Recently released for the Call of Cthulhu rpg (albeit for the 6th edition of the game) is Punktown, a setting based upon the novels and short stories of Jeffrey Thomas documenting the (many Lovecaftian) happenings in the city of the same name
Originally a settlement on the human-colonised planet of Oasis, but increasingly inhabited by a vast array of other alien species, ‘Punktown’ is the nickname of the vast, dystopian urban spawl officially known as Paxton, where murder, serial killings, and other hoffific crimes are part of the everyday social fabric - and often the least of concerns for the city’s inhabitants, who stand in the shadow of other worlds and dimensions inhabited by Lovecaftian monstrosities.
Whilst the far-future, cyberpunk (and occasionally splatterpunk) high weirdness stylings of Punktown may not be to everybodies taste, this is definitely worth a look; as are Jeffrey Thomas’ original tales about the city - the earliest of which represent some of the first forays into what has since been labelled ‘the New Weird’. In this respect, Punktown is Mieville’s New Crobuzon mixed in with Clockwork Orange, and turned up to eleven. Needless to say, as an rpg setting, Punktown is not for the faint of heart (and recommended for a mature audience).
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