Call of Cthulhu

The game Call of Cthulhu was based on the series of books and short stories authored by H. P. Lovecraft and others in the 1920s and 1930s, about the Cthulhu Mythos.

In Call of Cthulhu, the player takes on the role of a 1920s era human - a detective, a gangster, a professor, or a retired soldier for example. The characters are then introduced to a situation filled with undercurrents of terror, as they gradually learn that things are much worse than they seem. Their sanity inevitably grinds away as they learn of the true horrors of the world and the irrelevance of humanity.

The game system is quite simple compared with other games, and is reminiscent of Dungeons and Dragons in various ways. Character advancement is somewhat irrelevant because "mortality" rates tend to be very high.

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A roleplaying game based on H.P. Lovecraft's books. The game involves a universe known as the Cthulhu Mythos where unmentionable horrors and dark gods threaten mankind, and long-term character development is rather futile, since most of the characters die or go insane. Cthulhu is a major character in this universe.

A British sourcepack called "Green and Pleasant Land" was released in 1987.

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