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Liber Fumo de Frater Vigilo

2012-08-05T12:47:49Z

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==Details==

'''Publisher:''' [[Pelgrane Press]]

'''Product Code:'''

'''Publishing Year:''' 2011

'''Pages:'''

'''Cover Price:'''

'''Author(s):''' [[Paula Dempsey]], [[Kenneth Hite]], [[Steve Dempsey]]

'''Artist(s):'''

'''Style(s):''' Sourcebook and Campaign Setting

'''Format(s):''' Hardback, Softback, PDF

'''ISBN:''' 9780954752637

==Contents==

The Guide is replete with contacts, rumours and clues which will guide you on your quest for forbidden knowledge. Written as the companion volume to Bookhounds of London for Trail of Cthulhu, it can be used as a Keeper’s resource as well as an in-game artefact for players in any Mythos game.

In 1933 a mysterious secret society commissioned Augustus Darcy to compile a guide to occult London. By the end of that year, Darcy was dead. Within these tales of The Smoke’s legendary past are scattered clues to its future. Was a magical war brewing? Were forces from other dimensions breaking through into our own? Who were the mysterious Brotherhood? Who killed Augustus Darcy and why? After eighty years Darcy’s book is here for you to make up your own mind. Use it as a guide as you venture into Darcy’s world and may your gods be with you in the days ahead.

It is a work of fiction, an autobiography, an occult miscellany and a murder mystery, a book which should not be read, and yet cannot be cast aside. It is all these things and more, but most of all it is a guide for your own journey through the streets of the Big Smoke.

The foreword to the book can be found [http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=2475 here].

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The sourcebook is organised as follows:

* Foreword
* Darcy's Letter
* Places
** The City of London
** Westminster
** Seven Dials
** West End
** Kensington
** East End
** North London
** South London
*** Battersea
*** Bermondsey
*** Blackheath
*** Camberwell
*** Greenwich
*** Southwark
*** Wandsworth
*** Woolwich
** Outer London
*Persons

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'''Campaigns:''' This book provides a setting for running a Book-Hounds-based Campaign

==Sources for the Guide==
* [[Liber Fumo Sources: Mythos Tales|Mythos Sources]]
* Strange Cults and Secret Societies of Modern London by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_O'Donnell Elliott O'Donnell]
* [[Liber Fumo Sources: Popular Culture| Popular Culture]]

==The Murder of Augustus Darcy==

There are two clues, outside of those raised in the text, which may offer some insight into Darcy's mysterious death:

* [[The Cipher]]
* [[The Pangram]]

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Bookhounds of London

2012-08-05T12:45:31Z

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==Details==
[[Image:Bookhounds of London.jpg|thumb|''Front Cover'']]

'''Publisher:''' [[Pelgrane Press]]

'''Product Code:''' PELGT16

'''Publishing Year:''' 2011

'''Pages:''' 184

'''Cover Price:''' $34.95

'''Author(s):''' [[Kenneth Hite]], [[Steve Dempsey]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Jérôme Huguenin]]

'''Style(s):''' Sourcebook and Campaign Setting

'''Format(s):''' Hardcover, with colour plates and PDF

'''ISBN:''' 9780954752637

==Contents==
This book describes itself as a campaign frame.

Your characters aren’t stalwart G-men or tweedy scholars this time around, serving their country or sealing off forbidden frontiers. They’re working the main chance, and selling maps (and maybe guidebooks) to those forbidden frontiers. They are book-hounds, looking for profit in mouldy vellum and leather bindings, balancing their own books by finding first editions for Satanists and would-be sorcerers. They may not quite know what they traffic in, or they may know rather better than their clientele. Peddlers of blasphemy and madness aren’t nice people, and the only consolation is that their customers are worse yet.

In a Book-Hounds of London campaign, the Investigators do not investigate horror and strangeness professionally. Rather, they investigate books about horror and strangeness and become, seemingly inevitably, drawn into the horror themselves. If they could just sell a pristine copy of the 1845 Bridewell edition of Nameless Cults, pocket their 40% (or 400%) and move on, they would. But it’s never that simple. Not for them. Not for book-hounds. Not in London. Not now.

