New Supplements for GUMSHOE

[simonjrogers]

What non-adventure supplements would you like to see for GUMSHOE (other than Trail)?
Edit: Those are some great core setting suggestions, but I’m after either current-setting-specific suggestions, or else general GUMSHOE supplements.

Comments

[mikage_souji]

Extended guide on constructing mysteries with GUMSHOE. Linear/non-linear structures, how to pace the investigation, spines, etc.

[gbsteve]

A sort of do-it-yourself Armitage Files?

[mikage_souji]

Not a collection of plot bits to arrange, but more of a comprehensive examination of detective genre in RPGs and using strong points of GUMSHOE to build a mystery.

[notoriousbkc]

Like

[matt_m_mcelroy]

An Organized Crime book for Mutant City Blues. With different factions, NPCs, details on FBI and other law enforcement agencies that deal with Organized Crime.

[notoriousbkc]

I think an expanded look at what world governments have done in reaction to the appearance of the heightened would be interesting.

[madmanofprague]

A book on investigations and investigative techniques used in the real world, mainly focusing on criminal or counterespionage investigations, but also including things like archaeology, private investigators and examples of non-professional investigations that worked and how; perhaps veering into weirder territory like Kirlian photography, or expanding on FI's repertoire of investigative psychic powers.

Ideally this would also include a couple of adventures that were just straight-up criminal investigations that could be slotted into a MCB or ESO (or Delta Green) game as a non-supernatural alternative session or a 'day job' operation.
More monster books are always welcome, though.

[madmanofprague]

Ideally, this would also include enough information about policing and investigative technology in the 20s and 30s that it could be used for a default TOC campaign as well. Maybe a timeline of investigation from the Victorian era onward?

[madmanofprague]

Also: The Big Book Of Historical Conspiracies (And Conspiracy Theories), from the plot to kill Tutankhamun to HAARP/DARPA mind-weather-control-satellites and everything in between. Part historical sourcebook, part campaign frames, and part monster manual for occult-conspiracy games, utilizing the alternative interpretations of Mythos entities format in the TOC book for the 'truth' behind all these conspiracies.