Lovecraftian Thing A Day No.55: Lovecraftian Tales from the Table

Despite the fact that I rarely get the opportunity to play, The Call of Cthulhu rpg has always been a key facet of my engagement with the Lovecraftian milieu. Fortunately, the good folks at Yog-Sothoth.com continue to facilitate my participation in rpging – albeit vicariously – through the extensive gaming recordings they have provided over the years. Of note is this DVD which Yog-Sothoth.com released in 2008, documenting over 50 hours of actual play across two complete (not to say classic) CoC campaigns: The Masks of Nyarlathotep and Horror on the Orient Express. The DVD also comes with a temporary tattoo of the symbol of the Cult of the Bloody Tongue (or is it the Black Pharoah?). In any case, I expect that someday I will end up applying this to my forehead in an effort to scare the neighbours...