The other big, BIG release for Chaosium in 2016 was Pulp Cthulhu.
The Kickstarter isn’t entirely finished yet, but it’s close to being done - which must be a big relief to Chaosium (who have earned the unenviable epithet “The Company That Almost Kickstarted Itself To Death”). Although versions of the final layouts have been kicking around for a year or so, it has been great to see most backers of their 2013 Kickstarter campaign get their books. ChaosiumĬhaosium had a big year in 2016, mostly due to the (much elongated) delivery of it’s anticipated 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu rules. Here’s a breakdown of the books released in 2016, grouped by publisher. There is no denying that 2016 was a year dominated by Kickstarter-delivered titles … in fact every single title that was produced for Call of Cthulhu came out as the result of a Kickstarter, or as an add-on to a Kickstarter. Of course, that number does include two pretty important titles - the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition rules (which were technically published in PDF form late in 2015, even though most people didn’t get hard copies until late 2016) and the long-awaited Pulp Cthulhu.
Depending on how you count it, there were between 10 and 12 new book titles released for the game compared to around 16 in 2015. I hope WinstonP doesn’t mind 🙂Ĭompared to the last few years, 2016 was a quiet-ish year for new Call of Cthulhu releases. Because I know that the Sentinel folks are really, REALLY busy with a combination of real world things (a new homonculous) and finishing off their amazing Arkham Gazette Kickstarter, I’ve decided to step in to write up this year’s write up - a “those were the tentacles that were” kind of thing. Sure Hellboy technically had some degree of superpowers but some of the stuff he was going up against was rather mindshattering & leave it up to the WWII forces to try to turn any mythos thing into a weapon as long as it wasn’t going to their own troops.Īnd some of the Nazi super powers were rather e(Plus the new Curse of Strahd book is out too so I’m going to see what kind of nonsense can happen if putting it with Dungeon Crawl Classics or Dungeon World.So, normally at about this time of year our good friends over at Sentinel Hill Press put together a blog posting which summarises all the nifty products that were released for Call of Cthulhu in the previous year.
Very interesting mesh of systems & as the pulp Call of Cthulhu book is in the works, it should be an interesting mix.
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