Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu is a tabletop role-playing game based on H.P.
Lovecraft's horror fiction, where players investigate cosmic horrors that threaten their characters' sanity.
The game emphasizes investigation and psychological dread over combat: We lost two investigators to madness in our Call of Cthulhu campaign.
The name comes from Lovecraft's 1928 short story featuring the tentacled elder god Cthulhu.
- LovecraftWeird fiction author
- madnessMental derangement or folly
- tentaclesFlexible grasping appendages
- cosmicPertaining to the universe
- cosmic horrorFear of vast, unknowable forces
horror · sanity · sanity check · occult · cultists · eldritch · investigators · Arkham · tome · Necronomicon · dice · mythos · forbidden · forbidden knowledge · ancient · ritual · insanity · monster
- Horror GamesSilent Hill, Resident Evil, Blair Witch, Madison, PT
- RPGsDungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy, Skyrim, GM, Baldur's Gate
- LovecraftianNecronomicon, Arkham, cosmic horror, Re-Animator, forbidden knowledge
- tabletop RPGsD&D, sourcebook, dungeon master, game master, DM
- RPG SettingsDragonlance, Ravenloft, Midgard, Old World, Gothic Horror