Normal humans are weak in comparison to eldritch beings. Reminder that this is not D&D (or similar TTRPGs) They aren’t a must-read to play this game, but do help quite a lot to teach you the ways to guide the protagonist (in this case your players) through a scenario for them to investigate and by doing so, getting to know weird eldrich findings will twist their minds to insanity. The stories to play and theme of the game are based in the books from H.P. The tasks for your character to accomplish can be surpassed by scoring less in the d100 than your score in a specific skill. These players may lose their character by having their hit points or Sanity reduced to 0, the latter making your character become so crazy you lose control over it. Note that an Investigator isn’t always a Detective, but can be whatever it wants, from a Doctor to an actual hobo.Įvery Investigator has a character sheet that shows (like in many other TTRPGs) your character’s statistics, from Strength to Power and Sanity. One of the players takes the role of the Keeper (the equivalent to a DM from D&D), while the rest play as different “ Investigators“. A brief idea on what Call of Cthulhu actually isĬall of Cthulhu is a thriller/horror tabletop role-playing game you can play by having a few papers and d100s. I only played Call of Cthulhu and fell in love with it due to the reasons I am about to tell, and am willing to play the other ones in the future. Trails of Cthulhu) and editions of the game (the one I played was the 7th).
Important: I know there are lots of variants (e.g. So, what is this article about if I am not going to be reviewing Call of Cthulhu, nor fully explain it? I want to tell you what I did and prepared, and why you should try it out, even if neither you nor your players have even heard about it before. The complication was that we only had time to play a one-shot as we were going to keep on playing D&D the week after, and none of us knew the rules. Being the mind flayers my favorite D&D monsters it felt like an obvious choice. When 3 of my players couldn’t attend our weekly D&D 5e game I decided to try out an RPG I have heard a lot about but had never had an opportunity to try out. Oh, man! What a great experience I had playing Call of Cthulhu!
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