Call of Cthulhu
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Children of Fear – Episode #4
23 September 1923.The gate’s echo was still in the investigators’ bones when Sian closed around them. Rain hissed on brick. Steam lifted from cookshops. Lanterns tilted in the wind like watchful eyes, and the city seemed to breathe in bells and coal smoke. Mi Han’s runner, quick, unremarkable, and certain of every turn, pulled them
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Children of Fear – Episode #3
22–23 September 1923. Peking fell away behind the convoy under a low, rinsed sky, the city wall shrinking to a pale bruise against the rain. General Wu’s escort moved with competent purpose. Trucks that coughed and rattled, carts and canvas covers tapping like loose drumskins, flags snapping in the wet air. The investigators sat among
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Children of Fear – Episode #2
21 September 1923, Peking. The morning after the lecture carried the familiar texture of routine. Breakfast trays, soft voices, the faint clink of cutlery. Yet it landed wrong. Too many of the investigators had woken with the taste of their visions still on the tongue, the sense of having been briefly displaced into somewhere real
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Children of Fear – Episode #1
20 September 1923, Peking. In the Foreign Legation Quarter the air always feels a little staged, as if the city has been asked to stand politely behind a rope while the West takes its tea. Outside those streets, Peking is vast and alive and complicated. Inside them, the rules are clearer, the uniforms sharper, the
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A Simple Call of Cthulhu Chase System
I like Call of Cthulhu’s chases in theory. On the page, they’re clever: abstract locations, hazards, vehicles, movement rates. At the table, though, I always hit the same snag: I can’t remember the sequence, I start flicking through the book, and what should feel like a breathless sprint turns into a rules consult. So I
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Retrospective: Curse of Cthulhu
Our group finally finished a campaign I started back in August 2022! This was our first ever long-form Call of Cthulhu campaign, having come together to play a number of one-shots on Discord. It was a good finish and overall we had a lot of fun. I’ve certainly gone to love playing with the group.…
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Making good Call of Cthulhu investigators
I’ve been running a lot of Call of Cthulhu over the last few years on my Discord server The Other Games. Although I sometimes offer pregens for one-shots, I’ve also offered players plenty of opportunities to roll new characters for themselves. The results have been mixed and this is a short piece with advice on
