Trail of Cthulhu Core Rules
Details
Publisher: Pelgrane Press
Page Count: 248
Author: Kenneth Hite
GUMSHOE System: Robin D Laws
Artist: Jérôme Huguenin
Original Call of Cthulhu RPG: Sandy Petersen and Lynn Willis
Summary
Trail of Cthulhu is a complete RPG, under license to Chaosium. It offers a variant rules system for the Call of Cthulhu game and is set in the 1930s.
Trail of Cthulhu's core system is the 'GUMSHOE engine', which focuses on investigative roleplaying and police procedural type scenarios.
To quote Pelgrane Press's website, Trail of Cthulhu supports "...both Pulp (for Indiana Jones, Robert E. Howard, thrilling locations sorts of games) and Purist styles of play(for intellectual horror and cosmic dread). HP Lovecraft's work combined both, sometimes in the same story.
"It includes a new take on the creatures, cults and gods of the Lovecraft's literature, and addresses their use in gaming. It adds new player backgrounds, and bulk out the GUMSHOE system to give intensive support for sanity, incorporating into the rule set the PCs desire to explore at the risk of going mad."
Comments / Trivia
In 2008, Trail of Cthulhu won two Ennie awards for Best Rules and Best Writing, as well as receiving an honourable mention for Product of the Year.
Resources
Trail of Cthulhu Rules Clarifications
Links
- Review by M J Harnish on Wired.com
- Review by Darren MacLennan on RPG.net
- Review by Peter Svensson on RPG.net
- Review by Venger Satanis on RPG.net
- Review by 2097 on RPG.net
- Review by Jeff McAleer on The Gaming Gang
- Review by Beedo on Dreams in the Lich House
- Reviews on Amazon.com
- Review by Lee Valentine on OgreCave
