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  • Tabletop Review: Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia

    “That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”

  • Tabletop Review: The Unspeakable Oath, Issue #21

    The Unspeakable Oath, Issue #21 Publisher: Arc Dream Publishing Page Count: 70 Cost: $9.99 (Print)/$5.24 (PDF) Release Date: 08/07/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Wow, I can’t believe it’s been over a year since the last issue of The Unspeakable Oath came out! The last one came out in July of 2011 and then…nothing. I remember…

  • Tabletop Review: Mythic Iceland (Chaosium Basic Roleplaying/Cthulhu Dark Ages)

    Mythic Iceland Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 276 Cost: $19.22 (PDF)/$34.95 (Print) Release Date: 07/16/2012 (PDF)/05/17/2012 (Print) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com or Chaosium.com. Let me start off this review with one statement: Mythic Iceland is perhaps the most intense campaign setting I have ever encountered in my life. It’s less a supplement than a mammoth text…

  • Tabletop Review: Mysteries of Ireland (Call of Cthulhu)

    Mysteries of Ireland (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 107 Cost: $9.87 (PDF)/$17.95 (print) Release Date: 07/25/2012 (PDF) 08/03/2012 (Print) Get it Here: Chaosium.com Mysteries of Ireland is the latest low-frills Call of Cthulhu publication known as a Monograph. Monographs are CoC supplements, adventures or texts that Chaosium publishes, but has not done any…

  • Tabletop Review: No Security: The Red Tower

    No Security: The Red Tower Publisher: Hebanon Games Page Count: 22 Cost: FREE Release Date: 07/27/2012 Get it Here: Hebanon Games The Red Tower is the second offering from Hebanon Games’ No Security line of system-less horror RPG adventures set smack dab in the Great Depression. The No Security adventures are made free to the…

  • Tabletop Review: Bryson Springs (No Security)

    No Security: Bryson Springs Publisher: Hebanon Games Page Count: 13 Cost: FREE Release Date: 06/23/2012 Get it Here: Hebanon Games Bryson Springs is the first of five (six if you were a special Kickstarter backer) scenarios from the “No Security” line of adventures being put out by a brand new company, Hebanon Games. These adventures…

  • Tabletop Review: Achtung! Cthulhu – Zero Point Part 1: The Three Kings (Call of Cthulhu)

    Achtung! Cthulhu – Zero Point Part 1: The Three Kings (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Modiphius Page Count: 44 Cost: $14.99 ($9.99 PDF) Release Date: 05/23/2012 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com The Three Kings is the first part of a trilogy of adventures for Modiphius’s Achtung! Cthulhu line. It uses the Call of Cthulhu rules system, which…

  • Tabletop Review: Masks of Nyarlathotep, Fourth Edition (Call of Cthulhu)

    Masks of Nyarlathotep, Fourth Edition (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Chaosium Pages: 252 Cost: $34.95 ($19.22 for PDF) Release Date: 04/12/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Wow. What can be said about Masks of Nyarlathotep that hasn’t been said before. It’s one of the longest published adventures of all time, regardless of systems. It’s one of the…

  • Tabletop Review: The Ghosts in the House (Call of Cthulhu)

    Ghosts in the House (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Chaosium Pages: 68 Cost: $7.12 Release Date: 04/17/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Ghosts in the House is the latest Call of Cthulhu monograph put out by Chaosium. For those of you who have never picked up a monograph before, these things are bare bones pdfs where the…

  • Tabletop Review: Children of the Storm (Call of Cthulhu)

    Children of the Storm Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 80 Cost: $8.22 Release Date: 04/12/2012 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com Sometimes a supplement or campaign setting comes along that is so elegant and ingenious that you have to wonder how no one had thought of it before now. Children of the Storm is just such a book.…

  • Tabletop Review: Cthulhu Invictus Companion (Call of Cthulhu)

    Cthulhu Invictus Companion Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 68 Cost: $7.12 Release Date: 04/12/2012 Get it Here DrivethruRPG.com Call of Cthulhu has many different settings. The primary time period has always been the 1920s, but there are a lot of modern and Victorian era supplements as well, including the recently updated and re-released Cthulhu By Gaslight.…

  • Tabletop Review: Call of Cthulhu Quick Start Rules

    Call of Cthulhu Quick Start Rules Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 22 Cost: 75 Cents Release Date: 04/12/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I love Call of Cthulhu. Along with Shadowrun and Vampire: The Masquerade, it’s made up my holy trinity of RPGS since I was a child. I moved away from tabletop gaming for a while,…

  • Tabletop Review: Age of Cthulhu Vol. 6: A Dream of Japan (Call of Cthulhu)

    Age of Cthulhu Vol. 6: A Dream of Japan Publisher: Goodman Games Pages: 42 Cost: $12.99 ($8.99 PDF) Release Date: 04/01/2012 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com Age of Cthulhu is the branding for Goodman Games’ line of Call of Cthulhu adventures. Age of Cthulhu adventures tend to be quite different, yet no less enjoyable than the…

  • Tabletop Review: Cthulhu By Gaslight, Third Edition (Call of Cthulhu)

    Cthulhu By Gaslight, Third Edition Publisher: Chaosium Pages: 196 Cost: $28.95 ($20.26 PDF) Release Date: 03/30/2012 Get it Here:Drivethrurpg.com When Chaosium sent me Cthulhu By Gaslight, Third Edition to review, the first thing I did was go to my bookshelf and pull down my second edition version from 1988 along with 1993’s Sacraments of Evil,…

  • Tabletop Review: Lux In Tenebras: A Light in the Darkness (Call of Cthulhu)

    Lux In Tenebras: A Light in the Darkness Publisher: Miskatonic River Press Release Date: 10/19/2011 Page Count: 81 Price: $14.95 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Lux In Tenebras is a supplement for Chaosium’s Cthulhu Invictus setting. Both books place players smack dab in the middle of the Roman Empire with the Cthulhu Mythos thrown in for…

  • Tabletop Review: Cthulhu Britannica: Shadows Over Scotland

    We take a look at the newest entry in Cubicle 7’s Cthulhu Britannica series. How does it compare to other Call of Cthulhu books?

  • Tabletop Review: Call of Cthulhu: Red Eye of Azathoth

    Call of Cthulhu: Red Eye of Azathoth Publisher: Open Design LLC Page Count: 106 Release Date: 08/31/2011(?) (see below) Cost: $19.95 Get it Here: NOWHERE (as of the date of publication) Red Eye of Azathoth is the first Call of Cthulhu adventure release by Open Design, which usually sticks to Pathfinder or their magazine, Kobold…

  • Tabletop Review: Call of Cthulhu: 30th Anniversary Edition

    Call of Cthulhu: 30th Anniversary Edition Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 320 Pages Release Date: 08/10/2011 Cover Price: $64.95 Get it Here: Chaosium.com I still remember my first encounter with Call of Cthulhu. It was the summer of 1991 and I was in a B. Dalton in a little town called Fergus Falls, Minnesota. It was…

  • Tabletop Review: Cthulhu Britannica

    Cthulhu Britannica Publisher: Cubicle 7 Page Count: 162 Release Date: 10/10/2009 Cost: $29.95 ($19.99 at DriveThru RPG) Get it Here: DriveThru RPG Cthulhu Britannica is the first of three Call of Cthulhu products by Cubicle 7 that are set in the United Kingdom. Although most products that uses Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu have adventures set…

  • Tabletop Feature: Comparing the 20th and 30th Anniversary Editions of Call of Cthulhu

    What are the differences between the 20th and 20th Anniversary Editions of Call of Cthulhu? Time to find out.