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,…
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,…
The Primal State Chaosium, Inc., $22 By Jeff Moeller Reviewed by Matthew Pook Since 2003, the Miskatonic University Library Association series of monographs has been Chaosium’s way of making other works available to players of both Call of Cthulhu and Basic Role Playing. Bar the printing, each monograph’s author is responsible for the writing, the…
Due August 2011: Call of Cthulhu 30th Anniversary Edition. It’s the Sixth Edition rulebook in a limited edition leatherette hardcover stamped with gold foil.
