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The Brazen Head: experience the terror of the classic Call of Cthulhu scenario, 'The Auction', through an all-new lens!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Mar 2022
The Brazen Head is one of the eldritch items up for bidding in the classic Call of Cthulhu scenario 'The Auction'. It is rumoured to be a powerful Mythos artefact, said to be able to answer questions put to it – if the right ritual is performed. 'The Auction' is from The Asylum, which
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Order the HPLHS Call of Cthulhu Classic Prop Set now and get pre-order perks
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Mar 2022
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's Call of Cthulhu Classic Gamer Prop Set is open now for pre-orders - and if you order it now you get special pre-order perks.The HPLHS's Masks of Nyarlathotep Gamer Prop Set won product of the year in the 2019 ENNIE Awards, and this one promises to be
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Miskatonic Monday #47: The Catcott Collection - now available in print, preserved forever in the Bristol Archives as "an unusual re-use of our holdings"
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Mar 2022
By Nick Brooke, community content ambassadorLast November, Peter Willington of the Staying In Podcast signed up to the Storytelling Collective’s month-long RPG Writer Workshop with the ambition of writing his first Call of Cthulhu scenario. Aided and abetted by the course’s
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Play Chaosium games at DevaCon, Chester UK, April 9
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Mar 2022
If you're not coming to Chaosium Con in Ann Arbor the same weekend (or you have the Eldritch ability to be in two places at the same time), come and visit DevaCon, Chester’s tabletop gaming day, on Saturday, 9th of April! Call of Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, Chivalry & Sorcery, Run
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Y'all of Cthulhu! – there's trouble afoot in Junction, Texas... listen to the first episode of Ain't Slayed Nobody's new season
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd Mar 2022
Y'all of Cthulhu! – there's trouble afoot in Junction, Texas... The first half of Ain't Slayed Nobody's new posse arrives to join Dr. Bleeker's traveling medicine show. Eli the magician, Moni the acrobat, and Patience the sharpshooter quickly realize that things ain't quite right with these new
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Roll20 has doubled in size in two years, and Call of Cthulhu has grown with it
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 23rd Feb 2022
Our friends at Roll20 have reported that user numbers on their platform have doubled in the last two years, going from five million users to more than 10 million since March 2020! Throughout that explosion of growth Call of Cthulhu has remained the second-most popular system on Roll20
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We've seen the proofs: HPLHS's Gamer Prop Set for Call of Cthulhu Classic will deliver on promise to offer "levels of detail and realism to enhance fun and test sanity".
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Feb 2022
As part of our Call of Cthulhu 40th anniversary our friends the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society are creating a Deluxe Handout Set to go with the five supplements included in our Call of Cthulhu Classic Kickstarter.Winners of Product of the Year in the 2019 ENNIE Awards for their Masks of
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Community Content at Chaosium Con: what's happening, with the Council of Shoggoths
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Feb 2022
The Miskatonic Repository and Jonstown Compendium are Chaosium's thriving community content programs at DriveThruRPG for independent creators.Here, the Council of Shoggoths (organizing body of the Miskatonic Repository Con) discuss with James Coquillat what types of Community Content
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