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Genre Police: Expectation Traps

May 18, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I recently had a really interesting conversation about how we differ in designing a session of a game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, genre police, rpg tips

From Baldur’s Gate to the Big Apple: Samantha Beart talks The Twenty-Sided Tavern

April 24, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The interactive Dungeons & Dragons-inspired stage show, The Twenty-Sided Tavern, currently captivating audiences in New York City, recently welcomed a very special guest adventurer.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Keith D Edinburgh

April 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can find Keith on DriveThruRPG and via his website. As usual, I’ve put the social links at the bottom of the post.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, drivethrurpg, steampunk

Genre Police: Love The One You’re With?

January 3, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I was totally blindsided. I’d talked about Mage and advocated for it as a game but never pitched anything specific, compared to sitting in my kitchen as people left for a game and talking about finally running an in-person Cthulhu game. What was I to do?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk: edgerunners, genre police, rpg tips

Corsairs of Cthulhu bundle: Historical horror RPG adventures

October 30, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a new bundle deal from New Comet, which provides new rules for alchemy and voodoo, reflecting the era’s beliefs and practices.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Call of Cthulhu

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #280

October 26, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native interviews the Torchbearer RPG comic book team. Zweihander finds a new owner. Wizards of the Coast undergoes staffing changes. The Discworld TTRPG Kickstarter surpasses £1.3 million and adjusts pledge levels.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, routinely itemised

Nightmares, not dreams, come true as Call of Cthulhu launch a bundle for Halloween

October 15, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The bundle includes the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set, the Investigator Handbook with expanded character creation rules, and the Keeper Rulebook for managing gameplay.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, humble, lovecraft

Genre Police: The Adventure Continues

June 3, 2024 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

So let’s examine some of the ways we can process an adventure and prep it for a specific group.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, feng shui, genre police, Harlem Unbound

Genre Police: The Adventure Begins

May 30, 2024 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Since I went full professional as a GM in 2020, not including any planning time, I’ve been at actual tables running games with players for a rough total of 2,544 hours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, genre police, planescape, the children of fear

The Sassoon Files 2e: Three-fold funding for Call of Cthulhu in Shanghai

May 16, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Political tension simmers as the Communists and Nationalists engage in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, kickstarters

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