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'''Pages:''' 76 | '''Pages:''' 76 | ||
| − | '''Cover Price:''' | + | '''Cover Price:''' |
'''Author:''' [[Keith Herber]] | '''Author:''' [[Keith Herber]] | ||
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'''Typesetting, Layout, and Scenario Map Renditions:''' [[Tadashi Ehara]] | '''Typesetting, Layout, and Scenario Map Renditions:''' [[Tadashi Ehara]] | ||
| − | '''Important voices from other times:''' [[Lee Estes]], [[Lizbeth Estes]], [[David Legg]], [[Sandi Legg]], and [[Ron B. Wilder]] | + | '''Important voices from other times:''' [[Lee Estes]], [[Lizbeth Estes]], [[David Legg]], [[Sandi Legg]], and [[Ron B. Wilder]] |
'''Format:''' Softcover | '''Format:''' Softcover | ||
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==Contents== | ==Contents== | ||
| − | The | + | The [[The Brotherhood of the Beast|Brotherhood of the Beast]] campaign has been published by Chaosium on four occasions. The first publication was "The Fungi from Yuggoth" in 1984. This was reprinted in 1987 -- the latter has a slightly different cover, with a thin black bar across the top. The campaign was then reprinted in the anthology [[Curse of Cthulhu]], where it made up the largest section of that book. This reprint did not substantially change the campaign's contents. This version is referred to here as the "1st Edition". |
The 1st Edition comprises the following material: | The 1st Edition comprises the following material: | ||
| − | * Introduction: | + | * Introduction: The Prophecy |
| − | * Plot Synopsis | + | * Plot Synopsis: The Brotherhood of the Beast |
| − | * Chapter I: [[The Dreamer]] | + | * Chapter I: [[The Dreamer]] |
| − | * Chapter II: [[The Thing in the Well]] | + | * Chapter II: [[The Thing in the Well]] |
| − | * Chapter III: [[Castle Dark]] | + | * Chapter III: [[Castle Dark]] |
| − | * Chapter IV: [[Sands of Time]] | + | * Chapter IV: [[Sands of Time]] |
| − | * Chapter V: [[Mountains of the Moon]] | + | * Chapter V: [[Mountains of the Moon]] |
| − | * Chapter VI: [[By the Bay | + | * Chapter VI: [[By the Bay: Part I]] |
| − | * Chapter VII: [[By the Bay | + | * Chapter VII: [[By the Bay: Part II]] |
| − | * Chapter VIII: [[Day of the Beast (Scenario)]] | + | * Chapter VIII: [[Day of the Beast (Scenario)|Day of the Beast]] |
| − | * Conclusion: Foiling the Brotherhood | + | * Conclusion: Foiling the Brotherhood |
| − | * Optional Scene 1: [[Halls of Celaeno]] | + | * Optional Scene 1: [[Halls of Celaeno]] |
| − | * Optional Scene 2: | + | * Optional Scene 2: [[Voice Out of Time]] |
| − | * | + | * Appendices |
* Index | * Index | ||
| − | The 1998 Revised version adds | + | The campaign was thoroughly revised in 1998 and printed under the name "Day Of The Beast" (referred to here as the "Revised Edition"). This version adds three scenarios to the beginning sections of the campaign, moves the [[Halls of Celaeno]] optional scene into the main body of the text, and omits the [[Voice Out of Time]] optional scene. |
| − | The order of presentation for the | + | The order of presentation for the Revised Edition is: |
| − | * Introduction | + | * Introduction |
'''PART ONE - Forbodings of Doom''' | '''PART ONE - Forbodings of Doom''' | ||
| − | * I: [[Suffer Little Children]] (new to this edition) | + | * I: [[Suffer Little Children]] (new to this edition) |
| − | * II: [[Black Hills - Blackest Secrets]] (new to this edition) | + | * II: [[Black Hills - Blackest Secrets]] (new to this edition) |
| − | * III: [[The Dreamer]] | + | * III: [[The Dreamer]] |
* IV: [[London Calling]] (new to this edition) | * IV: [[London Calling]] (new to this edition) | ||
'''PART TWO - Dreams of Nophru-Ka''' | '''PART TWO - Dreams of Nophru-Ka''' | ||
| − | * V: [[The Thing in the Well]] | + | * V: [[The Thing in the Well]] |
| − | * VI: [[Castle Dark | + | * VI: [[Castle Dark]] |
| − | * VII: [[Halls of Celaeno]] | + | * VII: [[Halls of Celaeno]] |
* VIII: [[Sands of Time]] | * VIII: [[Sands of Time]] | ||
'''PART THREE - Day of the Beast''' | '''PART THREE - Day of the Beast''' | ||
| − | * IX: [[Mountains of the Moon | + | * IX: [[Mountains of the Moon]] |
| − | * X: [[By the Bay]] | + | * X: [[By the Bay: Part I]] |
| − | * XI: [[By the Bay]] | + | * XI: [[By the Bay: Part II]] |
| − | * XII: [[Day of the Beast (Scenario)]] | + | * XII: [[Day of the Beast (Scenario)|Day of the Beast]] |
