Down Darker Trails - PDF

"...CoC has been sorely lacking a weird western sourcebook, so I was very pleased to see Kevin Ross and his friends at Chaosium release Down Darker Trails, a massive full-color 256-page hardcover which lovingly brings Mythos horror to the old west... an excellent addition to Chaosium’s catalog"

— Black Gate Magazine, Mythos in the Old West.

"There’s something about the people and places of the American West - Deadwood, Crazy Horse, Dodge City, Wild Bill Hickok - that just seem to work with the Cthulhu Mythos. Perhaps it’s because the West itself seems as mythic as it does real."

— Little Wars, Holiday Gift Guide 2017.

"Really, almost everything that you need to start adventuring in the Old, Weird, and Wild is included in this book. So, what are you waiting for?"

— Microphones of Madness, Have Gun will Travel.

"Does Down Darker Trails succeed in offering background material, locations, non-player characters, Mythos creatures, story ideas, and enough tone, mood, and flavor for a complete Western setting? The answer is yes, unequivocally."

— Reckoning of the Dead, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful. A review of Down Darker Trails.

"Down Darker Trails is an exceptional supplement. It corrects a historical injustice by customizing a great system for an era that fits supernatural horror perfectly, and provides ample information, both crunch and fluff-wise to enjoy investigations there… The production values (are) the reference point against which other high-end products should be compared. Full colour everywhere, incredible iconography, excellent choice of old pictures and posters, gorgeous pencils on the non-coloured art, and some amazing imagery…"

— Antonio S., RPG.Net Review.

"The weird and the west go together well... If you dig westerns and horror, you’ll be happy."

— VintageRPG, Down Darker Trails Review.

"Down Darker Trails puts the Cthulhu Mythos into a Weird Western setting. The book takes an interesting look at how to integrate Mythos creatures into folklore, provides rules for using the West in 7th Edition and Pulp Cthulhu, how to play Native American characters that go beyond stereotypes and offers a pair of boomtowns to serve as home bases for investigators."

— Forbes, Fight Cthulhu Across Time and Space on your Tabletop.

"Six-guns and pseudopods await your cowpoke... Keepers will be able to run a campaign for months in the Old West and never run of ideas. And Keepers could try different versions, whether Pulp heavy or Cthulhu light and other options in between... a unique Mythos setting of mesas and mi-gos that shouldn’t be missed."

— Charles Dunwoody, Geek Native, Mythos World: Cowboys and Cthulhu.

"A phenomenal book... If you want cowboys in the mythos, then you need this - 96%"

— Throatpunch Games, Ring Side Report-RPG Review of Down Darker Trails.

“Even if, like me, you don’t particularly want to run Mythos adventures in the old west, this is still a great book to have because it is so well written and the genre is immediately understandable to anyone who’s seen a western. Now, grab yer shootin’ irons, ride off into the sunset and head ’em off at the pass!”

— Chaosiana, DOWN DARKER TRAILS Review.