Ich hab es gerade im Yog-Sothoth Forum gelesen: Gaslight is not dead! DAS sind mal gute Nachrichten. Erscheinen sollen die neuen Gaslicht-Bücher vielleicht noch dieses Jahr, wobei ich eher auf 2011 wetten würde. Aber werfen wir mal einen Blick auf die Nachricht von Kevin Ross:
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.
Von allen Zeiten ist Gaslicht für mich wirklich die faszinierendste. Ich habe nichts gegen die 20er oder auch Now, aber an Gaslicht kommt wenig heran. Einzig für die 50er Jahre würde ich meine Teetassen in den schrnak zurückstellen! Aber da ist leider kein Quellenbuch in Sicht, also zurück zu den neuen Gaslicht Produkten:
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.
Mehr Hintergrundmaterial ist immer gut und die besagten Artikel werde ich jetzt auch nicht unbedingt vermissen…
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.
Neue Szenarios, Hintergründe über britische Legenden und den Cthulhu Mythos sind sicher ganz spannend. Fraglich nur, ob da noch was Neues hinzukommt, wenn demnächst Cthulhu Britannica: Folklore von Cubicle 7 erscheint:
The Islands of the United Kingdom are steeped in history, myth, magic and folklore. Even the smallest hamlet or the most remote piece of land has some event or some story linked to it and, even if it doesn’t, people are more than willing to make one up for you.
Discerning the facts from all of these many layers of myth, history and retelling is the scholarly work of a lifetime. It is as dangerous to sanity as any other study of the Mythos, as one creeps ever closer to the terrible truth.
Cthulhu Britannica: Folklore gives life to strange tales and strange places where myth meets mythos in Britain’s darkest corners, including:
- Screaming Skulls
- The Wild Hunt
- Worms and Dragons
- Wreckers, Body Snatchers and more
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Size: 72 pages, softcover
Interior Art: Black and white
Author: James ‘Grim’ Desborough
Aber es geht ja noch weiter:
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.
Klingt abgefahren und wandert zu 100% in mein Regal! Ross erzählt aber noch wie es mit Gaslicht auf lange Sicht weitergeht:
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.
Indien! Ich hoffe ja auch noch, dass Pegasus sich für Indien entscheidet bei einem neuen Expeditionsbuch, denn hier wäre wieder ein Quellenbuch für die 20er und die 1890er möglich. Mal abgesehen davon, dass dieses Land zugleich exotisch und doch, durch die britische Vorherrschaft, vertraut wirkt. Für alle Interessierten sei auch auf die aktuelle GEP EPOCHE Ausgabe verwiesen:
Indien
Maharadschas, Moguln, Kolonialherren: GEO EPOCHE präsentiert Indiens Aufbruch in die Moderne. Mit der Blätterfunktion können Sie bequem in unsere aktuelle Ausgabe schauen.
Was bleibt sonst noch zu sagen:
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
Und Gott schütze die Königin! :-]
The Lightless Beacon is a short standalone introductory scenario for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition, designed for novice Keepers and players – though there’s plenty here to enjoy for more experienced players and Keepers, too. It comes with four pre-generated investigators and should take around an hour to play. Advice is also given on adapting the game for 2–6 investigators, as well as how to expand the scenario for longer sessions.
Cthulhus Ruf 