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Sarah Newton, Christopher Smith Adair, Dim Martin, Michal E Cross
Robin D. Laws, Christian Knutsson, Dean Engelhardt
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Kevin Kulp, Kieran Turley, Jérôme Huguenin, Chris Huth
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Melissa Gay
Thomas McGrenery

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Absinthe in Carcosa

by Robin D. Laws, Christian Knutsson, Dean Engelhardt

The Handout to End All HandoutsThe City Guide That Shatters Reality At the end of the 19th century, an American art student went to Paris, read a play, and lost his grip on reality.The play was called The King in Yellow.Having read it, head reeling from absinthe, bedeviled by unseen adversaries, he realized that the alien world it described, Carcosa, had sunk its traces throughout the City of Lights.As he explored Paris in search of its decadent influence, he created a scrapbook. A guide for...

$$20.95PDF

Accretion Disk

by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Kevin Kulp, Kieran Turley, Jérôme Huguenin, Chris Huth

An Accretion Disk forms around massive bodies in space. Gravity drags in random objects and debris, spinning them around and bringing them in closer and closer, faster and faster, hotter and hotter, until something explodes. It holds true for stars and black holes – and for politics and crime, too. And let’s face it – you’re the ones who are going to be standing in the path of that explosive release. Better get ready. Accretion Disk is the expansion book for Ashen Stars, the GUMSHOE gritty...

$$15.95PDF

Achtung! Cthulhu: Heroes of the Sea - Trail of Cthulhu

by Sarah Newton, Christopher Smith Adair, Dim Martin, Michal E Cross

Wartime roleplaying……with tentacles! Achtung! Cthulhu brings you a wartime TRAIL OF CTHULHU roleplaying game setting packed full of fiendish Nazis, terrifying ancient mysteries, legendary war machines, and enough writhing tentacles to fill ten Reichstags! Heroes of the Sea is the second standalone adventure supplement in the globe-spanning Zero Point campaign. Play soldiers, agents, and resistance fighters in the chaos and carnage of the Battle of Dunkirk, as a sinister conspiracy threatens...

$$8.00PDF

Achtung! Cthulhu: Three Kings - Trail of Cthulhu

by Sarah Newton, Christopher Smith Adair, Dim Martin, Michal E Cross

Wartime roleplaying……with tentacles! Achtung! Cthulhu brings you a two-fisted wartime TRAIL OF CTHULHU roleplaying game setting packed full of fiendish Nazis, terrifying ancient mysteries, legendary war machines, and enough writhing tentacles to fill ten Reichstags! Three Kings is the first in a series of standalone adventure supplements in the globe-spanning Zero Point campaign for Achtung! Cthulhu written by Sarah Newton. Join a band of heroic soldiers, agents, and partisans behind enemy...

$$8.00PDF

A Cigarette, A Blindfold, and You

by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Melissa Gay

It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of a living god, friends! In The Yellow King RPG, our world is invaded by the malignant, cancerous reality-warping influence of Carcosa and the dreaded King in Yellow. The Wars setting explores an alternate Europe in the 1940s, where a great Continental War fueled by alien science and sorcery drags with no end to the suffering in sight.In this one-shot The Wars adventure, the player characters are French soldiers, assigned to guard duty in...

$$4.95PDF

Against the Unknown

by Thomas McGrenery

Hardboiled detectives. Wartime spies. Investigators of the uncanny. Such are the intrepid heroes of AGAINST THE UNKNOWN! Against the Unknown is a standalone RPG using a streamlined take on the GUMSHOE system to tell adventure stories in the mode of the original adventure pulps and hardboiled detective stories. Characters in Against the Unknown are masters of their chosen fields, with extraordinary abilities.The trouble starts when they must face dangers and mysteries that likewise go far...

$$4.99PDF

Albion's Ransom: Little Girl Lost

by Ian Sturrock, Jérôme Huguenin

Little Girl Lost is a full-length campaign for The Esoterrorists. Written by Ian Sturrock (Conana, BESM d20), it's a race against time to rescue the daughter of your Ordo Veritatis boss. It's set in the UK, but designed for US operatives. Investigators Abroad You're all experts in your field. The amount you know about the dire work of the Esoterrorists, it's a wonder you're not mad, or paranoid, but somehow you keep fighting. This could be your toughest case yet. First up, get the girl back....

