Following on from a successful release to backers of ‘The Book of Contemporary Magical Things’, our new Kickstarter, its companion ‘The Book of Contemporary Magical Places’ has been launched! Explore modern-day Earth’s mysterious and dark corners filled with magic! Please share far and wide!

 

Twelve cards detailing doom or destiny for characters in one-shot or convention horror games such as Call of Cthulhu™, Trail of Cthulhu™, GURPS Horror™, Delta Green™ and others.

To be handed to players after their one-shot or convention scenario is over, the small cards will give the player some interesting closure to their character. Some of them offer a peaceful destiny, but the majority reveal the character’s doom!

Hudson & Brand: Inquiry Agents of the Obscure is the first in our ‘Safe House’ series where players of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game (published by Chaosium, Inc), have a home-base for their Cthulhu by Gaslight characters to work out of. At hand, they will have resources, a gun range, a collection of monographs on various subjects, a small library, three members of staff, and property consisting of offices and lodgings in the very heart of Victorian London.

The book will also contain numerous case files written by Hudson & Brand (both of whom are now missing), NPCs, plans, scenario seeds, and an adventure. It is edited by Matthew Pook and written by Robert Grayston & Stephanie McAlea. Art is by Jon Gibbons, Guillaume Tavernier, and Stephanie McAlea, along with numerous period photographs and images.

Taking its inspirational cues from Sherlock Holmes, Ripper Street, Auguste Dupin, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, and The Incendiary’s Trail, the book takes a mature look at the horror of Mythos machinations and the many dark corners in the seat of empire.