Dark Designs - Victorian Call of Cthulhu Adventures

Product Information
Type: Softcover
Condition: Very good (slight crease on lower right front cover, otherwise mint)
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Chaosium Inc.
Author(s): Hallet, Jacklin, Isinwyll, Gibbons, Geier, Tripplet-Smith

Back copy:

Guide to Creating 1890s Investigators,
Fold-Out Map of Central London,
Railway Map,    
Three Independent Adventures

THE HORNED MAN WILL LIVE

"Straight lines and right angles are simply straight lines and right angles the world over, but the delicate and particular curves of a town slowly reared on a certain spot have a priceless wealth of suggestion pertaining to place and people; a suggestion which makes every narrow, devious hillside lane, rich with its mellow limning of antique, characteristick doorways and windows and chimneys and gables, a veritable gateway of memory and mystery.... London! Majestick, ineffable, and immemorial!" —H.P. Lovecraft

A gentle breeze wafts across Platform Five of Twyford Station. You wait for the ten o'clock train for Henley-on-Thames, for soon the Henley Royal Regatta begins. Attending the regatta is in high fashion, and patronized by royalty. Not only tremendously entertaining, the regatta is an important meeting-place of contacts, both business and casual.

The train arrives bearing a single first-class car, as usual for runs during the regatta. Everyone files aboard taking their seats, and the journey begins. Clacking rails pass below. A tunnel approaches, quiet darkness falls, and two men die.

Dark Designs contains three adventures for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. All are set in southern England, and involve occult practises in the 1890s. Two of the adventures can be linked to form a mini-campaign, the third is suitable for new investigators and beginning players. Background information about the 1890s, including a character-generation synopsis and investigator sheet, is included in this book. Enterprising keepers might refer to Chaosium's Cthulhu By Gaslight supplement, containing extensive information about this period. You do not need Cthulhu By Gaslight to fully enjoy Dark Designs.

Call of Cthulhu is a roleplaying game based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, in which ordinary people are confronted by the demonic beings and forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. Players portray investigators of things unknown and unspeakable, decent men and women of the 1920s who unexpectedly learn dreadful secrets. Dark Designs provides a glimpse of Mythos activities in the 1890s.

Price: $23.50

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