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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 1d

We have a big announcement coming soon about Cthulhu Eternal. And as a consequence we've decided to move forward the release of the full Convicts & Cthulhu rulebook, so it coincides with our soon-to-be-announced promo. We also have some pics to share of the core book in print, to whet your appetite.

The front cover of the hardcover Convicts & Cthulhu core rulebook. Text reads: "Convicts & Cthulhu. A Cthulhu Eternal Roleplaying Game of Cosmic Horror in the Early Penal Colonies of 18th Century Australia."

A two-page spread from the Convicts & Cthulhu core rulebook. Left hand page is a text box titled "The Colony Under Grose & Paterson (1792-1795)", the right hand side is a map of colonial New South Wales

A two-page spread from the Convicts & Cthulhu core rulebook. Left hand page is a full-page illustration of humanoid snake creature, right hand side has information about GM Resources.

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 10d

While the PDF version is $0, there's an option of getting an attractive softcover print version of the Quickstart. Here's a few pics of a copy that arrived recently.

If you are in Oz, the printed copies are produced locally (Lightning Source recently opened a printer here), which seems very quick.

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 10d

Have you checked out our 100% free Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart? Its 70 pages contains a cut-down version of the full rules, 6 pre-gen characters, & an exciting adventure. Basically everything needed to run a one-shot in convict settlements of New South Wales.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart Rules - Cthulhu Reborn | DriveThruRPG

Be Transported To A Place of Horrors Both Mundane & Mythos. Convicts & Cthulhu is a fully-featured tabletop roleplaying game of cosmic horror and investigation, set in the bleak and brutal pen...

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks! This must be the most public purchase of a TTRPG book for some time ... I am so happy that it is ours :)

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks to the many folks who have picked up the 100% free PDF of the Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart, our monthly DTRPG downloads stats sailed past 500 for September (v.good for us!). Hearing from folks who've started receiving print versions also has us smiling.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart Rules - Cthulhu Reborn | DriveThruRPG

Be Transported To A Place of Horrors Both Mundane & Mythos. Convicts & Cthulhu is a fully-featured tabletop roleplaying game of cosmic horror and investigation, set in the bleak and brutal pen...

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 24d

We've had a fantastic response to our launch of the free 70-page PDF of the Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart, far exceeding our most optimistic hopes for first-week downloads.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

In response to numerous requests, we've made a softcover POD option for this book.

Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart Rules - Cthulhu Reborn | DriveThruRPG

Be Transported To A Place of Horrors Both Mundane & Mythos. Convicts & Cthulhu is a fully-featured tabletop roleplaying game of cosmic horror and investigation, set in the bleak and brutal pen...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 17d

I should have tagged: @pstjmack.bsky.social

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 17d

I'd like to mention that #83 on this list "Insumneeyah" is a Cthulhu Eternal scenario set in Modern Era and HPL's Dreamlands (I played in it too!). The creator, Paul StJohn Mackintosh has since published it as an awesome PDF. Good for a bit of VR Zoog bashing.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5303...

California Dreaming: A Cthulhu Eternal Modern and Dreamlands mini-campaign - Quills Media | DriveThruRPG.com

California Dreaming’s Protagonists have signed up with a San Francisco start-up as testers for a new immersive game…

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 24d

No, thank YOU for checking out the pubs of a small indie press. We strive to commission great writers, curate the kinds of Lovecraftian games we would like to play ourselves, and bundle it up in eye-catching books ... but ultimately we don't have much advertising budget, so rely on word of mouth.

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 24d

In answer to multiple questions we've received -- no, our core game book for Convicts & Cthulhu (pictured) isn't being crowdfunded via Kickstarter or Backerkit or similar.

The Oct 31 date is an old-school release, with the book being available for purchase on that date to ship shortly thereafter.

Cover of the Convicts & Cthulhu RPG core book. Text reads: "Convicts & Cthulhu. A Cthulhu Eternal Roleplaying Game of Cosmic Horror in the Early Penal Colonies of 18th Century Australia".

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 24d

We were planning on releasing this at the same time as the big launch of the C&C Core Book (October 31), but enough folks seem to want to grab it now for their face-to-face gaming needs, so who are we to say no.

Obviously purchases of the print book also come with the free PDF version.

A photograph of interior pages from the Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart. Two pages from the rules covering Sanity.

A photograph of interior pages from the Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart. The splash page for the ready-to-play scenario.

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 24d

We've had a fantastic response to our launch of the free 70-page PDF of the Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart, far exceeding our most optimistic hopes for first-week downloads.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

In response to numerous requests, we've made a softcover POD option for this book.

Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart Rules - Cthulhu Reborn | DriveThruRPG

Be Transported To A Place of Horrors Both Mundane & Mythos. Convicts & Cthulhu is a fully-featured tabletop roleplaying game of cosmic horror and investigation, set in the bleak and brutal pen...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Sep 11

Our current plan is to release the full Convicts & Cthulhu core Rulebook on October 31. It is a 312-page book, and will be available as a hardcover print title for those that like physical books. It is approximately 3x the size of our earlier C&C setting book, expanded in literally every aspect.

The cover of the forthcoming Convicts & Cthulhu RPG, a full-featured tabletop roleplaying game of Lovecraftian cosmic horror in the early penal settlements of Australia (during the period 1788-1810).

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Convicts & Cthulhu RPG is powered by the rules from the Cthulhu Eternal "Age of Revolutions" SRD, which is a 100-page feature-complete ruleset for Lovecraftian gaming anywhere, in the time period approximately 1750-1850. It is a Pay-What-You-Want PDF.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Cthulhu Eternal - Age of Revolutions SRD - Cthulhu Reborn | DriveThruRPG

“..a brotherhood kept alive from age to age ... as a hero an ancient Chaldean sorcerer surviving in the pristine bloom of youth to perish on the guillotine of the French Revolution.” IMPORTANT NOTE:...

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Sep 11

One side-effect of us rebooting the Convicts & Cthulhu line is that the old 2016 sourebook (which contains statistics for the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition RPG) will be removed from sale. If you want to grab it -- in print or PDF -- you'll have until October 31.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...

Convicts & Cthulhu - Cthulhu Reborn | DriveThruRPG

Cosmic Horror. Fuelled by Human Cruelty and Depravity. ◊ The prison colonies of 18th and 19th Century Australia are justly feared throughout the British Empire as places of unparalleled suffering and ...

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart is a 70pp book, complete with rules, Protagonists, and a full adventure. Right now it is available only as a PDF, but will be available in softcover print when the full Convicts & Cthulhu RPG launches on October 31.

Splash page for the Scenario included in the Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart. Text reads "Scenario: Fallen Stars. By Matthew Ruane" and the picture shows a dead Elder Thing on the back of an ox while a mutated dingo attacks an unfortunate Convict.

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Sep 11

THE CONVICTS ARE FREE!

Er ... by that I mean we are delighted to announce the release today of the totally-free ($0) Quickstart for our new iteration of the standalone Convicts & Cthulhu RPG.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Convicts & Cthulhu Quickstart Rules - Cthulhu Reborn | DriveThruRPG

Be Transported To A Place of Horrors Both Mundane & Mythos. Convicts & Cthulhu is a fully-featured tabletop roleplaying game of cosmic horror and investigation, set in the bleak and brutal pen...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Sep 6

I dunno ... that also sounds like the same internal monologue that plays on repeat in the heads of internationally-famous-and-accomplished-writers, so maybe writing is one of those rare professions where almost everybody thinks they can't do it 😀

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Aug 30

When we re-boot our Convicts & Cthulhu product line (first released in 2016 as a setting for Call of Cthulhu 7e), it'll be a standalone game using the Cthulhu Eternal rules. When it's out, we'll be retiring the CoC version ... so if you've been thinking about getting a print copy, maybe do it soon.

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Aug 30

It's been quite a while since we released any new products for Cthulhu Eternal ... mostly because there have been a few very BIG things we've been working on. The first output of those creative endeavours should drop soon ... the below is a bit of a teaser about what we will be unleashing.

Cover image of a Quickstart Rulebook for the Convicts & Cthulhu RPG, a game powered by Cthulhu Eternal and set in the early penal colonies of 18th/19th Century Australia. The cover features some fishy humanoids, some squalid tents, and some tall ships in a foggy background.

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Aug 30

Don't thank us ... thank the incomparable Penelope Love for writing such a great Dreamlands scenario in the first place. We spotted it as a diamond among the free scenarios shared online in the late 1990s (thank you, "Chaosium Digest" email list) and gave it the graphic treatment it deserves.

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Aug 29

Huh, I'm surprised there's no "FINAL", "ACTUALLY FINAL", "WILL THIS THING EVER DIE", or "PLEASE ZARDOS MAKE IT STOP" ... I thought they were the ISO standard naming conventions for writers and WIPs. 🧐

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Bill Adcock @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · Aug 28

The really good stuff is the scenarios I’ve written for Cthulhu Eternal - I stopped producing material for Call of Cthulhu in 2020 for a string of reasons so the newer and better material is all with @cthulhureborn.bsky.social

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you're a Lovecraftian TTRPG aficionado (for any game system), you should really check out Shoggoth.net's awesome Octobernomicon event (which has run for years). Fan-contributed Mythos creations every day. A great way to give or get some new horrors.

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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · Aug 26

Caveat emptor, as they say. It does feel a bit odd, though, that the ersatz experience costs $$ but the genuine experience costs nothing except the time you spend at table/VTT with friends. The idea that any experience in life can "accelerated" by throwing cash at the problem seems a 21st C notion.

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