As I've mentioned elsewhere, in the past couple of years I have played two Call of Cthulhu scenarios with my family. The first game, The Haunting, did not go as well as I wanted. The second game, the Peru...

In Part 2 I looked at some of the big name mythos roleplaying games out there and briefly discussed a few reasons I'm not just playing them. Of course, those are not the only mythos RPGs available - it's...

Choosing a System - Part 2 This series of posts discusses some of the existing games set in the Cthulhu Mythos that are currently popular and why I'm not just playing one of these games. In Part 1, I looked at...

Choosing a System - Part 1 This series of posts is going to discuss some of the existing games set in the Cthulhu Mythos that are currently popular and why I'm not just playing one of these games. To be...

I've been working on a system to play mythos scenarios that incorporates elements from other tabletop games. It's inspired by Call of Cthulhu (CoC) and Trail of Cthulhu (ToC) - plus a couple of other RPGs - as well as board games...

Here's a write-up of our session playing a conversion of the Peru Prologue to Masks of Nyarlathotep. This served as the first real test-run of the game, and it went really well. The overall gameplay was essentially that of a...

Before I start posting details about my mythos gaming project, I'm just going to post a quick list of the various games and products that are serving as inspiration and sources for the game: Call of Cthulhu (all editions) ...

Development of Proteus and its related projects (Project Alpha, Sector F6, and the Ortellum setting) has been put on hold indefinitely. There are two main reason of this, both rooted in the challenges of developing a completely new setting based...