Tag: cthulhu
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Miskatonic Shoreside Conservatory
A group of young performing arts students are offered a summer scholarship at the lauded Miskatonic Shoreside Conservatory. Graduates from the intense 4-week performance bootcamp will find doors opening for them, and a path to greatness laid at their feet. But at what price? Miskatonic Shoreside Conservatory is a limited campaign for Cthulhu Dark, but…
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The Last Dance of Lola Montez – Call of Cthulhu
The Last Dance of Lola Montez is a modern Scenario for Call of Cthulhu set in the historical mining town of Ballarat, Australia. Clocking in at 43 pages, it contains 5 pre-generated characters and 8 handouts. Besides being a fun night’s entertainment, The Last Dance of Lola Montez makes for an interesting and thought-provoking read.…
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Doors To Darkness
Billed as a book of one-shots for new Keepers, Doors to darkness contains 5 short scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, covering a range of themes in a mere 142 pages.
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Delta Green: Gods Teeth – A Campaign of Terror
God’s Teeth is a campaign that stands out from the rest. It follows a group of agents who are misled into completing a terrible mission by a compromised agent that haunts them for their lives. And it is genuinely terrifying, with real world terrors that need to be handled with care. The campaign itself rivals…
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Call of Cthulhu: Arkham
Call of Cthulhu: Arkham is a triumph, achieving a near-perfect balance between providing fine detail and allowing for Keeper improvisation.
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A Midsummer Night’s Darkness
A Midsummer Night’s Darkness is an unabashedly feminist romp through the wilds of Shropshire in the summer of 1909. A group of Suffragists are caravanning through the region, leafleting and making speeches in support of the right to vote for women. Their idyll is soon shattered, however, by forces beyond mortal ken. And a pair…
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Blackwater Creek: Top-Shelf Horror
Blackwater creek is a decrepit backwater, festering quietly along the banks of the Miskatonic river in rural Massachusetts. The year is 1926 and the prohibition is in full effect, but gangsters and the prohibition agents who hunt them will turn out to be the least of the players problems.
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Chaosium Con Australia: June 8-9
Bridgett returns! Chaosium’s Bridgett Jeffries, last seen on these shores for PAX AUS in 2022, joins Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason and bestselling RuneQuest creator Andrew Logan Montgomery as an International Guest of Honour at Chaosium Con Australia in June.
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Fairyland: Cthulhu Dark just got Darker
In the isolated Scottish village of Cullingstone, a young girl disappears every three years. Soon after, the girls return; emotionless, analytical, and supremely intelligent. Fairyland is a Cthulhu Dark scenario, set in 1890s rural Scotland, and written by Scott Dorward.
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Cults of Cthulhu: Humanising Cosmic Horror.
Cults of Cthulhu has everything a Keeper needs to use cults in a Call of Cthulhu game. It includes 5 fully realised Cthulhu cults, a method of creating your own, and a thorough background in the history and lore of the Cthulhu Cult.
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Movie Review: Glorious (2022)
Sometimes in horror, less is more when it comes to increasing the stakes. Having too many characters can add too much clutter to the story and reduce the depth of emotions and character you can explore with characters. While yes, this doesn’t fit every story, sometimes horror works when it focuses on just one character,…
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Nameless Horrors
Nameless Horrors is a shoulder-launched missile, not in the sense that it’s deadly (although it is), but in its capacity to blow your players’ minds
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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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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.