An Unspeakable Oath website bonus! A modern-day investigation for Call of Cthulhu by Badger McInnes. Illustrated by Matt Hansen, © 2013. I. A Small and Fragile Thing Wherein the Investigators are contacted regarding a delicate matter. The Investigators have been contacted by Dr. Franklin Braziel, resident of the small Northern California coastal town of Wile’s…
From our friends at Role Playing Public Radio: A group of German sabotuers arrive in America in 1941 to carry out a mission of subversion and assassination. They soon find out that the powers behind the mission might not be the Fatherland. Part 4 of 4. Game system: Call of Cthulhu. GM: Tom Church. Players: Ross, Aaron, David, Drew and…
From our friends at Role Playing Public Radio: A group of German sabotuers arrive in America in 1941 to carry out a mission of subversion and assassination. They soon find out that the powers behind the mission might not be the Fatherland. Part 3 of 4. Previously: Part 1 • Part 2. Continued: Part 4. Game system: Call…
Call of Cthulhu is getting the first major overhaul of the rules in 20 years in the upcoming 7th Edition. At a seminar at Continuum, July 21, 2012, developers Paul Fricker (author of the monograph Gatsby and the Great Race and the scenario Dockside Dogs, contributor to Cthulhu Britannica) and Mike Mason (editor of Cthulhu…
From our friends at Role Playing Public Radio: A group of German sabotuers arrive in America in 1941 to carry out a mission of subversion and assassination. They soon find out that the powers behind the mission might not be the Fatherland. Part 2 of 4. Previously: Part 1. Continued: Part 3 • Part 4. Game system: Call…
From our friends at Role Playing Public Radio: A group of German sabotuers arrive in America in 1941 to carry out a mission of subversion and assassination. They soon find out that the powers behind the mission might not be the Fatherland. Part 1 of 4. Continued: Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4.…
Thirty years ago today, Sandy Petersen received his first author’s copies of the first edition of Call of Cthulhu, the Lovecraftian tabletop roleplaying game that inspired The Unspeakable Oath. I came to Lovecraft from a love of Dungeons and Dragons. The first edition of the Dungeon Master’s Guide famously included a brief apppendix titled Inspirational Reading,…
We’re back on schedule! This month’s episode clocks in at a svelte 2 hours and 13 minutes. Your hosts are Ross Payton (Role Playing Public Radio, Zombies of the World) and Shane Ivey (The Unspeakable Oath, Arc Dream Publishing). In this episode we interview Adam Scott Glancy of Pagan Publishing. Subscribe to the Unspeakable! podcast…
New design studio Red Wasp Design has signed up with Chaosium for an official Call of Cthulhu videogame, Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land. The Wasted Land will be a single-player, 3D, turn-based RPG/strategy game available for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android to start. From Chaosium’s announcement: Set in the midst of World War One,…
Martin Tulloch used the data from our “Artifact Zero: Deep Background” post to create a set of amazing player handouts for the Delta Green scenario “Artifact Zero.” One version is dated for 1997 and the other is dated 1999. Great work! Download the 1997 version here. Download the 1999 version here.
