Chinese Government Burns Cthulhu RPG Print Run

The Sassoon Files is a Call of Cthulhu sourcebook Kickstarted by Sons of the Singularity... and printed in China. This week, they reported that the Chinese government had ordered the destruction of their entire print run.

The Sassoon Files is a Cthulhu mythos campaign set in 1920s Shanghai.

They wrote to their backers on March 22nd -- "We have suffered an unfortunate and unexpected setback with the off-set print run. On March 20th, the Chinese government ordered the destruction of our books. Although the printer returned our deposit, we need to find another printer and this will result in a delay in fulfillment. We are committed to completing the print run and fulfillment."

[video=youtube;G9Urosc-JEY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Urosc-JEY[/video]​

 

[Hussar]

Wow. That's just mind boggling. Yeesh.

 

[LordNightwinter]

Take note out there you socialism/communism lovers. This is what happens when you give your freedom away or lose it and let the government have control.

 

[Billy Shatswell]

Communists don't have a monopoly on authoritarianism.

 

[Philature]

The same thing could happen in Russia despite the capitalists oligarchy in place there.

 

[MaskedGuy]

And socialism isn't same thing as communism And even then, socialism is wide range of different political beliefs, so assuming its synonym for communism is really insulting. Don't people in Internet know that democratic socialism is strongly opposed to stalinism and such?

 

[MGibster]

Looks like agents of Delta Green did something to contain books detailing hypergeometry from contaminating the United States.

But what a devastating blow to both backers and creators. But it's a good example of how China can influence the media we consume here in the U.S.

 

[Morrus]

Certainly makes me glad we went with a European printer.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Socialism/Communism... it is not too long ago when there were religious group advocating the same for similar books. They just did not have the power to enforce it. Some of them are still around.

 

[Ramaster]

Holy , WTF?

This even looks like an adventure seed for a Cthulhu game!