One of the projects I'm working on right now is making props and handouts for my recently purchased copy of Chaosium's Horror on the Orient Express campaign for Call of Cthulhu. I started with a simple print out of the...

Building from my collection of mythos-related games and book, as well as my interest in integrating props into tabletop games, I’ve gradually developed a fondness for displaying my collection.  In some areas it’s modest, in other areas less so. ...

Finally finished my custom bound copy of The Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic! This isn't an exact match to Chaosium's printed cover, but let's call it heavily inspired by the official cover. This home bound copy includes a cover...

This post has been a long time coming... but it's going to have to wait just a little while longer. First, I want to briefly re-look at why I'm not using Call of Cthulhu or Trail of Cthulhu to...

One question that pops up from time to time is how to actually instill fear into horror games. There’s plenty of techniques for setting the atmosphere – especially for games like Call of Cthulhu (CoC) – but I recently...

This post is actually a more detailed response to a question on Reddit about prepping for a Call of Cthulhu scenario. Unfortunately, the comment limitations forced me to post an abbreviated response, so this is the more detailed...

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...

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...