Gaslight, 2nd ed., Call of Cthulhu campaign setting

Product Information
Type: Softcover
Condition: Mint
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Chaosium Inc.
Author(s): William A. Barton

Back copy:

CTHULHU BY GASLIGHT
Second Edition

• new essays • six full-color plates • additional maps • revised and corrected
   
Horror Adventure And Background In 1890s England

Critical Knowledge
... Such creatures as Jack the Ripper, Count Dracula, Sweeney Todd, and Mr. Hyde, and where magical societies such as the Golden Dawn practiced hermetic rituals. Who can know for certain what other, more horrible entities shared the dim recesses of the great city with them. How naive to assume that the dread minions and dark worshipers of Great Cthulhu, Y'golonac, Nyarlathotep, and other cosmic blasphemies had not carved out accursed niches in the narrow alleyways, slimey sewers, and basements and hidden back rooms of 1890s London!
-PROF. L. SHREWSBURY

CTHULHU and his minions, in the 1890s sharing the globe with the mighty British Empire, had duties to an empire of their own: a dark and cruel design against the ownership of the world and the dreams of humanity. Even in the peaceful fields of rural England only intelligent and energetic intervention could keep the shadows at bay.

CTHULHU BY GASLIGHT includes a lengthy roleplaying adventure, "The Yorkshire Horrors" in which the investigators join forces with the world's most famous consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes! Extensive background essays provide period skills, social classes, world politics, biographies and timelines for the 1890s, maps and London location notes (including the best stores of the time), travel, criminals and police, Cockney slang, cost of living, royalty and titles, club life in London, the occult in the 1890s, prices, and clothing. A lengthy essay considers time-travel rationales for moving investigators of another time into the 1890s.

This book is a companion to publications such as CTHULHU NOW, H.P. LOVECRAFT'S DREAMLANDS, and TERROR AUSTRALIS, which also situate Cthulhu players in other times and places.

Call of Cthulhu is a roleplaying game based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, in which ordinary people are confronted by the demonic machinations of the Elder Gods and their minions. In Call of Cthulhu, players portray investigators of things unknown and unspeakable, decent men and women of the 1920s who unexpectedly learn dreadful secrets. Cthulhu By Gaslight supplements that game, offering Victorian­era adventures, showing how to create investigators of the 1890s, and containing material useful in playing out tales of yesterday when the Empire was in flower.

Price: $46.00

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