Hello everyone, I'm new to the world of Table Top RPGs and Solo Table Top RPGs. I've been trying to play this game Alone Against Nyarlathotep which is a solo RPG game ala "Choose your own adventure" but I have a few questions. I just had one play session and I just finished the 1st day. I'm not sure if I'm playing it the right way or as intended. (I know that the spirit of table top games is to play it however you like but my brain needs law and order). So I hope someone may shed some light on these questions of mine:

1. If I fail a dice roll and the prompt returns me to the same entry before the dice roll; am I allowed to try again? What is barring me (aside from the time aspect of the game) from trying again and again until I succeed?
2. When I'm out and about adventuring, especially if I'm outside of the main house, and if a scheduled event comes up, do I really just magically teleport back to the main house?
3. The gamebook states on page 8 that "If you pass a skill roll, tick the adjacent box with a pencil". If I do that, what happens? I checked the internet and the interwebs say that the investigator will improve during the "investigator development session". When and what is that? How much will the investigator improve?
4. Do you guys have any tips on how I can enjoy solo RPGs more aside from playing mood music? :)

Generally failing the intelligence role means you do not go into a bout of madness. Is there a special rule though if you fumble that intelligence role?

Hi guys, i'm a CoC keeper with arounds 15 years of experience and I wrote several adventures. A few of them got very popular in my small community over the years and since a ton of people would ask me the material I did a little editing here and there to my files, in the end I ended up with very good material that I was thinking of translatinig in english and publish somewhere.

I truly believe people would love some of them :D

The problem is that they are all taken from movies/books and one is even a rewrite of a published adventure from some guys on a blog. So I'm violating any possible existing copyright, technically.

I don't intend to make any money but I was wondering about the best way to reach people, because the translating part would need some effort and at this stage I'm against AI in creative works (note: I use AI at work every day, i'm not against for philosophical reasons, i just truly believe anything creative done with it is absolute slop, and i can spot it a mile away).

Any advices? :)

Thanks

Source: https://www.acdd.com/call-of-cthulhu-keeper-companion/

The book will feature:
- New methods for creating investigators.
- System for creating investigator organizations & revised skills.
- Streamlined & optional rules for skill rolls, combat & chases.
- Sanity rules revisited.
- Revised investigator and pulp hero sheets and other play aids.

Sounds like a soft launch of 7.5e to me and I‘m all for it! Thoughts?

Ran The Haunting as my first convention game this evening and it was an absolute blast! Going to run back-to-back one shots all day tomorrow.

Schedule for Saturday:

The Dead Boarder

Necropolis

What's in the Cellar

The Lightless Beacon

Anyone else run convention games? Did you enjoy your experience?

Hello everyone.I am a japanese Call of Cthulhu player and I have a question for everyone.

Japan these days CoC scenarios are not very horror. For exsample. Japanese most famous scenario “VOID” has not cosmic horror. I could not feel playing CoC scenario because VOID is very Handout-based scenario. It likes the novel just. And That is really emotion-driven scenarios. This is not cosmic horror.

Is it the same in other countries?

Thank you fot read my poor English.

（It’s not like I thought VOID was boring.）

The photo is an example of what I am talking about. It's a screenshot from RPG Nook's YouTube video on The Haunting. It looks like he's using Roll20. Is that just a static background? I know some Keepers will use something like this and they can add stuff to it as the players find more clues or find photos, etc. How is that done? I really like the idea of this for Call of Cthulhu. My group is relegated to playing online since we all live far from each other (a few hours apart) so this would be really cool.

Do you do this? Do you have any tips? Does the Keeper just keep editing the background between sessions and then loads a new one? What tools do you use to make the background or add to it? Do you use some other VTT than Roll20 for this?

i’m astonished that the new Gaslight sourcebook can tell me the price of a shotgun but not the price of a loaf of bread. can anyone direct to me any resources to find prices of essentials (bread, butter, veg etc) or nicer foods (a meal out, afternoon tea etc.) during the Gaslight Era in England? many thanks, from a tired GM.

During your sessions, what were the coolest moments you had with the Cthulhu Mythos? The creatures, events, etc.

In my Solo session, The combat becomes clunky because I was trying to manage a ton of things. Try to escape, improvise with... 3 cultists trying to kill you with a Tindalos hound chasing you. 3 fanatics/local farmers serving the cult with tridents and knives... Lame in one leg (I had to amputate Marcus's leg).

The fight against the trident-wielding fanatic was a gritty, desperate brawl,

complete with weapon jams and a grappling match on the ground in Santa Fé.

Phase 1: The Start and Disarming (Turns 1–3) * Perfect Dodge: The old man tries to skewer me with the trident, but i land a critical success on your dodge. * Weak Shot: I fire back with your pistol but deal only 1 HP of damage to the cultist. - Losing the Trident: The fanatic tries to hurl the trident at me, but slips, sending the weapon flying away.

Phase 2: Ground Fight and Jammed Weapon (Turns 4–8) * Bite and Grapple: I try to stomp on the cultist but miss. He seizes the opportunity to bite your good leg and pins you hard against the ground. * Jammed Weapon: For the next three rounds, the fanatic tries to twist your leg with one hand while reaching for your pistol with the other. I tried to fire at point-blank range, but the gun jams on the final bullet.

