Formless Fears!
The Armitage Files presents a boldly innovative way to generate blood-chilling adventures for your Trail Of Cthulhu investigators. Players seize on clues presented in the ten mysterious documents.
They choose which leads to track down. The Keeper, using clearly broken down step-by-step techniques introduced in this volume, improvises suitably mind-blasting mysteries in response to their choices. Weave these together into an epic campaign of madness, dread and danger.
Terror Between the Lines!
Mystery takes on written form when pages from a disturbing manuscript fall into the investigators’ hands. Can your mind correlate the awful beauty of 10 stunningly distressed handouts realized by acclaimed illustrator Sarah Wroot? A series of scrawled messages, comprising a free-floating cacophony of facts, speculations, and fevered imaginings, portends cryptic doom. Preliminary inquiries reveal that they are written in the hand of Dr. Henry Armitage, director emeritus of the Miskatonic University Library.
Components of Calamity!
Combine the documents with pre-prepared elements such as supporting characters (in sinister, heroic or in between versions), organizations, locations and artifacts to create your unique version of the Armitage Files. An article on improvising GUMSHOE, by Steve Dempsey, shows you how.
With clear advice to players and Keepers on improvisation, extensive examples and advice, following the Trail of Cthulhu Will Never Be the Same Again!
Will You?
| Stock #: PELGT10 | Author: Robin D. Laws |
| Artist: Jerome Huguenin | Format: 150 page 8.5″ x 11″ perfect bound, two-colour |
The handouts are available as a colour PDF to owners of the Armitage Files on the Trail of Cthulhu downloads page.
Wow, this looks great! I’ll buy it as soon as I can find it here in Sweden (SF-bokhandeln usually sells your books so I’m pretty sure I can find it here). I’ve always wanted to create a diary or something to base a campaign around and this sounds like it will do the trick. And I’ll finally get an excuse to play Trail of Cthulhu (my players are conservative Call of Cthulhu-players).
Looking forward to getting my hands on it!
[...] Simon J. Rogers auf seinem Blog verkündet, sind die Armitage Files als PDF erhältlich. Ich hoffe auch die gedruckte Version kommt dann bald, vorbestellt habe ich [...]
[...] Press have released a new supplement for Trail of Cthulhu. The Armitage Files is an adventure supplement with a somewhat different approach to the norm. Players acquire clues in [...]
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An amazing setting-and-toolbox, with enless useful NPC and places, plus the amazing handouts to bound all in unexpected and unpredictable ways. ¡A whole new campaing every time you replay it!
[...] I first heard about “The Armitage Files” I was intrigued at once (Robin Laws actually mentioned it in the interview I did with him last [...]
“Dr. Henry Armitage, director emeritus of the Mistakonic University Library”.
Surprised noone has mentioned the repeated misspelling of Miskatonic (”mista” instead of “miska” appears both in the text above and in the product itself)?
Greets,
JJ
@JJ Brewster Thank you – fixed!
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