The Unspeakable Oath has a pretty good selection of feature articles and scenarios from outside writers, but when it comes to short pieces we are lean and athirst. Specifically, we would be happy to see more of these: Arcane Artifacts: About 500 words on a particular Cthulhu Mythos object, ready for play. Message in a…
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Sponsors of The Unspeakable Oath 18
We’re very proud to announce the sponsors who will be running ads in the print and electronic editions of The Unspeakable Oath issue 18. Atlas Games Atomic Overmind Press Innsmouth Free Press Miskatonic River Press Pelgrane Press Steve Jackson Games Z-Man Games Big thanks to all of them for supporting the Oath! We pick and…
TUO 1: Afterword
[That's it! The rest of the magazine was taken up with "Within You Without You," which you'll find in THE RESURRECTED VOLUME TWO: OF KEYS & GATES. I suppose this may not seem like much (about 13,000 words) but that was TUO 1 (minus, as I wrote, a couple of things). Conspicuously absent is the…
TUO 1: Creating and Using Mythos Tomes
©1990 John Tynes [Sigh again. I wanted to encourage people to send in rules-oriented articles, so I wrote one. This system for creating tomes is one that I created for TUO1. I never used the darn thing. Why bother? It more or less works, at least as a good guideline. Just one of those useless…
TUO 1: A Tale of Terror: Little Death
©1990 Steve Hatherley [This needs some explanation. The original edition of TUO1 did not have this piece in it; Steve sent it in after he read the first edition. In the first mass-market (i.e. more than 100 copies) edition I added this piece to the magazine. Steve had published a booklet collecting dozens of Tales…
TUO 1: The Road to Hali
©1990 John Tynes [Hoo boy. For the better part of a year (during which time Pagan Publishing was born) I was experiencing a period of profound mental instability and depression. For a time I believed that the following was real, in some strange way I can no longer grasp. I suppose this means that I'm…
TUO 1: New for Cthulhu
©1990 John Tynes [A review section of sorts. Unremarkable and too brief.] The past several months have seen a flurry of activity in the Call of Cthulhu game. Below are capsule reviews of six recent products: Mansions of Madness, from Chaosium, is a compilation of five new 1920′s scenarios, all of which involve mysterious buildings.…
TUO 1: Good Tidings From Shantak Claus
©1990 John Tynes [I wrote most of the first issue myself, having almost no one to draw on. This was your typical Cthulhu filk song kind of thing. Sigh.] Here’s something truly unspeakable. Perhaps players can sing this as they take a sleigh-ride into the peaceful little town of Solace, Massachusetts, as seen in the…
TUO 1: The Dread Page of Azathoth
©1990 John Tynes [This is your basic editor's column. Originally, I'd planned to use it for convention announcements and miscellaneous garbage after the first issue was released, but it has remained a very personal soapbox for me and my views, however ludicrous. It is unabashedly inspired by "The Cosmic Streetcorner," a column in my all-time-favorite…
Introduction to TUO 1
©1993 John Tynes The Unspeakable Oath owes its existence to Jeff Carey, a Cthulhu keeper of renown and stature (he even appears as a villain in the first scenario in Chaosium’s ADVENTURES IN ARKHAM COUNTRY book!). At GenCon 1990 I played in Jeff’s “Journey Into Darkness” adventure and afterwards received a broadcast letter from him…
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