This has the investigators stripping away layers of information like the skin of an onion as the players progress through the campaign, revealing more of the evil cult’s plans and coming closer to the heart of the adventure." - Matthew Pook review, The Unspeakable Oath. The first campaign for Call of Cthulhu, it paved the way for many classics to come and it introduced the concept of the onionskin campaign. "The importance of Shadows of Yog-Sothoth cannot be overstated. Here's what reviewers have said about this seminal Call of Cthulhu work over the years: It wasn’t until Chaosium released Shadows of Yog-Sothoth, A Global Campaign to Save Mankind a year later that we realized what the game was truly capable of." But by itself, Call of Cthulhu was just a fascinating oddity. Here was the first truly appealing contemporary (or, at least, semi-contemporary) role playing game, which drew on the horrifying cosmic milieu and fabulous bestiary of none other than H.P. Shadows of Yog-Sothoth (1982) was the first-ever Call of Cthulhu campaign, and is one of the five supplements we're reprinting in the Call of Cthulhu Classic Kickstarter, currently underway.Īs Black Gate Magazine said about it back in 2013, "When Sandy Peterson’s Call of Cthulhu was first released as a boxed set in 1981, the entire industry took notice.
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