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Our Call of Cthulhu group began as you did with the three Starter Set scenarios and then The Haunting. After that, we moved on to the four scenarios in the Keeper Set slipcase: Amidst the Ancient Trees, Crimson Letters, Missed Dues, and then finally Blackwater Creek. Returning to Arkham from Blackwater Creek, we ran the one-shot Dead Light scenario. We are now in Doors to Darkness, on the second scenario, "Genius Loci." All of this was about a year's worth of biweekly Saturday evening sessions.

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Found another error in the Classic Cthulhu section. The thumbnail image for the 'Classic Cthulhu Scenarios' print book page is "Secrets of Tibet," which is now in the 7th edition scenarios section instead of Classic Cthulhu. See the middle image on the page below. https://www.chaosium.com/classic-cthulhu/

Any chance this will be get fixed?

Good job on the recently upgraded Chaosium website. The layout of the site has been improved. You must have decided that the last few months of increased Internet traffic was worth the investment in a better site - not that the previous version wasn't appealing. I found dead links on two pages in the Classic Cthulhu section: https://www.chaosium.com/classic-cthulhu-scenarios/ "Need the rules? Go to the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition section." "Just want the PDFs? Click here." https://www.chaosium.com/classic-cthulhu-scenario-pdfs/ "Need the rules? Go to the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition section." "Want the printed versions of the scenarios? Go here."

I am running "The Darkness Beneath the Hill" tomorrow evening for my investigators.

Any update on this new campaign? The most recent post indicated "a mid-2020 release."

Looking forward to the Cthulhu Dark Ages hardcover. I'm not sure if my gaming group will play it, but I'll buy the book anyway.

I'm not sure, but that sounds right. I know there is a LAN option for Fantasy Grounds Unity, but it is only one of the choices now with the introduction of FG's cloud server. The cloud server saves a good deal of set-up and troubleshooting on the host side.

Thank you for this concise summary of Fantasy Grounds' VTT options. However, I am fairly sure that all content for a host's campaigns is stored on FG's cloud server if a host is using Fantasy Grounds Unity. I checked my hard drive and the 'C:' Drive's Fantasy Grounds installation doesn't seem to have specific files for the two campaigns I've created. Fantasy Grounds Classic, the 32-bit client, is hosted on a local computer and requires port forwarding for the players to connect to a campaign.

According to the chart in your link from Fantasy Grounds, the only difference between FGU Standard and FGU Ultimate is the ability to "Host Games for Demo Players." I believe then if the GM purchases a Standard license or subscription, then the players will also need a Standard or Ultimate license or subscription to connect to your campaign. The Ultimate license includes everything so that the players only need a Demo client installation.

According to Fantasy Grounds' website, a $3.99/month Standard license does not allow a GM to host free virtual games for Demo players so the players would need to purchase a FG subscription as well. If you purchase an Ultimate perpetual license or a monthly Ultimate subscription for $9.99, then a GM can host games for Demo players so that your Investigators do not have to pay anything for Fantasy Grounds. I bought a perpetual Ultimate license, so my players only have to download the FG Unity 64-bit client and then connect to my campaign hosted on Fantasy Grounds' public cloud server.

The enterprise video conferencing solution Google Meet is now free without limitations until September 30th, 2020. That is what I use for my biweekly virtual group along with Fantasy Grounds and it works very well for five people. Roll20's integrated video solution isn't supposed to work well at all, btw. Once a license holder purchases a Call of Cthulhu rule set module, Fantasy Grounds will perform all of the dice roll calculations with any pertinent modifiers (e.g., bonus or penalty dice, Hard or Extreme success, and so on) so it is certainly worth using. Players can manually enter their Investigators' information into the available character sheet templates, which are then used in dice roll calculations including Sanity and Luck. If you purchase Call of Cthulhu modules in Fantasy Grounds, any pregen characters included can be loaded into your saved Campaign and then are ready-to-go for players to use immediately. I used the pregen characters for "The Dead Boarder" scenario just a few weeks ago and nothing needed to be changed except typing in the characters' personal names.

