Pyramid Review
Legacies of the Renaissance (for Call of Cthulhu)
Published by Chaosium, Inc.
Written by Alan Kissane & Dr. Robert Francis
62-page tape-bound b&w softcover; $15
Legacies of the Renaissance is a scenario for Call of Cthulhu set firmly in the game's classic period of the 1920s. It has been released as part of Chaosium's Miskatonic University Library Association series of Monographs, and is only available direct from the publisher's website. All entries in the series are considered to be of special interest by Chaosium, popular enough to be made available, but the publisher leaves the production values, layout, and editing up to the authors. The intent is that, should any one title prove popular enough, it will undergo proper editing and be released via the normal distribution channels. To date, with over 20 Monographs published, for the Basic Role Play System and Stormbringer as well as Call of Cthulhu, none seems to have proved popular enough.
Legacies of the Renaissance is actually the first of a trilogy set in the late 1920s dealing with Mythos-related artifacts and events that are still having an effect centuries after they first came to prominence. For this scenario, subtitled The Stone of Concordance, the strange artifact is a piece of jewelry, said to have links to England's foremost alchemist and astrologer of the 16th century, and the leading romance poets of the early 19th. The scenario will see the investigators blackmailed into traveling from England across . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: May 5, 2006
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