Gundamentalist

Deliberate decision by the author.

Damage has been tweaked in some cases across the book, so that the weapon damage presented in the book are in balance with each other.

6 hours ago, LadyofMist said:

I am really looking forward to the 7e Cathulhu!

I'm really happy about that, but I may have oversold it. Cathulhu is being revised to match 7e rules. We've merged a few skills and rewritten a few things but it will be 90% the same as the last version.

3 hours ago, Mark Mohrfield said:

Will this be done with the other volumes in the series?

Only Investigator Weapons 1 - Twenties needs the update, as Investigator Weapons 2 - Modern already has a 7e section. We are updating Cathulhu as well.

Our new licence didn't grandfather exisiting 6e publications so Sixtystone had to withdraw it from sale. It now is being updated to cover 7e. It should reappear early next year.

Sixtystone Press are proud to announce the publication of Investigator Weapons volume 3: Gaslight & Wild West.

Investigator Weapons 3 completes Hans-Christian Vortisch’s essential trilogy of firearms sourcebooks for the key Call of Cthulhu epochs of Twenties Jazz Age, Modern Day and Cthulhu by Gaslight.

The Investigator Weapons series is designed for both investigators and keepers alike and provide a carefully chosen selection of firearms ranging from typical or common weapons, to specialised or rare weapons, as well as a handy summary of all published rules pertaining to firearms use in Call of Cthulhu.

Investigator Weapons 3 presents a handsome selection of revolvers and some automatic pistols, a battery of rifles and shotguns for all military, sporting and hunting pursuits, thoroughly modern machineguns, an examination of available explosives and a survey of melee weapons from around the world. Rules for all eventualities are included as is advice and guidance for keepers.

As such Investigator Weapons volume 3: Gaslight & Wild West is well suited for use for Call of Cthulhu, any edition of Cthulhu by Gaslight and Down Darker Trails gaming tables.

To celebrate the release of this vaunted tome, Sixtystone Press are pleased to offer a 15% discount to all interested readers simply by clicking the following link. The discount is available until 18 December 2022.

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Hans-Christian Vortisch is a seasoned sharpshooter who taken his passion into writing for GURPS and Call of Cthulhu. Hans has been published by Steve Jackson Games, Pegasus spiel, Chaosium Inc. and Sixtystone Press amongst others.

Sixtystone Press is a Chaosium Inc. licensed publisher of Call of Cthulhu goodness.

23 hours ago, SgtReuster said:

I’m glad you recovered too... I do have a quick question, though. Was there ever a “part two” to “the British Museum”

Yes, there is 🙂

No, more of an emergency stop. I had aotic dissection shortly after issue #3, spent 3 months in a coma and another 9 months recuperating. I focussed on recovering rather than the next issue of TBS.

Then I was editor of Pegasus spiel's Worlds of Cthulhu magazine for three or four years and TBS got put to one side again, and then I started Sixtystone Press.

But you never know what lurks on a hard drive...

On 1/30/2021 at 9:07 PM, ColoradoCthulhu said:

I wanted to check with you about Colonial Cthulhu as it has been almost a year now since your last update. The website for Sixtystone Press was online for a while last year and now re-directs to a pharmacy.

Looks like the website got hijacked with loads of strange .php files.

I've deleted them. However if you type sixtystonepress.co.uk straight into your browser and do not follow a link from a search engine the site will load. I had the site bookmarked so didn't notice the hijacking.

Anyways work proceeds, maps have been completed, some covers and artwork has been done according to finances. Colonial Cthulhu is on its way, but probably not as as fast you'd like.

3 hours ago, Atgxtg said:

For a better example, and not knowing to quit while I'm ahead, I'll write up a Rhesus Macaque Monkey. Apparently the average 17pounds in weight, which would be SIZ 2. Starting with the Madrill  Babbon stats above, I'll reduce the average SIZ by three points down to 1D3 (2), and take two points off of average STR , and reduce the bite down to 1D6, and leave everything else the same.  What I end up with looks like this:

 

STR: 2D4 (5)

CON 3D6 (10-11)

SIZ: 1D3 (2)

INT: 8 (fixed)

POW: 3D6 (10-11)

DEX: 3D6+6 (16-17)

Armor: 1 point

Hit Points: 6

Bite @ 40% for 1D6-1D4

Skills: Scan 40%, Climb 85%, Dodge 35%

 

Is that close to what you are looking for?

Pretty darn close. I was looking for something more like a caphuchin which would be smaller still. But your example is very useful, thanks.

What would the MOV be for the Rhesus Macaque Monkey?

Cheers.

Like the title says. I'm looking to randomly generate a bunch of monkeys.

I've found the stats for a gorilla in various editions of CoC, BRP BGB and RQ3, but nothing smaller. By "monkey" I mean something smaller than a chimp. I guess I could approximate something using a small human child but if its been published I'd rather not reinvent the wheel.

If you know of similar monkey-like stats, please point me in the right direction with the name of the supplement. Many thnaks in advance.

If the players know the name and the name of the business, couldn't they just send a telegram? Leave the actual routing to the telegram delivery company.

1 hour ago, ColoradoCthulhu said:

Gundamentalist, since your publishing company is working on the Call of Cthulhu Colonial America setting, could you include both the late 17th century New England Puritan era as well as the project's original 18th century Revolutionary War era?

Like Kevin says, no. Sorry.

BTW the focus of the project is 1750s/French Indian War - midway beween the events at Kingsport and the events at Pawtuxet.

18 hours ago, ColoradoCthulhu said:

Of the four links in your signature, the only one that works is the one in German.

