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A mostly-new offer for the Gumshoe incarnation of the Cthulhu universe, designed for one on one play which might be useful for gamers who find themselves isolating with a single companion.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Confidential

"You fight alone against monstrous adversaries in this new Cthulhu Confidential Bundle, a comprehensive collection of the GUMSHOE One-2-One game lines from Pelgrane Press. Guided by a Game Moderator (GM), you become the sole protagonist in suspenseful investigative adventures -- noir nightscapes right out of the Cthulhu Mythos and superspy espionage.

One-2-One is a fast-paced head-to-head version of the popular GUMSHOE system by Robin D. Laws. GUMSHOE games are designed for scenarios of detection and crime-solving. In a typical RPG, bad skill rolls may mean you miss a vital clue and send the entire investigation off track. In the GUMSHOE System, the player will find the clues; the important thing is figuring out what they mean. Play a mystery scenario in a GUMSHOE game and you'll never go back.

This bundle presents the entire One-2-One line for a bargain price. We provide each ebook complete in .PDF (Portable Document Format). Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these books have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices.

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to the charity chosen by Pelgrane Press co-owners Cathriona Tobin and Simon Rogers, Cochrane Reports. Cochrane maintains a Covid-19 resource page for policy developers that describes up-to-date clinical best practices in multiple languages.

The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$99. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all four titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $46) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete standalone 328-page Cthulhu Confidential rulebook (retail price $25 -- previously presented in our February 2018 Bundle for Two 2) and three investigations (retail $7 apiece): The Howling Fog, The House Up in the Hills, and One For the Money.

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $24.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with five more titles worth an additional $53, including the complete 282-page standalone rulebook for Solo Ops (retail $25), Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan's standalone adaptation of Kenneth Hite's vampire-espionage GUMSHOE game Night's Black Agents; the first Solo Ops investigation, The Best of Intentions (retail $7); and three more Cthulhu Confidential investigations (retail $7 apiece): High Voltage Kill, Ex Astoria, and The Shadow Over Washington.


I'm not a huge fan of one on one gaming, and I've uses Call of Cthulhu so much for this genre that I find it difficult to adapt to any other rules set. But the Gumshoe rules have a huge following and seem to be well adapted for the genre and for one to one play, so it's certainly a viable choice. As usual you're getting a lot for your money. Recommended!

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