Pyramid Review
Cthulhu Rising: Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying In The 23rd Century (for call of Cthulhu)
Published by Chaosium, Inc.
Written by John Ossoway
Illustrated by Ben Thornley
62-page tape bound black and white book; $15
Outside of a single scenario in the anthology Strange Aeons, no official scenario or supplement has projected the setting of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu seen in its campaigns and anthologies beyond the very early 21st century. Only the eventual printing of Michael LaBossiere's End Times as a MULA (Miskatonic University Library Association) title has our future with regard to the Mythos been explored in any depth, the sourcebook positing a future in which Mythos elements have triumphed on Earth and forced mankind into exile on Mars. But perhaps a brace of magazine scenarios and now the latest in the MULA series suggests a more benign, less traumatic future. For the last five years John Ossaway has been creating a near future setting in which mankind unknowingly transports earthbound Mythos elements to the stars, while encountering other elements out there.
More extensively presented at his website, John Ossoway's Cthulhu Rising: Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying In The 23rd Century provides some of the information presented therein in a handier package. In the 23rd Century, mankind has explored hundreds of star systems and settled approximately 100 of them in a 50 light-year radius along five distant arms. Colonies are founded in co-operative efforts between the five power . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: July 29, 2005
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