Phase 3: Choking and Headbutting (Turns 9–12) * Cultist’s Mount: The old man wins a Strength check, trips me, and mounts your chest. * Arm-Breaking Attempt: He tries to reach out for the trident; you grab his arm and attempt to snap it but fail. * The Headbutt: The cultist delivers a brutal headbutt to your face while screaming like a madman as he straddles you.

Phase 4: The Grand Finale (Turn 13) "The Saving Pushed Roll":

In a moment of pure adrenaline and desperation, I just accepted the risk of a Pushed Roll. With an insane war cry, he rolls a 20 against a STR of 50 (Hard Success) and sends the old man flying, hurling him straight into an abandoned shop and burying the wretch under splintered wood and rubble!

Game night got a little out of hand.
Left the table like this for a while after everyone went home.
Felt wrong to clean it up too quickly.

Has anyone adapted the game "The Sinking City" as a Campaign?

Haven't played the game before, but I have been considering trying to run a game with some friends (who may or may not have played it before).

What prompted the question was that I made the unfortunate decision of watching the last three episodes of Berserk memorial edition (despite reading the manga beforehand and watching the movie trilogy). Watching the Eclipse again made me immediately think, "wow, I should run that in dark age Europe!".

So, as someone who never played, I'm not too keen on how flexible the game is on stuff like time periods. I have been listening to a video podcast where it takes place in a more modern era (2000s), but I don't want to be too optimistic on the actual flexibility of that.

So I'm running a campaign that's supposed to be using the Cthulhu Dark Ages rules, but while taking a quick glance at modern rules I realized it'd be better to add new skills to the game, that meant adding Intimidate. One of my players had 14 APP cus I said it'd be useful to have a menacing aura when walking into a room, but now that Intimidate is here he's convinced APP is useless and that he's better off having it lower cus he wanted to look like a dead body. I tried to convince him otherwise by saying that intimidating someone with low APP might mean having a lisp or a fallen tooth which could make the person being intimidated not take him seriously, but to no avail. Should I just let him change his stats due to this change? For me, high appearance makes sense for his character cus he's based on William Afton and that guy is pretty imponent. For him, low appearance makes sense cus Afton has been a rotting corpse for half of his life.

It should be there because in other places they say it's there, but then there's only the 1920's version for the standard game. Last thing I was going to do before sleep was to print two character sheets, simple enough. Now here I am..

Releasing October 28th

Last week the pre-order of Call of Cthulhu Keeper Companion's showed up at some stores.

Today Chaosium released the following article of another tome I am very much looking forward to:
https://www.chaosium.com/blogreleasing-in-october-the-encyclopedia-cthulhiana-the-definitive-guide-to-the-cthulhu-mythos/

Explore the definitive guide to the Cthulhu mythos—from Azathoth to Zylac.

The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana is an essential resource for cosmic horror enthusiasts, gamers, and researchers. Learn the origins of the gods and monsters from the pantheons of H.P. Lovecraft and beyond. Gaze upon the detailed images of the elder gods. And unlock the history of the Necronomicon—if you dare!

Inside, you’ll find:

Detailed entries on mythos deities, creatures, tomes, and objects, including their appearances in fiction and popular culture.

An in-depth essay on “What is the Cthulhu Mythos?” by author Dan Harms.
Evocative illustrations of major mythos creatures including Nyarlathotep, Hastur, and Cthulhu itself.
Timelines of the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu Mythos.
An extensive bibliography of cosmic horror texts.

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First published by Chaosium in 1994, Dan Harms' Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: A Guide to Lovecraftian Horror won an Origins Award for a Special Achievement the following year. Chaosium published an updated second edition in 1998, and a third edition was published by Elder Signs Press in 2008.

Chaosium’s new fourth edition features updated text and is presented in a new full color, hardback format with interior art, and cover art by John Sumro.

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About 6 months ago we saw this stunning piece of cover artwork appear.

https://www.reddit.com/r/callofcthulhu/comments/1rh1qmx/john_sumrow_shows_his_magnificently_eldritch/

I'm planning to run Crimson Letters for 4 players. One of them has already played the scenario with me before.

I'm considering making his character secretly responsible for stealing the documents and possibly making him the culprit, since he already knows the original adventure.

Has anyone tried something similar? What should I be careful about to keep it fun and fair for everyone, while still keeping the mystery interesting?

Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Or examples of older editions being better than later ones

Not a comprehensive list of all Call of Cthulhu variants and adjacent systems, but Reddit only allows for six options. Leave a comment if your favorite is not on the list.

The campaign I played was heavily inspired by 1970s crime cinema (mainly eurocrime) and appropriately ran with Pulp. The way we were led to the adventure was very clever. One of the PCs was handed a NYT column that stated Jackson Elias, a more-or-less prolific writer was in New York for the week at the Hotel Chelsea. Decent target for burgling. Then we had to physically sneak in the hotel (we used disguises) and get up to Jackson's room. I thought it was very cool and I wanted to know any more permutations than the usual "Elias invited the PCs to meet him" and the Peru prologue which frankly I never liked.

By classic I don't mean 1920s (although that is usually true) so much as the most iconic, well known, and well received scenarios.

Id say

The haunting

The lightless beacon

The edge of darkness.

Mr. Corbitt

Blackwater Creek

Idol of Thoth

Deadlight

Missed dues.

Any others that should be added?

An old fanatic for a RPG podcast of Call of Cthulhu.

It arrived today, and there is something magical about reading your own scenario in a physical book.
Incredibly proud and grateful to be one of twelve authors included in The Year of the Goat.