A listing of major Call of Cthulhu releases in Catalan, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Rusian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian
I've been putting together a list of major Call of Cthulhu translations in other languages. I'm currently purposefully omitting minor revisions (e.g., 5.1, 5.11, 5.6) and limited editions.
Anyone know of anything I've missed?
It's certainly vastly lower-prep than BRP, which for me is probably QW's single biggest attraction (although there are plenty of other good points!)
I was going to mention TRIPOD, because by bringing in other things like character goals, it allows the game designer (and players) to work with a wider range of factors than just attributes / skills.
In QuestWorlds, you have a single ability rating for an occupation like "sailor", while sub-skills are termed breakouts and are rated at +5, +10 etc. So you have a mix of broad-brush with additional granularity where needed.
QuestWorlds is a useful example because abilities can be characteristics (my character has "arms like tree trunks"), occupations (mine is "sailor", which implies a host of skills), species, community, equipment, or specialist skills, according to the needs of the game. The mechanic can flex.
See also: Prince Valiant, where there are just two core attributes (Brawn and Presence), but skills (and equipment) provide bonuses against those. 14 basic skills cover almost everything relevant to the core game activity.
What a glorious cover!
I'm only going to buy a copy because it's you two.
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Yes, I'll definitely pick that up at some point when I get the chance!
I think I've played only around 12/100, but that's fine, it gives me plenty to go at.
But ... the writers are almost entirely men, and many of them are white men of a certain age. You would not publish a book like this today, and frankly it was probably not a good idea even then.
Book cover: Hobby Games: The 100 Best, ed. James Lowder. Six black and red squares showing simple illustrations of: a book, dice, cards, hexes, a dragon, and chess pawns.
Read: Hobby Games: The 100 Best, ed. James Lowder. An absolutely fantastic compendium of great games to play, each article written by a knowledgeable game designer about one of their personal favourites. Published in 2007.
It is shamanistic, enigmatic, sometimes recondite and often florid, and it takes its animal protagonists seriously in a world where humankind is suffering plague-induced societal collapse. I think some will find the language difficult, but for me that was a large part of the attraction.
Book cover, with silver metallic ink on black cloth cover. A drawing of a bird seen from above, centered in a circle of twigs and grasses. Words: Seek The Throat From Which We Sing.
Finished: Seek the Throat From Which We Sing, by @artofalexcf.bsky.social. Recommended to me by a friend with an uncanny sense for what I'm into. In this case, that's a visionary animal fantasy novel, sitting somewhere between Richard Adams and Tolkien. The sequel is on its way to me now!
Drakar och Demoner.
One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro
This video is performative but well-reasoned. Some of the other material on the same channel seems noticeably more unpleasant.
From a quick look at one of their videos, they seem to be clickbait incels. Kudos to Chaosium for engaging, but .... yuck.
Beautiful! Remind us who the cover artists are?
I gather the book was controversial with some D&D grognards who think it "erased" Gary Gygax or is full of "woke lies". Googling for more detail, I was impressed with how moronic and often semi-literate some of that discourse was. It's very much a tribute to Gygax, and makes his achievement clear.
I was surprised quite how much of this stuff came flooding back from my distant memory, from when I played first Basic D&D and then AD&D.
It includes complete reproductions of the Chainmail Fantasy Supplement; the three books of OD&D; Greyhawk; Blackmoor; and Eldritch Wizardry; along with loads of other relevant material including an early draft text. I did not read it all. That would be mad.
Red book cover with a giant gold dragon in the shape of an ampersand filling most of the space. Text: The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons, 1970-1977. No authors are credited.
Finished: The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons, 1970-1977. I'm not much of a D&D fan (I haven't played any version since the late 80s), but I enjoyed this. It would be nice to see this level of research and reproduction applied to other RPGs. I guess it's 90% the work of Jon Peterson.
"45 years from now, as a guest at a Schloss in Germany, you will run a Glorantha game based on your upcoming official sourcebook, using a system that you and your best friend designed, based on the RPG you made together, derived from your work as lead designers on the 3rd & 4th editions of D&D." 1/2
A deer in a field, glimpsed looking out from the edge of woodland. It is looking right back at me.
I don't remember deer being here when I was young, but I met a couple today.
Bearded middle aged man wearing a warm red hat, photographed in a scraggly birch woodland.
Birch woodland, blue sky. The trees display multiple "witches' brooms".
Birch trees silhouetted reaching up into a blue sky.
Looking directly up into the blue sky, with birch trees reaching from all sides towards the centre of the photograph.
Lovely morning spent re-exploring the woods that were my childhood territory. Good to see signs that children still come here, although I met nobody today. The Scottish right-to-roam has also removed some of the fear that always accompanied weekend explorations.
Anybody have a copy of The Guide to Glorantha that they'd be willing to sell? Hopefully at a somewhat reasonable price? Things happened back in the day, and I was unaware they were no longer available. Please help! US , preferably, cuz its a beast. ##runequest #Glorantha @chaosium.bsky.social
