AlonsoAguilurk

I haven't actually read their material (I do speak Spanish), but they do seem to be an important player in the Spanish-speaking Lovecraftian gaming scene. They recently acquired the rights to do the localization for Trail of Cthulhu and Yellow King, as well, and reissued the iconic Spanish supplement La Piel del Toro, which is like the equivalent of Terror Australis but for 1920s Spain. 

Forgot to share that Hometown Horros, Vol. 1 is well beyond a Best Copper Seller, and on its way to Silver! Thanks to everyone who bought it, and be sure to check out the second volume when it comes out! 

As one of its co-authors, I'm proud to announce the release of Hometown Horros, Vol. 1, a beautiful collaborative effort that makes its way to the Miskatonic Repository:

Hometown Horrors, Vol. 1 contains 15 guided tours of the creepy, the spectacular, the terrifying, and the downright odd, all from places that our contributors call home. From the vacation homes of Martha’s Vineyard to the rural Appalachians, from Montreal to Havana, let our tour guides show you the best their hometowns have to offer for your Call of Cthulhu games. 

Each entry contains:

• a short history of the town, highlighting local landmarks and lore
• hooks to draw your investigators in and get them into harm’s way, and 
• colorful NPCs to make a lasting impression. 

I authored the  La Havana, Cuba chapter, and can attest the great care and hard work that was put into the project! You might even recognize some names from the growing Miskatonic Creators Circle. 

If you check it out, please let me or any of the authors know what you think! 

On 6/8/2022 at 11:59 AM, Ferretz said:

I'm curious about the status of Regency Cthulhu, and the print versions of A Time to Harvest and Cults of Cthulhu. 

I really enjoy having the books in my hands instead of reading it from a screen. 🙂

Good News on that front, at least for the latter: https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/16158-june-20th-cults-of-cthulhu-and-a-time-to-harvest-release-in-hardback-worldwide/

I'll be running a Stormbringer one-shot for my group as a change of pace between Call of Cthulhu campaigns. I'm looking for something that captures the spirit of the Young Kingdoms and isn't too dungeon crawly. I've read some of the adventures in the 3e GW core rulebook, and haven't been that enamored by them, but with some work for additional background, I can see them working. 

Does anyone have a favorite one to introduce people to Stormbringer? 

There was a very useful thread that was lost in time where published CoC 7e materials and upcoming and rumored supplements where compiled. Since we already have an official new post with all that's been published for CoC 7e, I thought it migh be fun and useful to centralize the talk about upcoming supplements somewhere, and keep it as a reference. Feel free to expand on these. 

New Material:

Regency Cthulhu (Source)

Sci-Fi Cthulhu (Source) 

Modern Pulp Superhero Sourcebook by Chris Spivey (Source)

The Curse of Seven: A Cthulhu By Gaslight Campaign (Source)

The Dead Within: 1920s Campaign set in the USSR by Tim Wiseman (Source)

Mobtown: Baltimore Sourcebook by Evan Perlman (Source) 

Let Sleeping Gods Lie: Down Darker Trails Scenario Book by Kevin Ross (Source)

Hastur Book by Matthew Dawkins (Source)

New editions:

Arkham Unveiled (Source)

Dunwich Sourcebook  (Source)

Kingsport Sourcebook  (Source)

Innsmouth Sourcebook  (Source)

Miskatonic University (Source)

Cthulhu By Gaslight: Players and Keepers Books (Source)

Dreamlands (Source) 

Shadows of Yog-Sothoth (Source)

In addition to what's already been mentioned, I use the old house rule of having Luck directly linked to APP. So if a player loses some APP due to an injury, they will also have a lower luck score. Keep in mind I don't really use the optional luck rules, so don't know how they might affect that, but at least for me it's worked and made the characteristic even more relevant. 

23 hours ago, Rick Meints said:

The link doesn't work because we sold out of the die-cut version on our website.

That makes sense. I guess it's hardly a priority with everything else going on, but are there plans to restock some, or were this ones the last remaining? 

Without going into spoilers, you might also get plenty of inspiration from something like CoC's Reign of Terror, which shares plenty of common ground with Gothic Horror. 

Having played a somewhat lackluster campaign of Curse of Strahd, I do think it can be done potentially better in CoC, but you'd probably have to change a lot of stuff, particularly the more fantastical aspects and the recurrence of combat encounters. I think a Dark Ages translation would work just fine, and someone talked about it on Reddit once: 

Is the die-cut version still available? The link doesn't seem to be working anymore. 

15 hours ago, smiorgan said:

Each of those would also feature a boxed Starter set as your entry point into those realms of the Mythos.

Fascinating! I'm relatively new to the hobby, but in what I've been able to study its history, I can't recall dual starter / sourcebook box sets being made that way. I thought the Runequest Sartar Set was going to be just a Starter Set, for example. Sounds like a smart move, since this way veteran players with the rulebooks will still be interested in these products. I guess my doubt then would be if that means hardbacks aren't going to to be made for those products, and if they are, how much crossover could they potentially have. Excited either way!

13 hours ago, glassneedles said:

Dreamlands to support those eventual lines but are there only 2 Gaslights and 1 Dreamlands supplements of note?

As @SentinelHillPress covered most of what's been published for Gaslight and Dark Ages, I just wanted to add that, surprisingly, Dreamlands has had even less support from Chaosium. I can only think of The Dreaming Stone as a direct supplement. Sure, you can go there in

and there are occasional scenarios in old collections and some write-up about it in the Kingsport sourcebook, but not much else. You could also look at ArcDream's The Sense of The Sleight-of-Hand Man campaign. 

No Man's Land is a pretty rare one, and WW1 setting has been virtually unexplored ever since, so that'll be a great addition. Tatters is currently on POD at DriveThruRPG so don't know how scarce it really is. Same goes for Spawn of Azathoth, which had a 2004 edition, I think. 

