Archive for the ‘Call of Cthulhu’ Category

Happy GM’s Day at Chaosium too!

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Don’t forget that GM’s are people too. Celebrate their brilliance in style today. As well as the previously reported GM’s Day sale at RPGNOW we are also glad to publicise the fact that Chaosium too are doing their bit for our heroic Keepers with a special GM’s day offer.

For a couple of days you can pick up a free PDF download of the Keepers Companion (version 1). Its a great source book if you don’t already have it in your collection.

If you are contemplating a purchase from Chaosium we would seriously recommend the ARKHAM NOW sourcebook. (CHA23116) MSRP $27.95 also available as a PDF download (MSRP $19.95).  Together with the Keepers Companion we think its a bargain at $19.95.

Even if you are not in spending mood – still feeling a little credit crunched – you can still download a free ARKHAM NOW scenario from the Chaosium website “Lost In A Book”.

Tell them we sent you!

Ia! F’tagn GM’s Day!

Derek.

Working with Monsters again…

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

It has been a while since I posted a scenario, or even good reference material for Call of Cthulhu. So in an attempt to rectify this horrible omission I present for your gaming pleasure “Working with Monsters again”. This is designed as a follow up to my previous scenario “Working with Monsters”. The scenario calls for a small number of investigators, between three and five and is set in Great Britain during the roaring twenties but could easily be played out in the 30’s or with some simple modification as a scenario for NOW!

WORKING WITH MONSTERS AGAIN

WORKING WITH MONSTERS AGAIN

To make life easy here is a link to the original “Working with Monsters” which provides some key information including statistics for the Vampire Alexander Charbonneau.

Have fun, Derek.

WORKING WITH MONSTERS

WORKING WITH MONSTERS

Arkham Lights

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Arkham Lights is a Call of Cthulhu Scenario for three to five investigators inspired by The Lights of Madness published in Different Worlds magazine in March/April 1987; a magazine which I feel is sorely missed and has never been equalled. Although the plot remains the same as the original much of the detail has however been changed along with the dating and location which I have moved to Arkham to suit my own personal campaign.

“An article in the Arkham Gazette reports strange lights radiating from the top of Elm Mountain around midnight on the 22 May 1924, Saturday.   This is the second weekend that such lights have been reported. As with the first report, there were additional sightings stating that the lights came from strange aircraft that moved with great speed…”

An innocuous news story for our investigators that will lead them into a deadly situation for them and the entire town of Arkham.

Download - Arkham Lights

Phobias – A Keepers Reference

Friday, July 25th, 2008

“Phobias – a Keepers Reference” was written about seventeen years ago by my friend and long suffering role-playing compatriot, Stephen Goss, and I have been using it ever since.

I have never yet seen a better set of reference tables for the use of phobias in Call of Cthulhu or indeed any other roleplaying game, and certainly not one that you can download for free from the internet!

The set of seventeen tables included in this reference can be used to generate completely random phobias, by rolling percentiles once to determine the specific phobia table and again to then determine the specific phobia.  As well as providing some bckground into phobias, their manifestation, the “phobogenic process” as well as the naming conventions for phobias.

Download - Phobias - A Keepers Reference

Arkham Sanitarium – Case Notes

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Attached below is a PDF version of my Arkham Sanitarium case notes form, inspired by the forms included in the Chaosium Arkham Sanitarium Forms Pack [CHA8801form] but adapted to meet my own nefarious needs and scaled nicely to print on A4 paper. 

When printed on buff or off-white heavy paper and slipped inside a manilla folder with a couple of large paperclips this makes an excellent prop for your game.

Note that the Arkham Sanitarium Forms Pack from Chaosium is priced a measly $2.50 and is worth every cent.  You can find details in the Chaosium inc. online catalog by clicking here

Arkham Sanitarium Case Notes

Download - The Key and the Gate