Featuring new drives, hints for running your games as a "sandbox" and a sample adventure, Whitechapel Blackletter.

On July 11th 2011 the [[Pelgrane Press]] website announced [http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=5817 "A Mysterious Package Arrives"] to herald the arrival of the [[Bookhounds of London Limited Edition]] and with it open the investigation into the [[Murder of Augustus Darcy]].

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The sourcebook is organised as follows:

* Introduction
* Book-Hounds
** Creating a Book-Hound
** Occupations
** Drives
** New Abilities
** Bookshops
** Improving Bookshop Stock
** The Book Trade
* The Purchase of Curious Tomes
** Finding a Book
** Auctions
** Libraries
** The Books Themselves
** Occult Books
** Mythos Tomes
* Thirties London
** Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
** Rumours of London
** Westminster
** The West End
** The East End
** North London
** South London
* The London Mythos
** Cults
** Corebook Cults
* London's Monsters
** An Optional Magick
** Megapolisomancy
* Building a Bookhounds Campaign
** Styles
** Dramatis Personae
** Rivals
** Collectors
** Scenarios
** Player-Driven Adventures
* Example Scenario: [[Whitechapel Black-Letter]]
* Bibliography
** Howard and Campbell
** Other Urban Horrorists
** London
** Book-Hounds
** Antiquarian Book Dealers of London
** 1930s Rare Book Prices

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'''Campaigns:''' This book provides a setting for running a Book-Hounds-based Campaign

'''Scenarios:''' [[Whitechapel Black-Letter]]

==Front Cover Text==
No Additional Text.

==Back Cover Text==
''These cycles of experience, of course, all stem from that worm-riddled book. I remember when I found it – in a dimly lighted place near the black, oily river where the mists always swirl.''<br>
- The Book

'''Forbidden Tomes'''
Bookhounds of London is a brand new campaign setting for Trail of Cthulhu, packed with period detail, where the Investigators seek out books about horror and strangeness and become, seemingly inevitably, drawn into the horror themselves. It provides in-depth material on London in the 1930s, carefully slanted towards Mythos investigators.

'''An Ancient City'''
Bookhounds' London is a city of cinemas, electric lights, global power and the height of fashion. It’s about the horrors – the cancers – that lurk in the capital, in the very beating heart of human civilization. A Templar altar might well crouch, mostly forgotten, in the dreary Hackney Marshes, but altars to false gods tower over the metaphorical swamps of Fleet Street and Whitehall. And as for lost, prehuman ruins … who’s to say what lies under London, if you dig deep enough?

'''Terrible Choices'''
The PCs aren’t stalwart G-men or tweedy scholars exploring forbidden frontiers. Instead, they acquire maps (and maybe guidebooks) to those forbidden frontiers from fusty libraries and prestigious auction houses. They are Book-Hounds, looking for profit in mouldy vellum and leather bindings, balancing their own books by finding first editions for Satanists and would-be sorcerers. They may not quite know what they traffic in, or they may know rather better than their clientele, but needs must when the bills come in. This volume includes:

* 32 authentic full-colour maps with unique new street index of London in the 1930s, and plans of major buildings.
* A Mythos take on London in the 1930s, packed with contacts, locations and rumours.
* New abilities such as Document Analysis, Auction and Forgery, as well as new occupations and drives.
* Full statistics for a host of new and horrible Mythos creatures to pit against the Bookhounds.
* Whitechapel Black-Letter, a brand new adventure which takes Bookhounds through the bleak East End of London on the trail of a powerful 15th century grimoire.
* With Bookhounds, Kenneth Hite creates a rich sandbox full of dusty tomes, crooked dealers and dark alleys, a perfect setting for any Mythos investigation.

'''A Detailed Guide to London in the 1930s'''

Bookhounds of London also features a complete, indexed street map of London, recreated and adapted from original sources, packed with over 200 locations essential to Investigators. Whatever system you play, this is an essential resource for Mythos roleplayers. The PDF version is fully cross-referenced.