'''PART FOUR - Appendix of the Beast''' | '''PART FOUR - Appendix of the Beast''' | ||
| − | * Handouts | + | * Handouts |
| − | * Bibliography | + | * Bibliography |
| − | * Index | + | * Index |
| − | '''Campaigns:''' [[The | + | '''Campaigns:''' [[The Brotherhood of the Beast]] |
| − | '''Scenarios:''' | + | '''Scenarios:''' [[Suffer Little Children]] (Revised Edition only), [[Black Hills - Blackest Secrets]] (Revised Edition only), [[The Dreamer]], [[London Calling]] (Revised Edition only), [[The Thing in the Well]], [[Castle Dark]], [[Sands of Time]], [[Mountains of the Moon]], [[By the Bay: Part I]], [[By the Bay: Part II]], [[Day of the Beast (Scenario)|Day of the Beast]], [[Halls of Celaeno]], [[Voice Out of Time]] (1st Edition only) |
| − | [[Black Hills - Blackest Secrets]] ( | ||
| − | [[Castle Dark]], [[Sands of Time]], [[Mountains of the Moon]], [[By the Bay]] | ||
| − | [[Voice Out of Time]] (1st Edition only) | ||
'''Additional:''' Player Handouts | '''Additional:''' Player Handouts | ||
| − | + | ||
==1st Edition Front Cover Text== | ==1st Edition Front Cover Text== | ||
Desperate Adventures Against the Brotherhood | Desperate Adventures Against the Brotherhood | ||
==1st Edition Back Cover Text== | ==1st Edition Back Cover Text== | ||
| + | '''Schemes of the Mi-Go''' | ||
| + | |||
Internationally-famous psychic, [[Paul LeMond]], has disappeared. From the moment your investigators find him, they will be plunged into the black secrets of the sinister Brotherhood of the Beast and its inhuman masters. The investigators must traverse the globe in an effort to track down the manifestations of the Brotherhood and to find when the [[Day of the Beast]] is planned. The investigators will visit four continents and possibly an alien planet in search of occult mysteries, madness, and grisly death. | Internationally-famous psychic, [[Paul LeMond]], has disappeared. From the moment your investigators find him, they will be plunged into the black secrets of the sinister Brotherhood of the Beast and its inhuman masters. The investigators must traverse the globe in an effort to track down the manifestations of the Brotherhood and to find when the [[Day of the Beast]] is planned. The investigators will visit four continents and possibly an alien planet in search of occult mysteries, madness, and grisly death. | ||
This book contains a complete campaign in eight chapters for ''Call of Cthulhu''. | This book contains a complete campaign in eight chapters for ''Call of Cthulhu''. | ||
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| + | '''For Keepers Only''' | ||
=="Day Of The Beast" Revised Edition Front Cover Text== | =="Day Of The Beast" Revised Edition Front Cover Text== | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
| + | * [http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10343.phtml Review by David Conyers on RPGnet] | ||
==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only== | ==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only== | ||
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Latest revision as of 03:24, 26 February 2016
Details
Publisher: Chaosium
Product Code: 2305
Publishing Year: 1984
Pages: 76
Cover Price:
Author: Keith Herber
Artist: Chris Marrinan
Editor: Sandy Petersen
Typesetting, Layout, and Scenario Map Renditions: Tadashi Ehara
Important voices from other times: Lee Estes, Lizbeth Estes, David Legg, Sandi Legg, and Ron B. Wilder
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 0-933635-08-7
Revised Edition (= "Day Of The Beast")
Product Code: 2374
Publishing Year: 1998
Pages: 128
Cover Price: $19.95
Author(s): Keith Herber, Lucya Szachnowski, Gary O'Connell, Sam Johnson, Kevin A, Ross, Shannon Appel
Artist(s): Chris Marrinan (front cover), Nick Smith (back cover), M. Wayne Miller, Tadashi Ehara, Shannon Appel (maps)
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 1-56882-125-5
Setting: 1920s
Contents
The Brotherhood of the Beast campaign has been published by Chaosium on four occasions. The first publication was "The Fungi from Yuggoth" in 1984. This was reprinted in 1987 -- the latter has a slightly different cover, with a thin black bar across the top. The campaign was then reprinted in the anthology Curse of Cthulhu, where it made up the largest section of that book. This reprint did not substantially change the campaign's contents. This version is referred to here as the "1st Edition".