$$8.95PDF

Albion's Ransom: Worm of Sixty Winters

by Ian Sturrock, Matthew Sanderson, Claude Bernier-Tremblay, Jérôme Huguenin

Worm of Sixty Winters is a full-length campaign for The Esoterrorists. It works as a stand alone adventure, or as the sequel to Albion’s Ransom: Little Girl Lost. An Esoterrorist weather control ritual has brought sudden blizzards and extreme temperatures to an unsuspecting England. This they hope will be the first stage of the Fimbulvetr of Norse mythology – a dreadful winter that lasts three full years and heralds Ragnarok, the Viking apocalypse. You are the American team – brought in as...

$$8.75PDF

Alchemy

by Kenneth Hite

Chemistry or magic? Madness or miracles? Poison or power? Blend all those elements — and more — with Alchemy, the latest Zoom in on a historical magic system for GUMSHOE gaming. Operating at every level from the base dungeon-crawl to the Awakened Working, this magic system gives you the secrets of matter — and maybe a touch of mercury poisoning. Alchemy is included in Volume 3 of the Ken Writes About Stuff subscription. The ZIP file includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI versions of this product.

$$2.95EPUB, Mobi, PDF

Alexandria-Class Vessel Deckplans

by Ralf Schemmann

Favored by crews specializing in intelligence operatioins, the robust computer systems and versatile communications ports of the Alexandria-class provide it high security against invasive data acquisition. More details and full deckplans for this brand-new ship class for Ashen Stars. A GUMSHOE Community Content title - requires Ashen Stars from Pelgrane Press to play.

$$2.95PDF

Alteregomania

by Michael Duxbury, Chris Huth

The skies above New Olympus are patrolled by caped crusaders, but these superior beings are far from heroes. They wield their powers with reckless disregard, serving the interests of corporate overseers, and silencing those who oppose their will. You are Klara Koenig, investigative journalist for The Pedestrian newspaper, and you intend to prove the privileged superhuman elite do not yet hold a monopoly on justice. Welcome to Alteregomania: the newest setting for the GUMSHOE One-2-One...

$$14.95PDF

Aluminium Wars

by Mark Galeotti

A Malandros setting supplement by Mark Galeotti In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, and everything was up for grabs. In the industrial city of Krasnoyarsk, while the big beasts of the new gangster-businessman world fight it out for control of the local aluminium industry, corrupt cops, ambitious politicians, hustlers, thugs, and even a few idealists struggle to thrive and survive in a new Russia without rules, rhyme or reason. This is a world that is grimy and sullen, gritty and bitter. But...

$$4.99PDF

A Night at the Save 'n' Lots

by Aaron Achartz

On a warm August night, a dozen people are shopping at their local Save 'n' Lots Superstore. When the power goes out and a mysterious fog rolls in, they all are stuck together for the night. And then those trapped inside start dying gruesome and unexplained deaths. A Night at the Save 'n' Lots is a modern survival horror scenario for the Gumshoe system.

$$2.99PDF

A Night on the Town - A 'The Esterrorists Second Edition' Demonstration Scenario - Version 1.1

by Marcus Bone, Freepik.com

A Night on the Town has been written as a demonstration scenario for The Esoterrorists RPG. It arose after the author realised that the GUMSHOE system brought a specific set of expectations to the gaming table. These skills, while easy to learn, can be difficult to explain without examples, and are best demonstrated in play. About A Night on the Town Ordos Veritatis runs an extensive network of spies and communication intercepts all of whom works non-stop to identify potential Esoterrorist...

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Apocrypha

by Michael Rees

Times can change, reality can shift. What is considered fact one day can become fiction the next. Choosing what to believe can be difficult for TimeWatch agents but they would be wise not to dismiss anything. Just because something might not be true now, doesn't mean that won't change. Apocrypha provides a wealth of information for players and GM alike including new insight into the Time Watch organization, new gear for missions, and more knowledge about time travel. An extensive timeline...

$$11.07PDF

Ashen Stars

by Robin D Laws, Jerome Huguenin, Chris Huth

They call you lasers. Sometimes you’re called scrubbers, regulators, or shinestars. To the lawless denizens of the Bleed, whether they be pirates, gangsters or tyrants, you’re known in less flattering terms. According to official Combine terminology, the members of your hard-bitten starship crew are known as Licensed Autonomous Zone Effectuators. You’re the seasoned freelancers local leaders call when a situation proves too tough, too baffling, or simply too weird to handle on their own. In...

$$24.95PDF

Ashen Stars Community Content files

by Pelgrane Press, Jerome Huguenin, Chris Huth

The GUMSHOE Community program provides a variety of free resources for publishers, including logos, layout templates, and artwork. Publishers are free to use these resources, or to build their products from the ground up with their own graphic design, layout, art, and cartography. This title includes the following files: Ashen Stars Community Content Packaged InDesign folder Ashen Stars Community Content Word document layout zip file Ashen Stars Community Content Character Sheet Packaged...

