The perfect sourcebook for COC

[gregweller]

Well, it's actually not a book, and it could be used for other settings, but here's my nomination for one of the best sets of source material for COC--the complete National Geographic on cd-rom. All 195,000 pages, 185,000 photographs on 32 cds ...I have been waiting for years for this to come down in price, and today I picked up a copy at Best Buy for 29.99. It's even got all the old ads...what a great sourcebook for 20s and 30s settings--of course it covers everything from 1888 up to 2000 ...When I was a kid, my grandmother had boxes and boxes of the old geographics from the turn of the century, and those magazines fired my imagination like nothing else (and yes, there were those nudes ... ) ...

So, if you're looking for something to give you endless ideas of stuff for COC campaigns, this is it.

 

[Shapermc]

Seriously considering picking this up now that you have pointed this out. I cannot belive how cheap this is. Also I can use these images for much more than just CoC referance material

 

[LcKedovan]

Crud! No Best buy here in Germany . My Grandfather used to have tons of them when I was a kid, I loved that mag.

-W.

 

[kreynolds]

Damn. I have got to go pick this up. I used to love those as a kid. It's $30.00 online too. Sweet!

 

[Monster Zero]

Sounds like a great aid. I will have to buy it for my wife and kids for christmas. (lol and I guess I will get some use out of it too)

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

Damn... this does sound cool. I found it for sale on the site, too:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/cdrom/complete/index.html

That's for those of us who don't have Best Buy. The map CD also looks pretty cool- I've always liked giving out period maps to the players. Does anyone have the CD and can tell us whether or not there are a lot of maps included, or should we get both?

We used to have a party that used National Geographic as IC research material before going abroad to investigate. There were a few times we used the photographs as targets for the make gate spell, but we stopped when we goofed on casting and ended up walking out into the middle of the photo shoot- which had been three years earlier. At least we were able to clean up on the World Series.

 

[gregweller]

The Map collection is a set of 8 CDs with all the fold-out maps from 1888-2000. There's something like 535 of them. You can zoom them, select parts of the maps, cut and paste them into word documents, etc. They cover an awul lot of interesting thngs. For instance there's a world map from the turn of the century that shows all the under-ocean cabling--that would make a great resource for investigators looking for broken cable that Cthulhu's minions have been chewing on. They print out really nicely as well. I don't think that there are any of the in-text maps from the magazines, so this would compliment the 32-CD set. This was $20.00 when I bought it last week.