Call of Cthulhu

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die. -- Abd al-Azrad

CALL OF CTHULHU is a horror roleplaying game set during the 1920s. Much of the world remains unexplored; the dark and forbidden realms are inhabited by hideous monsters, powerful entities, otherworldly horrors, and their worshipers. This game is based upon the writings of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and a few others. Lovecraft wrote during the 1920s and 1930s, and he became a cult figure before dying in 1937. Since then his stature has grown, and now he is generally recognized as the major American horror-story writer of the twentieth century. The Cthulhu Mythos is named after a god-like entity, Cthulhu (kuh-THOO-loo is the easiest, though not the most exacting way to say it). Many Great Old Ones, Cthulhu included, are prophesied to wake and to lay waste to the world 'when the stars are right.'

General Cthulhu Links

• Chaosium, Inc.Publishers of Call of Cthulhu, among other games.
• Cthulhu for President Home Page Excellent source of CoC sites.
• GURPS CthulhuPunk No comment.. none needed.
• Mythku Cthulhu-inspired Haiku.
• Necronimicon Press Publishers of a great deal of otherwise hard-to-find Lovecraft/Cthulhu material.
• Pagan Publishing Creators of some of the best Call of Cthulhu materials on the market, as well as a wonderfully inspirational magazine, The Unspeakable Oath. Every time I get an issue, I want to run out and run a Call of Cthulhu game.

Resources for Keepers

• Byakhee Outstanding Win95 CoC Character Generator.
• Call of Cthulhu Revised Edition Chaosium's page for the revised 5th ed book. Includes links to pdf files for 5th edition character sheets.
• Call of Cthulhu, the RPG Includes scenarios.
• Delta Green Character Sheet FTP in PDF format - clicking will begin a download.
• The Devil's Pool An encounter for The Golden Dawn by Steve Hatherley.
• Fear of Falling An encounter for Call of Cthulhu by Steve Hatherley
• FEEFHS MAP ROOM Excellent source of 19th century maps.
• The Great Net Cthulhu Scenariobook A source of scenarios and ideas brought to you by the sanity-challenged folks from the Strange Aeons mailing list.
• Tsiolkovsky's Demon: Call of Cthuhlu Scenario Page A variety of well thought-out CoC scenarios and ideas.
• The Phobia List A priceless resource for Cthulhu Keepers.
• R'lyeh Exceptional CoC site. Lots of useful game-related information and clever design. Love those animated woodcuts!
• Tales of terror Scenario ideas for Call of Cthulhu and other games

Web-Based and PBEM CoC games

• Autumn Whispers
  You are about to enter the haunted town of Arkham, a fabled place, often visted in the stories of H.P Lovecraft. Strange things lurk in the mist and the shadows, and there are plenty of mysteries that need to be solved. Leave our modern world behind and enter the 1920's!
• Call of Cthulhu Play By Web
  Nicely done site for an ongoing game.
• Dennis Rivers' CoC game Not much here yet, but promises to be a report of his Delta Green game. Still nothing 9/16/98
• Harrigan's Play-By-eMail Call of Cthulhu Homepage Well done and full of neat stuff.
• Moonlight on the Ister Lovecraftian Live-Roleplaying in the Triune Monarchy of the Doctor Engelbert Eszterhazy stories of Avram Davidson and influenced by the art and poetry of Edward Gorey.
• Tsiolkovsky's Demon: Online Gaming Page Online resources for two PBEM CoC games; one Delta Green, one classic 1920's Cthuhlu.
• Walker in the Wastes A PBEM of a Campaign from Pagan Publishing for the Call of Cthulhu RPG

Mailing Lists and Discussion Groups

• Call of Cthulhu list cthulhu@rfhsm.ac.uk. Send "subscribe cthulhu to cthulhu-request@rfhsm.ac.uk
• Chaosium's Ryleh Report
  This is a periodic update of Chaosium releases with detailed information on supplements and projects. To subscribe, mail to: majordomo@chaosium.com with the command "subscribe chaos-info" in the body of the message. To remove an address from this mailing list, send the command "unsubscribe chaos-info" to majordomo@chaosium.com
• deltagreen@nocturne.org The mailing list for Pagan Publishing's Delta Green sourcebook for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu RPG.
• The Shadow Over Usenet The Shadow over Usenet (TSOU for short) is a discussion group on the Usenet group Strange Aeons-L CoC Gamesmastering list. There is a second site listed as the homepage at http://www.jackpine.com/~dchapman/sa_list/
  To subscribe, majordomo@chaosium.com with the message subscribe strange-aeons

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