This was one of the stalwarts of the local RP group I went to every Sunday evening for years as a youth, and probably my most fondly remembered of them all. We played everything from Vampire to Palladium to Heroes Unlimited and Star Wars, but the Cthulhu mythos was the most delicious as...
It’s all really clear-cut, keeping you on the critical path as much as possible. Call of Cthulhu is undoubtedly a polished game, yet I ran into an unfortunate bug that hindered my progress for at least 45 minutes of game-overs and reloading. In the stage where a gun is available, ...
"The Call of Ktulu," the closing track onRide the Lightning, is named afterThe Call of Cthulhu, a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft about a mythical, monstrous entity known as the Cthulhu. As legend has it, Cliff Burton actually introduced his bandmates to Lovecraft, whose work also...
The key factor allowing this standardization in bothDungeons & DragonsandCall of Cthulhuis the assumption of a common motive for all potential player characters. AllDungeons & Dragonscharacters, regardless of species, alignment, or adventuring specialty, can be assumed (at least by a publisher ofDun...
Religion suffuses H.P. Lovecraft’s (1890–1937) short stories—the most famous of which, “The Call of Cthulhu,” has led to a literary subculture and a shared mythos employed by Lovecraft’s successors. Despite this presence of religion in Lovecraft’s