This is my go to when I vet new players into my games. It will show you who can metagame like a writer, think creatively on their feet, and have the confidence to use the spotlight when it's upon them. Also, it's super fun and the stories that you end up telling have you laughing at them for months.

This is The Cthulhu game, in my opinion. GUMSHOE and Cthulhu go so well together.

Drives, Stability & Sanity.... The power of Investigative Skills; this game is absolutely amazing. The section on the 1930s, Ken Hite is the master and this book is a must for anyone who is a fan of the era, investigation games, or cosmic horror.

I ran my group through some of these activities and it has made a measurable difference to the quality of my games. An excellent book perfect for groups that want their main goal to be "to tell an interesting story together"

The writing and formatting could be improved, however the concepts contained in here make this mandatory reading for GMs and players alike in my opinion. Articulating the importance of trust and allowing yourself to be vulnerable to tell the best possible story; I wish more people understood this and were able to implement it in games.

So far bad. The PDF causes my iPad Books app to freeze and crash.

Had the same issue with Fear Itself. So far; the Publisher hasn't been helpful.

PDFs with bigger file sizes and larger res, more colourful graphics run fine (City of Mist, KULT). Problem is bad authoring of the PDF.

So far, bad.

The PDF doesn't even load on my iPad. Game itself may be great, but who knows when it won't load. PDFs for KULT and City of Mist load very quickly and are super responsive. Both are bigger in filesize than Fear Itself and have a lot more colourful graphics.

Once I can actually read it and run it; I'll rewrite the review.

Most of my friends come from D&D, Pathfinder, Shadowrun 5 backgrounds - they're use to very crunchy systems. We completed Session 0 last week and just finished our first session. Their feedback (1) the character options are amazing, (2) I've never felt like I've had so much agency in a game, (3) I'm not ready to stop playing- I need to find out more.

The Veil is just simply amazing. The rules empower you to tell some amazing cyberpunk stories with really interesting protagonist characters (no more generic 'hacker', 'driver', 'face'....).

Seriously, buy your copy right now!! I wish I discovered this game sooner.