==Comments / Trivia==
Both the hardcover and the PDF contain a large map of London reproduced as 22 color plates.

In the PDF, the plates are assigned page numbers. In the print book, they are not. That's why there is the disparity in page count.

==Links==
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The Armitage Files

2012-08-05T12:45:09Z

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==Details==
[[Image:The Armitage Files.jpg|thumb|''Front Cover'']]

'''Publisher:''' [[Pelgrane Press]]

'''Product Code:''' PELGT10

'''Publishing Year:''' 2010

'''Pages:''' 150

'''Cover Price:''' $33.95

'''Author(s):''' [[Robin D. Laws]], [[Steve Dempsey]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Jérôme Huguenin]], [[Sarah Wroot]] (handouts)

'''Style(s):''' Meta-Scenario kit

'''Format(s):''' Softcover and PDF

'''ISBN:''' 1-93485-932-X

==Contents==
This book is a kind of "scenario toolkit" which a keeper can use to construct his or her own custom adventure.

The basic premise is that a series of unusual documents and manuscripts (provided as lavishly-drawn player handouts) starts to appear
in various places at Miskatonic University's Orne Library. The documents include lots of references which could be investigated.

The remainder of the book describes many resources that could form part of such an investigation: non-player characters, generic place descriptions and information about magical effects. Using these resources and the "clues" unearthed from the documents, many different specific
adventures could be constructed. Some general advice (and some examples) are provided, but the specifics of building the scenario are
left to the Keeper.

* These Dread Pages (notes on using the remainder of the material in the book to build a custom adventure)
* People
* Places
* Tomes and Magic
* Scenario Spines
* Appendix: The Armitage Files (the player handouts)

'''Scenarios:''' [[The Armitage Files (Meta-Scenario)]]

==Front Cover Text==
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==Back Cover Text==
'''The Armitage Files'''

'''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 Miskatonic 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?'''

==Comments / Trivia==
Playtesters: Enrique Esturillo, Nast Marrero, Pablo Valcarcel, Nestor
Ramos, Javier Dorta, Cripzy Reyes, Nestor Bolaños , Jorge Andrés, Arseny
Kuznetsov, :Sam Friedman, Andy Johnson, Kyle Thoson, Jamie Huddle,
Dr. D, Kev Hickman, Belinda Kelly, Sly Gryphon, Malcolm Edwards, Anna
Kucharski, Kev Hickman, Tony Sweeting, Mike Riddle, Andy Whitwham,
Mike Hough, Alexander and Julia Drobyshev, Fedor Dudnik and Alexey
Dobrynin.

==Links==

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Dreamhounds of Paris

2012-08-03T12:50:36Z

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==Details==

'''Publisher:''' [[Pelgrane Press]]

'''Product Code:'''

'''Announce Date:''' December 2012 (at Dragonmeet)

'''Expected Publication Date:''' 2013

'''Project Status:''' On Track

'''Expected Page Count:''' ###

'''Author(s):''' [[Robin D Laws]], [[Kenneth Hite]], [[Steve Dempsey]]

'''Artist(s):'''

'''Style(s):'''

'''Format(s):'''

'''ISBN:''' #########-#

==Contents==

Dreamhounds of Paris is the Dreamlands book for people who hate the Dreamlands. The players are prominent surrealists, their rivals, and occult adversaries, fighting to control the Dreamlands and thus alter human consciousness. The fractious, iconoclastic surrealists were the premiere troublemakers of the intellectual scene of 1930s Paris. Andre Breton, their ideological enforcer, considered the movement not an art or avant garde pursuit, but an exercise in literally changing the human spirit. The exploration of dreams was but one part of this quasi-mystical pursuit. In Dreamhounds of Paris, top surrealists–but never the hyper-rational Breton himself–not only discover a way of breaking through to the Dreamlands by randomly walking the streets of the city. They discover that their powerful imaginations allow them to reshape its oneric geography. Soon the Dreamlands look more like something envisioned by Lautreamont than Dunsany–then they’re overrun by melting watches, ants streaming from giant hands, and bowler-hatted men whose faces can never be seen.

