Green Ronin Publishing brings cosmic horror across a century of conspiracy and dread to the digital tabletop with the all-new Cthulhu Awakens Bundle on Bundle of Holding. Powered by the Adventure Game Engine (AGE), this standalone tabletop roleplaying game tracks eldritch intervention from the 1920s to the modern day, casting players as investigators cutting through historical cover-ups, alien meddling, and occult corruption.
The collection gathers core rules, campaign supplements, and GM tools into a two-tier offer running across October. Whether you’re running Cold War espionage or adapting cosmic entities into Fantasy AGE campaigns, this DRM-free digital package delivers the complete game line at a fraction of the retail price.
Awakening Starter – $12.95
The entry tier costs $12.95 and includes $53 worth of core material to begin playing immediately:
- Cthulhu Awakens Core Rulebook (incorporates the Game Master’s Kit, charts, and the 28-page Unexpurgated Texts booklet)
- Cthulhu Awakens: Revelations of the Bacchae (actual play scenario notes and pre-generated characters)
- Cthulhu Awakens Quickstart: The God in the Tree
Awakened Bonus Collection – Threshold ($21.37)
Paying more than the weighted threshold price of $21.37 unlocks six additional supplements, bringing the total retail value to $121:
- Cthulhu Awakens: Cults of the Mythos (23 organisations across history and modern society)
- Cthulhu Awakens: Brinkmanship (1965 Cold War intelligence scenario set in Turkey)
- Dreadcrawls Issue 0: Strange Places (tables and location generators)
- Dreadcrawls Issue 1: Threatening Scenarios (investigation outline frameworks)
- Dreadcrawls Issue 2: Events Under Sinister Stars (event generation and escalation tools)
- Fantasy AGE Cthulhu Mythos (conversion rules, ancestries, and magic for Fantasy AGE Second Edition)
Green Ronin runs Cthulhu Awakens on its established 3d6 Adventure Game Engine, familiar to players of Modern AGE, The Expanse, and Blue Rose. Task resolution requires rolling three six-sided dice, with one distinctively coloured Stunt Die. Matching numbers generate stunt points equal to the face of that odd die, giving players instant tactical resources to spend on extra actions, defensive shifts, or acute observations during tense encounters.
The game departs from traditional Mythos mechanics by eliminating mental illness and sanity meters, replacing them with a system called Alienation. Characters manage two critical Bonds: Terror and Enlightenment. Exposure to cosmic truths grants usable insights through Enlightenment, while external forces leverage Terror against characters, ultimately forcing Distortions when the boundary of human comprehension breaks.
Setting the action across the “Weird Century” bridges historical eras from the interwar period straight through the digital age. Rather than presenting the Mythos as an unavoidable slide into madness, Cthulhu Awakens frames cosmic entities as exploitative forces co-opted by human hierarchies, corporations, and political cults, giving investigators clear stakes and actionable agency against the dark.
This bundle closes at midnight International Date Line time (UTC -12) on Monday, 26 October. All digital downloads in the bundle are DRM-free and sync directly with your DriveThruRPG library.
Quick Links
- Bundle of Holding: Cthulhu Awakens
