Gearing up for Cthulhu (Last step of Character Building)

All right Game Fans, it’s Halloween and we’re going to cover the last step of building an Investigator for Call of Cthulhu today.  The last thing we’re going to need for our Investigator is to gear up for the myriad of potential things you could bump into while investigating the Mythos. Bear in mind, you aren’t playing Oregon Trail, so you need to figure out exactly what your character has on hand, and what he or she can lay his or her grubby mitts on when the situation demands. Let’s take a closer look at equipping yourself in Call of Cthulhu.

Filling in the Background (Character Building advice for Call of Cthulhu)

All right Game Fans, we’re back to finish up our character building for Call of Cthulhu

We’ve Rolled our Attributes, generated our statistics, picked a profession, and assigned our skill points.  We’re coming in on the home stretch but we’re at one the most important parts of constructing a character, building the Backstory.  Let’s take a look at Building a Backstory, Call of Cthulhu style.  Call of Cthulhu gives you a lot of leeway for building a backstory, and they offer a variety of tables to help inspire you.  We’re going to use that narrative tool for building a backstory, to give you folks at home an idea of how the tables works.  

 

Building your Investigator, One Job at a time (Professional Help for Call of Cthulhu)

Hey Mythos Fans, we’re back for another article in our series on putting together an investigator for the Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game from Chaosium.If you’re curious, check out the first part of our series further back in our archives, just look over on the right side at the article list and find the ones on Call of Cthulhu.  Today we’re going to take a closer look at one of the more critical decisions that you get to make when you’re building a character.  What is your character’s occupation?  In some games this represents your character’s class, or primary job.  CoC takes this in a different direction, and looks at your character’s occupation as the penultimate piece of your background before you found your way into the Mythos.  What were you before the madness started to leak into the world?

Encounter Building Ideas (Part I)

In the same vein as our other articles on helping new Game masters figure out how to build their own worlds and settings, we’re going to be putting together a series of articles on how to put together your own encounters and how to link them together for building your own adventures and campaigns.  We’re going to start at the small scale, and building low level encounters for your party.  We prefer to express things in terminology for Dungeons and Dragons, but we try to remain system agnostic, this advice should help you build encounters for whatever game you’re planning to run.  

 

Creating an Investigator (Call of Cthulhu)

Hey Game Fans, today we’re going to take a closer look at building a character for the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition.  If you want to follow along, grab your copy of the Investigator’s Handbook, and I’ll try to give you page numbers to follow along with.  Sound Good?  Wonderful, let’s dive right into the atmospheric horror adventures of the Call of Cthulhu.

100th Post (Sweet Zombie Action, how did we get to 100 posts)

All right, I'm going to make this one a quick one, since it's our 100th before resuming our regularly scheduled slapstick and hilarity.  Since we're having a  massive sale this weekend, we'll be out of the office tomorrow packing tubs and boxes of books for sale. 
 

Call of Cthulhu: Investigator's Handbook (First Look)

The Call of Cthulhu Investigator’s Handbook is the player’s guide for the 7thedition of the Call of Cthulhu.  It’s an essential book for players of Call of Cthulhu, and contains everything that a player will need in order to dig into the Cthulhu Mythos, explore strange places, and discover things man was not meant to know.  Let’s take it from the top and work our way down through it. 

The Call of Cthulhu (First Look at Old Classic)

Chaosium Inc has recently released their 7th edition of their groundbreaking horror role-playing game the Call of Cthulhu.  Based on the shared horror universe of H.P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries, the Call of Cthulhu is a game of sinister cults, secrets man wasn’t meant to know, and the existence of entities so powerful and so dangerous that the idea of their existence drives mere mortals to madness.  It’s a dark and sinister world full of questions you shouldn’t ask to people you shouldn’t see.  Let’s take a closer look at the newest edition of Call of Cthulhu