grodog wrote:I managed to snag a 20th anniversary edition (red Elder Sign version) a little while ago for $60, which made me very happy

Nice snag Allan - still one of the best looking best produced books for any rpg in the last 20 years.

grodog wrote:Also, in addition to Goodman Games now licensing CoC, Adamant Entertainment has hired Ken Hite to run their new CoC lines of adventures and rulebooks:  http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=403 and http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com/140839.html

Recent passings notwithstanding, this is really a golden age for Call of Cthulhu.  new publishers, new adventures, and loads of small conventions running too    

Hey, in case anyone is still curious, here's what I ended up with (I began this thread, for those who might be saying, "Huh?"):

Second edition boxed set;
Both of the Chaosium solo adventures;
Both of the Chaosium companion books;
Shadows of Y-S;
Some Different Worlds issues with Cthulhu content;
... and ... and ... I know I'm forgetting at least one more. Hell with it.

I also bought a 6th edition hardback to compare where the game is now with where it was BITD.

Lots of good stuff. I'm not sure I'll ever play again (and I've got the Arkham Horror boardgame to help scratch the Mythos itch), but the purchases were worth it just for the atmosphere alone. You just can't beat CoC for atmosphere.

Xaxaxe wrote:Hey, in case anyone is still curious, here's what I ended up with:

Second edition boxed set;
Both of the Chaosium solo adventures;
Both of the Chaosium companion books;
Shadows of Y-S;
Some Different Worlds issues with Cthulhu content;
... and ... and ... I know I'm forgetting at least one more. Hell with it.

I also bought a 6th edition hardback to compare where the game is now with where it was BITD.

That's great Duke.  You should also pick up some of Pagan's products---quite good stuff!

Xaxaxe wrote:(and I've got the Arkham Horror boardgame to help scratch the Mythos itch), but the purchases were worth it just for the atmosphere alone. You just can't beat CoC for atmosphere.

ArH rocks

Knightfall wrote:Question: Is CAN $45 too much to pay for the 3rd Edition Call of Cthulhu hardcover? Whyte Knight, in Edmonton, has it for that price.

This one...
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The Noble Knight web store has one in stock right now in a stated VG condition for $25.20.
I usually see them sell on eBay in the $10 - $20 range. If you are a patient eBay auction watcher you can pick them up for under $10.
Occasionally you will see them sell for more but I suspect the buyer is looking for the item and wants the first one they see.

serleran wrote:Lucky. Mine cost $90.

I got it from the UK, Robert, so interested buyers might keep and eye out there for such:  sometimes good bargains are worth the shipping cost

ericthecleric wrote:The same guy who posted a bunch of early RQ stuff on ebay has now added the folowing (the link is at the end of this post!):

Call of Cthulhu 2nd Edition
Terror from the Stars
Dreamlands
Spawn of Azathoth
Trail of the Loathsome Slime
Nightmare in Norway
Cthulhu Companion
Statue of the Sorcerer
Cthulhu by Gaslight
Green and Pleasant Land
Alone Against the Dark

eBay listings

The Terror from the Stars should do well since he is showing that the Theron Marks Field Manual is still attached.

Trail of the Loathsome Slime, Green and Pleasant Land and Nightmare in Norway have been fetching some good prices over the last few years.

All three were Games Workshop publications from the mid-80's.

He has some Runequest items that usually fetch a handsome price such as Big Rubble and Pavis.

It is too bad that Moon Design Publications has not reprinted their 316 page book that combines both.

I was searching for that for quite some time for a friend of mine who is a longtime Runequest fan.

Goodman Games will have a new "Age of Cthulhu" module out late this year.  Here's a preview of cover art I found on eth forums of their website...



[edit] From the cover art and some other bits and pieces floating about the web, looks like they will be using Stonehenge as one of the locations. Not a bad idea - personally I think it has been a little underused in published scenarios.

jasonw1239 wrote:That looks interesting. I enjoyed their first Call of Cthulhu release "Death in Luxor", although I have yet to run it.

The reviews over on Y-S.com were less-than-stellar, so I haven't picked it up yet, although Harley writes very good adventures, in general.

jasonw1239 wrote:I agree, there are many neolithic sites that could be used in scenarios.
Not only Stonehenge but places such as Carnac, Skara Brae, Nan Madol and Machu Picchu.

We made it to Stonehenge but not Avebury on our Dec 2006 trip to the UK.  When we go back, that's very high on my list of places to go!  It would also make an excellent adventure site, I think (I've actually been adapting parts of it for use in my Maure Castle expansions...).

On the first Goodman Games Cthulhu adventure, Death in Luxor, this is what I wrote over at Y-S.com back in Feb on this year.

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"It has really great cover art.

Inside it needs, quite a lot of work before being in any decent shape to run with players.

But the main thing is it doesn't feel remotely like Egypt. Even less does it feel like a small isolated Egyptian town in 1927. It feels more like prohibition Chicago. The players fly in and immediately start to encounter large groups of roaming armed mobile police. They race around the place talking to 'thugs', brawling in seedy bars and stealing cars (of which there are "any number" parked around).

It is a shame that so little was made of the actual location of Luxor. For example; just a few years earlier, Howard Carter steps into the lost tomb of Tutankhamun - literally just across the river from Luxor in the Valley of the Kings, or, a couple of miles North from Luxor is Karnak - one of the largest open air temple complexes in the world.

Both Chaosium and Pagan Pub understand that building period detail into their adventures adds verisimilitude which leads to more tense, dramatic and exciting nights of call of Cthulhu. Sadly, much of that is lacking here.

To be fair, at least one real location is used in the adventure - Medinet Habu (the funerary complex of Ramesses III and a key scene in the adventure). Unfortunately in the adventure this is marked as being right in the middle of the town. In real life it is outside Luxor, across the Nile on the West bank - a ferry ride and a hike away. (whoops!).

Overall Death in Luxor is light on tension and heavy on opportunities for combat. I have no gripe with throwing large groups of cultists, thugs and tentacled mythos creatures at the players - but it works best when balanced by a great plot that needs uncovering, and buckets of atmosphere...."

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Which, reading again three months later does perhaps sound a bit harsh for their first attempt.     So I am awaiting Goodman's second Cthulhu mod with an open mind. However Chaosium, Pagan Publishing, and other publishers have set a very high standard for Call of Cthulhu adventures (in fact there are even some excellent adventures available free for download), and all new publishers will be compared to that very high standard. Good luck to them!