This is the third iteration of Oscar Rios’ Cthulhu Invictus, which transports both Lovecraft’s fictive mythos and the investigative tropes of the Call of Cthulhu rpg to the setting of Classical Rome - a setting for which Lovecraft himself expressed a cultural and aesthetic attachment.
For my part, I’ve long harboured the desire to run a game of CoC in an ancient Romano-British setting, so it is rather surprising that it has taken me so long to procure a copy of Cthulhu Invictus; regardless, this is a very fine volume, which is not only carefully researched and chock full of useful information for both players and Keepers of the game, but is also beautifully illustrated with full-colour art throughout (of particular note is the front cover, which playfully references Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror, and which also drew me to this volume).
The pdf can be purchased here from Golden Goblin press; it should also be available in hardcopy - along with a Cthulhu Invictus Keeper’s screen - sometime in the not-too-distant future.
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