Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook - Hardcover

Great game and great purchase. Very easy website to use. My rule book arrived quickly and in perfect shape.

A great resource for running the game and expanding on the wonderful streamlined rule set presented in the Starter Set. It covers the basics, but includes variant rules and fleshed out concepts if you want to dive into those dark corners of investigative horror. It really gives you some neat tools to create the experience you want at the table, with plenty of guidance and examples sprinkled throughout. Beyond the rules you get a wealth of supporting material like tomes of knowledge, spells, artifacts, monsters and gods. Each of these can spark plenty of ideas for your own campaign. Included are two scenarios that are ready to run, but also show you two very different approaches to building a scenario for this style of game. Last there is a vast appendix that provides you with quick access to the important rules or frequently referenced details that the keeper can have at their fingertips. It is a huge help having that in one place (and with a handy ribbon bookmark bound in the book). I’ve used it plenty of times while running the game. The book itself is good quality. The cover and pages are sturdy. Font size and style is easy to read. Art is good and evocative. Love the two ribbon bookmarks (and my cats love them even more). I only have two criticisms. The writing style differs a bit from the Starter Set. I found the way the rules were laid out in the Starter Set a bit easier to grasp. Not to say that the Keepers Rulebook was confusing, but the style was a bit wordy (much like Lovecraft himself), while the Starter Set was a bit more concise. But I liked the abundance of examples provided in the Keeper Rulebook as well as the appendix distillation of the key elements in one place at the end. I also think that the section on creating your own scenarios and campaigns is good, but could use a bit more practical guidance for creating a mystery to base the scenario around. Coming from more combat focused games, it requires a bit of a mind shift to build a mystery for investigation, the core aspect of this game. While there are some great online resources (including great videos from Chaosim itself), I do wish there was more in the book. All that said, this book is a great resource, but also a fun book to just sit down and read. It is a must, especially if the Starter Set whet your appetite for more.

Dustin Wright truly cares about each customer and provides amazing customer service that I didn’t believe still existed. This company and fulfillment service will make sure everything is the way you would like it to be. I’m so happy with my beautiful book and the level of professionalism with this company. I will definitely be a returning customer.

Absolutely gorgeous book, great binding quality, and filled with everything a keeper needs and then some. I really like the rules summaries in the appendices, that's a nice touch and very useful to print out a copy or two for your players.

This book is amazing, and well worth the price of a physical copy. It has an awesome new book smell, and even has a built-in bookmark. Very high production value. The content of course is fantastic as well, as long as you enjoy skill-based games with high levels of player danger and a reduced focus on combat. The layout can be a tad confusing at first, but that's mostly due to the growing pains of learning a new system. My only complaint is that the shipping times are a little long. It took twelve days for my order to arrive following the date of order. That, however, is par for the course for a niche product such as this, but it was nonetheless annoying. That being said, the quality of the product itself more than made up for the wait-time. Overall, if you can put up with a bit of a wait, buying from Chaosium directly is well worth it, especially considering the PDF included in the package (which is immensely helpful for long distance groups). Definitely a purchase I am happy with.

I would get this even if I was only intending to play Investorgators. Well-built, sturdy, and chock-full of excellent rules and details on the depth of the system and what it's capable of in terms of collaborative storytelling.

A gem of a product! A beautifully presented and illustrated hard cover book that just SHOUTS “quality” and is a pleasure to hold in your hands. Absolutely worth getting even if you have an earlier Edition.

Having my start in the tabletop rpg genre with DND, Call of Cthulhu was such a surprising and life changing game to find. The ruleset and lore has everything I ever hoped to have in a tabletop game and more. It is actually quite amazing how much better the quality of this book and others from Chaosium are than the rest of the tabletop rpg market. To name everything that makes these books world class amongst the rest (in my opinion) is the art, design, game structure, rules, character creation, volume and quality of supplements, organization of the book(s), and best of all the feel of the game. This isn't the only tabletop rpg I play, but it will always be my favorite.

This is a really well produced book. I'm not going into content, because you can probably find out about the game easily elsewhere. I want to talk about the book binding and printing. Production is at least equivalent to competitors. I believe it to be Smithe sewn and case bound, but I honestly cant see very well past the headband to see the binding, I'm not at this stuff. Paper is glossy, like other RPG books, thicker than magazine paper, but not as thick as photo paper. Color and alignment consistent throughout. There is a bookmark sewn in. The end pages on this book are amazing and I just wish they would use these end papers all the time. Like. these end papers just tell me the company put the 110% into the production of this book.