Call of Cthulhu d20 out of print?

[VorpalBunny]

I just hope that a) it's a good product, and 2) they don't let it linger and die like they did CoCd20.

It is. And there's a bunch of stuff listed on their site as being in the works for CDA - I guess they learned their lesson from CoCd20...

 

[buzz]

It is. And there's a bunch of stuff listed on their site as being in the works for CDA - I guess they learned their lesson from CoCd20...

One hopes said products will actually be published.

 

[Ranger REG]

Sigh. Why wouldn't you base a whole line off that book? I don't get Chaosium sometimes.

Well, I have one speculation mentioned above, but your guess is as good as mine. Perhaps they lack confidence in doing d20. Their Dragonlords of Melnibone line isn't exactly a hit.

 

[Krieg]

Actually, CDA *is* a reprint. The game was orignally published, in the original German, by Pegasus Games in 2002 as Cthulhu 1000AD. Not that printing and english version isn't a great idea, mind you. I just hope that a) it's a good product, and 2) they don't let it linger and die like they did CoCd20.

Only partially. The original German product was not a standalone product, it was essentially a setting book and you had to have the CoC Core book to run it. CDA includes the character generation & other rules necessary to play the game.

 

[teitan]

CoCD20 is one of my favorite games personally, but I would LOVE to run with BRP now that I am out of my D20 only phase. Kind of sick of it! LOL

Mmmmm Delta Green

Would love a D20 Golden Dawn or hell, a reprint of Golden Dawn... even a D20 Nephilim would rock.

Jason

 

[Desdichado]

Well, I have one speculation mentioned above, but your guess is as good as mine. Perhaps they lack confidence in doing d20. Their Dragonlords of Melnibone line isn't exactly a hit.

From what I've heard, Dragonlords isn't very good either. d20 Call of Cthulhu on the other hand, is one of the best gamebooks I own.

 

[buzz]

d20 Call of Cthulhu on the other hand, is one of the best gamebooks I own.

Natch. Chaosium had nothing to do with it.

Honestly, if it weren't for outside authors (Cook, Tynes, Gesbert), I think Chaosium, given the choice, would be happy to just reprint existing titles 'till the stars winked out. I was tooling around their Web site yesterday, and I noticed that products with copyright dates later than 1997 are few and far between.

I love 'em, but if ever there was a company that needs to get bought by some gaming mogul with lots of cash and some business savvy, it's Chaosium. It's near the top of my list of things to do once I win the lottery.

 

[trilobite]

Natch. Chaosium had nothing to do with it.

Honestly, if it weren't for outside authors (Cook, Tynes, Gesbert), I think Chaosium, given the choice, would be happy to just reprint existing titles 'till the stars winked out. I was tooling around their Web site yesterday, and I noticed that products with copyright dates later than 1997 are few and far between.

I love 'em, but if ever there was a company that needs to get bought by some gaming mogul with lots of cash and some business savvy, it's Chaosium. It's near the top of my list of things to do once I win the lottery.

Wow, thats on my wish list too, after I WIN THE LOTTERY!

 

[trilobite]

BTW, last I heard Pagan has less people than Chaosium, and AFAIK, Chaosium has *four* full time employees. So it may be a little while longer for DGd20.

I doubt you could call them Full Time employees. I believe they have day jobs as well.

 

[barsoomcore]

I'm sensing a trend, here.

Okay, guys, (Huey, Duey and Luey huddle) here's the plan: one of us wins the lottery, or gets the big stock option payout, or ends up in charge of Elbonia, or whatever.

Said person immediately buys Chaosium, treats everyone there with respect and kindness, and then hires a bunch of keen ENWorlders (say, like US!) and turns out Melnibone-y and Cthulhu-y goodness lickety-split, with awesome production quality, awesomer writing (cause WE'LL be writing them, duh), generating massive sales and making the cover of The Financial Post a week later.

Deal? Sounds pretty straightforward to me.