Mike M

Thanks - we are looking into this.

The plain handout texts are within the download pack for Masks - if you purchased it from Chaosium, DriveThru, or Bits & Mortar. 

ensure you include consequences when the PCs go about murdering people - witnesses, police, revenge, trials, jail, etc. 

use monsters immune more or less to firearms, make the monsters intelligent (run/disappear rather than fight, and then come back later). 

use cultists with Flesh Ward spell.

On 4/5/2021 at 2:12 AM, Gaunilo said:

 

1. In the overview Paris Map on pp. 50-51, there is a dotted line that is not identified by any key, etc. that proceeds through the streets, past a few of the marked adventure points of interest (like locations 8, 14, 13, and across the Seine past locations 3, 12, 18, etc.), but it also, like, surrounds the Ile de la Cite, etc., as if it's marking districts. But it doesn't seem to be marking out the arrondisements or faubourgs, etc., as it then proceeds out of town along the roads. Can somone tell me what that is supposed to indicate, or if I am missing something point me to where in the text it is explained? At first I thought it marked the wall of the ferme-generale, like the excerpted blow-up mini-map, and then maybe arrondisements, but it seems different. I also thought it might be intended to mark the Investigators likely paths through the city from one numbered adventure location to another, but it doesn't seem to be quite that, either. 

Brent

 

Hi - I've checked, and the dotted lines indicate Faubourgs -  a French term approximating suburb (now banlieue)- thus the suburbs of Paris. 

We do have a companion book in the works, but it's some time off as it's still in writing. 

Hi,

2 - this is a layout-formatting issue, the "Í5" should read "x5"

3 - note that if a flintlock pistol scores an Extreme success (impales), it's damage enough to deal a mortal wound or death in most cases. There are also game balance considerations, including the fact they are temperamental weapons. 

1 - I'm double checking on this.

Thanks

Thanks for spotting the three errors mentioned. The will be corrected and also added to the errata document.

We do use professional proofreaders, as you would see in the books' credits. But, sometimes, they are unable to catch everything, so we are grateful to those who let us know where errors still exist, allowing us to update files accordingly. 

Not that I am aware of. There are similar things, as you might expect in a Gaslight story - seances, spooky things, as so on. Plus eldritch horrors a plenty.

Hi - before we can release the Curse of Seven, we want to release the new edition of Cthulhu by Gaslight, which is currently in writing and development.

Keep a look out.... somethings coming.

There is also taking a 1920s adventure and just running it in the time period you want. Pretty much all of the Mansions of Madness scenarios can be tracked into the modern day with minimal effort. 

Chaosium has published modern campaigns, the most notable was At Your Door. 

Ok, I'm interested to know if anyone has created additional bouts of madness - so far, I haven't seen any posted as ideas, but I may have missed some?

There's 200 phobias and manias in the Rulebook. You want more?

This is probably what you are looking for:

https://www.chaosium.com/does-love-forgive-pdf/

33 minutes ago, Grimmshade said:

Man, I would love a book entirely focused on tomes and artifacts. 5th edition had a Keeper's guide (or something, I own it but can't remember the name) that listed the tomes and the skill benefits, etc. that went with them. I'd love to see that updated and compiled with artifacts, etc.

Me too

51 minutes ago, greger said:

This might be more of a wish in general, rather than just for the 40th, but, I would really like to se a bigger collection of artifacts and alien devices. 

Edit: I see that this is a bit off topic. Sorry.

Me too.

Things are happening. Wonders. Some things may be revealed before Halloween 2021, others shall come when the veils between the worlds are weakest around 31 October 2021...

Yes that's correct, it doesn't work with the Rulebook, which was made using an older process. Sorry. 

Hi

We occasionally get asked about removing the backgrounds from PDFs for home printing and readability. The link below is a quick how to guide on this subject.

https://www.chaosium.com/removing-the-background-from-pdfs/

I'm not an expert on Bits & Mortar, but I suggest you speak to the store where you made the original purchase.

These have been added to the PDF download pack for Masks of Nyarlathotep. If you purchased the book from Chaosium.com, just look at the files your purchases and you can redownload the pack. The same goes for Bits & Mortar and DriveThruRPG. 

23 hours ago, Tranquillitas Ordinis said:

Finally, may I ask you, representing devoted and thirsty fans of Deep Ones, whether Escape from Innsmouth was put in one of the three "categories" ("let it eternal lie", "make it available POD", "wait for it to be updated")?

Escape from Innsmouth is in the pile of books I have on my desk - meaning that it is scheduled for me to work on this year....

Hi

One of the things I've been meaning to do, and which kept escaping me, was to produce a PDF of all of the Masks handouts in plain text as a Keeper reference. A number of the handouts are purposefully difficult to read (due to the in-game writer) - the worst of these already had a plain text version provided within the Masks book - but I though having the lot could be useful for Keepers.

I'm happy to say that this is now done - and we will be adding this file - "Masks of Nyarlathotep plain text handouts" - to the download pack for Masks at Chaosium.com, Drivethru, and Bits & Mortar. Please wait around 48 hours for this new addition to the pack to be uploaded and available (like around 25th Jan 2021). 

Mike

Hi Simon

I'm in the UK (and I manage the Call of Cthulhu line). The combination of Bexit and Covid has caused issues in shipping the books to our UK warehouse. We have worked / are working to address this as best as we can. We am to have the books in the UK very soon. As noted, we have zero control over boarder checks, shipping times, and so on. 

Clearly, we want the books available in the UK as soon as possible. 

Best regards