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Just got my set (both the thick box and thin box) late last week. Man, after 40 years I still love that cover art. Joseph

Any sense of when we can expect Volume 2?

I haven't done this but I like the idea...for some attributes. Strength is the most obvious, the truth is, it is trivially easy to build strength and strength is one of those things that then feeds into better performance at a lot of activities. It is less easy or straightforward with intelligence or dexterity but it is possible, it's just much harder.

Just received the book today...it is gorgeous. Love the essays from Petersen and others. Not that happy with the dust jacket, only because I'm terrified of damaging it, it's getting a slip cover asap.

Chaosium is like some awful mobster, every time i walk by his place he comes out and mugs me, grabs all my money out of my wallet. It's terrible. I should stop walking by his place. But he's got such great stuff in the windows...can't help it. Sigh.

They've done a fantastic job. And I'm marveling at the longevity of an rpg that became a favorite when it was first released (my sophomore year in college, I'd discovered Lovecraft's fiction the year before). I'd been playing D&D with my friends and it was fine...but horror roleplaying and the cosmic horror of Lovecraft? That was my jam! Loved it then and love it still. It has been wonderful to see the game's comeback.

Just passed $200K. I'm looking forward to the sparkly ruby-red dice! And within 24 hours of going live. Pretty remarkable. Joseph

Yep, did the same thing...but I've been with CoC since the first edition, so the signed edition is calling me, crying out to me...but so far I'm resisting.

Thanks so much for the thoughtful, helpful, and humorous essay. As an Army Brat I know about life on bases (well, life on Army bases more than 40 years ago!) but not about life 'in the field'. Best, Joseph

I'd pay $20 for a case, yes. Joseph

Ejlertson, I sympathize, I bought the three and later found out about the slipcase. I emailed Chaosium about buying just the slipcase...no dice. I ended up buying the slipcase set as a collector's item. Joseph

By the way, apologies if I'm posting in the wrong area, I realize this is more CoC-adjacent. Best, Joseph

Hey everyone. I loved the BBC Radio Lovecraft Investigations (Case of Charles Dexter Ward season 1, Whisperer in Darkness season 2, and Shadow over Innsmouth season 3). I also enjoyed the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast. Does anyone have recommendations for similar podcasts? Best, Joseph

Really interesting...I like it. My only issue is that in reality I don't think science and the occult are mutually exclusive knowledge areas...for example, in high school I was into science AND stuff out on the edge, ESP, Fortean phenomena, the supernatural, it was all part of the 'unknown' and I was fascinated by all of it. But I majored in physics in college and the deeper I got into science and how it is done, the more skeptical I became. But I knew about the fringey stuff, I just no longer believed much or any of it. And that stuff was a part of a lot of the entertainment I liked (and still is), tv shows, movies, books, rpg's, etc. I don't think I was that unusual, I think people who are interested in what we know and don't know may often not distinguish between established science and the 'disreputable' stuff. So given that, I wouldn't bar skill points to the occult, but some skepticism makes sense, the more science-knowledgeable the character is. Maybe. I want to think more about it.

Interesting question...I agree with Lloyd Dupont, Lovecraft's writing isn't the best, yet his influence is everywhere, inspiring Stephen King and many other better known and more successful horror writers (I probably read King's pastiche of Lovecraft, 'Jersalem's Lot', before I read any actual Lovecraft...I was introduced to Lovecraft in college perhaps just a year or two before I discovered the Call of Cthulhu game). For all his flaws as a writer (and a person, his racism and narrow-mindedness), his fiction has stuck with me because I am so taken with the core idea of his writing, cosmic horror, the 'mankind's inquisitiveness uncovers not the glory of the cosmos but the utter and alien hostility of it'. I suppose it's the neurotic inside me that finds it so fascinating...not appealing...but really interesting.