'''Scenarios:''' Some included in the book

==Front Cover Text==
List all the text from the front cover.

==Back Cover Text==
List all the text on the back cover.

==Comments / Trivia==
List dedication, color plates, rarity of the book, etc.

==Links==
Link to outside reviews
*[Link 1]
*[Link 2]

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
'''Players should not read any further.'''


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Dreamhounds of Paris

2012-08-03T12:50:20Z

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==Details==

'''Publisher:''' [[Pelgrane Press]]

'''Product Code:'''

'''Announce Date:''' December 2012 (at Dragonmeet)

'''Expected Publication Date:''' 2013

'''Project Status:''' On Track

'''Expected Page Count:''' ###

'''Author(s):''' [[Robin D Laws]], [[Kenneth Hite]], [[Steve Dempsey]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Artist 1]], [[Artist 2]]

'''Style(s):'''

'''Format(s):'''

'''ISBN:''' #########-#

==Contents==

Dreamhounds of Paris is the Dreamlands book for people who hate the Dreamlands. The players are prominent surrealists, their rivals, and occult adversaries, fighting to control the Dreamlands and thus alter human consciousness. The fractious, iconoclastic surrealists were the premiere troublemakers of the intellectual scene of 1930s Paris. Andre Breton, their ideological enforcer, considered the movement not an art or avant garde pursuit, but an exercise in literally changing the human spirit. The exploration of dreams was but one part of this quasi-mystical pursuit. In Dreamhounds of Paris, top surrealists–but never the hyper-rational Breton himself–not only discover a way of breaking through to the Dreamlands by randomly walking the streets of the city. They discover that their powerful imaginations allow them to reshape its oneric geography. Soon the Dreamlands look more like something envisioned by Lautreamont than Dunsany–then they’re overrun by melting watches, ants streaming from giant hands, and bowler-hatted men whose faces can never be seen.

'''Scenarios:''' Some included in the book

==Front Cover Text==
List all the text from the front cover.

==Back Cover Text==
List all the text on the back cover.

==Comments / Trivia==
List dedication, color plates, rarity of the book, etc.

==Links==
Link to outside reviews
*[Link 1]
*[Link 2]

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
'''Players should not read any further.'''


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Dreamhounds of Paris

2012-08-03T12:48:31Z

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==Details==

'''Publisher:''' [[Pelgrane Press]]

'''Product Code:'''

'''Announce Date:''' December 2012 (at Dragonmeet)

'''Expected Publication Date:''' 2013

'''Project Status:''' On Track

'''Expected Page Count:''' ###

'''Author(s):''' [[Robin Laws]], [[Kenneth Hite]], [[Steve Dempsey]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Artist 1]], [[Artist 2]]

'''Style(s):'''

'''Format(s):'''

'''ISBN:''' #########-#

==Contents==

Dreamhounds of Paris is the Dreamlands book for people who hate the Dreamlands. The players are prominent surrealists, their rivals, and occult adversaries, fighting to control the Dreamlands and thus alter human consciousness. The fractious, iconoclastic surrealists were the premiere troublemakers of the intellectual scene of 1930s Paris. Andre Breton, their ideological enforcer, considered the movement not an art or avant garde pursuit, but an exercise in literally changing the human spirit. The exploration of dreams was but one part of this quasi-mystical pursuit. In Dreamhounds of Paris, top surrealists–but never the hyper-rational Breton himself–not only discover a way of breaking through to the Dreamlands by randomly walking the streets of the city. They discover that their powerful imaginations allow them to reshape its oneric geography. Soon the Dreamlands look more like something envisioned by Lautreamont than Dunsany–then they’re overrun by melting watches, ants streaming from giant hands, and bowler-hatted men whose faces can never be seen.

'''Scenarios:''' Some included in the book

==Front Cover Text==
List all the text from the front cover.

