They’re still making and releasing expansions for the card game, with a schedule extending into at least the near future.ĬHILL (1984 role-playing game, 1985 board game) There’s also a LARP version of the game called Cthulhu Live and countless variations on the original tabletop game.ĪRKHAM HORROR (1987 board game, 2016 card game)Ĭhaosium adapted their own Call of Cthulhu RPG into an obtuse board game and a much more accessible card game nearly 30 years apart. Later this year, Cyanide Games (Blood Bowl) will release video game adaptations of both CoC and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. As they lose sanity, rolls get harder, and successes continue to erode their sanity. When players roll to notice clues and secrets, they also must risk their sanity points. One underpinning of Lovecraftian horror is that the weight and size of the universe and its secrets will make anyone lose their minds. The One Shot podcast has done two great versions of the game that highlight its flexibility: Scooby Doo: Pooch on the Doorstep, where the players are Fred, Velma, and friends and Pulp Cthulhu, where they play Indiana Jones, Voldemort, Doctor Who, and other genre heroes. In CoC, players are everyday folks in a darkly Xeroxed real world. CoC is in its seventh edition, but Horvath explains each has tweaked and improved on the one before, rather than the wholesale reinventions D&D players are used to. Stu Horvath and John McGuire talked about the game in the second episode of their new Vintage RPG podcast. Just seven years after the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons, Chaosium released Call of Cthulhu, an expansive tabletop RPG tapping directly into Lovecraft’s mythology. If you love his stories, and more importantly the influence his stories have had, I’d like to share a lot of other stories, ideas, events, legends, movies, and more that have some of the same themes: paranormal investigation, loss of sanity, cults and other insular groups, unfathomably big ideas, faraway and isolated places, monsters beneath the world or behind the door, and the horrifying passage of time. Characters lose their minds because of the overwhelming amount of information they try to absorb about his canon version of the world. He mixed supernatural events with deep, troubling existential questions of the scale of time and space itself. Lovecraft is undeniably one of the most profound influences on everything we think of as horror today. We’ve made enough Xeroxes of Lovecraft that we can put the original in the bin.
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