The 2012 Ennie Award nominees include a host of great products for Call of Cthulhu and Trail of Cthulhu.
Voting ends July 29. Cast your ballot now.
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Cthulhu Apocalypse: The Apocalypse Machine (Pelgrane Press)
Best Electronic Book. Best Setting. Graham Walmsley returns with the second scenario in his chilling Trail of Cthulhu series exploring life, or what’s left of it, after the Great Old Ones have awakened and returned to Earth. PDF.
Cthulhu Britannica: Shadows Over Scotland (Cubicle 7)
Best Setting. Product of the Year. Horrors haunt the wilds and cities of the land beyond the wall in this setting book and scenario collection by Stuart Boon. Paperback.
Cthulhu by Gaslight (Chaosium)
Best Art, Cover. Best Supplement. The classic of Victorian horror returns. Paperback.
Cthulhu Wrapping Paper (Gaming Paper)
Best RPG-Related Product. Make your gifts at The Festival even more damnably festive. Wrapping paper.
The Investigator’s Guide to Occult London (Pelgrane Press)
Best Setting. Best Writing. Paula Dempsey put together this 1933 insider’s guide to the people and places of occult London, perfect as a resource for Trail of Cthulhu or Call of Cthulhu games in the Big Smoke. Paperback.
The Rending Box (Pelgrane Press)
Best Adventure. The final installment in Graham Walmsley’s series of “Purist” (in other words, bleak and inescapably horrifying) scenarios for Trail of Cthulhu. PDF.
Role Playing Public Radio (Slang Design)
Best Podcast. The guys at RPPR are longtime friends of The Unspeakable Oath — in fact, RPPR host Ross Payton cohosts and produces our podcast, Unspeakable! That’s right, this game is rigged. Vote for RPPR and you vote for us. Podcast.
Stealing Cthulhu (Graham Walmsley)
Best Writing. Product of the Year. The redoubtable Walmsley, with help from Kenneth Hite, Gareth Hanrahan, and Jason Morningstar, examines H.P. Lovecraft’s most essential tropes and tricks. Even better, he gives you tools and ideas for turning those elements on their head and using them to make your game newer to your players and truer to Lovecraft. Stealing Cthulhu is hands-down my personal favorite Cthulhu-related book of 2011. (Not counting Delta Green: Through a Glass, Darkly, of course.) Hardback, et al.
PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS
These aren’t Cthulhu-related but I love them anyway and encourage you to vote for them.
Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple (Evil Hat Productions)
Best Art, Interior. Best Game. Hardback.
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Basic Game (Margaret Weis Productions)
Best Game. Paperback.
The One Ring: Adventures Over the Edge of the Wild (Cubicle 7)
Best Art, Interior. Best Production Values. This wonderful game should have been recognized in more categories. I have personally played it for months and written half a dozen adventures for it just for fun. It is terrific. Paperbacks in slipcase.
The One Ring: Words of the Wise (Cubicle 7)
Best Free Product. PDF.
Savage Worlds Deluxe (Pinnacle Entertainment Group)
Best Game. Hardback.