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The Dhole's House is a free online toolkit for both Keepers and players of Call of Cthulhu. With it, you can create Call of Cthulhu investigators in minutes, or search the Character Library for characters for use as PCs and NPCs for Classic, Modern, Pulp, Gaslight Call of Cthulhu games. The Keeper section also includes an incredibly helpful handout generator for quick creation of in-game artefacts, and lots more. The Dhole's House was created and is maintained by long-time fan Lee Carnell. On his blog, he recently shared usage numbers, which surged in 2019: "Almost 70,000 Call of Cthulhu character sheets that have been downloaded from the site last year, that’s 190 per day, and over 125,000 times in a little over three years, that’s amazing. It’s also a little scary when you take into account how much data that actually is and the fact that so many people have made the choice to create their Investigators on the site. That’s mind-boggling." Lee attributes some of the increase to Critical Role's streaming of Shadow of the Crystal Palace in July. Here are the headline statistics for 2019. Accounts created – 9,073 Character sheets downloaded by site members – 28,105 Character sheet downloads from the ‘Library’ – 41,853 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu Investigators created – 20,663 Go to https://www.dholeshouse.org to try out the investigator generator and toolkit for yourself!

In addition, Ripples from Carcosa features a Dark Ages scenario, "Herald to the King". and two more Dark Ages scenarios have been added to the Miskatonic Repository, hopefully the first of many!: The Raid The Mad Priest In The Vault (pre-7th ed), there are also a number of Dark Ages monographs.

Mike Mason leads our investigators through another episode of THE DEAD OF WINTER. Our four investigators have boarded a ship to Russia. Who will they meet aboard? Tune in weekly to watch live on Twitch, then later on YouTube. https://www.twitch.tv/chaosiuminc Our Cast • Keeper of Arcane Lore - Mike Mason (@MikeMason) • Francis Ball - Lynne Hardy (@CogsandCakes) • Georgina Sullivan - Jema Hewitt (@SparklyJem) • Eleanor Wright - Becky Rose (@ConPlusRPG) • Maxime Elliot - Jayson Green (@ConPlusRPG)

Meanwhile, check out A Color in a Dark Age in the Miskatonic Repository. This is a Cthulhu Dark Ages scenario, set in 10th century Germany.

CTHULHU DARK AGES Third Edition? Yes - there was a (limited release of a) second edition between this and the first version of CDA, which came out in 2004*. The second edition was released at Gen Con 2015, right at the time the new management team came on board at Chaosium. A couple of hundred softcover copies had been produced for sale at the booth, POD with B&W interior layout. "We decided not to proceed with a full commercial release at the time because we had plans to significantly lift the production quality of the Call of Cthulhu line, with hardbacks and full colour interior art. This version just didn't do Cthulhu Dark Ages justice," said Chaosium vice president Michael O'Brien. How does CDA2 differ from the new third edition? While the text is predominantly the same, CDA3 has undergone further editing and some new material - listed on the webpage product description - has been added. Of course, the new edition is in full color, and the print version will be a hardcover. CTHULHU DARK AGES THIRD EDITION is available from —Chaosium: http://bit.ly/37HpZTF (buy PDF now, get a coupon for the print edition when it is out later this year) —DriveThruRPG: http://bit.ly/2u7uJ7k (PDF) *Although based in the same time period, Stéphane Gesbert's 2004 Cthulhu Dark Ages has continental Europe as its setting, rather than Anglo-Saxon England. It was originally published in German by Call of Cthulhu licensee Pegasus Spiele under the title 'Cthulhu 1000AD'. Cthulhu Dark Ages first edition is available from —Chaosium: http://bit.ly/2uQF1cD (PDF) —DriveThruRPG: http://bit.ly/2P5VzEo (PDF & POD)

https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/bundle/5215/call-of-cthulhu-starter-set All book assets and information are fully integrated for the VTT.

