Call of Cthulhu

Chaosium unveiled Basic Roleplaying: The Universal Game Engine, a new Open RPG Creative License game engine, for release in April…

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The roleplaying system that powers seminal horror RPG Call of Cthulhu and classic fantasy game RuneQuest is being opened up…

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H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard co-wrote a story. Lovecraft’s section ended with the protagonist learning a truth about…

The publisher responsible for the Pathfinder roleplaying game series, Paizo, has confirmed its stance on the use of AI artwork…

Goliath Coins and Chaosium Inc. will release Call of Cthulhu coins, collector RPG metal coins, into retail in June 2023.…

Call of Cthulhu’s A Time to Harvest, written by Brian M. Sammons, Glynn Owen Barrass, with Mike Mason and Lynne…

A supplement for tabletop roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu promises to challenge even the most experienced of players. Nameless Horrors…

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When 7th Edition of Call of Cthulhu came out, Chaosium created a new organization called the Cult of Chaos. The…

In July 2022, an Elden Ring tabletop RPG was announced by Kadokawa, a strangely massive publishing company that deals with…

It’s January 2023, and d20 Radio welcomes all new Game Masters! New Gamemaster Month happens every January. The month-long event…

The open game licence launched by Pathfinder maker Paizo in response to the embattled Dungeons & Dragons OGL has already…

Free League Publishing, the RPG publisher behind The One Ring, Tales from the Loop, Alien, Blade Runner and more, has…

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The publisher of fantasy RPG Pathfinder, Paizo, has revealed its plans to launch an alternative to Dungeons & Dragons’ Open…

Chaosium, the publisher behind the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game, has confirmed that it refuses to use AI art…

The original artwork for the logo to Shadowrun 1e and 2e is for sale. As of this writing, Noble Knight…

The universe of Call of Cthulhu should not be confused with the worlds of Dungeons and Dragons. Magic is not…

Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast which bought Dungeons & Dragons decades ago. The D&D brand has moved from an…

The 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook has interesting guidelines on how to create Cthulhu adventures. The first bit…

Paizo, Inc. announced that they have partnered with TYPE40 to work on a new products across multiple Paizo game lines,…

Cults of Cthulhu introduces us to five cults that worship our favorite dead and dreaming elder god. Two of them…

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Here’s my collection of Call of Cthulhu character sheets. CoC is one of the oldest and best RPGs ever created.…

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Call of Cthulhu is a stone-cold classic when it comes to horror RPGs, inspiring endless other Lovecraftian games and spinning…

EGX returns to London’s ExCeL this weekend from Thursday September 22nd to Sunday 25th - and you’ll be able to…

Are you an adventurer who longs to explore the lone-lands of Eriador? Then rejoice, for today Free League Publishing has announced The…

Jim Davies’ THINGS THAT GO SQUEAK IN THE NIGHT is a tabletop roleplaying game in which you play mice saving…

A new sourcebook for horror tabletop roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu takes inspiration from Jane Austen and Regency history. Regency…

The original designer of the first Call of Cthulhu RPG, Sandy Petersen, joins me on the podcast. We explore sandy’s…

Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…

Experience the newest edition of the tabletop roleplaying game, King Arthur Pendragon, for free with a new quick-start adventure. The…

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Chris Spivey’s breakthrough RPG, the Call of Cthulhu and GUMSHOE-compatible Harlem Unbound, threw a spotlight on the cultural revolution of…

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Free League Announces The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying For 5E“This is the Master-ring, the One Ring to rule them…

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Elden Ring, the open-world video game from the creators of Dark Souls, is being turned into a tabletop RPG next…

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Call of Cthulhu Classic, the original version of the tabletop roleplaying game, is returning for a limited time. The classic…

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The American chapter of Masks of Nyarlathotep takes place years after the Peru adventure in New York City. All the…

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Roll20, the biggest and most popular virtual tabletop RPG website, has announced a partnership with Dungeon Masters Guild that will…

Tabletop roleplaying games, as a sales category, may be evolving faster than many fans and publishers realize. For the most…

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Call of Cthulhu, the classic horror tabletop roleplaying game, is getting a new starter set next week. A new starter…

Call of Cthulhu Creative Director Mike Mason joins me on today’s dicegeeks podcast. We have a fantastic conversation covering a…

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I want to take a closer look at the amazing Call of Cthulhu campaign Masks of Nyarlathotep. There are games…

It has been confirmed that masks will be required at the Origins Game Fair 2022 tabletop gaming convention. In a…

A couple articles ago I featured one of my favorite Cthulhu Mythos monsters, the Daughters of Atlach-Nacha, giant spider creatures…

When running a Call of Cthulhu game, you have to know what the endgame is for your antagonists. Are they…

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In the Malleus Monstrorum, several pages are dedicated to creating original deities to use in your Call of Cthulhu campaign.…

Dungeons & Dragons is undoubtedly considered to be one of the best fantasy tabletop RPGs of all time, but it’s…

This chart of the Top 5 Roleplaying Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Fall 2021 (September-December).  The charts are based…

The Chaosium Group is incentivizing gamers to aid Ukraine in their hour of need by offering a free adventure while…

Catch up on previous chapters of Wreckers Reunion here and here. SUPPLY RUN Droven could hardly believe the twists and…

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Roll20, the online roleplaying game platform, has doubled its userbase since March 2020. In an email from the company’s PR…

Darker Hue Studios’ Weird West role playing game Haunted West will be distributed by R. Talsorian Games under a new…

Tabletop roleplaying games are pretty incredible. The best RPGs are capable of transporting you and your fellow players to entirely…

Another week, another episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast. Episode 95 is hosted by yours’ truly, as Matt was taking some…

When running a Call of Cthulhu game, we want our players to go too far, to discover forbidden lore… to…

Call of Cthulhu publisher Chaosium has suspended plans for another NFT drop based on its popular cosmic horror tabletop RPG…

While we address the concerns of the tabletop gaming community we have halted our plans for future NFT releases.

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If you missed the news that tabletop RPG publisher Chaosium released nearly 2,000 NFTs styled after Call of Cthulhu, you’re…

In the first part of this three-part series, I talked about Kolchak: The Night Stalker and why a tabletop roleplaying…

It seemed that, for a long, long time, the RPG boxed set was dead. Game makers moved to a big…

Carrying on with a video format we started last week on the subject of the problem with combat in RPGs,…

After three years, Chaosium is giving the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition starter set a new look in April. Check…

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Chaosium will release Call of Cthulhu 7E: Starter Set, an entry-level RPG product, into retail in April 2022. This Starter…

Cults of Cthulhu, the book all about running cults in Call of Cthulhu, has a print date of March 2022.…

There’s a range of Cthulhu Mythos Saga adventures from Sandy Petersen Games for sale, and now you can sample one…

.In the early days of RPGs, one campaign laid the foundation for adventures as we know them today: Call of…

The 2021 Q3 The Orr Report is out. That’s the Roll20 stats on what games are being played on the…

At the Mountains of Madness, volume II will be released by Free League Publishing on November 23rd. If you have…