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Revision as of 09:53, 31 July 2021
- 🔀 For the short story, see The Call of Cthulhu; for the 2005 film, see The Call of Cthulhu (film).
Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. The game, often abbreviated as CoC, is published by Chaosium. The game was first released in 1981, and eighteen editions (mostly fairly minor revisions) have been published to date. The game makes use of Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing (BRP) system, first seen in the game RuneQuest, but with special rules for Sanity. It is notable among roleplaying games for its longevity and also for remaining largely unchanged for most of its history, with only the most recent seventh edition making significant changes to the rules.
Setting
The game takes place in the world of the Cthulhu Mythos, by default in 1920s Lovecraft Country. Popular supplements led to later editions also including the option to play in 1890s England (introduced in Cthulhu by Gaslight), and the modern day (originally the 1980s, introduced in Cthulhu Now). Other supplements, published by Chaosium and others, support other settings, including World War II (Achtung! Cthulhu, also for Trail of Cthulhu), 11th century Europe (Cthulhu Dark Ages), Ancient Rome (Cthulhu Invictus) and the 23rd century (Cthulhu Rising).
Characters
This is a list species and deities covered in the main rulebooks.
Rulebook
The Creature Companion
The Complete Dreamlands
HP Lovecraft's Dreamlands
Malleus Monstrorum
- Main article: Malleus Monstrorum
Supplements (incomplete list)
- 1920s Investigator's Companion
- Alone Against the Dark (2018)
- Alone Against the Flames (2016)
- Alone Against the Frost (2019)
- Alone Against the Tide (2020)
- Alone Against the Wendigo(1985, 2019)
- Arkham Now (2010)
- The Asylum & Other Tales (1983)
- Atomic-Age Cthulhu (2013)
- Avalon: The County of Somerset (2010)
- The Ballad of Bass Rock (2012)
- The Children of Fear
- Cold Harvest (2014)
- The Cruel Empire of Tsan Chan (2010)
- Cthulhu Britannica (2009)
- Cthulhu by Gaslight (1986, 1989)
- Cthulhu Casebook (1990)
- Cthulhu Classics (1989)
- Cthulhu Companion (1983)
- Cthulhu Dark Ages (2003)
- Cthulhu Dark Ages: The Abbey (2004)
- Cthulhu Invictus (2009)
- The Cthulhu Invictus Companion (2011)
- Cthulhu Rising (2008)
- Curse of the Chthonians (1984)
- Dead Light & Other Dark Turns (2020)
- Dead Light (2013)
- Devilarium: The Mythos Merchant
- Dispersing Vibrato
- Doors to Darkness (2016)
- End Time (2001)
- Extrico Tabula (2008)
- Folklore (2013)
- The Gaslight Equipment Catalogue (2007)
- Gateways to Terror (2020)
- Great Old Ones (1989)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Dunwich (2002)
- In the Shadows (1995)
- New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley
- Nightmare in Norway (1985)
- Once Men
- Pax Cthuliana (2017)
- Ravenstone Sanitarium (2008)
- S. Petersen's Field Guide to Cthulhu Monsters (1988)
- S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors (2015)
- The Sassoon Files
- Secrets of Japan (2005)
- Shadows of Yog-Sothoth (1982)
- Shadows Over Scotland (2011)
- Sinkhole
- Verboten! Operation: FAUST (2002)
See also
- Achtung! Cthulhu' - A Mythos-based RPG which is set during World War II.
- CthulhuTech - A Mythos-based RPG set in the late 21st century, in which humans use advanced technology to fight off Mythos-based threats.
- Trail of Cthulhu - A later Mythos-based RPG which uses the GUMSHOE system, focussing on investigation and interpreting clues.
- Delta Green - An alternate contemporary setting based on the Mythos, originally set in the 1990s but later updated.
- Cthulhu Live - A live-action Mythos-based RPG.
- Call of Cthulhu - A video game adaptation of the original RPG.