Hello, and thanks for reading this!

I wanted to know if anyone might be interested in a Trail of Cthulhu (ToC) campaign based in a Bookhounds of London setting.

ToC is a Call of Cthulhu universe game (where you lose your mind - or your life - as you discover the Mythos) that uses the Gumshoe system.

Gumshoe is based on interpreting clues, not finding them.
Thus there is no dice rolling for investigation (the idea being that games are thrown off track if a core-clue is missed because of a bad die roll) and information is gathered based on your character's abilities, and points spent.
Dice are used during action scenes (chases, combat...).

A Bookhounds of London group of PCs is based around a bookstore, trying to earn a living, maybe sometimes trading in dubious literatures. The link to the Mythos often coming from the underground commerce of occult books.

As a Keeper (ToC GM) I am looking for active players (who post daily) interested in the long run: I will be offering a series of adventures (short scenarios with endings) within an overarching storyline, propelled by elements within the various scenarios.
My goal being to see if I can interest people enough so that the major revelation of the overarching storyline still has players wanting to continue-- onto a "second season", with more adventures, digging deeper into the metaplot.

London - September, 1929

Interested! :)

I've never played Gumshoe but it looks interesting. I could be interested in this, though. It looks interesting!

Interested. No prior experience of gumshoe. Many many other systems though!

Haven't played or run ToC for some time, but it always interests me.

No experience of Gumshoe, but interested in this (depending on expected posting rate).
This message was last edited by the user at 18:18, Mon 01 June 2020.

This does sound quite interesting. Also no knowledge of Gumshoe, but a big fan of Cthulhu.

I'm interested, where do I get Gumshoe? Drive thru? I post several times per day. Trail of Cthulhu Player's Guide From Pelgrane Press?
This message was last edited by the user at 19:12, Mon 01 June 2020.

I would be interested in trying this game if you decide to give it a go. I have no experience of gumshoe but plenty of CoC.

I would be interested. I love ToC and have always been interested in Bookhounds but never actually played a game in that setting.

Thanks a lot for answering and the interest, and I will get back to all of you.

In the meantime--
@bigbadron: as I posted originally,  I am looking for active players (who post daily): meaning I like to keep things moving and aim for people checking in daily. If some only post once on week-ends or such that is fine.

@zagygthemad: re. Gumshoe, I do not know where you would get it. Yes, I am using Trail of Cthulhu from Pelgrane Press. They have a Player's Guide, that I think is "just" the main book with less in it (not the information for the Keeper), thus shorter and less expensive I imagine (I do not believe there is much other information not in the main ToC book - but I can check if you wish).
The main ToC book has all the rules for the Gumshoe engine, as used w. Call of Cthulhu settings.

In reply to Pangea (msg # 11):

Thought so, thanks. I have it!
This message was last edited by the user at 14:28, Tue 02 June 2020.

In reply to Pangea (msg # 11):

Okay - count me out.

Hello all,
Since there is enough interest, I will take a few days to get back to all, since I will actually spend some time setting the game up first.