I don't post here very often so its out of date.

Colonial Cthulhu is coming.

It and a companion book are all I'm working on right now.

28 minutes ago, Addison said:

Just to clarify, a character can successfully sneak up behind someone, place a revolver at the back of someone's head, pull the trigger (successful hit), and get zero bonus to damage?

Yes.

But they should have had an increased chance to hit - Normal chance to hit because of range, point blank range gives a bonus die, if they aim another bonus die, if the keeper is generous another bonus die from the successful sneak.That's 3 bonus dice which should see a difficulty level drop. There is no difficulty level easier than Normal, but you could say Easy is double chance. That could be double your normal chance with bonus die. Which greatly increases the chance of an Extreme check which causes an impale result of max damage plus rolled damage.

Or the keeper waves their hands and says they are dead.

Or that its an automatic impale.

7 hours ago, klecser said:

I'm thinking that Board etiquette isn't the real reason why you commented.

 

That's correct, you are damning SHP by association by talking about their KS in a thread about another KS. If you want to muddy the waters that's the way to go about it.

15 hours ago, klecser said:

That's SHP's job. It isn't my job in this situation to coach him on scheduling priorities.

 

So why are you calling out SHP in a thread about Horrors of War? If it matters to you why isn't there a separate thread?

4 hours ago, Joe Kenobi said:

I'm going to leave Nemesis off, too, unless someone who's played it argues that its central conceit is in fact Lovecraftian. 

 

How about someone who wrote for it? The spells are straight out of Lovecraft, because that's what I used. Dan Harms wrote the monsters. Dennis Detwiller, Greg Stolze and Shane Ivey of Delta Green fame wrote everything else. Plus the DTRPG blurb says:

"NEMESIS: Roleplaying in Worlds of Horror is a free game using the One Roll Engine (also seen in Godlike, Wild Talents, Monsters and Other Childish Things, Reign, and A Dirty World) for modern-day horror, particularly the Lovecraftian horror of the Cthulhu Mythos."

Also, there is a D&D 5e version of Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos. I think it is superior to the Pathfinder version. YMMV of course.

17 hours ago, klecser said:

Day of the Beast is not available as a PDF currently and it routinely goes for 100 plus on eBay.  Sold out on Noble Knight.

I wasn't aware of that, I had assumed that Chaosium had PDFed it.

Looks like its a good candidate for a 7e update and reprint then.

I wouldn't start with Shadows of Yog-Sothoth.

Its the earliest campaign ever published and appeared soon after the CoC rules debuted, so its a first attempt at the campaign format. It's little more than a series of barely connected scenarios.

I ran it back in the 1990s and interspersed the chapters with other scenarios to make the transition between chapters less jarring. I dropped the 'worm that walks' chapter as that is an investigator death trap. If I was doing again, I'd keep the Twilight, Cannich, Hollywood, Easter Island and R'lyeh chapters and replace the others with something of your own devising that connected them together.

If you want something out of the box and less work, I'd recommend something not on your list, 'Day of the Beast'. It's playable with just the PDF and is on a lesser scale than MON or HOTOE.

Some more you may have missed.

Raiders of R'lyeh -- OGL d100 Edwardian Mythos hunting

Nemesis -- One Roll Engine mythos hunting

GORE -- OGL d100 toolkit

6 hours ago, jeffjerwin said:

A more historical Nairobi is extensively described in the MoN Companion, as well as the details on how the game city differs. However, I suspect the original reason was that the authors of that section had only sparse information on the city as it was in the 1920s and 'winged it'. It's hard to describe how much more difficult such research was without the internet.

We had the most trouble getting info on 1920s Nairobi for the Companion, and that's with the Internet. I would describe the Companion version of Nairobi as fictive as well. Its based on the truth but some of it is based on guesswork and reasoned argument based on research.

Page 12 - "The Royal Army (prior to 1894)" should be "The Royal Army (prior to 1789)"

On 19/07/2017 at 3:21 AM, Spellslinging Sellsword said:

Since both Chaosium and Sixtystone Press representatives are on this thread, as a potential customer I'd like to see the two of you negotiate someway to put this as a Print on Demand + PDF bundle through OBS.

You can like as much as you want to. However the KS was pitched and backed so we're going to keep to to what we said.

The KS ran for a month, it took two years to deliver in which time a late backers scheme was running quietly in the background. Where were you? Were you dead?

5 hours ago, Numtini said:

A kickstarter page is not a contract. If you want to take it as a contract,

You are missing the point. Sixtystone as a licensee is contractually obliged to give Chaosium a set number of books. It was these books that Chaosium was selling. Chaosium did us a favour by printing themselves so we didn't have to find £1300 printing and delivering them to Chaosium. If we print any more, and we breach a set level we owe Chaosium another lot of books. So we aren't printing anymore.

5 hours ago, Numtini said:

in fact the owner of the site is selling his personal possessions to make good the printing costs. It also says it will only be available at chaosium.com, so if we wanted to be literal minded, the sales at drivethrurpg.com and by Chaosium at conventions are counter to the literal wording of the kickstarter.

Incorrect. Paul had the KS money in safe keeping. I had to request to draw on it to complete the KS. The reminder will be returned to Paul when the KS is complete. It does mean we made less than we originally planned but that's what 2 years inflation does to plans. Paul's selling of his collection is his personal decision.

What you are saying is incorrect. The availability at chaosium.com refers to the Sand Bat edition, which is the contractually obliged Chaosium edition. This is the only edition Chaosium will be selling. The edition Chaosium is entitled to sell. And which was stated in the KS pitch.