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For anyone interested in role playing games...

I've been rewriting my 1996 RPG setting for William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki The Ghost Finder, which is on the borderline between SF and horror, and converting it all to PDFs.

I've reached a point with this now where I've either fixed everything or am blind to my own errors (probably the latter), so I'm going to go public with links to everything, if you spot any problems PLEASE let me know about them. I'll be updating the FF4 links page and uploading the files to other sites in a week or so once I'm sure there are no huge problems.

One thing I'm aware of is that a few illustrations that have some white space may look slightly yellow. This is actually something that's gone wrong with the current releases of Adobe Acrobat, hopefully other PDF viewers won't have a problem. You may be able to fix it by messing around with Acrobat's accessibility settings. These are free downloads as usual, but there's a Paypal tip link on my web site if anyone wants to use it - please include a message saying what the money is for! This has ended up as SIX files

The Carnacki Cylinders
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/f ... ldbook.pdf
The worldbook with some updates and minor second thoughts, lots of new art including pictures of all major characters and creatures, etc.

The Pentacle Files
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/f ... ntures.pdf
The adventures with lots of new art and some revisions, including a new adventure by Alex Stewart.

Carnacki the Ghost Finder
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/f ... rnacki.pdf
The original stories with illos from the magazine appearances of the first six stories. There's also a little chapbook I found in the British Library that is a mashup of the first four stories, plus a poem which has nothing to do with Carnacki, which Hodgson's American publishers printed in 1910 to register the copyright. It's basically a clip show of exciting bits and not incredibly coherent, but interesting if you like REALLY obscure literary curiosities. I've also put that on line as a separate file for the literary scholars:
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/f ... apbook.pdf

The Electric Pentacle Handbook
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/f ... ntacle.pdf
A brief history of Carnacki's most iconic invention with notes on the technology, scenario ideas, some floor plans and an instruction manual which can be printed as a little booklet.

And finally, a floor plan for Carnacki's laboratory as described in The Hog - might be useful to someone.
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/f ... ratory.pdf

Gosh! Carnacki! How super...

I had a lot of fun with it, and it seemed to go down well with players, when I originally wrote it. But back then I was distributing the game as text files on floppies and graphics were tiny monochrome images and pretty crappy, this time things are LOT better.

Uploaded a few minor changes, mostly editing out some contradictory material and stuff that doesn't apply to this edition, slightly better graphics for the floor plans, etc. Unless something more comes up I think that these will be the last changes.

ffutures wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:57 pm

Uploaded a few minor changes, mostly editing out some contradictory material and stuff that doesn't apply to this edition, slightly better graphics for the floor plans, etc. Unless something more comes up I think that these will be the last changes.

Umm - for which of the half-dozen downloads?

Mostly the worldbook The Carnacki Cylinders and the Electric Pentacle Handbook, plus a couple of very minor tweaks to the adventures.