The Unspeakable Oath

©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…

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©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…

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©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…

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©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.…

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©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…

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©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…

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