Hello all,
Well, I've finally gotten the go-ahead from various important parties, and can now sort of mostly officially announce that there is a new edition of Cthulhu by Gaslight in the works, and a Gaslight campaign is being written as we speak. Write. Read. Whatever.
Chaosium will release Cthulhu by Gaslight 3rd edition sometime later this year. This won't be a simple repackaging of the previous material, but an overhaul of the whole works. We're dropping the Holmes and Wells material and the Time Travel article, and replacing these items with a more elaborate character creation system, more information on the Victorian world (emphasizing London and the UK -- see later comment), and several new articles and expansions to existing ones. Since the big Holmes scenario is being dropped, we're plugging in two new ones more suitable for beginning Gaslight characters. There'll also be articles on fictional characters from the period, British legend and folklore and, most importantly, the Cthulhu Mythos in Britain. All told, the new edition should be about half again as long as the original book, with new material making up almost 2/3 of that total. Plus new art and a new cover. I'm hoping this will be what Gaslight fans new and old have been waiting for for close to 20 years now. Authors include Bill Barton, Scott Aniolowski, Dave Hallett, yers truly, Richard Watts, and Glyn White.
I'm also compiling a Gaslight campaign for Miskatonic River Press. This is the tentatively titled Shiva, in Silvered Glass, advertised in the back of Our Ladies of Sorrow. I'll try and hunt up the new version of that ad and post it here, but Shiva introduces a new mystical organization for Gaslight. The campaign follows the investigators and the members of the Trismegistus Club and their involvement in several very weird events in London. There are weird spirit mediums, living nightmares, anarchist bombers, doppelgangers, criminal thugs, not one or two or three but FOUR alien races, and a mad doctor who may not be mad at all. The basic idea is something like Sherlock Holmes meets Colin Wilson, with input from Henry Kuttner, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and Charles Dickens. Authors include Scott Aniolowski, Fred Behrendt, and yers truly again. Release date late this year or early next.
Now I know a lot of people want to see Victorian material set elsewhere in the world, but I think that should be fodder for a second or third Victorian book. My plan for Gaslight was always to cover London and use that as a base of operations, then the rest of the UK, and then move on to India, China, Egypt, etc. London and the UK fascinate me in a way the rest of the Empire doesn't, so that's the type of stuff I write. I think a book set elsewhere in the Empire is a good idea, but I'm not the guy to write it, so I'll leave that to somebody more interested and better qualified than meself.
So there you have it. I'll be posting more details as things firm up. I hope folks like what they see here.
Gaslight is not dead!
Kevin Ross
Victorian villain
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