The appraisal skill immediately comes to mind. Thankfully much of this has been cleaned up although, amazingly enough, new skills have appeared which seem relatively useless or probably extremely rare to come into play. Great examples of this strangeness were the separate skills for punching and kicking it was possible to have a character that even Chuck Norris would fear receiving a roundhouse from but who couldn’t punch their way out of a paper bag. Over the years Call of Cthulhu rightfully gained a reputation of having a lot of skills which seemingly overlapped or even very nearly conflicted with each other. Skills have gone through a bit of an overhaul as well. Newly added to CofC is a system to generate interesting backgrounds for the character, although many times the results are random and oddly disconnected. Adjustments to how skill points are generated are present too to help prevent the starting characters from maxing points simply by having high Education and/or playing with an alter ego who’s approaching late middle age. The reason for this is twofold to make nearly everything in CofC based on percentile dice rolls and to allow the nearly universally vilified Resistance Table go the way of the dodo. The attributes are percentile values so you’ll now see things like STR 65, INT 80, and CON 55. Although generating the values (3-18) of the core attributes is essentially unchanged, how they’re utilized in the game has changed. There are quite a few changes in the mechanics of the latest incarnation of CofC and I’ll touch of what I feel most affect gameplay.Ĭharacter generation and core character attributes has been revamped. At least we aren’t forced to dig through the Keeper’s book, as in the past, due to slap dash insertion of rule sections and new additions in what at times seemed almost at random. This might come as a backhanded compliment since it’s still far from perfect.
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Thankfully in the seventh edition Chaosium has gone the way of full color artwork throughout.įinally, this is no doubt the best indexed and presented of the editions so far. readers were treated to loads of amazing full color illustrations while those here in the States only saw black and white, and sometimes rather lackluster, art. Second, for years English language editions have taken a real backseat art-wise to some of the amazing looking Spanish and Italian language books. It actually hasn’t but the folks at Chaosium seem to want you to think it has. First, the core system is being presented as having been broken down into two books rather than a single volume. Most readers are going to be interested in the changes the new edition brings to the table and there are some which immediately meet the eye. You can always check out this classic gaming piece about the system to learn more but we’re here to look at the 7 th edition of the rules so it’s time to get down to business. More often than not they’re ill prepared to deal with the sheer magnitude of what they face and it will take all of the players’ wits to defeat (or possibly simply block) their enemies. In Call of Cthulhu, players take on the roles of ordinary men and women who find themselves confronting the horrors of the mythos. Though you’d have to be amazingly cloistered away from geek culture to not have any familiarity with Lovecraft – and more so the mythos – since a lot in the horror genre these days shows his influence in ways both large and small.
Granted I’m giving you a rather generic overview of the mythos but I’d rather not take away any pleasure from those who’ll experience Lovecraft’s stories for the first time. Lovecraft, the setting is that of our very real world with fictional dark entities and the cultists who wish to bring these ancient and cosmic horrors to power. So after a far too long wait, I was eager to get my hands on the latest edition of CofC.įor anyone unfamiliar with the game, or the writings of H.P. CofC (as we’ve always liked to abbreviate the title) has been a long time favorite RPG of mine as I spent nearly two decades running adventures using the system.
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Retail Price: Keeper’s Rulebook hardcover $54.95, $27.95 in PDF Investigator’s Guide hardcover $44.95, $22.95 for the PDF at DriveThruRPGįrequent visitors to TGG know I’m a pretty big fan of Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu and a huge junkie when it comes to anything having to do with H.P. Pages: Keeper’s Rulebook 488 pages Investigator’s Guide 288 pages Genre: Horror roleplaying based on the works of H.P Lovecraft Game Name: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition (Keeper’s Rulebook and Investigator’s Guide)Īuthors: Sandy Petersen, Mike Mason, Paul Fricker, Lynn Willis, and Keith Herber
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