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Rich is an incredibly underrated adventure designer. Forge of Fury is one of the best D&D adventures ever, and Phandelver probably has...

Regarding the general health of TTRPGs, some rough numbers. I don't have the exact numbers on this PC, so take this as directional. Gen...

Head Cultist: And thus, we call upon thee, the Crawling Chaos, oh Wearer of a Thousand Masks, our Dark Wanderer. Exalted Black Pharaoh...

It depends on how this goes sales-wise and what Chaosium wants to do with CoC, but I'm definitely open to expanding on this.

I suspect this is also going to be very popular with a lot of tabaxi players.

Thanks! I was planning on using a mechanic like this in Odyssey, so that project gave me a chance to surface some concepts and get...

Thanks. Pretty much what Odyssey will do, I assume. It's a good design.

It's a polymorph effect that you gain at 3rd level. You can still cast warlock pact spells while in the form. At higher levels, you can...

I intentionally avoided looking at it. My understanding is that Sandy has the copyright to it, so I wanted to make sure we didn't...

Skill challenges have two main pieces: There's the basics of a list of possible skills and DCs, with room for player improv. Each...

In terms of digital only, when I joined Chaosium I had pitched a CoC/D&D crossover book. The biggest risk was that it would be confusing...

I hope so! Otherwise, someone went to a LOT of effort to prank me...

2024 formatting, but the mechanics are all found in 2014. Monsters work in either version.

The book is designed with the idea that you want to add the mythos to an existing or new campaign. It assumes that the PCs are 5e-level...

I kind of dig the picture of Karaoke Cthulhu.