Free to Download: Crawling Chaos, a Lovecraftian modern horror

There’s no shortage of free Elemental RPGs and you can get them all from Gildor Games. While there’s a Complete Guide to the system, the Discovery Guide is entirely free.

There’s a similar approach to Crawling Chaos which you can get for free. The 28-page, a Pay What You Want, is a Lovecraftian-style horror in the present day.

In Crawling Chaos, some university students stumble into a body and are hunted by an evil that seems to know their deepest desires. The survivors might run, hide and uncover the school’s secret and occult past.

There’s also a 72-page Crawling Chaos Expanded edition.

Crawling Chaos is a modern Lovecraftian horror in which intrepid citizens lead secret lives investigating the many forms of Nyarlathotep and their human puppets. The book puts a distinctly contemporary spin on Lovecraftian horror, both in content and presentation:

A diverse and relatable set of characters.
A modern, familiar setting: the horror that hits close to home, inspired by contemporary fears.
A focus on unique monsters and antagonists, not just the familiar tentacled menaces of old.
Nyarlathotep is unique in Lovecraft’s pantheon, manifesting not as an alien entity beyond our understanding but as a more human and personal manipulator of our desires and fears.
Rather than presenting a scripted campaign, the book gives you an initial scenario and tools to help you build your own campaign around it.
Jam-packed with ideas and inspiration on every page, with dozens of locations, NPCs, nefarious schemes, adventure seeds, horrific moments, nightmarish monstrosities and more.
Tools for players to create exciting characters and for the GM to build scenarios using the people and places the PCs care about. The PCs are not globe-trotting adventurers looking for danger in faraway lands in this campaign. Here, the threat is close to home, and sometimes it finds them.
The campaign-building tools are system-agnostic, so they are equally helpful with any game system.