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Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition

Created by Pelgrane Press

TRAIL OF CTHULHU: A ROLEPLAYING GAME OF HORROR AND MYSTERY Investigate Lovecraftian horrors in the dark decade of the 1930s!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

January update
over 1 year ago – Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 01:57:25 PM

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 turned in a thoughtful and incisive sensitivity edit of the current manuscript, and the project team will be getting together shortly to review her feedback. After that, Ken will be going through the manuscript with his usual care and attention, and then it's ready for layout.

We've set up a couple of polls to solicit your opinion on the dice bags and custom d6s. Let us know what colour combination and dice design you preference by voting in our polls:


Unfortunately, our GM screen artist has had to pull out, so we're researching appropriate replacements while we commission the new interior art pieces, which is an ongoing process.

To those of you who've asked if you can still add things and make changes to your pledges, the answer is yes - we've set up the pledge manager now, and expect it to be approved by Backerkit this coming week. Once it's approved, we'll be sending out the backer surveys, and you can update your shipping address and add any additional items then. 

Till next time,

~Cat

Our thrilling foray into the unknown has reached its natural terminus.
over 1 year ago – Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 05:06:17 PM

Like the fleeting glow of a comet that dances across the heavens, our Backerkit campaign's brilliance fades, leaving behind echoes of eldritch whispers and the faintest tremors of dread. Though its chapters close, the memories linger, etched into the fabric of our minds like forbidden runes upon crumbling stone. It is not an end, but a pause—until the stars align once more in the pledge manager, and new horrific add-ons are summoned from the abyss.

We are overwhelmed with a tide of profound gratitude toward all 2210 of our esteemed backers. Your undying (like the ancient and inscrutable forces that shape the cosmos) support has empowered Trail of Cthulhu Second Edition beyond mortal comprehension. You are the unseen architects of this vision, your contributions echoing like hymns to forgotten gods. We stand in awe before your generosity, as one might before the vast, unknowable void.

Thank you all so very much, and good night - don't let the Great Old Ones bite.

~Cat




8 hours left and two new stretch goals added!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 07:34:48 AM

A fevered frenzy is surging through us in these fleeting final hours! In our boundless ambition to transcend mortal thresholds, we have unveiled two new stretch goals, awaiting realization should we dare to surpass the ineffable sum of £180,000:



  • £190,000: UNTHINKABLE CORRELATIONS: The Trail of Cthulhu Second Edition Resource Book. When we hit this stretch goal, Ken and Gar will write a new companion volume to Trail of Cthulhu, building on the 1st edition Resource Book and Night's Black Agents' Double Tap, containing new options for players, new rules, expanded advice for Game Moderators, and a wealth of other horrors.
  • £200,000 YOU ARE PROVIDENCE: If this goal is met, Pelgrane Press will produce a sourcebook exploring the occult secrets and horrors of Lovecraft's beloved Providence, the city that inspired and enchanted him all his life. Journey to the true Lovecraft country, and draw back the veil of history!

Indulge your Actual Play desires with Episodes 3 and 4 of A Ravenous Hunger, now available on our YouTube channel:




~Cat

The Final Hour Beckons: Rally Beneath the Shadow of the Unseen!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 04:15:02 PM

With just 24 hours left, we are awestruck that there are now more than 2000 of you!

Your support for this project has been truly uplifting, and Ken, Gareth, Ibrahim, and I - along with the rest of the Pelgrane team - are deeply grateful for every contribution, every share, and every word of encouragement you’ve offered along the way. as we face into the last 24 hours of the campaign (for real this time!)

We've unlocked Ken's adventure for Shadows Over Chicago, and we're getting SO close to unlocking Roll20 VTT content. If we can do that, next up is an adventure for the last of the new corebook campaign frames, Under Unknown Skies.

To cross the finish line with both of these in the bag, we need one final rally! Please consider sharing our campaign on social media and with your friends and communities. You can help us reach new supporters who share our desire to fight Nazis and lose ourselves in the mysteries of the Cthulhu mythos.

Together, we can make these last hours monumental!

~Cat

The Stars Shift, and the Moment is Held at Bay
over 1 year ago – Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 05:07:41 PM

Through rites best left unspoken and by invoking those ancient names which chill the very soul, we have forestalled—for now—the arrival of that dreadful occurrence which would consume both flesh and reason—this campaign's premature end. The stars, mercifully, do not yet align, and the dark forces slumber once more,  appeased by our offerings—for another full week.

In the shadowed halls of power, the ancient ritual of selection unfolds once more; and our final hours will not be drowned out by the cries of loyalty and despair from their teeming throngs!

This reprieve is but a fleeting whisper in the face of eternity; come November 14th, all must fall silent.

Meanwhile, the next episode of Trail of Cthulhu 2e Actual Play A Ravenous Hunger awaits, as does an intruder in the libary below...

~Cat