Return to Dunwich (Supplement)
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Publisher: Chaosium
1st Edition
Product Code: 2330
Publishing Year: 1991
Pages: 132
Cover Price: $18.95
Author: Keith Herber
Cover painting: Lee Gibbons
Interior illustrations: John T. Snyder
Maps: Carol Triplett-Smith
Editorial and layout: Les Brooks
Cover design: Charlie Krank
Copyreading: Anne Merritt and Sam Shirley
Format(s): Softcover
ISBN: 0-933635-71-0
2nd Edition = "H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich (BRP / d20)"
Product Code: 8802
Publishing Year: 2002
Pages: 192
Cover Price: $25.95
Author: Keith Herber (original text), John Tynes, Brian Campbell (d20 system conversion)
Cover painting: Philippe Bouveret
Interior illustrations: John T. Snyder, Paul Carrick
Maps: Carol Triplett-Smith
Editorial: Lynn Willis (based on the page design from Pegasus Spiele)
Format(s): Softcover
ISBN: 1-56882-164-6
Setting(s): 1920s
Contents
Introduction, Return to Dunwich, Welcome to Dunwich, Secrets of Dunwich, The Village, A Guidebook To Dunwich Environs, The Underground, Appendix 1 (The Dunwich Horror, the H.P. Lovecraft story), Appendix 2 (Secrets, Mysteries, Legends & Rumors), Player Handouts
The updated 2nd edition release includes John Tyne's short scenario Earth, Sky, Soul which originally appeared in The Unspeakable Oath, Issue 04 (Fall 1991). The 2nd edition also moves the text of The Dunwich Horror story from the appendix into the main body of the book. Furthermore it has an appendix which provides d20 conversions for material found in the main part of the volume.
1st Edition Front Cover Text
A forgotten village in Lovecraft Country
1st Edition Back Cover Text
RETURN TO DUNWICH
Book 2 in the Lovecraft Country series, Countains links to Arkham, Fold-out map of Dunwich area included.
"When a traveller in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean's Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country ...
Across a covered bridge one sees a small village huddled between the stream and the vertical slope of Round Mountain, and wonders at the cluster of rotting gambrel roofs bespeaking an earlier architectural period than that of the neighbouring region. It is not reassuring to see, on closer glance, that most of the houses are deserted and falling to ruin, and that the broken-steepled church now harbours the one slovenly mercantile establishment of the hamlet.
No one ... can say just what is the matter with Dunwich"
-- H.P. Lovecraft
Deviant. Derelict. Degenerate. Demented. Deleterious.
Dunwich is a small village located along the Miskatonic, upriver from Arkham. Until 1806, Dunwich was a thriving community, boasting many mills and the powerful Whateley family.
Those among the Whateleys came to know dark secrets about the world, and they fell into the worship of unwholesome creatures from other times and places. Retreating to the hills and forests surrounding the town, they betrayed their uncorrupted kin.
Prosperity fled, and a dark despair seized the people. What remains is a skeleton town, mills closed, its citizens without hope or future. However, secrets of the Mythos survive, to be discovered by brave and enterprising investigators.
Return to Dunwich contains extensive background information about a town originally created and described by H.P. Lovecraft in his terrifying tales of horror. Pertinent buildings, useful people, and important locations are described in depth. A 17" x 22" map of Dunwich Country depicts the areafor (sic) miles around. Two new scenarios are included: one introductory and the other suitable for many evenings of play. Various links and leads to Arkham are included; possession of Arkham Unveiled is useful but not necessary.
2nd Edition Front Cover Text
Dual System 1920s
Return to the Forgotten Village
2nd Edition Back Cover Text
H.P. Lovecraft's DUNWICH
Dunwich is a small village located along the Miskatonic, upriver from Arkham. Until 1806, Dunwich was a thriving community, boasting many mills and the powerful Whateley family.
Those among the Whateleys came to know dark secrets about the world, and they fell into the worship of unwholesome creatures from other times and places. Retreating to the hills and forests surrounding the town, they betrayed their uncorrupted kin.
Prosperity fled, and a dark despair seized the people. What remains is a skeleton town, mills closed, its citizens without hope or future. However, secrets of the Mythos survive, to be discovered by brave and enterprising investigators.
H.P. Lovecraft's DUNWICH begins with "The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft's masterful tale of life in the town and its surrounds. It expands upon the story with extensive information about the town: pertinent building, useful people, and important locations are described in detail. A 17" x 22" map depicts the area for miles around, and two scenarios are included. All statistics and gameplay notes for d20 Cthulhu are also provided.
<also includes an advertisement for both the BRP and d20 versions of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game>
<also includes an advertisement for Chaosium's fiction anthologies>
Comments / Trivia
Dedication:
For my Aunt Shirley Thanks for the support, the backing, and everything else. Over the years you've done more for me than you'll probably ever realize.
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