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The following characters appear in H. P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos. Overview: Name. The name of the character appears first. Birth/Death. The date of the character's birth and death (if known) appears in parentheses below the character's name. Ambivalent dates are denoted by a question mark. Description. A brief description ...
Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. [1] The game, often abbreviated as CoC , is published by Chaosium ; it was first released in 1981 and is in its seventh edition, with licensed foreign language editions available as well.
The original 1997 edition of Delta Green was a sourcebook for Call of Cthulhu; as such, it used the Basic Role-Playing system that Call of Cthulhu had.. The 2016 standalone edition takes the percentile dice of Basic Role-Playing and Call of Cthulhu mechanics, and introduces modifications adapted for the setting.
By this time Chaosium had already extended the core Call of Cthulhu game in the 1890s and the 1990s but for Pagan's first book-length scenario to make a one-off stop in a totally different time period was original and innovative." [2]: 245
All ten stories in Cthulhu’s Dark Cults are linked by Cthulhu Mythos cults and characters that first appeared in Call of Cthulhu gaming supplements such as Masks of Nyarlathotep, Horror on the Orient Express, Shadows of Yog-Sothoth, The Fungi from Yuggoth, Secrets of Kenya, Secrets of New York and others. [2] The ten stories are:
Encyclopedia Cthulhiana is a 400-page book by Daniel Harms that contains an alphabetized listing of entities, cults and lore from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos that were published during the twentieth century. Sources include works by Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, and Stephen King, as well as scenarios from the Call of Cthulhu game.
Lloigor is a fictional deity and a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos.The entity first appeared in August Derleth and Mark Schorer's short story "The Lair of the Star Spawn" (1932), and has been used in subsequent fictional works by others though often departing from the original concept.
Chaosium first released the horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu in 1981, and regularly refreshed it with new editions containing revamped rules. The fourth edition's release in 1989 sparked a line of products that game historian Stu Horvath called "the golden age for the line". [3]