Courtesy of Bill White, creator of the excellent Ganakagok.


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Ennie award voting is now open. Please consider voting for Trail of Cthulhu for Best rules and Best Writing, and Unremitting Horror in Best Monster/Adversary book. Vote here.

Edit: Due to some technical glitch, enworld lost all votes cast on Monday.

One caption in the Trail of Cthulhu caption competition is a clear winner, with 52% of the vote. The other three share the rest of the vote evenly.

And the winning caption is:

"Too distracted by the theatrics on stage, the audience failed to see the thing rising out of what they thought was a painted lake."

The winner has been notified. 

Jerome found this peculiar image while looking for fodder for the Stunning Eldritch Tales adventure set in Shanghai. Click on the image for the scarily detailed full sized version. Think of a caption. Best one wins a prize...a leather-bound version of Trail of Cthulhu! Ends 1st March.


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As I am now listed on IPR, I thought it might be nice to get all share-y with the data, as my fellow IPR publishers often do.

From its release to the end of 2007, The Esoterrorists has sold just over 1000 copies.  I'm really pleased with this - it's our best selling game (just) since The Dying Earth RPG. Nearly 20% of the sales are PDFs, and ( Read more... )

Robin Laws has looked over Ken Hites's Trail of Cthulhu manuscript, and has gone doolally*. I called in our resident alienist to look him over, and I had no choice but to commit him to the Pelgrane Asylum. There is no chance of course that it will affect Jérome or I, of course, for we are stalwart Europeans ( Read more... )

The tagline competition to win an early copy of the Compendium had a clear winner, a Mr Kenneth Hite of Chicago, with 43% of the vote. Lucky Mr Hite. I hope he benefits from "reliable information on everything that has ever existed." Let us hope it does not distract him from Trail of Cthulhu.

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Character archetype images for Trail of Cthulhu from Jerome using the photomontage technique - explorer and detective.
Note the town name on the police car. I've torn him away from the seductive Trail to work on GUMSHOE Unremitting Horror.


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I'm doing research for Trail of Cthulhu, and I came across this peculiar document. Unfortunately, instead of sympathetic understanding, I reacted with glee.
Here is a list of probable causes of insanity in the State Asylum in Missouri in 1854. Miasmatic fever was thought to be caused by breathing the foul air. Disappointed love, loss of relatives  ( Read more... )