Youtuber Lindy Beige is an avid RQ-Glorantha fan from way, way back*, and here he reviews GLORANTHA THE GODS WAR. Lindy Beige says he loves the game, and it looks like he got all the add-ons and expansions for it too. *check out 'Prax Warrior', which he made at the age of 14:

With nothing but candle light and your wits, your journey into the Dark Ages begins...CTHULHU DARK AGES now also available at DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/303775/Cthulhu-Dark-Ages--3rd-Edition

Please put any typos or errors spotted in the Cthulhu Dark ages correction thread at the link. https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/11396-cthulhu-dark-ages-corrections-thread Please quote the page number, the error, and the suggested correction.

With the release of Cthulhu Dark Ages on PDF, this thread is to catch any typos or errors spotted. Please note them here, quoting the page number, the error, and the suggested correction. Many thanks!

It’s a dark world and people are right to be afraid of the dark... The new edition of CTHULHU DARK AGES is now available in PDF. Print will follow; buy the PDF from Chaosium.com now, and get the full price of the PDF off the physical book when it is released later this year. https://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu-dark-ages-3rd-edition-pdf

GATEWAYS TO TERROR will be out in print next month*. Here, co-author Jon Hook unboxes and shows off his contributor copy. *Buy the PDF now, and you'll get the full price of the PDF off the physical book when it is out: https://www.chaosium.com/gateways-to-terror-pdf

Chaosium/Type 40 photoshoot with the brilliant cosplay photographer Leigh Hyland (#Steamkittens) The Moroccan-inspired bar added a perfect Call of Cthulhu backdrop for what was a really fun morning being investigators and, in the case of Jamie and MOB, cultists.

You won't find it anywhere because I just made that up, along with Belvani's Holey Wheels. The practice would have worked just fine between the SD temples in the River of Cradles valley though (and maybe out to the tribes). Probably hasn't happened in a long time for the Praxian outpost beyond that, though possibly revived when Rurik starts bringing the various SD temples in Dragon Pass and beyond closer together under Argrath. What the great Sun Dome temple of Prax does provide though is a treasury on neutral ground.

Organised governments also like money, as an effective way to assess and collect taxes. The Lunars insist you pay up in shiny freshly-minted Imperials. As noted above, there's a specialised use of the Seek Sun Dome spell that serves as an additional and definitive magical verification. Good marketing on Issaries' part. I think such things are relatively commonplace - even the Kyger Litor cult uses them, see Balastor's Barracks: Like the Egibis were in Achaemenid Mesopotamia, Issaries are the acknowledged market leader, and probably have the broadest reach (and maybe will go into certain places other won't), but other cultures have their own trade gods to carry out similar functions (Etyries, Lokarnos, Argan Argar, etc). If the Sun Domers have a verifiable way of checking the bona fides of a credit note (Seek Sun Dome), bringing in outside professionals to carry it - or having your Lokarnos agent join an Issaries caravan - is no concern.

Three new Call of Cthulhu print releases will shortly be on their way to our warehouses (USA, UK, Poland, Australia): these are advance copies just in from our printer in Lithuania!

