[Kickstarter] Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsley

"Cthulhu Dark" by Graham Walmsley

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Cthulhu Dark is a hardback book, 8.5 by 11 inches, about 200 pages long. The cover, by George Cotronis, is in full color. The interior is beautifully laid out, with stunning black-and-white art by Matteo Bocci.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/78929588/cthulhu-dark?ref=nav_search

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Cthulhu Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of cosmic horror, in the style of H.P. Lovecraft.

It's about the things we fear, amplified until they are unbearable. It's about stories that genuinely creep you out, not well-worn tropes and creatures you've seen hundreds of times before.

And it's about bleak horror, in which humans are powerless when confronted by hyperintelligent alien horrors. You can't beat them. You can't fight them. You can only watch, run, hide and fear.

If you love Cthulhu games already, then this is Lovecraftian horror at its most intense. If you're new to them, then Cthulhu Dark is a great place to start. You'll enter a world of stories that are both terrifying and terribly human.

The rules are incredibly short: they're tightly focussed on horror and they drive the game.

Have a look at these samples of the book: the rules, the start of the Keeper's section and one of the settings, London 1851.

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This is what you'll get.

Whatever level you back at, you'll get both the preview version, Cthulhu Dark Zero, and the final version, Cthulhu Dark.

Cthulhu Dark Zero contains everything you need to play, including the full Player's Section, Keeper's Section and the London 1851 setting, and comes with special cover art. This is all written, edited, laid out and ready to go, and you'll get it just after the Kickstarter ends.

Cthulhu Dark Zero is a PDF and I'll give you a DriveThruRPG code if you'd like to print it. I'm doing it this way to avoid doing two print runs and keep the Kickstarter simple. It lets me put my energy into the final product.

Cthulhu Dark contains everything above, plus any stretch goals, plus the final three settings, Arkham 1692, Jaiwo 2017 and Mumbai 2037. I'll make this book as good as I can get it, depending on how much we raise in the Kickstarter: it'll definitely be hardback and I'll upgrade the printing if I can (say, adding a dustjacket). It'll be beautiful and you should get it before Christmas.

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Ich glaube, ich mache mit. Das Setting London 1851 käme mir gerade entgegen ...

Den Stil der oben übernommenen Bilder mag ich auch ... regt meine Phantasie mehr an als ein Tentakel.

Als letztes 'stretch goal', bei dem die Höhe der zu nehmenden Hürde aber noch nicht beziffert ist, wurde folgende Mini-Kampagne angekündigt:

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[...] a Cthulhu Dark mini-campaign in London 1851, by Scott Dorward, one of the writers for Call of Cthulhu Seventh Edition. It's called Now We Are The Sons of God and it has three parts, all exploring different parts of Victorian London: Walk In The Light Of Your Fire, The Brightness of the Firmament and The Truth Shall Make You Free.

If you know Scott's writing, you'll know why I'm excited: he has a love of dark horror that fits perfectly into Cthulhu Dark. I don't know whether to be happy or scared. I'll set a level for that stretch goal next week, but for now, here's one more.

Wäre ja schön, wenn es noch klappt. 9 Tage verbleiben ...

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Here are some stretch goals. And they are stretching! We might not achieve all of them, but let's see what happens.

If we reach £65,000, you'll get a new mystery in a totally new setting. Good As A Feast, by Mo Holkar, takes Cthulhu Dark into the Dust Bowl of 1930s America. It's a story about food, hunger and flesh.

If we reach £75,000, you'll get Now We Are The Sons Of God, a mini-campaign by Scott Dorward in London 1851. It's in three parts, each focussing on a different aspect of Victorian London: Walk In The Light Of Your Fire uncovers a cruel and deadly factory; The Brightness of the Firmament sees shooting stars fall on a London rookery; and The Truth Shall Make You Free finds dangerous knowledge in a ragged school.

Those are challenging goals, so let's see how much we get! All the best and thanks again for your support.

Noch 38 Stunden und die Geschwindigkeit, mit der die gesammelten Unterstützungen wachsen, steigt.

Wer noch eine weitere Meinung lesen will:

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Schicke Rezension von Cthulhu Dark ...
https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.de/2017/06/a-tast…hu-in-dark.html

Stretch Goal £65,000 erreicht: new setting 'Good As A Feast' by Mo Holkar

15 Stunden verbleiben...

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[...] We've just sailed through a stretch goal: Mo Holkar's Dust Bowl scenario, Good As A Feast. It's looking hopeful that we'll meet the next one, at £75,000, when we get Scott Dorward's London 1851 mini-campaign, Now We Are The Sons Of God. So I'm going to add one final goal.

If we reach £85,000, I'll link all the main Cthulhu Dark scenarios into a mini-campaign. That is, I'll give you the tools to play The Doors Beyond Time (Arkham 1672), Screams of the Children (London 1851), The Curse of the Zimba (Jaiwo 2017) and Consume (Mumbai 2037) in one time-travelling mystery.

It probably won't happen! But anything seems possible now, so let's try. [...]

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