Cthulhu Tales
Contents
Details
Publisher: Cubicle 7
Product Code/SKU: TBD
ISBN: TBD
Year: Not Yet Released (Announced for Summer 2016)
Designer(s): Francesco Nepitello, Marco Maggi
Number of Players: 2 to 5 players
Estimated Playing Time: TBD
Expansions: None
Other Editions: None
Summary
Cthulhu Tales is a storytelling card game for people who enjoy the weird tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, love games and have a sense of humour with a touch of darkness to it... Incarcerated in a sanatorium, you must convince the staff that you are sane by telling the story of the terrifying events that led you there. The other players try to disrupt your tale to make themselves look more sane in comparison, and the success of your tale determines which misguided therapies and medication are administered by the terrifying medical staff. These treatments are the way the game is scored, the player ending with the least amount of treatment is the winner, and is free to go.
Cthulhu Tales is very much a game, rather than simply a guided storytelling activity – it features structured and elegant rules for the telling of the tale, and for Hazard card interruptions. Players use the symbols on the cards to determine whether a card can be played, and its effect on the Narrator's tale. The die introduces an element of luck into the proceedings – perhaps that Viscous Black Slime was merely a passing detail, or perhaps its arrival was the precursor to something far more sinister and madness inducing...
Comments / Trivia
Cthulhu Tales is a variation on Cubicle 7's Hobbit Tales, a Lord of the Rings-themed storytelling card game. It is not necessary to have Hobbit Tales to play Cthulhu Tales.
