Chaosium Releases Three New Call Of Cthulhu Monographs

I've always been a fan of Chaosium's monographs--small-run productions, layout and editing by the author(s), that allow Call of Cthulhu fans easy access to a wide variety of material, at the same time acting as a gauge of interest which may lead to the monographs becoming true Call of Cthulhu sourcebooks.

Three interesting ones are out this Friday--Caligo Accendum Tournament, Ravenstone Sanitarium, and Mysteries of Tibet.

Caligo Accendum Tournament is the Call of Cthulhu: Dark Ages tournament that Chaosium presented at the last GenCon--three adventures that should provide a nice introduction to the game, with pre-generated characters and handouts. The first is called Island of the Damned, which "takes tough-as-nails Viking characters completely out of their element," "predator becom[ing] prey." The second, Risam Vellere, "concerns early attempts at translating one of the forbidden tomes of the Mythos." The third, The Innocent, is supposed to be a very "human story" about a victim of the Mythos, and does not have any pregenerated characters.

The second monograph out Friday is Ravenstone Sanitarium, "Two Adventures in a Disturbing Institution," where all the player characters are multiple personality disorder-afflicted asylum inmates--after every Sanity check, characters also make a "personality check" to see which personality takes over, switching character sheets in the process.

The monograph I'm most excited about, however, is Mysteries of Tibet--a country "with the highest points on earth, [where] areas are nearly impossible to reach, and malevolent gods and monsters lurk under every rock." If it's even a fraction as good as Mysteries of Japan, it'll be well worth picking up.