Call Of Cthulhu 40th anniversary

Call Of Cthulhu is 40 tonight. The first dedicated horror RPG, the longest-running licenced game partially due to the licence falling away, but also how much it helped popularise the setting to begin with, and the game that a lot of later games in the genre react to.

I heard the call through Games Workshop licencing it and giving it regular space in White Dwarf in the mid 80s - my first issue had an article on ghosts - and that pointed me to look for H. P. Lovecraft books in turn. The longest I’ve actually run it is two weeks in a row, but I have a lot for it, not least the 90s conspiracy spinoff Delta Green.