Call of Cthulhu 5th Edition Rulebook

5.6.1 Edition Cover

Details

Publisher: Chaosium

Product Code: 2386 (199-2386CH) (Ed. 5.6.1)

Publishing Year: 2001 (Ed. 5.6.1)

Pages: 288 (Ed. 5.6.1)

Author(s): Sandy Petersen & Lynn Willis, with Keith Herber, Kevin Ross, William Hamblin, Mark Morrison, William Hamblin, Scott David Aniolowski, Michael Tice, Shannon Appel, Eric Rowe, Bruce Ballon, William G. Dunn, Sam Johnson, Brian M. Sammons, Jan Engan, Bill Barron, and friends.

Artist(s): John T. Snyder (cover), Paul Carrick (section illustrations & sidebar decorations), Gene Day, Tom Sullivan, Lori Deitrick, Gus DiZerega, Chris Marrinan, Dreyfus, Lisa A. Free, Earl Geier, John T. Snyder, Tony Ackland, Drashi Khenup

Format(s): Hardcover, Softcover, PDF

ISBN: 1-56882-148-4 (Ed. 5.6.1)

Contents

• The Call of Cthulhu
  • (Lovecraft's original story)
• Game System
  • Introduction
    • Call of Cthulhu Terms
    • Resources for the Game
  • About Investigators
    • Creating Your Investigator
    • Sample Occupations
    • Notes on Occupations
    • Creating Harvey Walters
  • Rules and Skills
    • The Resistance Table
    • Spot Rules for Injuries
    • Spot Rules for Combat
    • Spot Rules for Firearms
    • Weapons Table
    • Skills & Base Chances
  • Sanity and Insanity
    • Insanity and Treatment
  • Example of Play
  • Magic
    • Examples of Occult Books (and Non-Occult Books)
    • Major Books of the Mythos
      • Al-Azif
      • Azathoth and Other Horrors
      • Book of Dzyan
      • Book of Eibon
      • Celaeno Fragments
      • Cthaat Aquadingen
      • Cthulhu in the Necronomicon
      • Cultes des Goules
      • De Vermis Mysteriis
      • Eltdown Shards
      • G'Harne Fragments
      • The King in Yellow (tome)
      • Massa di Requiem per Shuggay
      • Monstres and Their Kynde
      • Unaussprechlichen Kulten
      • Necronomicon
      • People of the Monolith
      • Pnakotic Manuscripts
      • Ponape Scripture
      • Revelations of Glaaki
      • R'Lyeh Text
      • Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan
      • Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New England Canaan
      • True Magick
      • Zanthu Tablets
      • More Mythos Tomes
    • Harvey's First Spell: An Example
    • How Sorcerers Get That Way
• Reference
  • • The Cthulhu Mythos
    • The Necronomicon
    • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
    • De Rerum Supernatura
    • Mental Disorders
    • Keeper's Lore
    • A Keeper's Toolkit
    • Creatures of the Mythos
      • Byakhee
      • Cthonian
      • Colour Out of Space
      • Dagon and Hydra
      • Dark Young
      • Deep One
      • Dhole
      • Dimensional Shambler
      • Elder Thing
      • Fire Vampire
      • Flying Polyp
      • Formless Spawn
      • Ghast
      • Ghoul
      • Servant of Gla'aki
      • Gnoph-Keh
      • Great Race of Yith
      • Gug
      • Hound of Tindalos
      • Hunting Horror
      • Leng Spider
      • Lloigor
      • Mi-Go
      • Moon-Beast
      • Nightgaunt
      • Rat-Thing
      • Sand-Dweller
      • Serpent Man
      • Servitor of the Outer Gods
      • Insect from Shaggai
      • Shantak
      • Shoggoth
      • Star-Spawn of Cthulhu
      • Star Vampire
      • Tcho-Tcho
      • Being of Xiclotl
    • Alien Technology
      • Crystal of the Elder Things
      • The Great White Space
      • Mi-Go Bio-Armor
      • Mi-Go Brain Cylinder
      • Mi-Go Earthquake Mining Machine
      • Mi-Go Electric Gun
      • Mi-Go Mist Projector
      • Serpent People Carotid Toxin
      • Serpent People Domination Serum
      • Yithian Lightning-Gun
      • Yithian Stasis Cube
      • Yithian Tabula Rasa Device
      • Yithian Temporal Communicator
    • Deities of the Mythos
      • Abhoth
      • Atlach-Nacha
      • Azathoth
      • Bast
      • Bokrug
      • Chaugnar Faugn
      • Cthugha
      • Cthulhu
      • Cyaegha
      • Daoloth
      • Eihort
      • Ghatanothoa
      • Glaaki
      • Hastur
      • Hypnos
      • Ithaqua
      • Lesser other Gods
      • Nodens
      • Nyarlathotep
      • Nyogtha
      • Quachil Uttaus
