The Old Ones ruled the earth aeons before the rise of man. Traces of their cyclopean cities can still be found on remote islands, buried amid the shifting desert sands, and in the frozen wastes of the polar extremes. Originally they came to this world from the stars. They sleep now, some deep within the earth or beneath the sea. When the stars are right they shall again walk the earth.Call of Cthulhu is a tabletop roleplaying game based upon the worlds of H. P. Lovecraft. It is a game of secrets, mysteries, and horror. Playing the role of steadfast investigators, you travel to strange and dangerous places, uncover foul plots, and stand against the terrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. You encounter sanity-blasting entities, monsters, and insane cultists. Within strange and forgotten tomes of lore you discover revelations that man was not meant to know. You and your companions may very well decide the fate of the world. This book, the Keeper Rulebook, contains the core rules, background, guidance, spells, and monsters of the game. It is intended for use by the Keeper of Arcane Lore (the Keeper) that player who will present the adventure to the other players. You must have at least one copy of this book to play Call of Cthulhu. The other players, the Investigators, will find it useful to have one or more copies of the Investigator Handbook, containing expanded rules for character creation, skills, occupations, equipment, and more. Read more

HORROR ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS contains a massive and legendary campaign, of up to nineteen adventures and more than 700 pages, for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition. Beginning in 1920s London, the investigators journey to Paris and thence to the ancient city of Constantinople. With luck, they also return home. Optional episodes are set in ancient times or special places (Roman-era, Dark Ages, Gaslight-era, the Dreamlands), so that the players can experience the founding, creation, and discovery of crucial elements of this campaign. Also included is a modern-day coda to the storyline, an alternate ending for those wishing a shorter campaign, and a built-in survival guide to aid beleaguered investigators. Two-Volume Hardcover book set includes the complete campaign & player handouts. 24 x 18 inch full color Poster Map Read more

All the important rules and charts at a glance!  The Keeper Screen is an essential play aid for those running games of Call of Cthulhu.  A 4-panel Keeper Screen mounted on thick hardcover stock. One side, intended to face the players, portrays glorious artwork. The rear of the screen, the Keeper's side, collects and summarizes important rules, statistics and charts, to assist the Keeper when running games. Also inside, are two scenarios set in Lovecraft Country during the 1920s: Blackwater Creek and Missed Dues. Twelve, ready to play, pre-generated investigators, and color maps of Lovecraft Country, the World of Cthulhu, and Arkham Environs. Read more

You take on the role of Dr. L. C. Nadelmann, an anthropologist from the renowned Miskatonic University in Arkham, MA. Accompanied by three of your most gifted and practical graduate students, as well as an experienced local guide, you set off into the fabled valley of the North Hanninah in search of the anthropological discovery that will make your career and bring you fame. Or, so you hope. Read more

Gateways to Terror contains three short-play scenarios for the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition roleplaying game, ideal for beginning and experienced players and Keepers alike. Originally, all three - The Necropolis, What's in the Cellar? and The Dead Boarderwere designed as demonstration games to give a taste of the game's core motifs mystery, investigation, and horrorfor those with limited time. The scenarios can be played in as little as one hour but can be expanded for slightly longer play, and each comes with four ready-made investigators so you can jump right into the action! Each scenario includes hints and tips for Keepers new and old, suggestions for additional investigators for larger groups, and a summary of the key rules needed to play. Read more

With its clear visuals and hard-won information, this guide has saved my bacon on more than one occasion! Ernest P. Wilderbeast, Visiting Professor of Preternatural Studies Miskatonic University Weird shapes in the park? Odd rumbling noises in the basement? A lurking dread in the kitchen? Bad dreams involving strange adventures and bizarre creatures? Identifying the lurking horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos is never an easy task, so researchers need all the help they can get don t leave home without the Field Guide! An essential spotter s guide for the budding and experienced preternaturalist. Accurate and complete 53 Lovecraftian creatures categorized and detailed Full color illustrations Size comparison charts Habitat, distribution, and life cycle notes How to distinguish similar-seeming entities Observer warnings Bibliography and recommended reading list Illustrations and descriptions from the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle based upon the creations of H.P. Lovecraft. Read more

