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Trail of Cthulhu is a new standalone GUMSHOE system game under license to Chaosium, set in the 1930s. It supports both Pulp (for Indiana Jones, Robert E. Howard, thrilling locations sorts of games) and Purist styles of play(for intellectual horror and cosmic dread). HP Lovecrafts work combined both, sometimes in the same story. It includes a new take on the creatures, cults and gods of the Lovecrafts literature, and addresses their use in gaming. It adds new player backgrounds, and bulk out the GUMSHOE system to give intensive support for sanity, incorporating into the rule set the PCs desire to explore at the risk of going mad. Trail of Cthulhu won two Ennie awards for Best Rules and Best Writing, as well as receiving an honourable mention for Product of the Year.

Robin D. Laws is a writer and game designer. His roleplaying game designs for Pelgrane Press include The Dying Earth, The Esoterrorists¸ Mutant City Blues and Skulduggery . His other roleplaying game designs include Feng Shui , HeroQuest and Og: Unearthed Edition. Among Robins six novels are Pierced Heart, The Rough and the Smooth, and Freedom Phalanx. Always ready to take an intriguing career detour, his various past projects include collectible card games, computer games, and comic books. Google his name to find his blog, a cavalcade of hobby games, film, culture, narrative structure and gun-toting avians. Kenneth Hite claims to have bought the first copy of Call of Cthulhu sold in Oklahoma City in August 1981. Since then, he has moved to dread and night-haunted Chicago, written all or part of seventy or so roleplaying game books (including Nightmares of Mine, Dubious Shards, and Adventures into Darkness), and acquired the requisite Lovecraftian cat. His Tour de Lovecraft: The Settings column appears in Weird Tales magazine; his Suppressed Transmission column explores the Higher Strangeness in Pyramid. His wife Sheila knits.