Rating: [ 6.11 / 10.00 ]

Game Info

Title  The Armitage Files
Author  Robin D Laws
Book Type  Other Rules
Rank: [ 120 / 2673 ]
Genre  Horror / Cthulhu
Setting  1930s
Awards 
ENnie (Silver for Best Adventure, 2010)
Golden Geek RPG (Best Artwork/Presentation Nominee, 2010)
Golden Geek RPG (Best Supplement Nominee, 2010)
Golden Geek RPG (Best Supplement Finalist, 2011)
Edition Info  Pelgrane Press (2010)
Stock: T10
ISBN: 978-1-934859-32-2
System  Trail of Cthulhu
Parent: [ GUMSHOE ]

Game Summary

Formless Fears!

The Armitage Files presents a boldly innovative way to generate blood-chilling adventures for your Trail Of Cthulhu investigators. Players seize on clues presented in the ten mysterious documents.

They choose which leads to track down. The Keeper, using clearly broken down step-by-step techniques introduced in this volume, improvises suitably mind-blasting mysteries in response to their choices. Weave these together into an epic campaign of madness, dread and danger.

Terror Between the Lines!

Mystery takes on written form when pages from a disturbing manuscript fall into the investigators’ hands. Can your mind correlate the awful beauty of 10 stunningly distressed handouts realized by acclaimed illustrator Sarah Wroot? A series of scrawled messages, comprising a free-floating cacophony of facts, speculations, and fevered imaginings, portends cryptic doom. Preliminary inquiries reveal that they are written in the hand of Dr. Henry Armitage, director emeritus of the Mistakonic University Library.

Components of Calamity!

Combine the documents with pre-prepared elements such as supporting characters (in sinister, heroic or in between versions), organizations, locations and artifacts to create your unique version of the Armitage Files.

With clear advice to players and Keepers on improvisation, extensive examples and advice, following the Trail of Cthulhu Will Never Be the Same Again!

Will You?

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# Title System Publisher Released Stock Status
1 The Armitage FilesTrail of Cthulhu 1Pelgrane Press 2010 T10 ---

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5 + 5committed hero. For anyone who doubts an investigative sandbox campaign is possible, this book is the winning counterargument.

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