Pulp Cthulhu is a game of two-fisted adventure, weird science, dark deeds, and brave heroes. With this book, some roleplaying dice, and the Call of Cthulhu Rulebook, you have everything you need to adventure and explore games set in the pulp genre. Tired of your investigators dying in quick succession when jaunting around the world in a desperate bid to save humanity? Wishing that sometimes your investigator could make a stand instead of hiding and waiting for the eldritch horror to pass? Pulp Cthulhu ups the ante and provides you with tougher, more capable heroes ready to take on the villainous machinations of the Cthulhu Mythos! Here you will find an adapted character generation system, rules for psychic powers, sanity, augmented skills, and weird science, as well as tips for Keepers on developing and running pulp-style games. Also, you will find information on the Pulps themselves and the 1930s era when America was in the grip of the Great Depression and on the road to World War II. A collection of pulp villains and monsters, and a range of pulp organizations provide the Keeper with a firm basis for running pulp style scenarios and campaigns. Four action-packed scenarios round out the book, getting your Pulp Cthulhu games started with a bang. The guidance in this book means that you can apply the Pulp Cthulhu rules to any setting and time period, enabling Keepers to bring the flavor and action of pulp to the classic 1920s or modern-day eras, as well as anywhere else they see fit. A Time For Heroes And A Time For Adventure! Read more

Reign of Terror is an epic two-part historical scenario, set during the French Revolution, and playable as a stand-alone mini-campaign or as an historical interlude for use with Chaosium's premium campaign Horror on the Orient Express. Read more

The Wickedest City on Earth. In the aftermath of the Great War, Berlin maintains a reputation for licentiousness. A place where anything can be had for the right price. It is a city of both hedonism and business; its streets overflow with disabled veterans, prostitutes, destitute immigrants, and political agitators all rubbing shoulders with buttoned-down businessmen, scholars, and artists. The gutters run with the blood of political assassinations, where Communists and völkisch Nationalists clash with each other and the police. Long into the evenings, Berlin's world-famous cabarets offer music, dance, and titillating entertainment in stark contrast to the gray buildings that run on for endless miles along the sprawling city's byways. Into this bubbling stew, Berlin: The Wicked City introduces the weird elements of the Cthulhu Mythos a hotbed of secret organizations, sinister cults, and half-whispered lore. Amid the wicked air of the world s capital of sin, the very nature of what it means to be human is questioned. And as the city hurtles toward its inevitable dark destiny, the oppressive atmosphere pushes the sanity of investigators to its breaking point. This supplement is best used with the CALL OF CTHULHU roleplaying game and optionally PULP CTHULHU, both available separately. Read more

Alone Against The Dark is an adventure for one player, set in the fall of 1931. Your goal is to solve strange disappearances and to forestall a calamity about to beset the world. You will journey from New York City to Greece, Egypt, Germany, and Antarctica. Beginning with the theft of a priceless relic, four friends are drawn one by one into a dark web of mystery and horror. As the darkness grows, only you can hold out against the dying of the light. The fate of the world is in your hands. As Louis Grunewald, a quiet linguistics professor from the Miskatonic University, you will confound the forces of darkness before time runs outbut should Professor Grunewald be eliminated for some reason, you can successively assume the identity of a new investigator. There are four ready-made investigators provided for this purpose, enabling you to take on differing roles as circumstances change in your search for the truth: Louis Grunewald, a linguistics professor from the Miskatonic University, Read more

Alone Against the Frost is a solo horror adventure for one player, set during a research expedition to Canadas Northwest Territories during the 1920s. Here, you choose your own path as you navigate through the storyyour choices will determine whether you find success or failure! Read more

All of these scenarios have been written with the beginning Keepers and players in mind. Each scenario introduces those new to Call of Cthulhu to roleplaying horror, mystery, investigation, character interactions, monsters, magic, the basics of the Cthulhu Mythos, Sanity point loss, and combat. Furthermore, sprinkled throughout each scenario are Keeper Suggestions on how best to run the adventures, overcome possible obstacles, and generally ensure the most fun for all the players. Veteran Call of Cthulhu writer, Kevin Ross, has penned a chapter full of advice on how to run Call of Cthulhu and what makes the game so different than almost any other roleplaying game out there. Even experienced Keepers might want to check this chapter out as it is jam packed with good advice. Ten ready to use investigators are provided, allowing players to get straight into the scenarios with the minimum of fuss. Read more

