{"id":1316,"date":"2013-07-07T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2013-07-06T10:02:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:02:45","slug":"kickstarting-cthulhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2013\/07\/kickstarting-cthulhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarting Cthulhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/448333182\/call-of-cthulhu-7th-edition?ref=live\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1295\" alt=\"photo-main\" src=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-main.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-main.jpg 640w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-main-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Chaosium on the success of their Kickstarter for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/448333182\/call-of-cthulhu-7th-edition?ref=live\">seventh edition of <em>Call of Cthulhu<\/em><\/a>. They wanted to take in at least $40,000 to fund printing and shipping a large print run of the new rules. When the campaign ended on July 29 they had brought in $561,836. Along the way they added a slithering host of add-ons and bonuses. Congratulations to Chaosium, and to seventh edition developers Mike Mason and Paul Fricker!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1816687860\/cthulhu-wars?ref=live\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1317\" alt=\"photo-main\" src=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-main.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-main.jpg 640w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-main-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-main-560x420.jpg 560w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-main-260x195.jpg 260w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-main-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And as I write, this is the last day of the Kickstarter for the boardgame <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1816687860\/cthulhu-wars?ref=live\">Cthulhu Wars<\/a>,<\/em> designed by <em>Call of Cthulhu<\/em> creator Sandy Petersen. The ideas in\u00a0<em>Cthulhu Wars<\/em> first appeared in <em>Cthulhu World Combat<\/em>, an iOs video game Kickstarter project that failed to bring in enough backers to fund it. But the boardgame version has been a smash. It&#8217;s brought in more than $1 million. Huge congratulations are due to Sandy and his colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Chaosium on the success of their Kickstarter for the seventh edition of Call of Cthulhu. They wanted to take in at least $40,000 to fund printing and shipping a large print run of the new rules. When the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2013\/07\/kickstarting-cthulhu\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213,11],"tags":[20,70,271,272,192],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kickstarter","category-mythos","tag-call-of-cthulhu","tag-chaosium","tag-cthulhu-wars","tag-cthulhu-world-combat","tag-sandy-petersen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-main.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OyM1-le","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}