The Frenzied Closing Of The Year (2025 Edition)

Well, that time of the year has arrived again. That time when we look back and say … dammit all those things we wanted to publish really DID take a long time to wrangle and bring out, didn’t they? Isn’t there some way we can quickly finish off a few projects to at least have a vaguely respectable number of publications for the year?

Turns out … with the appropriate motivation … we HAVE been able to finish up three print-on-demand titles and get them out before Christmas. Cthulhu be praised, it is a Yithmas miracle.

So, what have we released?

First up, we have released a print version of the Eldritch Horizon Quickstart, something that many people asked us about when we launched the PDF early back in October. Since then it’s been downloaded something like 700 or 800 times, so hopefully somebody is also interested in having a print copy to put on their gaming shelves. The POD is available right now. We’re pretty happy with how the colour print turned out (see the photos below).

Secondly, we wanted to continue the tradition we started last year of taking a pair of our most popular PDF scenarios and putting them into print as a tête bêche flipbook (a format where half the book is printed upside down, creating two “front covers” and you can flip the book either way and read the corresponding adventure). In the end we made TWO of them.

We have long admired the writing of William Adcock, and were fortunate enough to convince him to write two 1920s scenarios for us set in unusual locations. “The Bitter Jungle” is an adventure set in a plantation in central America, while “Thunder God’s Curse” is a hunt for a missing adventurer/prospector in 1920s Arizona. Both are wonderful one-shot adventures, and putting them into a vintage style flipbook seemed a perfect fit. The resulting colour POD book is available on DTRPG now; and as before we were delighted with the finished product (pix below).

Not content with just one flipbook, we also decided to take our two main Victorian (Gaslight) era scenarios and combine them similarly. This involved taking an older scenario — Geoff Gillan’s “The Machine King” and brushing it up to work with the Cthulhu Eternal rules, and combining it (flipwise) with the Yellow King/Oscar Wilde adventure “Starlight on the Gutter”. While we did make a very VERY limited print run of “The Machine King” back in 2014, this POD (colour interior for “Starlight”, B&W for “Machine King”) is otherwise the first time we’ve made these available to grace your bookshelf. The flipbook version is available right now on DTRPG … and yes, of course we have photos 🙂