
In March 2021 we presented the
GUMSHOE 3 Bundle, our third offer featuring RPGs of mystery and detection that use the
GUMSHOE system designed by
Robin D. Laws and published by
Pelgrane Press. Characters in other RPGs can have a hard time uncovering clues to a mystery — one bad roll and the investigation goes off track. In this offer’s standalone GUMSHOE games your players
automatically find the clues — whether they’re in a fantasy landscape (
Lorefinder), the Mythos-haunted jungles of 1960s Vietnam (
The Fall of Delta Green), or scattered across all of history (
TimeWatch).
In the years since our first GUMSHOE offer (September 2013) with
Night’s Black Agents, Ashen Stars, Mutant City Blues, and
Fear Itself, and our GUMSHOE 2 (May 2018) with supplements for all these games, the system has continued strong. Pelgrane has published more standalone GUMSHOE RPGs such as
The Yellow King RPG, and
One-2-One variants like
Cthulhu Confidential. Under license, or using Pelgrane’s
GUMSHOE System Reference Document, other publishers have produced their own games, such as The Design Mechanism’s recent
Casting the Runes: Occult Investigation in the World of M.R. James. And you should investigate
The Black Book, Pelgrane’s online character builder and gamemastering tools for GUMSHOE games.

This new
GUMSHOE 3 offer presented recent standalone games such as the entire
TimeWatch product line and Kenneth Hite’s
The Fall of Delta Green. There were
four titles in our
Starter Collection (retail value
$61) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete
TimeWatch core rulebook and the
TimeWatch GM Screen and Resource Book, the
TimeWatch supplement
The Book of Changing Years, and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s
Pathfinder/GUMSHOE mashup
Lorefinder. And, as a convenience to our customers, we added the
free Fall of Delta Green quickstart rules released for Free RPG Day 2018, including Gareth’s adventure “On a Bank, by Moonlight.”

Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price
also got our entire
Bonus Collection with
six more titles worth an additional
$67, including
The Fall of Delta Green, plus Kenneth Hite’s relevant treatise
Las Vegas: 1968; the
TimeWatch supplements
The Valkyrie Gambit and
Behind Enemy Times; and
The Gaean Reach, based on the science fiction novels of Jack Vance (previously in the November 2015 Indie Cornucopia 3), along with
The Gaean Reach Gazetteer.
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) went to this offer’s pandemic-related charity,
Cochrane Reports. Cochrane, a medical information network, has created a Covid-19 working group and published four special collections of pandemic information.