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Ashen Stars: Dead Rock Seven

by Gareth Hanrahan, Pascal Quidault

Some mysteries, you really don't want to solve. If the thing at the centre of the labyrinth starts hunting you, you'll wish you'd never started searching in the first place. Some truths are buried for a reason. The sound of claws on metal grew louder. Something scraped at the outside of the sealed hatch. 'This is impossible. They're dead.' They weren't. We were. Dead Rock Seven is a collection of four adventures for Ashen Stars from acclaimed writer Gareth Hanrahan (Arkham Detective...

$$14.95PDF

Ashen Stars: Tartarus

by Robin D Laws, Kyle Strahm

A new adventure for Ashen Stars from Robin D Laws. In this scenario of exploration and confrontation in a devastatingly hostile environment, hard-bitten lasers, who know enough not to touch the gooey stuff or take off their helmets in an untested biosphere, investigate the demise of a survey crew doomed by the above mistakes, and more. The interstellar corporation Shrawley-Gosha Industries offers a contract for an extraction operation on a notorious Bad Planet called Tartarus. A recent SGI...

$$5.95PDF

Ashen Stars: Terra Nova

by Leonard Balsera, Pascal Quidault

The Terra Nova, last of the great luxury liners from the Combine’s heyday, is dead, a victim of disaster now drifting in the space between worlds. Her final call echoes across the Bleed. The last of the survivors clutch desperately to life, waiting for rescue. All but one, that is. One of them waits only for a chance to finish the job, uncovering a secret which the Terra Nova has kept hidden for decades. The price of that revelation will be paid in blood. Terra Nova is an adventure for Ashen...

$$5.95PDF

Ashen Stars: The Justice Trade

by Leonard Balsera, Kevin Kulp, Robin D. Laws, Bill White, Chris Huth, Pascal Quidault, Kyle Strahm

Now the war’s over, and you and your crew of freelance effectuators patrol the edge of civilized space, trying to pay the bills while you keep the peace. But the competition in this line is fierce, and sometimes you have to cut corners — which makes you wonder if justice bought and paid for is any justice at all… The Justice Trade contains three adventures for Ashen Stars – The Justice Trade, Terra Nova and Tartarus – written by Leonard Balsera, author of Profane Miracles and co-author of...

$$9.95PDF

A Tangled Web

by Peter Medrano, Jennie Medrano

A TANGLED WEB A Tangled Web is a short introductory scenario for the 2nd Edition of the Mutant City Blues role-playing game by Pelgrane Press. This scenario is a two to four hour case designed to be played in a single session, perfect for convention play or to introduce players to the world of Mutant City Blues and the GUMSHOE investigative role-playing system. Inside you'll find: 6 Pregenerated characters designed specifically for this scenario and made to be easy to handle for players new...

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Ballad Hunters: Early-Access Edition

by Tristan Zimmerman

Sing and fight magical folk ballads in 1813 England and Scotland! This free early-access edition of Ballad Hunters has everything you need to play a one-shot about the traditional song Barbara Allen. Ballad Hunters has: Investigative adventures centered around the lyrics of traditional British ballads Simple, story-driven rules inspired by the GUMSHOE engine A historical setting that is grim but hopeful Magic where characters make ballad verses come to life Ballad Hunters is the sequel to...

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Bast

by Kenneth Hite, Melissa Gay

“What fully civilised soul but would eagerly serve as high priest of Bast?” She Who Scratches, the Lady of the Ointment Jar, the great cat-goddess of nighted Khem comes alive in all her varied forms: as a Trail of Cthulhu titan (complete with her monstrous Brood of Bubastis), mysterious Ashen Stars entity, TimeWatch cult leader, and 13th Age Icon. Good kitty! Bast is included in Volume 3 of the Ken Writes About Stuff subscription. The ZIP file includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI versions of this...

$$2.95EPUB, Mobi, PDF

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