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Cthulhu Dark Ages is a world lit only by fire. The ancient empires collapsed centuries ago, taking their culture and learning with them. It s dark world and people are right to be afraid of the dark. Apart from the Viking raiders, witches, and outlaws, there are the unquiet dead, ancient horrors, and other malevolent beings stalking the countryside. Dark entities, beyond good and evil, wait hidden in the recesses of time and the angles of space. A few brave souls try their best to resist these horrors and push them back from whence they came. Will you be one of them? Cthulhu Dark Ages has been updated for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition, completely revised and with a wealth of new setting material. Included are a player s guide to the Dark Ages, an optional Sanity mechanic which mirrors the medieval mindset, rules for the oral tradition of story telling, rules for mounted combat, a grimoire of Dark Age spells and optional rules for folk magic, a bestiary of monsters, as well as a fully detailed setting - the Anglo-Saxon community of Totburh in England s Severn Valley which includes interesting characters, dwelling descriptions, and a multitude of plot hooks for Keepers to use and develop. In addition, three scenarios introduce players to the Dark Age Severn Valley. Read more

Who Knows What Happens... Behind Closed Doors Mansions of Madness Vol. 1 contains five scenarios for use with the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set or the 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu: Keeper Rulebook. It includes two fully updated and revised classics, along with three brand new adventures, and all can be played as standalone adventures, used as sidetracks for ongoing campaigns, or strung together to form a mini-campaign spanning the 1920s. Suitable for up to six players and their Keeper, each scenario should take between one and three sessions to play through, and are an ideal next step for those who have already experienced the horrors contained within the scenario collections Doors to Darkness and Gateways to Terror. Here are the five scenarios: Mister Corbitt Does a seemingly shy and retiring local businessman hide a terrible secret? Can the investigators solve the riddle and save the day? The Crack d and Crook d Manse Long considered to be a cursed place by the folk of Gamwell, it seems the Fitzgerald Manse has finally escaped its sordid past. But, no one s seen the new owner, Arthur Cornthwaite, for quite some time. Is history repeating itself? The Code Summoned to the home of Dr. Kenneth Connolly by an urgent telegram, can the investigators make sense of the bizarre events afflicting Wellington Manor? The House of Memphis World-famous magician Memphis the Great has not been seen for weeks. Has he merely gone off on another of his legendary magic-hunting trips, or is there a more sinister reason for his disappearance? The Nineteenth Hole Renovation work at Thistledown Golf Club has not been running smoothly. First, there were tales of illnesses, then ghostly sightings, and now no one can find the owner. Dark shadows fall over Scotland and all is not what it seems. This supplement is best used with the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set or the Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition) roleplaying game and, optionally, with the Pulp Cthulhu sourcebook, available separately. Read more

Your Sanity is at Stake!A mysterious cult has murdered your great-uncle, Professor Gammell. Following the clues he left, you uncover a trail of death and chaos that leads around the world. A door to a secret world, hiding in plain sight, opens before your eyes. It is a world of truths too fearful to be believed by any sane mind.What secrets lie behind Professor Gammell's research? Will your courage suffice to face what the Cult of Cthulhu is concealing? Will you survive the curse that strikes all who learn of these beings from the depths of time and space?Choose Cthulhu is a series of gamebooks based on the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Take the role of the main character in the original stories by Providence's Master . . . and face the cosmic horror of the Cthulhu Mythos. Read more

