Call of Cthulhu

Rating:
Summary: The best RPG I have ever played
Review: "Call of Cthulhu" is hands-down my favorite RPG. I have been playing it for about 15 years now, and have to yet to get bored with it. In a testament to it's quality, the core rule book has gone through 5 editions without any changes to the core rules. This version, the 5th edition, is improved by higher production value, nicer art, inclusion of spells/artifacts created for various adventures over the years, and the necessary addition of H.P. Lovecraft's signature story, "The Call of Cthulhu."

"Call of Cthulhu's" strength is in it's simplicity. The basic d100 system allows for near instant character creation and absorption of the rules. As an RPG, it is a non-combat game that focuses more on roleplaying and atmosphere. (Indeed, investigators who are combat happy will be short lived. "Call of Cthulhu" is famous for it's high body count.)

This system has won pretty much every RPG award available. It is the "system of choice" for my regular gaming group of 10 years. Possibly the best roleplaying game ever made.

Rating:
Summary: The best RPG I have ever played
Review: "Call of Cthulhu" is hands-down my favorite RPG. I have been playing it for about 15 years now, and have to yet to get bored with it. In a testament to it's quality, the core rule book has gone through 5 editions without any changes to the core rules. This version, the 5th edition, is improved by higher production value, nicer art, inclusion of spells/artifacts created for various adventures over the years, and the necessary addition of H.P. Lovecraft's signature story, "The Call of Cthulhu."

"Call of Cthulhu's" strength is in it's simplicity. The basic d100 system allows for near instant character creation and absorption of the rules. As an RPG, it is a non-combat game that focuses more on roleplaying and atmosphere. (Indeed, investigators who are combat happy will be short lived. "Call of Cthulhu" is famous for it's high body count.)

This system has won pretty much every RPG award available. It is the "system of choice" for my regular gaming group of 10 years. Possibly the best roleplaying game ever made.

Rating:
Summary: The best RPG I have ever played
Review: "Call of Cthulhu" is hands-down my favorite RPG. I have been playing it for about 15 years now, and have to yet to get bored with it. In a testament to it's quality, the core rule book has gone through 5 editions without any changes to the core rules. This version, the 5th edition, is improved by higher production value, nicer art, inclusion of spells/artifacts created for various adventures over the years, and the necessary addition of H.P. Lovecraft's signature story, "The Call of Cthulhu."

"Call of Cthulhu's" strength is in it's simplicity. The basic d100 system allows for near instant character creation and absorption of the rules. As an RPG, it is a non-combat game that focuses more on roleplaying and atmosphere. (Indeed, investigators who are combat happy will be short lived. "Call of Cthulhu" is famous for it's high body count.)

This system has won pretty much every RPG award available. It is the "system of choice" for my regular gaming group of 10 years. Possibly the best roleplaying game ever made.

Rating:
Summary: The Ultimate Role playing book
Review: After Playing AD&D for 5 years , i yearned for a new challenge then after one day reading a review in a Dragon Magazine I found proof that there was something more challenging. CTHULHU. I went out and bought the 4th Edition and was hooked. This Book was the 3rd version of the rulebook that I bought and I was hooked yet again as they are written so well.
The amount of information and detail in this edition is outstanding and with the addition of the actual "call of cthulhu" story , many first time Mythos readers will understand some of the nuance behind what made HP Lovecraft the ultimate horror writer of our time.
Buy this book and create game sessions that will make your players, laugh, scream, cry and scream even more.
You will understand why it is the ultimate game when you kill 28 charcters in one session and your players are still lining up to get back into the game with a mad vengeance.

Rating:
Summary: The Ultimate Role playing book
Review: After Playing AD&D for 5 years , i yearned for a new challenge then after one day reading a review in a Dragon Magazine I found proof that there was something more challenging. CTHULHU. I went out and bought the 4th Edition and was hooked. This Book was the 3rd version of the rulebook that I bought and I was hooked yet again as they are written so well.
The amount of information and detail in this edition is outstanding and with the addition of the actual "call of cthulhu" story , many first time Mythos readers will understand some of the nuance behind what made HP Lovecraft the ultimate horror writer of our time.
Buy this book and create game sessions that will make your players, laugh, scream, cry and scream even more.
You will understand why it is the ultimate game when you kill 28 charcters in one session and your players are still lining up to get back into the game with a mad vengeance.

Rating:
Summary: Probably the best RPG
Review: Although Call of Cthulhu is not the RPG with the most sophysticated battle system, it has the most interesting bases, and it is the best alternative so far I've known to the other games, which consist mainly on killing and battling. It includes a good amount of suspense, mystery, and horror, which makes it very interesting to play. I strongly recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: As a long time roleplayer I can tell you, without doubt, that this is the GREATEST RPG OF ALL TIME! The simple rules make it easy for first time RPGers to play, but the content is so perfect that it can entrance the most veteran of RPGers.
And it is the content that seperates this masterpiece from traditional RPGs. Whereas D&D (a great game) is full of Elves, mages, and dragons; Call of Cthulhu is home to blasphemous tomes, ancient monstousities, and ultrapowerful alien Gods (any one of whom could easily destroy the feeble Christian "god").
If you want a game that will at once make you think, scare the hell out of you, and immerse you so much in its universe that your simple mundane world seems like a distant shadow, this is the book to buy.

Rating:
Summary: PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: As a long time roleplayer I can tell you, without doubt, that this is the GREATEST RPG OF ALL TIME! The simple rules make it easy for first time RPGers to play, but the content is so perfect that it can entrance the most veteran of RPGers.
And it is the content that seperates this masterpiece from traditional RPGs. Whereas D&D (a great game) is full of Elves, mages, and dragons; Call of Cthulhu is home to blasphemous tomes, ancient monstousities, and ultrapowerful alien Gods (any one of whom could easily destroy the feeble Christian "god").
If you want a game that will at once make you think, scare the hell out of you, and immerse you so much in its universe that your simple mundane world seems like a distant shadow, this is the book to buy.

Rating:
Summary: A Hall of Fame game of Lovecraftian Horror
Review: Call of Cthulhu has been a best-selling roleplaying game since first edition back in 1981, when it was the first horror roleplaying game published. It is based on the classic horror of H. P. Lovecraft's elaborate Cthulhu Mythos. This includes the derivative work of hundreds of other authors who have followed in Lovecraft's footsteps.

This game has won more game awards than any other roleplaying game and is a member of the Acadeny of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame.

It contains a simple and elegant system for playing which Chaosium Inc. has used in many other games, lending it additional flexibility.

Rating:
Summary: A terrific roleplaying game, a "must" for Lovecraft fans!
Review: Call Of Cthulhu is a terrific roleplaying game based on the horror fantasy writings of H.P. Lovecraft. Players are confronted by the terrifying, forces of the Cthulhu Mythos where Great Old Ones who came from the stars and once ruled the earth in the first aeons of Earth history, before the coming of man, are again seeking to rise and walk the planet once again. Players will be able to immerse themselves in role-gaming, playing out horrific adventure scenarios with just some dice and their friends. Call Of Cthulhu will prove to be a much appreciated, core title for the serious gamer's reference shelf.