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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:

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

Outside Entities, and Episode 2 of A Ravenous Hunger
over 1 year ago – Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 04:17:34 PM

Another stretch goal unlocked! Ken is thrilled to be busily writing up the 2e versions of gods and titans Daoloth, Iod, Mordiggian, Quachil Uttaus, and Y'golonac; plus creatures Avatar of Y'golonac, Lloigor, Nioth-Korgai, Sand-Dwellers, Shan, and the Very Old Folk. All backers at the Nightgaunt level and higher will get this wax museum of horrors as a free PDF after the campaign.
 
We've just added a new new £160,000 stretch goal - Singular Thirsts, a new scenario for the Shadows Under Chicago campaign frame, in which a crew of Windy City investigators discovers something more than usually wrong with the bootleg brew in the Bucktown neighborhood.

For those of you new to Trail of Cthulhu, we've also added three new digital add-ons:
 
  • Trail 1e - All Campaign Frames in PDF
  • Trail 1e - All Adventure PDFs
  • Trail 1e - Complete Digital Collection

If you enjoyed episode 1 of "A Ravenous Hunger", Twelve-Sided Stories' Trail of Cthulhu 2e Actual Play, you can now watch episode 2 on our YouTube channel here.

And do you want to investigate the creepy church, or get the heck out of there back to safety with Rose? Vote in Gareth's latest poll below.

Play by poll #2, and more Cthulhu levels added
over 1 year ago – Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 02:39:58 PM

A quick update to let you know firstly, we've posted the next installment of Gareth's Trail play by poll game - you can see it at the bottom of this message, and if you're a backer, you can vote on it now. We'll be posting the next installment in 24 hours, and each new installment 24 hours after that.

Secondly, if you missed out on the Cthulhu pledge level and the chance to have Gareth write you a custom Trail of Cthulhu adventure, good news - we've added another two opportunities to grab this, so it's now limited to five backers instead of the original three.