Spawn of Azathoth
Details
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Publisher: Chaosium
1st Edition
Product Code: 2316-X
Publishing Year: 1986
Pages: 128 (spread over three booklets)
Authors: Keith Herber
Artists: Kevin Ramos, Carolyn Schultz, Susan Sedon Boulet
Format: Softcover
ISBN:' 0-933635-29-X
2nd Edition
Product Code: 23101
Publishing Year: 2005
Pages: 200
Authors: Keith Herber with David Conyers, Don Coatar, Jeff Carey, Steve Hatherley, Sandy Petersen and Lynn Willis
Artists: Paul Carrick, David Conyers, Andy Hopp, Michael Mislet, Kevin Ramos and Tom Sullivan
Format: Softcover
ISBN:' XXXXX
Setting: 1920s
Contents
The 1st edition is a boxed set made up of three books plus an additional business card prop. The three books are:
- Book 1: From Beyond the Grave (32 pages),
- Book 2: The Spawn Approaches (64 pages),
- Book 3: The Azathoth Papers (Player handouts, 32 pages), business card handout.
The 2nd edition is a single book. This is divided into the following sections:
- Introduction,
- A Ghostly Presence,
- Providence Rhode Island,
- Garrison Montana,
- St Augustine Florida,
- The Andaman Islands,
- Ulthar and Beyond,
- The Eternal Quest,
- The Tibetan Interior,
- Appendices,
- Index
1st Edition Front Text
Herald of the End of Time
A Chaosium Call of Cthulhu Supplement
1st Edition Back Text
Spawn of Azathoth
Herald of the End of Time.
Few attended the funeral of the old man. And even fewer saw the headless apparition which appeared in an investigator’s room. The keen-witted investigators find significance in the unfortunate death. Through their persistence they begin to unravel a secret implying doom for everyone.
Monstrous peril confronts the intrepid investigators as evidence leads them across the United States and into the depths of Asia.
SPAWN OF AZATHOTH is a new supplement for CALL OF CTHULHU, the roleplaying game which recreates the atmosphere and adventures of the stories of H. P. Lovecraft, world-famous horror-tale author. Within this box are three books – the parts for seven distinct linked adventures, each of generous play time.
The first book, From Beyond the Grave, contains keeper introduction and orientation material, and presents "Providence," the first adventure.
The second book, The Spawn Approaches, contains the other six adventures, "Garrison," "St. Augustine," "Andaman Islands," "Ulthar and Beyond," "The Eternal Quest," and the climax of the campaign, "The Spawn of Azathoth." Lovecraft created a special fantasy world, the Dreamlands, and two of the adventures take place there. Special rules included govern the behaviour of investigators in that other place, including transformation of physical objects and nightmare effects.
The third book, The Azathoth Papers, contains more than 60 news clippings, tome and diary excerpts, letters, and other clues. Three special sections of optional clues – quotations from Mythos tomes, gleanings from historical research, and news clippings – allow keepers to expand upon the clues that their investigators find, to emphasize certain kinds of information or to introduce lines of reasoning not otherwise uncovered.
Sample Azathoth Materials
Ready To Play
- text
- illustrations
- diagrams
- player aids
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2nd Edition Front Text
2nd Edition Back Text
Comments
First and only supplement to feature H.P. Lovecraft as a character (although he is not home when the investigators visit him).
Updated and expanded on the 1984 original with new encounters and expanded historical and background material.
The cover illustration by Tom Sullivan originally appeared as a colour plate inside the Fourth Edition of the Call of Cthulhu rulebook. It was originally commissioned as the cover painting for the "Great Old Ones" supplement. It depicted a scene from a scenario which Sandy Petersen was going to write for the GOO book, but was never completed.
