Horror movies straight from history
Acclaimed weirdness expert Kenneth Hite combines his encyclopedic knowledge of historical detail with an unsettling mastery of HP Lovecraft’s classic horror stories into what can only be described as a masterpiece. The role-playing game On the Trail of Cthulhu takes a cosmic despair into the 1930s, when the creeping madness caused by the Great Ancients mingles with the overwhelming cruelty of global totalitarianism.
One step away from cosmic madness
The revolutionary Gumshoe mechanic designed by the award-winning Robin D. Laws will change your approach to investigative games forever. It speeds up the gameplay and makes it more fluid. Thanks to it, explorers rummaging through deserted farms, forbidden libraries or the frosty labyrinths of Antarctica will always receive the necessary clues that will allow them to move forward towards… inevitable confrontation with ancient truths too terrifying for the mind to absorb them.
Choose the type of doom
Choose the type of gameplay you want: classic path to despair or an explosive pulp adventure.
Choose which of the 14 credible Motivations your investigator will follow to zip straight into the dark vault, and arm him with over 60 skills, from the Cthulhu Mythos to Explosives, to help him get out of there.
The handbook contains three exciting campaigning ideas: for the stiff professors, the starved federals, and the not-so-crystal weirdness traders. Not to mention the Kingsbury Horror scenario to get you started.
On the trail of Cthulhu – a whole new way to go mad and die.
The game can be ordered as part of the pre-sale. The premiere of the textbook is planned for the beginning of September.
