![]() ![]() One of the hallmarks of the CoC game is the secondary attribute Sanity. the character pulls out a gun and shoots at the NPC) then it is a straight percentage roll against that skill. a character struggling to wrench a knife away from an NPC) they roll against a resistance table. If the character is using one of his attributes against a target's attribute (e.g. To determine if a character successfully completes an action is also simple. That is pretty much it and the entire process is succinctly explained on two pages! Skills are percentage based with each one percent costing one point. Next the player chooses an occupation and determines how many points are to be spent on skills. Secondary attributes - Sanity, Idea Roll, Luck Roll, Know Roll, Hit Points and Magic Points - are derived from the main attributes. Random dice rolls determine the main attributes - Strength, Constitution, Power, Dexterity, Appearance, Size, Intelligence and Education. There are four scenarios following the reference material and then comes world information that includes charts describing tragic, revolutionary and bizarre events in a timeline.Ĭharacter generation is quite simple. Following that is the reference material including descriptions of arcane tomes, monsters and spells. First comes character creation and then the system rules. The book is laid out in a logical manner. Now who is going to argue the writing talent of the man who brought this stuff to the public in the first place? Chaosium decided to go straight to the source and used Lovecraft's "Call of Cthulhu" as the flavor fiction. Sadly, more often than not, the flavor fiction can be pretty bad. Flavor fiction is a popular manner for publishers to deliver the desired atmosphere to the reader. ![]() The presentation of material is also wonderful. On the downside I found the font to be a bit small which caused some eyestrain. Inside the artwork does a good job at conveying the bizarre world that Lovecraft tried to describe. The hardcover feels rock solid and the cover is eye catching. The latest edition, v.5.6, is a testimony to the strength of the game system, the richness of the campaign world and the devotion that Chaosium brings to the game. Since that time CoC has gone on to become one of the most popular games of all times and in 1996, was chosen for the Origins Hall of Fame. ![]() brought Lovecraft's work to the RPG world with their Call of Cthulhu (CoC) game. Roughly 20 years ago the fine folks at Chaosium Inc. Those creatures are temporarily gone and lone individuals seek out the truth of their existence and usually pay a terrible price. His best known work, the Cthulhu Mythos, describes an Earth formerly populated by hideous, demon like entities that enslaved all that walked on its surface. In a relatively short life span (1890-1937), Howard Philips Lovecraft managed to create some of the finest examples of horror writing. ![]()
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