The New Version

So I am working on a new version of Dark Passions that supposed to be out in January. Good news. I love this book and don't feel that the black and white edition entirely did it justice. It's still the book that people have both advised against reading before you go to bed and that early readers called me to tell me they were queasy. Perfect.

The new edition is going to be full color. We're colorizing most of the art and re-contracting a few pieces. I've gotten rid of the reference pages in the back of the book. Story behind those: originally we were supposed to be binding in an accordion fold reference screen, but Mongoose wanted us to just bundle something into a print book. They're gone, because they really weren't all that useful (apologies to those of you who've purchased the B&W edition. If you buy the PDF, it will be updated for free). I've instead added new pages for playing cultists and running cultist games, including new character templates. It's pretty cool and what I think needed to be added to round out the book.

Overall, even though it's a small book, I think it's not one to be missed. Adding the minor cults to a game adds that paranoid and sinister feel that just screams Lovecraft. Frankly, I use several of the minor cults all the time in our Eldritch Society games. I have a soft spot for the Congregation of the Earth Mother, but that's a story for another time.