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Convicts & Cthulhu: Convict Document Pack 1

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"A Convict's Only Record of Privilege: A Grubby Sheet of Paper"

It's easy to imagine that games of Lovecraftian investigation set in the 18th Century penal colonies of Australia would need to dispense with the notion of document-based clues. After all, with a colony full of undesirable convicts, being guarded by an equally-undesirable set of military guards, and which lived perpetually on the brink of starvation, who would have time for paperwork?

Historically-speaking, though, this assumption is rather unfounded. The penal colonies, in fact, produced a large amount of paper-based documents. Many of them were records of each convict's crimes, punishments, and (occasionally) grants of privelege or freedom.

If you're running a Convicts & Cthulhu campaign, chances are that your investigators will find some reason to look through the convict records. If they are convicts themselves, they will be doubtless guard the grubby pieces of official paper which bestow upon them a degree of freedom — perhaps even the rights of full subjects. The C&C Convict Document Pack 1 provides you with historically-realistic prop versions of some of these documents. You're invited to use them as you wish, to add some realism and colour to your scenarios and campaigns.

Also included is a template for the sole "newspaper" in the colony — the Sydney Gazette.

All prop documents in this pack are provided in two forms: flat PDFs (for printing out and hand-filling), and form-fillable PDFs. All props have the option of isolating the foreground from any background paper texture, to permit printing on special paper or to enhance readability.

This product is specially designed to enhance the Convicts & Cthulhu setting also published by Cthulhu Reborn. The Convicts & Cthulhu core book is a lavishly illustrated 96-page sourcebook available in both PDF and print as a "Pay-What-You-Want" title.

Convicts & Cthulhu is designed to allow Call of Cthulhu Keepers and players to run scenarios and campaigns set in the penal colonies of early Australia. It particularly targets the historical period from 1795 to 1810.

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