Cthulhu Britannica

Bien, nueva entrada dedicada a rol, nueva entrada dedicada a la Llamada de Cthulhu. Y como la ultima entrada, la dedicamos a otra linea de suplementos (si, otra mas) creada por la editorial Cubicle 7, que esta vez nos situa en las encantadoras y brumosas Islas Britanicas.

Y es que tal vez resulte cansino y repetitivo el estar siempre en los locos años 20 viajando por las polvorientas carreteras de los Estados Unidos de un lado para otro, o estar dando la vuelta al mundo, viajando a exoticos destinos para tener una breve (y muchas veces mortal) aventura relacionada con los Mitos. Tal vez es por eso que con esta linea, la editorial britanica quiera ofrecer unos suplementos mas patrios (tal como sucedio en España con nuestra Piel de Toro) para el famoso juego. Por eso encontramos en estos libros varios modulos, e informacion diversa de varios lugares de las islas britanicas, asi como del folklore tipico de la zona...
Asi es como nos sumergimos en varias historias llenas del famoso encanto britanico, que tan bien nos vende la BBC, y disfrutamos de nuestros paseos por las calles de Londres, la ciudad mas populosa de la epoca, o viajar por sus zonas rurales, disfrutando de esos bucolicos paisajes, sus preciosos pueblos, y su encantadora gente, todo esto bien aderezado con cosillas de los Mitos. Y es que esta mezcla unica de historia, tradiciones y mitos no la podemos encontrar en las colonias.

Cthulhu Britannica This new collection of horror scenarios for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game features five tales of horror and the weird, set within the green and pleasant land of England. Each scenario focuses upon a different time period, from the streets of Victorian London to the far future when End is almost nigh. Bad Company concerns a missing son of a peer of the realm. The investigators must watch their step as they descend into a Victorian world of greed, insane desire and death. Darkness, Descending takes place the 1930s amongst the splendid greenery of the English countryside. Archaeologists come to unearth relics from Britain's dawn find themselves at the centre of strange goings on. A simple case of theft? Or the foreshadowing of something far darker to come? Wrong Turn is a contemporary tale set in a long abandoned radio telescope installation. A television production crew must spend the night amidst the cobwebs and dust. The investigators would be advised to tread carefully lest they wake the ghosts of the past, present and future. King takes place in the near future at a private hospital. The investigators awake from surgery to realise that in the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king. Set during the end of days in an insane future is My Little Sister Will Make You Suffer! In a galaxy gone mad, where cruelty and entertainment go hand in hand, the investigators must run the gauntlet if they are not to meet their end. Although each scenario can be played as part of an existing campaign, they also come with a set of pre-generated player characters, allowing all to be played and run with the minimum of effort.

Cthulhu Britannica Avalon: The Somerset Sourcebook The county of Somerset lies in the English West Country, a green and pleasant land steeped in millennia of history, folklore, and superstition, often overlooked as a rural backwater good for nothing but strong cider and tall tales. Yet something powerful and ancient is stirring in the county’s hills and valleys, and mysterious lights flicker by night on the slopes of Glastonbury Tor, rising like a beacon from the marshes of the Somerset Levels. Old even before the heavy tread of Roman sandals pushed back the darkness, strange blood has flowed through the families of Somerset since the thawing of the last ice sheets. Legend even says King Arthur is buried here, sleeping on the lost isle of Avalon, to rise again in the hour of the land’s greatest need. But what else lies out there, across – or beneath – those lonely desolate waters? Avalon: the Somerset Sourcebook for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu details the mysterious West Country of 1920’s England, containing: a history of Somerset; a detailed and mystery-filled gazetteer; extensive notes on local legends and folklore; new books of lore and local personalities; and four complete adventures.

Cthulhu Britannica Shadows Over Scotland Mysterious, wild and beautiful, Scotland in the 1920s is home to horrors modern and ancient, man-made and star-born. From the rolling pastoral Lowlands to the snow-capped peaks of the Highlands and the seaweed-choked Western Isles, creatures and cultures have taken root in Scotland whose maddening, corrupting influence can be felt far and wide. Fiendish things haunt the hive-like alleys and wynds of old Edinburgh, while Glasgow’s streets whisper with rumours of dark terrors in the shipyard shadows on the snaking, poisonous Clyde. And in the isles, murmurs on fishing boats and ferries speak of far older things, of sites of power and standing stones, awakenings and stirrings in forgotten places. Something terrifying lurks in the night, casting dark shadows over Scotland. Shadows over Scotland is a massive new hardback sourcebook for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game covering Scotland in the 1920s. It features: three comprehensive sections detailing the Lowlands, Highlands and Islands individual sections on history, folklore, language and life in 1920s Scotland a complete mythos timeline detailed coverage of nine cities and their various inhabitants six sinister adventures complete with extensive handouts

Cthulhu Britannica Folklore Behind the modern façade of Britain in the 1920s is a country teeming with links to the supernatural. British folklore harkens back to days of old when early cultures lived alongside strange folk and stranger creatures, when druids and shamans made sacrifices to pantheons of gods both powerful and terrible, and when people celebrated myth and legend in song, art, and oral tradition at the very heart of their civilizations. And those deep roots that so colourfully tell of fantastical creatures, miraculous events, and wondrous deeds also hint and grasp blindly at darker truths. The truth is that folklore can take us behind the veil of reality to glimpse the terrible, alien truths of the universe beyond, capturing vague notions of evil, malevolent beings, their horrible deeds, and the primal fears that they inspire and that have been preserved in Britain’s cultural memory. Cthulhu Britanica: Folklore presents a uniquely British vision of Lovecraftian horror where fairies, witches, and folk traditions intertwine with the dreadful, eldritch powers and otherworldly terrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. The book features: A folklore bestiary, including fairy folk, shape-shifters, giants, little folk, black dogs, dragons, water horses, bodily horrors, and much more A folklore calendar and a new 1920s profession—the folklorist—for players Detailed sections on using folklore and folk magic for Call of Cthulhu Keepers And nine Folklore Mythos threats that can introduced into any scenario or campaign, or used as single-session scenarios

Cthulhu Britannica The Ballad of Bass Rock When a leisure cruise out to Bass Rock goes awry and a summer thunderstorm traps the investigators on the barren island with only a ruined castle and a run-down lighthouse as shelter, things can’t seem to get much worse. But as the storm rages on into the black night, they discover just how wrong they are. The Ballad of Bass Rock is a 1920s Cthulhu Britannica scenario for Call of Cthulhu, written by Stuart Boon, ENnie and Origins award-winning author of Shadows over Scotland.

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