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Talking about Terror Paths
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Jan 2022
Call of Cthulhu creator Sandy Petersen discusses Terror Paths, a new board game inspired by the Call of Cthulhu RPG, and produced by our friends at Petersen Games under license from Chaosium Inc. The expected release is later this year. For more about Terror Paths visit: https://petersenga
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Call of Cthulhu Terror Paths: Sandy Petersen returns again to Lovecraftian gaming with a new board game
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Oct 2021
Forty years ago Sandy's roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu was published by Chaosium. It changed the world of gaming and also made the then-obscure writer Lovecraft and his creations (such as Cthulhu) both cultural phenomena.Now Sandy Petersen is back with a new board game inspired by the Call of
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How Call of Cthulhu "changed the face of Roleplaying Games" – Bell of Lost Souls
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Apr 2021
In the 40th anniversary year of the game, Tabletop news site BELL OF LOST SOULS describes how the release of Call of Cthulhu in 1981 changed the face of Roleplaying: "Modern gaming wouldn’t look remotely like what it does today without [Sandy] Petersen and Call of Cthulhu. I
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Glorantha: The Gods War 2 Kickstarter launches on January 20
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Jan 2020
Our friends at Petersen Games are launching Glorantha: The Gods War 2 on January 20 at Kickstarter. Designed by game design legend Sandy Petersen and set in Greg Stafford's mythic cult universe of Glorantha, setting of the RuneQuest RPG, The Gods War is a fast moving strateg
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It's #SquamousSaturday - and Cthulhu is Timeless...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Nov 2018
After Black Friday comes Squamous Saturday. And because Cthulhu is timeless, today we're offering three current Call of Cthulhu hardback releases from different historical periods at 20%+ discount. On sale are:Petersen's Abominations—A collection of five nightmarish modern-day scenarios distill
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Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #3
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Mar 2018
Petersen's Abominations is now out in hardback! This is a collection of five nightmarish modern-day scenarios by the creator of Call of Cthulhu himself. Here's the Reckoning of the Dead blog's review (of the PDF):"The scenarios in
Petersen’s Abominations are every bit as dangerous as thos
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Sandy Petersen has five new ways to kill you...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Mar 2018
Petersen's Abominations, now out in full-color hardback, is Chaosium's newest collection of Call of Cthulhu adventures.Hatched from the twisted imagination of the legendary Call of Cthulhu creator Sandy Petersen himself, they began life as scenarios he's ran at conventions - "when I run a game
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Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #1
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Feb 2018
'Unnatural Selections' is what will become a regular round up of notable Chaosium reviews worth a look...A self-confessed cattle rustler (or at least unwitting accomplice to cow stealing) reviews our Reiner Knizia family game Khan of Khans; meanwhile, Dreams & Nightmares explains how y
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