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The Sassoon Files

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Horror in the Pearl of the East! The Sassoon Files is a set of scenarios and campaign resources for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition and GUMSHOE role-playing games (RPGs) set in historical 1920s Shanghai; an international city of intrigue, espionage, style and violence. 

If you like The Sassoon Files, see the add-on scenario "The Brother of Jesus."


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Victor Sassoon, a preeminent bon vivant, has found himself trading correspondence with Doctor Henry Armitage. They share a common goal and a common modus operandi. Victor fights to keep his empire safe, but he also fights for a Shanghai free from Mythos influence. Victor has gathered around him professors, detectives, muscles, guns, criminals and other problem solvers to mount a defense against a rising tide. Victor is your hook.

The trail leads to...

 - a strange gate opened by an ancient Daoist ritual, and an alien spirit called forth from the Polaris solar system.

 - a Shanghai triad operated by someone claiming to be the deceased Empress Dowager Cixi.

 - a scam at the horse track, a heartbroken triad gangster, and the Bloated Woman.

 - a lost city of golden sands, a field of black lotus, and a place suspended in time and space.

The Sassoon Files is 208 file pages long. Modular in design, each of the 4 scenarios may be played as a "one-off" session or as part of a larger campaign set in 1920's Shanghai. The scenarios are tied together by common locations, characters, threats and themes. The history of the Paris of the East is rich; with the help of the Sassoon Files, you are able to dig deep into the vein of Old Shanghai.

The Sassoon Files includes the history of Shanghai and some of the primary factions that competed for influence and power: the Communists and Nationalists who played a game of deadly cat and mouse; the Jewish tycoon who provided succor to refugees; the Triad societies who competed to provide vice for the city's residents; the Japanese who were moving closer to invasion. The Sassoon Files also explores the secret history of the Mythos, and the local factions who sought to exploit that which could not be fully comprehended.

The Bloated Woman


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CD F February 05, 2022 12:02 pm UTC
What are the maps like?
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Luis R June 17, 2021 5:28 am UTC
any chance of a reprint or print on demand version of this collection?
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Stephanie M June 24, 2021 1:39 pm UTC
I second this.
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CD F February 05, 2022 12:02 pm UTC
Could you tell me what maps are in the module and if you like them?
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CD F February 05, 2022 12:03 pm UTC
Could you tell me what maps are in the scenario and if you like them?
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Christopher G July 18, 2020 1:43 am UTC
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I played the Let Sleeping Dogs Lie part of this at Gen Con 2019. I had fun. Didn't remember the publishers for this until I saw the current Kickstarter Journal d'Indochine so thanks for that now I remember so I am buying this so I can read it. Hope that the rest lives up to my Gen Con experience. :)
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Aarón David C April 24, 2020 5:47 pm UTC
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Any chance to see this as POD? I live outside US and trying to buy the book from your webpage adds 22$ just for shipping costs...
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patrizia R April 14, 2020 12:26 am UTC
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Bought the book. Wanted the printing version but shipping is way too high so I chose to go with the pdf instead. I live in China (been living here for almost 10 years now) and sucks what happened to this book. I will be running the second scenario soon(ish). Great deal of info in this sourcebook!
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Roger H March 29, 2019 3:44 pm UTC
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The material covered in this book is simply amazing. Very high value indeed, which reflects that a considerable amount of research was done to put this book together. OTOH, I think the authors should have avoided commenting about who was supposedly more popular than who in reference to the Chinese Communist Party, or about who did what during the Cultural Revolution, etc., etc. In other CoC material, we don't get comments concerning the presidents or the senators of the USA, and neither about the Republicans or Democrats, for instance. So I believe that it was a mistake to bring up these issues and publish them in the adventure book. That being said, every Keeper should have this book in his or her collection. A must buy !
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Jesse C April 11, 2019 2:46 pm UTC
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Thank you for your kind words.

We developed the Lore Sheet system so as to give packets of information to Investigators, assuming they know nothing about the setting - Shanghai in the 1920s. Many people know the name Mao Zedong, like they know the name Stalin. But having Zhou Enlai as a character is sort of like having Thomas Jefferson as a character in a game, although many people (especially younger players) may not know who Zhou is. So as I (I'm Jesse BTW) wrote the historical settings section, I felt it was important to convey a sense of how these people are remembered by Chinese people.
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Addramyr P March 28, 2019 12:58 pm UTC
We stand by you Sons of the Singularity. Chinese censorship was way out of line.
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Jesse C April 11, 2019 2:39 pm UTC
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Thank you. We found an American printer; the books will be out soon.
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Emanuele P March 26, 2019 7:42 pm UTC
Any chance to see this in POD?
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Jesse C April 11, 2019 2:39 pm UTC
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Hey. Sorry for not getting back to your earlier. We do not plan to release The Sassoon Files as POD, however, we are working on making the Brother of Jesus add-on scenario available for POD. The Sassoon Files main book pre-sales order is currently sold on the Sons of the Singularity website, for the next 3-4 weeks or so. The book will be available on that website when the printing is done, in about a month.
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