Yes, you will need to buy the Fantasy Grounds 7th edition Call of Cthulhu rules set module first to run any of the Call of Cthulhu scenario modules available there. The 6th edition rules set is also available for the platform and contains three scenarios which will automatically convert to 7th edition when loaded. Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition (Ruleset) The 7th edition Investigator Handbook is available as a separate purchase so that players and the Keeper can access this information within Fantasy Grounds. Call of Cthulhu 7E Investigator Handbook Fantasy Grounds is the way to go for Call of Cthulhu, imo, as this platform has far more pertinent content than Roll20 or the other virtual tabletop platforms. Do you quick search on the site and you will see.

I'm not sure how I would go about this, but I will look into it. I also received a similar response from Fantasy Grounds support.

You may want to check everything on the site, including other games such as Runequest. The Call of Cthulhu back catalogue material didn't have much of its necessary information listed before I brought this up, except for the most recent 7th edition releases. For example, the older 7th edition Call of Cthulhu release, "Doors to Darkness," doesn't list the edition for both the print and the PDF versions as well as the year the supplement was published: https://www.chaosium.com/doors-to-darkness-hardcover/ https://www.chaosium.com/doors-to-darkness-pdf/ The PDF of "Horror on the Orient Express" doesn't indicate that the campaign is for the 7th edition and also its publication year: https://www.chaosium.com/horror-on-the-orient-express-pdf/ "Edition" is misspelled for the "Reign of Terror" supplement. https://www.chaosium.com/reign-of-terror-pdf/

I went to The Dhole's House website and there seem to be no uploadable pregen character files from the site's library. https://www.dholeshouse.org/CharacterLibrary/CoC7edInvestigators Unless anyone has a suggestion, I'm not sure where else to look. It would be great if the five pregen characters from the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set were available in an uploadable file.

Following up on this post after @Scotty had a chance to do some work on the website. All items under Classic Cthulhu that should have an edition listed now have an edition in 'Other Details' except for the two below: Canis Mysterium (print version) https://www.chaosium.com/canis-mysterium/ Cthulhu Companion PDF https://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu-companion-pdf/ Campaign setting books such as Cthulhu Invictus, Cthulhu Dark Ages, and Cthulhu by Gaslight presumably don't have an edition listed as they are their own rule systems.

Does anyone know of a file I can use to upload pregen 1920s Investigators to Fantasy Grounds and then share them to the players? I am running both Blackwater Creek and Dead Light tomorrow and the two modules do not seem to contain pregen characters that I can make available to the remote players on this platform.

Rpg.net has an overview of Chaosium's history, from 1975 to 2006. The article cites three periods in which Chaosium struggled to remain afloat financially. History of Chaosium Inc There is also a comprehensive product list for Call of Cthulhu on rpg.net, starting with the Call of Cthulhu First Edition (1981) box set (a history of the product covers are linked from this list). Complete List of Call of Cthulhu Releases Some releases such as the most recent published versions of Cthulhu by Gaslight, Dreamlands, and the Malleus Monstrorum look like they did have higher production budgets, but releases in the period immediately before the Moon Design takeover seemed to be increasingly shoestring.

What is Moon Design?

Here are the six Classic Cthulhu print books with no indication of the edition in their descriptions (i.e., there is no 'Other Details' section): Canis Mysterium Arkham Now Atomic-Age Cthulhu H.P. Lovecrafts Dreamlands Secrets of Morocco The Stars Are Right! https://www.chaosium.com/classic-cthulhu-scenarios/ The following Classic Cthulhu PDF versions either have no 'Other Details' section indicating the edition or the 'Other Details' section is incomplete: Arkham Now PDF Atomic-Age Cthulhu PDF Beyond the Mountains of Madness PDF Blood Brothers PDF Dark Designs PDF H.P. Lovecrafts Dreamlands PDF In the Shadows PDF Secrets of Morocco - PDF Secrets of New York PDF The Stars Are Right! PDF https://www.chaosium.com/classic-cthulhu-scenario-pdfs/ FYI, The Fragments of Fear PDF in the Classic Cthulhu PDF section appears to have the wrong edition. I believe the book is from 1985 but its description states it is for the 6th edition.

Thank you. I checked both the print version as well as the PDF version of Secrets of Tibet, and now both state 7th edition Call of Cthulhu.

BTW, @Rick Meints, is this going to get fixed?

I noticed that the turnaround started at 2015, which could be called "The Chaosium Renaissance." My guess was that budgets for projects in the recent past were just lower before the 7th edition and then Chaosium's fortunes started to rise in the last five years along with much of the tabletop gaming industry. Thank you, Stranger Things, I suppose.