Bookhounds of London
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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.
"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?
"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.