Lovecraftian Shorts story telling game

Announcing my latest release, the "Lovecraftian Shorts story telling game". It's a game for three people and gives them a framework for telling a collaborative story where the protagonists can only defeat the evil foe by sacrifice of their minds and/or bodies.

Currently available as a PDF from Drive Thru and an ePUB at LuLu

Cthulhu and How I Found Livingstone

In 1871 Henry M. Stanley entered the dark and mysterious interior of Africa in search of Dr. Livingstone. Financed by Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald, Stanley with no experience of Africa was charged with finding and relieving Livingstone, whatever the cost.

This brave young man, took the mission to his heart and commenced a journey that has since become a trek of living myth.

In this book you'll find the entire text of Stanley's book detailing his adventure, interspersed with 70+ footnotes and additional pictures and diagrams not in the original text, making suggestions for how this epic journey might be turned into a Role Playing campaign for those who like a taste of horror in their games.

Available as Paperback : ePUB

Fate of Cthulhu

I've been a fan of the Chaosium RPG "Call of Cthulhu" for years. But of late, I've fallen in love with RPGs that fit more into the story-telling genre. One of these is the generic system called FATE, by Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue. The FATE system is a free PDF download ( link in the document below ) so it's worth taking a look!

So I've combined the two and written a short document on how to switch your play from Call of Cthulhu to FATE. So if you're looking to inject a little horror and madness into your FATE/Fudge gaming check this out.

100 Call of Cthulhu Characters

Here are 100 characters for you to pick from. You might think that there are a lot of unexpected weapon related skills. I could rationalise that, but I wont. That's for you to do when you create a character background. My players have taken some of these characters and simply shunted unwanted weapon skills onto other hobbies. It's quick and simple to do so. ( e.g. SMG 20% moved to Fishing 20% )

Here's a sample :

Jacob Franko : Body Guard
STR:10 CON:5 DEX:11 SIZ:14 INT:12 POW:6 APP:11 EDU:11 SAN:30
Idea:60 Knowledge:55 Luck:30 Magic Points:6 Hit Points:9 Damage Bonus:+0
Occupation Skills ; Fist:75 Grapple:50 Disguise:6 Hand Gun:45 Spot Hidden:45 Dodge:52 Ride:25 Drive Auto:35
Hobby Skills ; Archaeology:6 Astronomy:6 Bargain:10 Biology:16 Chemistry:6 Craft:10 Credit Rating:20 Electrical Repair:15 Hide:15 Library Use:10 Locksmith:6 Operate Hvy Mch.:6 Own Language:60 Persuade:20 Physics:11 Pilot:6 Psychology:10 Throw:30 Track:15 SMG:20 Italian:6

The rest of the 100 are in a PDF file which I've stored on my One Drive

Cthulhu and the River of Doubt

What have we here? This book is designed for the Role Player with a historic Horror bent, specifically for “Call of Cthulhu” but can be read anyone.

The bulk of the book is made up of the entire text of “Through the Brazilian Wilderness” written by President Theodore Roosevelt. His writing describes a journey taken by himself and acquaintances in 1913, through the steamy jungles of Brazil travelling down the uncharted River of Doubt. This was no pleasure cruise. This journey was an exploring adventure of toil, fear, danger and murder. The jungle that surrounded them for months contained dangerous animals and threatening indigenous people, the water even held man eating fish.

Footnotes appear throughout detailing elements and suggestions for turning this epic journey into a Role Playing campaign. An appendix at the end suggests some character profiles for the main protagonists.

The Roosevelt-Rondon expedition is the perfect historical source for a role playing campaign.
Buy / Preview the book at Lulu.com as PDF or Perfect-Bound Book.
Kindle version available at Amazon

Pick-a-Phobia-o-matic

The classic role playing game "Call of Cthulhu" often has reason for its characters to insane to one degree or another, and these insanities are expressed as phobias. Here we present an automatic random generator for selecting phobias for your insane characters. Click the button below to select a phobia.

When you've picked your madness, why not take a look at the other roleplaying features here.

The phobias presented in this list are a subset of the full list found at PhobiaList.com, please vistit that site to see the full list.