I would love to see Dark Designs and Sacraments of Evil, which are both Gaslight scenario collections. It would be a nice complement to the eventual release of 7E Gaslight. Same goes for The Dreaming Stone campaign for Dreamlands, which is also kind of hard to find nowadays. 

12 hours ago, Berwyn said:

So will we be able to pick and choose which components we can get? Can I get just the box with the original books and map or is it everything pictured or nothing?

I guess Rick will soon answer this more thoroughly, but in a recent video he uploaded to the CoC Facebook group, he showcased two options for the box set: a 1 inch rules box set, and the larger 2 inch box set that includes all supplements. 

I'm currently running Tatters of the King, and as @alter mentioned, John Tynes' Hastur Mythos is pretty much essential reading. I use his vision of Hastur as entropy, and show The King in Yellow's corruption through surreal dream visions, heightened melancholy and the characters seeing iconography from the play subtly appear in different places. I interpret that sense of corruption as internal, but it could be noticeably by how the characters behave; deeply introspective, spouting obscure references from time to time, constantly on edge, or weirdly passive. 

I recall the first couple of prologue episodes from the livestream were uploaded to podcast platforms, but are there any plans to upload the rest (and other materials, potentially)?

23 hours ago, Joe Kenobi said:

That's a long buildup to this question: What are good scenarios to run that involve no assumed violence on the part of the investigators, that have at least a moderate degree of survivability, and that are set in the 1920s?

I can think of Crimson Letters (Keeper's Rulebook), Paper Chase and Edge of Darkness (Starter Set), Missed Dues (Keeper Screen Pack), Saturnine Chalice and Dead Light (Dead Light and Other Dark Turns), The Crack'd and Crooked Manse (Mansions of Madness), Spirit of Industry (New Tales of The Miskatonic Valley), Whispers of Harlem (Harlem Unbound), Scritch Scratch. These come to mind in terms of what's available for 7e that I've read, but there probably are more, and even more if you begin counting previous editions and such (althought I've heard that the scenarios from the first editions of the game had a problem structuring resolutions outside of combat.) 

21 hours ago, Rick Meints said:

At its current production, shipping, and storage costs, plus some profit markup to make it worth our while, would be willing to pay $20 to get an empty slipcase?

Without doubt

35 minutes ago, Rick Meints said:

Sorry, but we're not into doing that, especially if it means criticizing an author. Please note that some of the books in the "not going to reprint" category are solely there because we no longer have the rights to print them.

You're right. Totally understandable! Merely speaking from curiosity.  

As for the general state of the POD situation, you're making available two of the most sought after products in the game's history; I think no one can say with a straight face that you aren't listening to the fans. I think I speak for many when I say that we trust how you decide to go forward with this. From what I've seen, CoC has grown a lot in the last couple of years, and making new people have the possibility to engage with the game's rich history while they're also enjoying the consistently excelent new stuff being produced shows a commitment that goes way beyond what most other game companies are willing to do. It sounds challenging, and even if a vocal minority doesn't see that, many of us deeply appreciate you going the extra mile.  

This is a really great resource for those looking for a comprehensive guide of what to seek out for a Lovecraft Country campaign. Really recommend it! 

I originally got H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham as a PDF, but when I decided to get a physical copy, I opted for the original Arkham Unveiled (I got it cheap as a used copy on the second hand market). The main deciding factor was just how awful the CGI art and the layout is on the 2003 version. From what I recall from comparing versions on the YSDC wiki, the only real additions in terms of content were the inclusion of Dreams in the Witch House, CoC d20 stats, and The Book of Uncle Silas (good scenario). As for the descriptions of Arkham itself, I think they're basically the same. I also recall that @SentinelHillPressmentioned that Arkham Unveiled is also their favorite version on their first Miskatonic Country Buyers Guide, so they might have more insight on that. 

Also, Mike Mason recently mentioned on a Facebook group that he's mainly working on the Arkham & Lovecraft Country book(s?) this year, so maybe they're not thaaat far away from being realesed (2022?). Anyway, I think Arkham Unveiled probably has you covered until then, especially when you also have the great M.U. sourcebook.  

10 hours ago, TrippyHippy said:

Could you reprint Unseen Masters, by Bruce Ballon, please?

I know it's not the same thing, but last time I checked it was available as POD on DriveThru RPG. 

4 hours ago, Ejlertson said:

Any chance the 3 categories content could be divulged to the public

At least the "let it eternal lie". It'd be interesting to see what the company considers its biggest mishaps, although I understand how that could be insulting to some of the people involved.

2 hours ago, Mat Mobile said:

Would it be a good candidate to run as Pulp Cthulhu? It's my favorite variant. 🤠

Tonally, I've read this is the most Lovecraftian campaign they've published (along with Tatters of The King), so it may need some heavy homebrewing to fit as a Pulp-style campaign. Maybe someone who has ran it could give better insight, tho. At least regarding Tatters (which seems to be on a similar wavelength and which I'm currently running), I can see how maybe someone could pulp it up, but at the same time, it'll probably go against the atmosphere and psychology of the campaign. Maybe Low Pulp? 

This is amazing news. Should we expect this and Horror On The Orient express to be released simultaneously? I'll definitely get both. 

On 1/10/2021 at 12:36 PM, SunlessNick said:

Pelgrane Press did a long scenario called Soldiers of Pen and Ink, which is about Hastur's influence descending on Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.  It's big on the psychic entropy, and the Investigators will have their work cut out for them to save the souls of a whole city.  

Oh, didn't know that one was Hastur related. I love that setting. How much does the scenario offers in terms of setting information? I'd love to set something in Franco's Spain.