OSR Rulebook by Kent David Kelly
ollowing from the sinister legacy of TSR’s iconic Deities hardcover of 1980, Oldskull Cthulhu is the ultimate tome of old school monstrous secrets. This massive book provides over 20 chapters of Lovecraftian lore, monster statistics, Non-Player Character options, eldritch powers, and cursed treasures from the Cthulhu Mythos.
Designed for the Advanced, Basic, and Expert editions of the game, Oldskull Cthulhu provides full details on Cthulhu, the Deep Ones, Hastur, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, the Fungi from Yuggoth, Shoggoths, the King in Yellow, and more.
Herein you will also find details on the history of TSR’s treatment of these entities, 10 unholy cleric sub-classes, cults, reformed psychic and psionic powers, spell selections for each Great Old One, dozens of Deep One subtypes and hierarchies for the Sunless Seas, the legacy tying Cimmeria and Conan to the Great Race of Yith, revelations from the End of Days, and much more.
While other role-playing games and supplements have provided some fragmentary pieces of this puzzle, spread over dozens of purchases, Oldskull Cthulhu is the most intricate and unified treatment of Lovecraft’s revered creations. Over three decades of research have now been completed, offered to you here in a single comprehensive treatise.
You will find that Oldskull Cthulhu is the ultimate resource for the fantasy role-playing game, horror RPGs, and for dark fiction writers as well. This book is crafted to fit seamlessly with the other 70 books of the Oldskull Swords & Sorcery series, or it can be used as a conversion guide for Fifth Edition, or it can stand alone.
Oldskull Cthulhu is brought to you by the author of the bestselling Necronomicon: The Cthulhu Revelations, Serpentine: Oldskull Serpent Folk, Cthulhu in Wonderland, Rats in the Walls, The Pegana Mythos, and the editor of The King in Yellow Rises. Another fine release from Kent David Kelly and Wonderland Imprints, Only the Finest Works of Fantasy.
No Artificial Intelligence was used in the design, writing, or artwork of this tome.
(102,000 words, 280 pages, over 190 human-crafted illustrations.)
| Author(s) | Kent David Kelly |
| Artist(s) | Dean Spencer, Alec Adams, Dave Allsop, Nikola Avramovic, Jack Badashski, John Bauer, William Blake, Jeff Brown, Hans Burgkmair, Joe J. Calkins, Luigi Castellani, Sverker Castillo, George Cotronis, Drbjr, Pawel Dobosz, Gustave Dore, Albrecht Durer, Et Alii |
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