Lucie’s Dispensation Author: John Dyer Publisher: Chaosium/Miskatonic Repository Page Count: 50 Available Formats: PDF PDF (DTRPG) – $4.95 While the default period for Call of Cthulhu tends to be the 1920s, I have to confess to having a soft spot for the period just before it—the years just before, during, and just after the World…
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Call of Cthulhu Investigators in World War I
In our current Call of Cthulhu campaign, the year is 1915. We’re working our way through the time period of the First World War. Unlike some games set in that period, the characters are all civilians. That’s not to say they’ll never be in the line of fire – a trip on R.M.S. Lusitania illustrated…
From the Silver Screen: The Lost Battalion (1919)
The Lost Battalion Directed by: Burton L. King Produced by: Edward A. MacManus Written by: Charles Logue Premiered: July 28, 1919 FORWARD. For the first time in the history of the world you are to look upon a motion picture re-enacted by those who live again the historic events for which a grateful nation commended them. There is fact and record…
No Man’s Land: WWI Mythos Action with the Lost Battalion
No Man’s Land: WWI Mythos Action with the Lost Battalion Author: Sam Johnson Illustrations: Tom Sullivan, John Mirland, & Drashi Khendup Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 82 Published Date: 1998 Available Formats: PDF PDF (DTRPG) – $6.95 “It is again impressed upon every officer and man of this command that ground once captured must under no…
From the Pages of History to the Gaming Table – The Great War Podcast
The Great War Podcast A chronological look at the origins and battles of the First World War from 1890-1920. Presented by Daniel Clark Sunday, November 11, 2018, marks the 100 anniversary of the end of The Great War. Never before had the world seen such a global war of this magnitude. Its impact was such…
Home Before the Leaves Fall – A Look at Horrors of War
The Call of Cthulhu Role-Playing Game is undeniably a horror game, but it’s also a historical RPG, thanks to the creator, Sandy Peterson, for setting the original game, published in 1981, in the United States during the prohibition era of the 1920s. Other writers for the game have followed suit. Expanding the paradigm by continuing…
Fields of Despair – WWI Game on Preorder at GMT Games
Later this year, if the stars align, GMT Games will be producing a new Western Front WWI game entitled “Fields of Despair” by Kurt Keckley. I just want to put it out there that they’re still taking pre-orders on this uniquely different block game. If you’re a WWI gamer, this game is sure to appeal…
World War I – Plunging into the Der Weltkrieg Series
Three nights ago I felt the urge to pull a wargame from the shelves and in doing so I had to blow off the dust which had started to collect. This tells me I have either not been spending enough time wargaming or not giving this particular game enough attention. I personally think it is a…
Rolling Boxcars 