The House of R'lyeh

Call of Cthulhu RPG

by David Conyers, Glyn White, Brian Courtemanche

The House of R’lyeh contains five Call of Cthulhu scenarios that follow or expand upon events in five of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories: “Pickman’s Model”, “The Haunter of the Dark”, “The Hound”, “Arthur Jermyn”, and “The Nameless City”. Set in Boston, Providence, the British Isles, continental Europe, and the Middle East, none of the scenarios need be played at set dates or in a set order, but they could be run in the order presented to form a loose campaign using optional link between scenarios to draw investigators from one to the other.

Alternatively, the scenarios may be used to supplement classic Call of Cthulhu campaigns such as The Shadows of Yog-Sothoth which suggests that its component scenarios should be interspersed with others.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Cthulhu Mythos, Games

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2013

About the author

David Conyers is science fiction author and editor from Adelaide, South Australia. He has a degree in engineering from the University of Melbourne, and today works in marketing communications. David’s fiction has appeared in magazines such as Albedo One, Ticon4, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Book of Dark Wisdom, Lovecraft eZine and Jupiter, as well as more than twenty anthologies. His previous books include the science fiction Cthulhu Mythos blended thriller, The Eye of Infinity published by Perilous Press and the prequel The Spiraling Worm co-authored with John Sunseri. Previous anthologies he has edited include Extreme Planets, Cthulhu Unbound 3, Cthulhu’s Dark Cults and Undead & Unbound. His e-books include The Uncertainty Bridge and The Impossible Object.

Reviews

[Brian Sammons · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great collection of classic Call of Cthulhu scenarios. They are loosely connected so that they can be played as a campaign, but they are strong enough to stand on their own individually. Yes my scenario, "Nameless City, Nameless Terrors" is in this, but even if it wasn't, I'd still highly recommend this book.

[Brian Sammons · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes, my scenario "Nameless City, Nameless Terror" is in this, so I freely admit my bias, but I honestly think all the scenarios in this book are top notch. A great collection of loosely connection adventures that can be played each on their own, or all together as a loose campaign.