“The Most Merciful Thing in the World is the Inability of the Human Mind to Correlate all its Contents.”
H.P. Lovecraft coined the term "Yog-Sothothery" to refer to the fictional myth cycle he invented for his tales -- what subsequently became known as the "Cthulhu Mythos" (after other writers had added their own original horrors to sit beside... [click here for more]
“Call it art, call it cult. Gertrude was a friend of all. Call her eyes such a fright, she's sailing on a wave of light.”"To Touch The Untouchable" is a short standalone investigative scenario set in H.P. Lovecraft's notorious college town of Arkham, any time in the 1920s or 1930s. It can be played with access to just the open-source... [click here for more]
“What primal, inconceivable source of age-old myth-cycles and haunting nightmares might I be on the brink of uncovering?”IMPORTANT NOTE: This PDF contains the text of a full set of game statistics describing the creatures, rituals, and artifacts from Lovecraft's original Cthulhu Mythos. In OGL terms it is a “System Reference... [click here for more]
"And I saw the world battling against blackness; against the waves of destruction from ultimate space ..."
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The APOCTHULHU roleplaying game has been especially designed to transport gamers into terrifying, devastated worlds where the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos have gained control. Usually to the utter detriment of mankind.
This supplemental volume brings together... [click here for more]
"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them ..."
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Mankind likes to believe itself the foremost power in the world, and the universe beyond. But this is a prideful illusion. A lie. Long before we rose from the slime, other powers far greater held sway upon our planet ... and those same powers were always destined to one day return... [click here for more]
This is the APOCTHULHU System Reference document. It contains all the open content from the APOCTHULHU RPG. We informally call this game engine the "Cthulhu Eternal" System (and other, non-Apocalypse versions of the same rules are published under that name). Whether you are a publisher or a gamer, you can use this under the terms of the Open Gaming License.
This is NOT the... [click here for more]
Horror Roleplaying in Terrifying Realms of Lovecraftian Apocalypses.
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Lovecraftian roleplaying typically sees brave Mythos investigators foiling plots to corrupt our familiar world. But what happens when the heroes DON’T save the day? When the cult’s apocalyptic schemes succeed? What comes next? That’s what APOCTHULHU is about.
APOCTHULHUis... [click here for more]
Horror Roleplaying in Terrifying Realms of Lovecraftian Apocalypses.
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Lovecraftian roleplaying typically sees brave Mythos investigators foiling plots to corrupt our familiar world. But what happens when the heroes DON’T save the day? When the cult’s apocalyptic schemes succeed? What comes next? That’s what APOCTHULHU is about.
IMPORTANT NOTE: this... [click here for more]