"Holy Wheels or Holey Wheels?" During the Time of Two Counts, a curious monetary innovation was introduced in New Pavis. Count-in-exile Belvani, after being driven out of the Old Sun Dome, established his rival court in the Suntown quarter of New Pavis. There he plotted his return to Sun County. Among other upheavals, the end of Lunar rule in Prax led to a critical lack of coinage in New Pavis, stifling trade, taxation, and tribute. With his eyes on conquests of his own back in Dragon Pass, King Argrath required Belvani to pay him a huge sum in order to be recognised as the legitimate count of Sun County. Lacking the tax base of Sun County or access to its treasury, and not yet secure as the leader in Suntown, Belvani hit upon a curious innovation to raise this amount. He ordered his Lokarnos priest Thandren Clubfoot to gather together all the gold coinage in Sun Town for a "special blessing", with the promise that the funds would be returned "in full" to their rightful owners. On the Lokarnos holy day in Fire Season, 1626 Thandren Clubfoot enacted a strange new iteration of the Coin Wheel ritual in the forecourt of the Sun Dome Temple in Pavis. Before him was heaped an enormous stash of the gold coins. One-by-one, a hole was punched in the centre of each gold Wheel. The resulting centre coin was then stamped with a sunburst on one side and Belvani's visage on the other. By the end of the day there stood two piles of coins: the centre pieces, and the outer rims. Although each mutilated Wheel now had a perfectly round hole in their middle, Belvani decreed that their value remained the same as before (worth 20 silvers). These coins were returned to their owners. There was some discontent at this, but Belvani called upon Yelmalio to rebuke him if he did wrong, and the heavens were silent. Because of the blessing, or more probably because of what they looked like, these coins became known as Holy/Holey Wheels. (They were not accepted in Sun County itself; Countess Vega ordered all such coins found there to be confiscated and melted down, with no compensation.) The centre coins Belvani gathered up and were used to pay his tribute to King Argrath. Belvani presented them in an ostentatious ceremony where he indeed did then receive the recognition he craved. It appears Argrath soon after took these coins to Dragon Pass with him, where he probably had them melted down for bullion. A gold 'Belvani' is ostensibly worth 13 silvers. However, as they did not enter general circulation and as such are extremely rare, they are considerably more valuable than that to a discerning numismatist.

Might depend on who does the splitting. If a genuine Lokarnos priest does it, the pieces are perfectly weighted and even, with smooth edges. They retain their full value (1/8th of a Wheel). Others try to make such clean slices, and attempt to pass off their spokes as genuine Lokarnos. The Coin Wheel spell does just that.

I don't see why that is necessarily the case. With the Coin Wheel spell you can put a whole lot of the spokes back together again to make whole coins too. Yelornan stars are made from silver. We now see the true and secret purpose of the Yelorna temple/coining operation in the Big Rubble; breaking the Sun Dome/Lokarnos banking cartel.

Yes. And there is a special secondary use of the Seek Sun Dome spell that vouches for the bona fides of such arrangements.

Each Sun Dome Temple has an attached Chalana Arroy Hospital for ethical investors.

The Sun Dome Temples' insistence that all exchanges are denominated in gold ("the gold standard") is an indication of their less well-known but important roles as centres of banking and finance (and as secure, neutral treasuries for surrounding folk). Even the Sun Dome Temple in Prax. The vaults there contain various treasures from the Praxian tribes, some for safe-keeping, away from the covetous hands of other tribes, some as collateral for loans. Duke Raus of Rone also lodged the deeds to Weis Domain there, taking a large loan to hire mercenaries when the Lunar governor told him he no longer had any troops to spare for such an unimportant, far-flung outpost. (Raus's family heirloom the Wand of the Seven Phases is also said to be in the vault as further surety). (I wrote this in response to post about Gloranthan economics on Facebook, so I figured I'd post here too - less ephemeral than FB if I ever want to come back to it)

Last year, professional writing students at Taylor University (Upland IN) wrote and published a Call of Cthulhu scenario, as part of a creative collaboration with Chaosium. The end result, REFRACTIONS OF GLASSTON, was published in the Miskatonic Repository community content resource on DriveThruRPG. Here are some reviews of the work! https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-33-our-student-collaboration-refractions-of-glasston-earns-critical-praise-/

As Rick noted, because the 13th Age rules are not owned by Chaosium/Moon Design, 13G wasn't initially included in the Jonstown Compendium. Rather than delay its launch any further, we wanted to get the Jonstown Compendium resource up and running for a while before looking at taking such a step, which would involve modifying the agreements we have with all the involved parties (Chaosium/Moon Design, Fire Opal, Pelgrane Press, OBS).

This is what we posted on Chaosium social media at the time: