you get those by showing up - you roll to get bonus information" approach to mysteries and the core book has great advice on how to adapt/twist mythos "truths" to keep things fresh.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/TrailMega

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Trail of Cthulhu Megabundle

Investigator! This new Trail of Cthulhu Megabundle presents a monstrously large horde of rulebooks, supplements, and sourcebooks for Trail of Cthulhu, the tabletop roleplaying game of eldritch Cthulhu Mythos investigations using the GUMSHOE System from Pelgrane Press. Adventures using the investigative GUMSHOE system (also seen in The Yellow King RPG, Swords of the Serpentine, Night's Black Agents, The Esoterrorists, and others) aren't about hunting for clues but interpreting them – figuring how they solve the mystery. Star designer Kenneth Hite uses his encylopedic knowledge of history and Lovecraftian horror to capture the creeping madness of the 1930s, a time of sweeping cruelty by authoritarian rulers and the Great Old Ones alike.

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I can't emphasize enough how much I love the #TrailOfCthulhu core book presenting multiple different, conflicting, & plausaible "truths" about what or who the familiar Old Gods are just to give some actual mystery to them.

So many games (and so much media in general) like to talk about how no one knows the truth & everyone is only working with half the puzzle at best, but only ever present one objective truth.

The #WorldOfDarkness (& everything it influenced) are particularly prone to that.

Mar 16 at 6:17pmWeb