==Back Cover Text==
List all the text on the back cover.

==Comments / Trivia==
List dedication, color plates, rarity of the book, etc.

==Links==
Link to outside reviews
*[Link 1]
*[Link 2]

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
'''Players should not read any further.'''


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Dreamhounds of Paris

2012-08-03T12:47:57Z

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==Details==

'''Publisher:''' [[Pelgran Press]]

'''Product Code:'''

'''Announce Date:''' DEcember 2012 (at Dragonmeet)
'''Expected Publication Date:''' 2013
'''Project Status:''' On Track | Abandoned | Delayed

'''Expected Page Count:''' ###

'''Author(s):''' [[Robin Laws]], [[Kenneth Hite]], [[Steve Dempsey]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Artist 1]], [[Artist 2]]

'''Style(s):'''

'''Format(s):'''

'''ISBN:''' #########-#

==Contents==

Dreamhounds of Paris is the Dreamlands book for people who hate the Dreamlands. The players are prominent surrealists, their rivals, and occult adversaries, fighting to control the Dreamlands and thus alter human consciousness. The fractious, iconoclastic surrealists were the premiere troublemakers of the intellectual scene of 1930s Paris. Andre Breton, their ideological enforcer, considered the movement not an art or avant garde pursuit, but an exercise in literally changing the human spirit. The exploration of dreams was but one part of this quasi-mystical pursuit. In Dreamhounds of Paris, top surrealists–but never the hyper-rational Breton himself–not only discover a way of breaking through to the Dreamlands by randomly walking the streets of the city. They discover that their powerful imaginations allow them to reshape its oneric geography. Soon the Dreamlands look more like something envisioned by Lautreamont than Dunsany–then they’re overrun by melting watches, ants streaming from giant hands, and bowler-hatted men whose faces can never be seen.

'''Scenarios:''' Some included in the book

==Front Cover Text==
List all the text from the front cover.

==Back Cover Text==
List all the text on the back cover.

==Comments / Trivia==
List dedication, color plates, rarity of the book, etc.

==Links==
Link to outside reviews
*[Link 1]
*[Link 2]

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
'''Players should not read any further.'''


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Dreamhounds of Paris

2012-08-03T12:47:32Z

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'''Publisher:''' [[Pelgran Press]]

'''Product Code:'''

'''Announce Date:''' DEcember 2012 (at Dragonmeet)
'''Expected Publication Date:''' 2013
'''Project Status:''' On Track | Abandoned | Delayed

'''Expected Page Count:''' ###

'''Author(s):''' [[Robin Laws]], [[Kenneth Hite]], [[Steve Dempsey]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Artist 1]], [[Artist 2]]

'''Style(s):'''

'''Format(s):'''

'''ISBN:''' #########-#

==Contents==

Dreamhounds of Paris is the Dreamlands book for people who hate the Dreamlands. The players are prominent surrealists, their rivals, and occult adversaries, fighting to control the Dreamlands and thus alter human consciousness. The fractious, iconoclastic surrealists were the premiere troublemakers of the intellectual scene of 1930s Paris. Andre Breton, their ideological enforcer, considered the movement not an art or avant garde pursuit, but an exercise in literally changing the human spirit. The exploration of dreams was but one part of this quasi-mystical pursuit. In Dreamhounds of Paris, top surrealists–but never the hyper-rational Breton himself–not only discover a way of breaking through to the Dreamlands by randomly walking the streets of the city. They discover that their powerful imaginations allow them to reshape its oneric geography. Soon the Dreamlands look more like something envisioned by Lautreamont than Dunsany–then they’re overrun by melting watches, ants streaming from giant hands, and bowler-hatted men whose faces can never be seen.

'''Scenarios:''' Some included in the book

==Front Cover Text==
List all the text from the front cover.

==Back Cover Text==
List all the text on the back cover.

==Comments / Trivia==
List dedication, color plates, rarity of the book, etc.

==Links==
Link to outside reviews
*[Link 1]
*[Link 2]

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
'''Players should not read any further.'''


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