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New to Roll20: Gateways to Terror
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 5th Mar 2021
The Call of Cthulhu release Gateways to Terror is now available on Roll20!Three Portals into NightmareGateways to Terror contains three short-play scenarios for the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition roleplaying game, ideal for beginning and experienced players and Keepers alike. The scenarios can be
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Miskatonic Monday #25: Writing for the Miskatonic Repository - AMA with Mike Mason , Tuesday March 2nd
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Mar 2021
Our Miskatonic Repository Community Ambassador Allan Carey invites prospective Call of Cthulhu creators and the Cthulhu Curious to an AMA with Call of Cthulhu Creative Director, Mike Mason, this coming Tuesday.Mike will answer your questions about writing for the Miskatonic Repos
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Out of the Suitcase #11: 1981 a Golden Age for Chaosium? Plus, a solution to Rick's real-life Call of Cthulhu mystery
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Feb 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumI pose the question: was 1981 the Golden Age of Chaosium? While Chaosium has had a number of epic years full of ground-breaking RPG releases, I submit for debate that 1981 was one of the best, if
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Chaosium Interviews: Crafting a campaign - five years writing The Children of Fear, with Lynne Hardy
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Feb 2021
The latest in our Chaosium Interview series is all about The Children of Fear, the epic new campaign by Lynne Hardy that reviewers have likened to Masks of Nyarlathotep and Horror on the Orient Express, promising to take a place as one of the greats of Call of Cthulhu.Chaosium's James
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Out of the Suitcase #10: can some Investigators help solve this mystery with Library Use...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Feb 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumForty years ago, on Halloween 1981, The Chaosium debuted our Call of Cthulhu RPG on an unsuspecting world. Canadian artist Gene Day, well-known for his work for Marvel Comics, painted the&nb
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Syrinscape's MegaPack of immersive sounds and music for the entire Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Feb 2021
Now available as a MegaPack: Peru, New York, London, Egypt, Kenya, Australia, Shanghai - our friends at Syrinscape have matched immersive background sounds and music to every scene in every chapter of Masks of Nyarlathotep, one of the greatest TTRPG adventures of all time!Masks of Nyarlathotep - Meg
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HBO’s horror show 30 Coins explores evil with the style of an RPG (according to the director himself)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 17th Feb 2021
"30 Coins is structured like a tabletop role-playing game, with subplots following each other in a narrative that eventually reveals their close connections. The director said so himself, expressly citing the Call of Cthulhu campaigns The Masks of Nyarlathotep and Tatters of the King."—Polygon.'30 C
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Chaosium Interviews: Mike Mason on Mastering the Malleus Monstrorum
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 16th Feb 2021
Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason describes the indescribable: here he talks to James Coquillat about the eldritch entities found within the pages of the Malleus Monstrorum, our newly-released Cthulhu Mythos Bestiary:
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