Call of Cthulhu Reviewed at d20Gurus.com

[d20Gurus.com]

We got our copy of this amazing game in about one week ago, and now the review is online for those who wish to see exactly how deep the rabbit hole of madness goes....

http://www.d20gurus.com/reviews/046.shtml

Seeing as how there isn't a review up for this product yet, I tried my best to make it as complete as possible for you. Hope you like it.

Kelly Kamm
www.d20gurus.com
Chief Editor, Webmaster

 

[DarkCrisis]

From your review:
Also, of note to the parents who are considering buying this product for their young gamer: If the concept of a large fleshy being which constantly grows and spawns vaginal orifices and genetalia which attempt to molest nearby victims seems a bit too vivid for your child's fragile mind, then by no means buy this book. Just offering a fair warning.


----- I must have missed this section in the CoC book somewhere..... you sure you haven't been watching a bit to much Hentai anime?

 

[d20Gurus.com]

Pg 298, 1st column:

"The most common form to those who worship Shub Niggurath is a collosal dark organic mass that is so bioactive that it festers and boils on its surface. The masses form is not fixed: It extrudes tentacles, testicles, and hooved limbs as it opens mouths, eyes, and vaginal orifices in endless procession...........sometimes its genetalia attempt to penetrate or impregnate willing cultists."


It's all there.

 

[Gargoyle]

It's definitely a game for adults, although mature teenagers would be ok with it, IMO.

The only thing that made me do a double take was the amount of space devoted to firearms. For a game where guns are seldom the solution, they sure got a lot of space and detail. The expanded firearms rules are optional, but still, I wonder if the space would have been better devoted to roleplaying advice, or more creatures and spells.

Overall I like the book a lot.

 

[d20Gurus.com]

They DO focus quite a bit on firearms, offering guns and pricing for both the 20's and the modern era... and guns do not play such an important role in a Lovecraftian-style Cthulhu game. However, as this product is the first official d20 product from wizards which places its feet firmly in the modern setting, I can understand why they decided to do this.

When Alternity first hit the shelf, they gave stats for weapons and armor from every era of time, even though the only written setting was far future space opera stuff. I never played Star*Drive: I used Alternity to craft a very deep modern-day game, and I was thankful that they offered me the depth to use the rules for what I wanted.

I see alot of people using this book to fill the gap between now and when d20 Modern actually hits the shelf. I also see people using this book (unfortunately) as one big frag fest to kill the demons. In both lights, an expanded weapons list is welcome.

But yes, I agree with you, this is a remarkable product.

 

[PenguinKing]

One question: does the book include a broad cross-section of the Mythos, including those entites which are indifferent or friendly towards humanity (f'rex, some of the Elder Gods), or does it concentrate solely on the Blargle-I'm-Evil-I-Eat-Humanity guys?

- Sir Bob.

P.S. Nih!

 

[d20Gurus.com]

There is a healthy cross-section of the Old ones and Elder Gods present, ranging from Neutral to "Oh my god that is evil".

Very few Good-aligned things are present in that book at all, but then again, very little (if any) of Lovecraft's mythos is really all that "good". Any which have helped humanity have been largly because humanity and it had a common enemy or target, not that it felt any compassion for the human condition.

PS: Icki-Icki Pang Zwimo mumblemumble.

 

[hong]

The only thing that made me do a double take was the amount of space devoted to firearms. For a game where guns are seldom the solution, they sure got a lot of space and detail. The expanded firearms rules are optional, but still, I wonder if the space would have been better devoted to roleplaying advice, or more creatures and spells.

Pish tosh. You can never have too many guns.


Hong "twitch and shout" Ooi

 

[Wolfspider]

The only thing that made me do a double take was the amount of space devoted to firearms. For a game where guns are seldom the solution, they sure got a lot of space and detail. The expanded firearms rules are optional, but still, I wonder if the space would have been better devoted to roleplaying advice, or more creatures and spells.

Well, considering that the game could be run in a Delta Green type setting (which is what I plan to do), statistics for a number of firearms sounds like a really good thing to have.

 

[PenguinKing]

Very few Good-aligned things are present in that book at all, but then again, very little (if any) of Lovecraft's mythos is really all that "good". Any which have helped humanity have been largly because humanity and it had a common enemy or target, not that it felt any compassion for the human condition.

True, but I've read nearly all of Lovecraft's own work (including the stuff he collaborated on and/or ghost-wrote for other authors), and I can think of at least one Elder God that has saved a human's ass apparently for the sheer hell of it on occasion.

Granted, it was mostly an "I'm weighing in on the side of humanity only because the alternative is the thing with penis-tentacles, and that's just distasteful" thing, but it counts.

- Sir Bob.

P.S. Nih!