Games company expelled from Origins, another up for sale at an eyewatering price, and so many tempting new games. A busy week of RPG news!
Call of Cthulhu grows again as Roll20 re-designs its market share report
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the 2021 Q2 Roll20 report is the re-design. D&D is still the most popular game played.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #118
A newly announced D&D event, new directors at GAMA, controversy and a whole tonne of new RPGs.
Call of Cthulhu gets a 40th Anniversary Special and limited edition Keeper Rulebook
A thing of dark desire; the limited edition Keeper Rulebook to celebrate 40 years of Call of Cthulhu is a leatherette tome with jacket.
How Ain’t Slayed Nobody used the Malleus Monstrorum
The Malleus Monstrorum is an impressively large collection of mythos lore from Call of Cthulhu’s Chaosium. Impressive means mind and wallet warping, but podcast How Ain’t Slayed Nobody found it indispensable.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116
As it’s Friday, it means RPG news in summary form. Routinely Itemised doesn’t just summarise Geek Native’s own content.
Free to Download: New Call of Cthulhu character sheets for the RPG’s 40th birthday
The publisher has released a set of new character sheets, available in aged colour and black and white, which have auto-calculate functionality.
Chaosium secures control of Cthulhu Britannica and World War Cthulhu
Chaosium has announced they’ve acquired Cthulhu Britannica and World War Cthulhu from Cubicle 7.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #112
Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and there’s lots of big news with Avatar Legends breaking records and WizKids, backed by D&D, taking on Games Workshop.
Free to Download: At One With Nature a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror
Graham James suggests the game suits two to three players and the Keeper. I think it’s much better with two players. These two characters are ideally newlywed and taking a honeymoon to 1920s Scotland.
