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Media Review: Colour Out of Space
While we focus on a lot of Cthulhu roleplaying, I feel like we often forget about the media that inspires the games. That pulls directly on our fears and makes it real. One movie that really caught my attention is the Colour Out of Space (2019). Focusing on the events of the HPL story with…
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RPG of the Week – Brindlewood Bay
Brindlewood Bay is a roleplaying system which really balances two themes that conflict on the surface – cozy mysteries and horror. To create something new and different that’s awesome to play. Playing as old ladies, in a small coastal Massachusetts community you are a part of the Murder Mavens book club. While they have their…
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Dark TV: True Detective
I heard about this series through the grapevine including various podcasts, and yes a few people I know. It caught my attention as it strongly resonates with Delta Green – and the tone is just right. Basically it’s an anthology series which features law enforcement officers investigating weird occult style crimes. Don’t expect a positive…
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Media Review of the Week: Evil Dead (1981)
Evil Dead is a movie that is a cult classic for a reason. By combining a tale of the Necronomicon and monsters from beyond it’s a scary reminder of what people do with forces they can’t understand. While this is often the tale that people gloss over in favour of the second movie Evil Dead…
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The Art of Hygge
This one-shot will leave the investigators with more questions than answers, and could serve as an ideal springboard for further investigations of an antagonist with some serious plot potential.
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Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess: review.
A short adventure for Lamentations of the Flame princess that’s blends campy humour and high-grade horror.
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Trophy Dark: Treasure, Glory, and Betrayal.
Trophy Dark is an award-winning fantasy game that creates haunting horror stories set in a hostile world.
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The Mayhemic Missile Method: Controlled Chaos.
216 versions of the magic missile spell, sure to inject chaos, horror and, yes, hilarity to the table. The Mayhemic Missile Method is a resource for Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess Core Rulebook: Weird fantasy horror roleplaying.
The core rules for Lamentations of the Flame Princess; an old-school DnD game for grown-ups.
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Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors
Not a game resource so much as a coffee-table book, but a surprisingly funny one.
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Cthulhu Dark
Cthulhu Dark is a rules-light narrative storytelling game geared toward Lovecraftian Horror. In addition to the incredibly simple rules, the rulebook contains excellent advice for writing and moderating horror scenarios.
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Annihilation (2018): Movies and the Mythos.
Annihilation bears a striking resemblance to Lovecraft’s The Colour out of Space. I discuss the film in relation to the theme of Cosmic Horror.
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Fear’s Sharp Little Needles: The Human Face of the Mythos.
26 short and not-so sweet scenarios for modern-day Call of Cthulhu investigations.
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On Witches: Fear of the Feminine.
More folk horror than Lovecraftian, The Witch nevertheless hits the mark for lovers of psychological and slow-building horror.
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Scary Movie: The Ritual
Hint: the bit with the ritual is not the scary bit.