The 1st Edition comprises the following material:
- Introduction: The Prophecy
- Plot Synopsis: The Brotherhood of the Beast
- Chapter I: The Dreamer
- Chapter II: The Thing in the Well
- Chapter III: Castle Dark
- Chapter IV: Sands of Time
- Chapter V: Mountains of the Moon
- Chapter VI: By the Bay: Part I
- Chapter VII: By the Bay: Part II
- Chapter VIII: Day of the Beast
- Conclusion: Foiling the Brotherhood
- Optional Scene 1: Halls of Celaeno
- Optional Scene 2: Voice Out of Time
- Appendices
- Index
The campaign was thoroughly revised in 1998 and printed under the name "Day Of The Beast" (referred to here as the "Revised Edition"). This version adds three scenarios to the beginning sections of the campaign, moves the Halls of Celaeno optional scene into the main body of the text, and omits the Voice Out of Time optional scene.
The order of presentation for the Revised Edition is:
- Introduction
PART ONE - Forbodings of Doom
- I: Suffer Little Children (new to this edition)
- II: Black Hills - Blackest Secrets (new to this edition)
- III: The Dreamer
- IV: London Calling (new to this edition)
PART TWO - Dreams of Nophru-Ka
- V: The Thing in the Well
- VI: Castle Dark
- VII: Halls of Celaeno
- VIII: Sands of Time
PART THREE - Day of the Beast
- IX: Mountains of the Moon
- X: By the Bay: Part I
- XI: By the Bay: Part II
- XII: Day of the Beast
PART FOUR - Appendix of the Beast
- Handouts
- Bibliography
- Index
Campaigns: The Brotherhood of the Beast
Scenarios: Suffer Little Children (Revised Edition only), Black Hills - Blackest Secrets (Revised Edition only), The Dreamer, London Calling (Revised Edition only), The Thing in the Well, Castle Dark, Sands of Time, Mountains of the Moon, By the Bay: Part I, By the Bay: Part II, Day of the Beast, Halls of Celaeno, Voice Out of Time (1st Edition only)
Additional: Player Handouts
1st Edition Front Cover Text
Desperate Adventures Against the Brotherhood
1st Edition Back Cover Text
Schemes of the Mi-Go
Internationally-famous psychic, Paul LeMond, has disappeared. From the moment your investigators find him, they will be plunged into the black secrets of the sinister Brotherhood of the Beast and its inhuman masters. The investigators must traverse the globe in an effort to track down the manifestations of the Brotherhood and to find when the Day of the Beast is planned. The investigators will visit four continents and possibly an alien planet in search of occult mysteries, madness, and grisly death.
This book contains a complete campaign in eight chapters for Call of Cthulhu.
For Keepers Only
"Day Of The Beast" Revised Edition Front Cover Text
A Reprint of the Classic Fungi From Yuggoth Campaign, Expanded with Three New Adventures
"Day Of The Beast" Revised Edition Back Cover Text
Day Of The Beast
The year is 1927. For America it is a time of growth and prosperity. Lon Chaney, Babe Ruth, and Charlie Chan are celebrities, while the average young American enjoys speakeasies, jazz, and the new "talkies." All that is about to change. A young psychic by the name of Paul LeMond has seen the future, and it is a sight which has driven him insane.
Day of the Beast is an episodic campaign taking investigators from the height of 1927 to the edge of the Great Depression in 1929. A global conspiracy has surfaced, and only the investigators can stop it. Travel to four continents and the planet of Celaeno is required. Can the plans of the Brotherhood of the Beast be stopped before The Stars Are Right?
Day of the Beast was originally published as The Fungi from Yuggoth, and in that form also appeared as part of Curse of Cthulhu. Day of the Beast is a new edition of a classic campaign, thoroughly revised. It contains almost 50 pages of new material, including three totally new adventures.
<also includes an advertisement for Chaosium's line of Call of Cthulhu roleplaying supplements>
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Comments / Trivia
The original working title for 'Fungi from Yuggoth' was 'Voices out of Time'.
Dedication: This work is dedicated to Clark Ashton Smith and Danté Helcimer.
Playtesters and other helpers: Chris Allen, Wilkie Collins III, Erik Herber, Sharon Herber, Laura Tyler, and Joyce Boyle and Bob Boyle at the Alcove
This campaign includes a reference to the mad monk Rasputin and the Cthulhu Mythos’ answer to the cause of the 1907 Siberian Explosion. The featured Pharaoh Nophru-Ka is believed to be a misspelling by Keith Herber of Lovecraft’s creation Nephren-Ka, although chronologies of the Mythos history show that these two Pharaohs lived at different periods of history.
First Cthulhu scenario to feature a giant, attacking robot.
Characters from this campaign, such as Bugsy Wexler, Rasputin and The Ghost That Walks also appeared in Spawn of Azathoth. Character of Lang Fu based on the Deathless Chinese mentioned in H. P. Lovecraft’s story "The Call of Cthulhu."
In the 1998 Revised Edition, a full-page picture of deformed Baron Hauptmann appears -- this same image was previously included (in color) in Curse of Cthulhu, but in that earlier publication it represented a victim of the spell Resurrection. Text in the scenario changed to reflect the use of this picture.
Links
Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only
Players should not read any further.
