![]() ![]() As one telling example, the writers and editors give helpful advice on actual Arab and Indian names, instead of the rather cheesy choices of the original. These details also do a lot to redress what looks more and more like one of the main shortcomings of the original – that it just wasn’t researched deeply enough or with enough respect for authenticity. The Australia section is especially outstanding in this respect, and oozes atmosphere. Each of the main locations of Masks of Nyarlathotep – New York, England, Egypt, Kenya, Australia, Shanghai, Hong Kong – gets the deep-dive treatment, with exhaustive period details on all aspects of life in the mid-1920s. The Companion is as gargantuan as you’d expect, given that it’s almost four times as long as the original text. The book itself has now gone out to the Kickstarter backers, and will soon be debuting for the general public. YSDC), the premier website for all things Call of Cthulhu.” The original Kickstarter campaign for the Companion exceeded its target by almost six times. This is where Innsmouth House and Sixtystone Press have stepped in to help manage that complexity with The Masks of Nyarlathotep Companion, an even more gargantuan play aid – 775 pages no less – bringing together “the ideas, the inspirations, and the occasional innovations of the gamers who have run Masks of Nyarlathotep over the past 32 years … drawn from the collective experience of the membership of (a.k.a. It’s also immensely long: Writer Jim Hauser tells of one complete playthrough that took 1 ½ years. Recipient of a Best Roleplaying Adventure award, Masks of Nyarlathotep remains, as its credits declare, “a roleplaying classic,” over two decades after its first appearance in 1984. Lary DiTillio and Lynn Willis’s Masks of Nyarlathotep: Perilous Adventures to Thwart the Dark God is probably the single most celebrated campaign ever created for Chaosium’s unhallowed-groundbreaking Call of Cthulhu RPG. ![]()
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