Their live performances include various costumes, usually Cthulhu Mythos-themed.

Thomas E. Fuller's Atlanta Radio Theatre Company performed H. P. Lovecraft's " The Call of Cthulhu ", which was broadcast via radio live from onsite.

Additional milieu were provided by Chaosium with the release of Dreamlands, a boxed supplement containing additional rules needed for playing within the Lovecraft Dreamlands, a large map and a scenario booklet, and Cthulhu By Gaslight, another boxed set which moved the action from the 1920s to the 1890s.

Similarly, an article ( written from an in-universe perspective ) in the Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing game speculates that it may be a corruption of Abd Al-Azrad, which it claims translates to The Worshipper of the Great Devourer.

Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos.

* CthulhuTech-another role-playing game, conceived for a " Cthulhu science-fiction setting "

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Chaosium's role-playing game Call of Cthulhu ( currently in its sixth major edition ) has been in print for 30 years and has garnered consistent praise for the high quality of its campaign and adventure supplements.

Chaosium, publishers of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, have a trademark on the phrase " The Call of Cthulhu " for use in game products.

August Derleth classified Shub-Niggurath as a Great Old One, but the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game classifies her as an Outer God.

However, the concept of the Dark Young was first introduced by game designer Sandy Petersen for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

The Mi-go are prominent antagonists in Pagan Publishing's Delta Green sourcebook for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

* The Call of Cthulhu role-playing game has featured the Hastur mythos and the King in Yellow over the years ; one prominent example is the campaign Tatters of the King which also includes extracts from the play, as well as an early scene in which the player characters attend an ill-fated performance.

* The role-playing game Call of Cthulhu RPG used the train for one of its more famous campaigns, Horror on the Orient Express.

In some systems, such as the classic tabletop role-playing games Traveller, Call of Cthulhu and Basic Role-Playing, and the role-playing video games Final Fantasy II, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, the SaGa and Grandia series, and Final Fantasy XIV, progression is based on increasing individual statistics ( skills, rank and other features ) of the character, and is not driven by the acquisition of ( general ) experience points.

The in-universe essay < cite xml: lang =" la "> In Rerum Supernatura </ cite > in the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game offers a suggestion: Yog-Sothoth's name may be a transliteration of the Arabic phrase " Yaji Ash-Shuthath ," more properly " yajī ' u ash-shudhdhādh " يجيء الشذاذ, meaning " The abnormal ones are coming.

* Scream of Kachooloo, a horror role-playing game closely modeled on Call of Cthulhu.

* The " Call of Cthulhu " role-playing game

BRP was a " cut-down " version of Chaosium's RuneQuest role-playing game ( RPG ) and formed the foundation for the Stormbringer RPG, and was also adopted for Call of Cthulhu, the first horror role-playing game.

Outside of the band, Toren Atkinson is also an artist, having illustrated books for role-playing games including Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu ( and Delta Green ), as well as the Lovecraft-inspired collectible card game Mythos.

An all-Mythos themed CD produced in association with Wizards of the Coast to promote their new d20 edition of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

* Shoggoths appear in both the Chaosium and the Wizards of the Coast Call of Cthulhu role-playing game supplements.

" There are three primary eras of the original ( BRP ) game: the 1920s, the setting of many of Lovecraft's stories ; the 1890s Gaslight supplements, a blend of occult and Holmesian mystery and mostly set in England ; and modern conspiracy ( Cthulhu Now ).

Call of Cthulhu has a reputation as a game in which it is quite common for a player character to die in gruesome circumstances or end up in a mental institution.

The original conception of Call of Cthulhu was Dark Worlds, a game commissioned by the publisher Chaosium but never published.

He took over the writing of Call of Cthulhu, and the game was released in 1981, using a simplified version of the Basic Role-Playing system used in RuneQuest.

In February 2008, Pelgrane Press published Trail of Cthulhu, a stand-alone game created by Kenneth Hite using the GUMSHOE System developed by Robin Laws.

In April 2011, Chaosium and new developer Red Wasp Design announced a joint project to produce a mobile video game based on the Call of Cthulhu RPG entitled Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.

Mythos was a collectible card game ( CCG ) based on the Cthulhu Mythos that Chaosium produced and marketed during the mid-1990s.

Call of Cthulhu, the Living Card Game is a second collectible card game ; currently it is produced by Fantasy Flight Games.

* Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth video game.

* Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land-World War 1 set video game based on the paper version of Call of Cthulhu.

* Yog-Sothoth, A CoC fansite with a mostly-complete listing of all products produced for the game and a Cthulhu Mythos wiki.

The board game Arkham Horror and dice game Elder Sign are derived from mechanisms first introduced in the Call of Cthulhu RPG.

The setting of Call of Cthulhu is a darker version of our world, based on H. P. Lovecraft's observation ( from his short essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature ) that " The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

In 2001, a stand-alone version of Call of Cthulhu was released by Wizards of the Coast, for the d20 system.

Lovecraft Historical Society produced a silent film version of Lovecraft's story The Call of Cthulhu.

In Derleth's version of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthugha is a Great Old One, an elemental spirit of fire opposed to the Elder Gods.

He also wrote or co-wrote a few more products for Wizards of the Coast as a freelancer, including the d20 version of Call of Cthulhu.

Crouch End is a horror story by Stephen King, originally published in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos ( 1980 ), and republished in a slightly different version in King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection ( 1993 ).

* Munchkin Cthulhu, the seventh standalone version, released in March 2007, lampoons Lovecraft's Mythos and the horror gaming that surrounds it, summoning classic monsters from outside reality.

The version branch names, Hastur for 0. 15. x, Azathoth for 1. 0. x, Dagon for 1. 1. x and 1. 2. x, Eihort for 1. 3. x and 1. 4. x, Shoggoth for 1. 5. x and 1. 6. x, have been named after members of an ancient race of fearsome deities called the Great Old Ones in the Cthulhu mythology of H. P. Lovecraft.

The first and second printings contained a version of the Cthulhu Mythos, but that section was removed in the third and subsequent printings for copyright reasons.