Down Darker Trails
Details
Publisher: Chaosium
Product Code: CHA23151-H (hardcover), CHA23151-PDF (ebook)
Publishing Year: 2017
Pages: 256
Cover Price: $44.95 (hardback + PDF), $22.95 (PDF only)
Author(s): Kevin Ross, Mike Mason, Scott David Aniolowski, David Cole, Todd Woods
Setting(s): 1890s, Weird West, Gaslight, Pulp Cthulhu
Format(s): Hardcover, PDF
ISBN: 978-156882-448-2
Contents
Campaigns:
Scenarios:
- "Scanlon's Daughter" — a murder mystery set between two feuding Texas ranches
- "Something From Down There" — join the rescue of a group of missing miners whose digging stirred things best left forgotten
Sites/Towns - two ready-made towns are fully detailed, providing Keepers with ready-made inhabitants and locales from which to stage campaigns, and four different Lost Worlds are discussed
- Pawheton, a rugged frontier gold mining town
- San Rafael, on the Texas border
- K'n-yan, a weird subterranean lost world
- Shadow Desert, an eerie desert lost world
- Lost Valley, a lost world peopled by strange inhabitants
- El Canon De Los Viejos, a lost world where creatures from Earth’s past still roam
Articles:
- Old West investigators
- new occupations
- new pulp talents
- new skills
- history of the Old West
- famous individuals
- playing American Indian heroes
- notable places and sites
- "Supernatural West": inspiration and guidance on bringing the terrors and mysteries of the Great Old Ones into your games
Additional:
- Classic Character Sheet
- Pulp Character Sheet
- Maps: the Old West, Pawheton, San Rafael, etc.
- full-colour illustrations and art
Front Cover Text
- 23151
- Call of Cthulhu
- Down Darker Trails
- Terrors of the Mythos in the Old West
- Kevin Ross
- ...with Keith Herber, Scott David Aniolowski, David Cole, Todd A. Woods, Nicholas Nacario, Paul Fricker, and Mike Mason
- Chaosium Inc.
Back Cover Text
Saddle up! Get yourself a posse together and have a look-see what’s over that hill. There’s strange rumors coming in from the whisperin’ desert. You’d best put a round in that iron and make haste!
Down Darker Trails is a new setting for Call of Cthulhu—the American West of the late 19th century. The era of gold rushes, outlaws and lawmen, discovery and expansion.
Rub shoulders with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok, Crazy Horse, and Calamity Jane, while journeying through towns like Deadwood and Dodge City — names and places that have transcended history to become legend. Down these dark trails the taint of the Cthulhu Mythos stirs, ready to lure the unwary and tempt the power hungry with whispered secrets of cosmic knowledge. This is a West of hidden worlds, lost treasures and cities, dubious deals and unsavory alliances. A land filled with beauty, mystery, terror—and wild adventure!
Here you will find the means to create Old West investigators, new occupations, new pulp talents, and new skills. Captured in text and image is the history of the Old West, famous individuals, playing American Indian heroes, notable places and sites, as well as inspiration and guidance on bringing the terrors and mysteries of the Great Old Ones into your games.
Two complete towns, the gold-hungry Pawheton and San Rafael on the Texas border, are fully detailed, providing Keepers with ready-made inhabitants and locales from which to stage campaigns. Four different Lost Worlds are discussed, from the weird subterranean world of K’n-yan to the eerie Shadow Desert.
Packed with advice on creating campaigns and adventures, including two complete introductory-level adventures:
- "Scanlon's Daughter" — a murder mystery set between two feuding Texas ranches
- "Something From Down There" — join the rescue of a group of missing miners whose digging stirred things best left forgotten
Down Darker Trails is a setting supplement with scenarios useable with Call of Cthulhu and Pulp Cthulhu.
Comments / Trivia
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