All the Misery, Collected in One Place.
Convicts & Cthulhu is a sourcebook designed to allow Call of Cthulhu Keepers and players to run scenarios and campaigns set in the penal colonies of early Australia. It particularly targets the historical period from 1795 to 1810, a time in which law and order played second-fiddle to greed and corruption. This was the... [click here for more]
“The Most Merciful Thing in the World is the Inability of the Human Mind to Correlate all its Contents.”
H.P. Lovecraft coined the term "Yog-Sothothery" to refer to the fictional myth cycle he invented for his tales -- what subsequently became known as the "Cthulhu Mythos" (after other writers had added their own original horrors to sit beside... [click here for more]
“What primal, inconceivable source of age-old myth-cycles and haunting nightmares might I be on the brink of uncovering?”IMPORTANT NOTE: This PDF contains the text of a full set of game statistics describing the creatures, rituals, and artifacts from Lovecraft's original Cthulhu Mythos. In OGL terms it is a “System Reference... [click here for more]
"And I saw the world battling against blackness; against the waves of destruction from ultimate space ..."
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The APOCTHULHU roleplaying game has been especially designed to transport gamers into terrifying, devastated worlds where the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos have gained control. Usually to the utter detriment of mankind.
This supplemental volume brings together... [click here for more]
"Alas Poor Convict, I Knew Him Well ... 'Tis a Shame He Fell Prey to the Sydney Devil"
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One of the more surprising elements of the early penal settlements of Australia is the convict theatre. When one thinks of a brutal and isolated settlement filled with the most... [click here for more]