      • Rhan-Tegoth
      • Shub-Niggurath
      • Shudde M'Ell
      • Tsathoggua
      • Tulzscha
      • Ubbo-Sathla
      • Y'Golonac
      • Yibb-Tstll
      • Yig
      • Yog-Sothoth
      • Zhar
      • Zoth-Ommog
    • Beasts and Monsters
      • Bunyip
      • Ghost
      • Mummy
      • Skeleton
      • Vampire
      • Werewolf
      • Wraith
      • Zombie
    • Personalities
      • Dr. Henry Armitage
      • Randolph Carter
      • Joseph Curwen
      • the Last De la Poer ("The Rats in the Walls (fiction)")
      • Edward Pickman Derby
      • Inspector John Raymond Legrasse
      • Thomas F. Malone ("The Horror at Red Hook (fiction)")
      • Keziah Mason
      • Richard Upton Pickman
      • Asenath Waite
      • Dr. Herbert West
      • Son of Yog-Sothoth (Dunwich Horror (fiction))
      • Noah Whateley (The "Wizard Whateley")
      • Wilbur Whateley
    • A Mythos Grimoire
    • Call/Dismiss Deity Spell
    • Contact Spells
    • Contact Deity Spells
    • Enchantment Spells
    • Summon/Bind Spells
• Scenarios
  • The Haunting
  • Edge of Darkness
  • The Madman
  • Dead Man Stomp
• Utilities
  • A Guide to Lovecraft Country
    • Guide to Arkham
    • Locales & Events
  • Traveling: Land, Sea, and Air
    • Optional Rules: Vehicle Chases
    • Speeds & Distances
  • Costs, Equipment, and Services
    • 1890s
    • 1920s
    • Modern
  • References
    • Cthulhu Supplements
      • 1920s Investigator's Companion
      • The Creature Companion
      • The Keeper's Companion
      • Dark Designs
      • Adventures in Arkham Country
      • Before the Fall
      • Beyond the Mountains of Madness
      • Compact Arkham Unveiled
      • Arkham Sanitarium Kit
      • Day of the Beast
      • Dead Reckonings
      • Escape from Innsmouth
      • Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition Pack
      • Horror's Heart (Supplement)
      • King of Chicago (Supplement)
      • The New Orleans Guidebook
      • The San Francisco Guidebook
      • The Bermuda Triangle (Supplement)
      • Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places (listed as "Goatswood" CH2379)
      • Last Rites (Supplement)
      • Unseen Masters
      • A Resection of Time (Supplement)
      • Secrets (Supplement)
      • H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands (listed as "The Complete Dreamlands" CH2368)
      • The Dreaming Stone (Supplement)
      • Blood Brothers 2
      • No Man's Land
      • Strange Aeons (Supplement)
      • Taint of Madness
      • Mythos (collectable card game)
  • Timelines
    • Disasters, Natural and Man-Made
    • Events Occult, Criminal & Futurist
    • A Hundred Years & More
  • The Cthulhu Comic
  • Ready-to--Play Investigators
    • 1890s Investigators
    • 1920s Investigators
    • Present-Day Investigators
  • Charts & Forms
    • Monster Master
    • Character Sheet (Front) 1920s
    • Character Sheet (back, any era)
    • Character Sheet (Front) 1890s
    • Character Sheet (Front) Modern
    • Character Sheet (Half-Size)
    • Blank Telegram Form
  • Play Aids
  • Index

Front Cover Text

Horror Roleplaying
Call of Cthulhu
Sandy Petersen & Lynn Willis
with Keith Herber, William Hamblin,
Mark Morrison, John T. Snyder, and friends
Chaosium, Inc.

Back Cover Text

Call of Cthulhu
A Core Game Book for Players & Keepers.

The Great Old Ones ruled the earth aeons before the rise of man. Remains of their cyclopean cities can still be found on remote islands in the Pacific, buried amid the shifting sands of vast deserts, and in the frozen wastes of the polar extremes. Originally they came to this world from the stars. Now they sleep - some sleep within the earth and others beneath the sea. When The Stars Are Right they will rise, and once again walk the earth.

Call of Cthulhu is a roleplaying game based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, in which ordinary people are confronted by the terrifying forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. To play all you need are this book, some dice, and your friends.

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