Since Chaosium made the announcement today on their site, I can let you all know that Secrets of San Francisco will be coming out this spring. It's going through final layout and editing polish, and will be going off to the printer soon. W00t!
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How many scenarios will it have?
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"
Finally! I read a blurb about Secrets of San Francisco about a year and a half ago, but then it seemed like any reference to the supplement dropped off the face of the earth. Being a San Franciscan, I can't wait to drop this bomb on my group!
My fiancee has enthusiastically agreed. Our first son shall be named Merit Randolph Carter.
The scenarios are:
The Ferry Ride - Cody Goodfellow
Westchester House - Elizabeth A. Wolcott (Reprint)
The Colour of His Eyes - Brian M Sammons
Beyond the Edges - David Conyers
My website has more details on my scenario.
David Conyers | http://www.david-conyers.com
The blurb was from the Keeper Companion vol. 2 and may have used numbers like 2002. Now that that's out of the way, I can't wait to get my hands on this. Any chance it'll be at DunDraCon?
Aha! There's a blast from the past. It'll be interesting to dust that old scenario off again. Do you know if it is a straight reprint, or does it include any new material?Originally Posted by David_Conyers
As a playtester of this adventure, I can say this has the potential to be a little gem.Beyond the Edges - David Conyers
Naw. It's possible that it'll make it to KublaCon, but i've long since given up trying to predict such things.
However, Tatters of the King will be at DDC. I should think so, anyway.
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It's a straight reprint.Aha! There's a blast from the past. It'll be interesting to dust that old scenario off again. Do you know if it is a straight reprint, or does it include any new material?
I should also mention that Brian Sammons' adventure is really quite terrific as well. Also a couple (nudge nudge) scenario hooks inside.
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You think so? That'd be excellent.Naw. It's possible that it'll make it to KublaCon, but i've long since given up trying to predict such things.
*gets hopes up*
This is the blurb direct from Chaosium's site. No cover art yet but I suspect it will still be a piece from Paul Carrick.
Secrets of San Francisco
A New 1920's Call of Cthulhu Sourcebook for Spring 2006.
February 8, 2006 Update: This title is in final layout and editing and is expected to go to the printer soon.
SECRETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
A Resource Guide for Call of Cthulhu
By Cody Goodfellow
& Diverse Hands
CHA 23108
$24.95
ISBN 1-56882-187-5
192pp
There is no more perfect intersection of climate, culture, and colorful history than San Francisco. It is a culmination of Manifest Destiny, the Golden Gate to the Pacific Ocean, and the treasure house of the wealth of the great California Gold Rush.
The origin of San Francisco Bay is shrouded in speculation. Costanoan Indian legend maintains that the bay was formed when a god stumbled. His arm crushed the ridge connecting the peninsula with the Marin headlands and water of the ocean rushed in to fill the valley. A San Francisco historian believes that the bay was formed by a single geological event — and that it occurred within the last 500 years. Why had Drake and the Spanish explorers sailed along the coast in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and anchored close-by, without ever seeing this portal to the Bay? The simple answer could have been fog, which often obscures the mile-wide passage. But speculation suggests only a solid wall of mountains in Drake’s time, and an earthquake must have occurred between 1609 (when Sebastian Vizcaino failed to spot the Golden Gate) and 1769 (when Gaspar de Portolá stumbled across it after having overshot his goal of Monterey).
San Francisco is deceptively ancient, and its history is hidden behind a false domesticity. The Bay Area changed hands many times, each caretaker leaving a distinctive mark upon the land. Home to tribes of Indians for thousands of years, the founding of the first European settlement coincided with the signing of the Declaration of American Independence. San Francisco blossomed into an American boom town, attracting fugitives and practitioners of unorthodox faiths from across America. Tales of nineteenth-century San Francisco assume mythic proportions as it became the most ethnically diverse city in America—and the most lawless. Comparison to Sodom is not inappropriate, as judgment came in the form of the most destructive earthquake and fire yet observed in the West, in 1906. The colorful figures of San Francisco fade into the past—or into the shadows, where they linger still.
This resource guide provides background for a campaign setting in the San Francisco Bay area of the 1920’s, including urban geography, civic history, and research venues—where San Franciscans go when they break the law, go insane, or die—and sights, sounds, and secrets of a city that make it unique. It is more than a metropolis, it is a living entity whose unique character and changeable nature shape its atmosphere, its institutions, and its leading citizens. It is an excellent location from which to launch campaigns focusing on the Orient, and it possesses abundant research resources and outré locales for scenarios within its extensive boundaries, including the largest, oldest American enclave of Chinese settlers, the world’s most famous haunted house, and two of the most infamous prisons ever erected. Here is a complete a portrait of San Francisco in the 1920’s, with careful attention to the vast body of local folklore and unique opportunities for Mythos investigation.
Is Paul Carrick also doing the interior art? (It's been awhile since Chaosium's used the man's work. I hope bridges haven't been burned.)
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"
Yes, Paul Carrick I believe is doing most of the interior art. He's certainly illustrated my scenario and his depictions of [SPOILER]Yog-Sothoth[END SPOILER] are excellent. He's also illustrated Brian's scenario.
Badger has done some fine character portraits as well, these from my scenario are taken directly from his website:
I'm not sure of other artists.
David Conyers | http://www.david-conyers.com
Not this one?
So to consolidate my answers in one post:
Greve, that's not the final cover, at least not yet. But it's close. Certainly that Carrick piece will be there. I think now it's a matter of tweaking things.
The full list of interior artists is composed of Earl Geier, Paul Carrick, and myself. I have to say that Paul's art truly rocks the house.
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