You encounter sanity-blasting entities, monsters, and insane cultists. Within strange and forgotten tomes of lore you discover revelations that man was not meant to know. You and your companions may very well decide the fate of the world. This book, the Keeper Rulebook, contains the core rules, background, guidance, spells, and monsters of the game. It is intended for use by the Keeper of Arcane Lore (the Keeper) - that player who will present the adventure to the other players. You must have at least one copy of this book to play Call of Cthulhu. The other players, the Investigators, should have one or more copies of the Investigator Handbook, containing expanded rules for character creation, skills, occupations, equipment, and more.Ĭall of Cthulhu, 7th edition, is backwards-compatible with all other available Chaosium titles and includes a guide for any conversion needed.

It's so much fun that you might find in 30 years you and your friends are running a Lovecraftian historical society! The HPLHS urges caution when playing this game. NOTE: the 7th edition is the most current version of the CoC rules.Horror Roleplaying in the Worlds of H.P. The Great Old Ones ruled the earth aeons before the rise of humankind. Originally they came from the gulfs of space and were cast down by even greater beings. Remains of their cyclopean cities and forbidden knowledge can still be found on remote islands in the Pacific, buried amid the shifting sands of vast deserts, and in the frigid recesses of the polar extremes. Now they sleep - some deep within the enveloping earth and others beneath the eternal sea, in the drowned city of R'lyeh, preserved in the waters by the spells of mighty Cthulhu. When the stars are right they will rise, and once again walk this Earth. Welcome to Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Quick-Start Rules, a booklet that collects the essential rules for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition and presents them in abbreviated form. The Call of Cthulhu Quick-Start Rules guide you through the process of creating investigator characters, who delve into strange mysteries and confront alien monsters and other creepies! It also includes an overview of the game and its basic rules, a character sheet, and a ready to play adventure - The Haunting - to get you started.ĭownload a copy, print it out, gather your friends, and then play Call of Cthulhu for the first time. You may also want to download the special solo introductory adventure - Alone Against the Flames - which guides you through the rules as you play through a mystery - something you can play on your own while waiting for your gaming group to arrive!Īuthors: Sandy Petersen, Mike Mason, Paul Fricker and Lynn WillisĮditorial: Scott Dorward Critical Acclaim for the Call of Cthulhu Quickstart Rules Odds are good you'll want to play again and again. ' Call of Cthulhu is, for me, the best RPG ever created irrespective of genre. Yet I do recognise that its approach to heroism is not for everyone.

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