Regency England: a time of social niceties, of grand balls, and of romantic intrigues and disappointments, as described most adroitly in the novels of Miss Jane Austen. But the Regency is also a time of lurid Gothic romances, and of war and social upheaval, as the Industrial Revolution gets into full swing and the hostilities with Napoleonic France draw to a close. Against this backdrop, the Mythos insinuates itself into the very fabric of society, always watchful for the opportunity to instill fear and terror into the hearts of everyday Georgians, from the richest to the poorest. Regency Cthulhu: Darkness and Decorum in Jane Austen’s England is a historical sourcebook for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. Set in the early Regency period (circa 1813), it describes the fictional town of Tarryford in Wiltshire, England, as well as presenting two scenarios designed to introduce players to both the time period and the town’s mysteries. Suitable for use with both classic Call of Cthulhu and Pulp Cthulhu rules, players take on the roles of budding Regency investigators, be they members of the gentry or the working classes. Together they uncover the dark secrets at the heart of Tarryford; horrors that have lain dormant for many a year but now seek to burst forth into England’s green and pleasant land. •Details on the Georgian time period, in particular, the Regency era (1811–1820). •Rules for creating Regency investigators, along with new period-appropriate skills and occupations. •Setting overview, detailing the town of Tarryford, its businesses and personalities (1813 and 1913). •Two scenarios: The Long Corridor and The Emptiness Within. •Investigator handouts and maps. •Six classic and pulp pre-generated investigators, ready to pick up and play. •Guidance on both pulp- and classic-style play. Read more

Arc Dream Publishing is proud to present The Unspeakable Oath 21, the latest long-awaited installment in our more-or-less quarterly digest of tools, scenarios, and reviews to make your Cthulhu Mythos games more terrifying than ever. The Unspeakable Oath 21 includes:“The Dread Page of Azathoth,” an editor’s column by Shane Ivey.“The Mock Auction,” a Tale of Terror by Adam Gauntlett.“Saucer Attack 1928!: The Dunwich ‘Horror’,” a Mysterious Manuscript by Bret Kramer.“Engines Underground,” a Mysterious Manuscript by Greg Stolze.“Ein Konto der Hexeraserei im Lindheim,” a Mysterious Manuscript for Trail of Cthulhu by Adam Gauntlett.“Das Teufelherz,” an Arcane Artifact for Trail of Cthulhu by Adam Gauntlett.“Sukakpak,” a scenario by Jason Morningstar with conversion notes for Call of Cthulhu, Trail of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Dark, and Nemesis.“Unaussprechlichen Klutzen,” a Fiasco playset by Graham Walmsley.“The Man With a Thousand Faces,” a Call of Cthulhu scenario by Richard A. Becker.“Tradecraft Meets Lovecraft,” a Directive from A-Cell by Adam Scott Glancy.“She Had Everything,” a Message in a Bottle by Brennan Bishop.The Eye of Light and Darkness, with nine reviews:At the Mountains of Madness, a graphic novel by I.N.J Culbard based on the H.P. Lovecraft novella, reviewed by Chase W. Beck.Die Farbe, a film directed by Huan Vu based on the H.P. Lovecraft story, reviewed by Brian M. Sammons.The Poisoner’s Handbook, a history by Deborah Blum, reviewed by Greg Stolze.Zombies of the World, a field manual by Ross Payton, reviewed by Chase W. Beck.Elder Sign, a boardgame from Fantasy Flight Games, reviewed by Matthew Pook.Stunning Eldritch Tales, a Trail of Cthulhu scenario collection by Robin D. Laws, reviewed by Matthew Pook.The Book of Cthulhu, an anthology from Night Shade Books, reviewed by Greg Stolze.Historical Lovecraft, an anthology from Innsmouth Free Press, reviewed by Brian M. Sammons.The Doom From Below, a Call of Cthulhu scenario by Stan!, reviewed by Matthew Pook.The Unspeakable Oath 21 is illustrated by Vicente Silvera Catalá, Robert Mansperger Jr., Bradley McDevitt, Jason Morningstar, Brennen Reece and Todd Shearer. Cover art is by Todd Shearer. It is edited by Shane Ivey with Adam Crossingham, Dan Harms, Greg Stolze and John Scott Tynes.The Unspeakable Oath 21 is sponsored by Atlas Games, Chaosium Inc., the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, Innsmouth Free Press, Miskatonic River Press, NecronomiCon 2013, and Pagan Publishing. If you like the Oath, thank them and buy their work! Read more