MUP Campus Crier Catchup – April 2016
We’re down two hosts tonight, so Keepers Jon and Dan are going simple with just updating our news so we don’t get as far behind as we had before.
This episode was recorded on April 11, 2016.
Campus Crier
The 7e boats have arrived!
In other Chaosium news from Mike Mason-
Our friend Ben Wilson, has created a range of pre-generated investigators for a variety of occupations. You can download these from the Chaosium site in a zip file. Guidance notes are included for tailoring the characters.
Link: http://www.chaosium.com/gm-resources/
In addition, Ben has created a range of Student occupation investigators (primarily for use with A Time To Harvest, but can of course be used for other Call of Cthulhu games too). These are available in a separate zip file here:
Link: http://www.chaosium.com/a-time-for-harvest/
Sherlock Meets Lovecraft in ‘A Study in Emerald’ Board Game
Here is the Treefrog Games link with the rules
The Cancer of Superstition brings $28,000
The Cancer of Superstition manuscript written for Houdini by H.P. Lovecraft and C.M. Eddy sold today at Potter & Potter’s massive auction of Houdiniana for $28,000 (not including buyers premium). The auction estimate was $25,000 to $40,000.
From Dean over at Cthulhu Reborn–
Terror From Down Under (Coming Soon)
“Convicts & Cthulhu is a sizeable sourcebook (exact page count to be finalised, but probably 50-60 pages) which allows Keepers to run Call of Cthulhu games during the early days of Australia’s life as a British penal settlement. If this sounds like an odd time and place to set a Lovecraftian game, consider this: the early colonies of Australia were founded to be the dumping grounds for the most dark-hearted criminals to be found in Britain, and were overseen by guards who were not much better than those they guarded. In a land thousands of miles from civilisation, there are many opportunities for mundane cruelty and evil, but also for the darkness than men brought with them to flourish in unsuspecting ways.
We hope to release Convicts and Cthulhu later this year … and there will doubtless be more blog postings to come which shine some more light on what we have planned.”
Children of Lovecraft – graphic novel of short stories
Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s stories shaped modern horror more than any other author’s in the last two centuries: Cthulhu, the Old Ones, Herbert West: Reanimator, and more terrifying nightmares emerged from the mythos of this legendary writer. Dark Horse teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow to bring you this anthology of original prose stories that are inspired by Lovecraft’s mythos. Features work by Richard Kadrey, Brian Hodge, A. C. Wise, Siobhan Carroll, Orrin Grey, and many more, with a stunning cover by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.
Weird Detective – 5 issue mini-series
By Fred Van Lente, and Guiu Vilanova