A tract is how a sect introduces itself to a stranger: a question on the front, a picture, a verse, and on the back everything the believers want you to know and a little of what they would rather you did not. It is the handout a character is given on a street corner and the one the players read aloud to each other at the table.
The page is A5, 148 × 210 mm, printed on both sides. The front carries the sect’s name, a line above the headline, the headline itself, a picture with its caption, the verse and where it comes from, a paragraph of opening words and the line that tells the reader to turn over. The back sets out the teaching, the promises made to those who join, a prayer or pledge, where and when they meet, how to reach them, a box for whoever handed the tract over and the printer’s line, which is often where the clue is.
Starry Wisdom handbill is a 1920s jobbing printer’s tract for Lovecraft’s church on Federal Hill, in wood type on yellowed stock. Doomsayer’s chapbook is a fantasy sect’s leaf off a hand press, red and black, counting the strokes of a bell that rings by itself. Signal choir is a station cult’s sheet, fabricated on polymer, that hears a pulse from beyond the beacon. Doorstep leaflet is a glossy present-day fellowship that only wants to meet you, and has a bed for you at the farm.
Export each side as a PNG or both as one PDF, and print them back to back. The poster the sect put up on the same wall is a Poster, and the leaflet of an event that only looks harmless is an Event Leaflet.