1985: Fragments of Fear
A retrospective review of Fragments of Fear: The Second Cthulhu Companion, published for Call of Cthulhu in 1985 by Chaosium, Inc.
https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/1985-fragments-of-fear.html
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#MiskatonicMonday #359: The Kangaroo Route
A review of the London to Australia flying route in the thirties for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc.
https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/06/miskatonic-monday-359-kangaroo-route.html
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I've been working on a modification of the #YearZeroEngine from #FreeLeaguePublishing to turn it into the engine for my own #TTRPG, which I've been developing over the past couple of years.
It's hard working with only the YZE SRD.
It would be nice if FLP published an actual book for their engine, like Chaosium does with the BRP.
Sadly, because R3DSHIF7 is a story- and character-drama-heavy game that uses D6 dice pools, the #Chaosium #BasicRoleplaying engine wouldn't really fit.
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Jonstown Jottings #97: A Broo Did It And Ran Away
A review of the scenario for #RuneQuest: Roleplaying in #Glorantha, published by Chaosium, Inc.
https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/07/jonstown-jottings-97-broo-did-it-and.html
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#MiskatonicMonday #358: Desperate Measures
A review of the modern Nebraska-set scenario for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc.
https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/06/miskatonic-monday-358-desperate-measures.html
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"I’ve never actually played GURPS, which qualifies me perfectly to make sweeping generalisations about it on the internet"
monkeyX's games blog: "QuestWorlds: An Engine Looking for a Showrunner"
https://blog.monkeyx.games/2026/03/06/questworlds-drama-first-dice-later/
An example of art from HeroQuest and its replacement QuestWorlds. For some reason it was decided that the rules needed a picture of people sitting at a table and playing the game, presumably because such a concept would be impossible to describe in words. So vital was this, indeed, that for QuestWorlds the illustration of a similar scene was made full page (or as much of the page as the cramped layout allows).
In the post today a print copy of Chaosium's QuestWorlds / Hero Wars / HeroQuest / whatever they're calling it this week. Love the compact format (the endpapers and ribbon bookmark matching the colours on the cover is a nice touch), although the pages look to be glued rather than sewn. There's not much interior art, which is a relief as it's no better than the exterior (maybe they couldn't afford Jon Hodgson for the cover this time), but then again the interior art of the previous edition was pretty dire so I was not expecting much. The layout is also rather mediocre. I really do get the feeling that once Moon Design got their hands on RuneQuest they lost interest in QuestWorlds.
I've found the PDF surprisingly hard to read, hence getting the hardback when it was released as I think I may fare better with it. HeroQuest was a book where I had to flick between pages and reread passages to get to grips with the rules, because it's not an obvious concept or execution and it was not particularly clearly explained (In the end I concluded that it was mechanically far simpler than I thought, conceptually rather trickier). I'm not certain that this edition has improved the clarity, but we shall see.
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