Pyramid Review
Secrets of San Francisco: A 1920s Sourcebook for the City by the Bay (for Call of Cthulhu)
Published by Chaosium, Inc.
Written by Cody Goodfellow with David Conyers, Brian M. Sammons, Elizabeth A. Wolcott, Hilary Ayer, Janice Sellers, & Badger McInnes
Cover by Paul Carrick
Illustrated by Earl Geier, Paul Carrick, Badger McInnes, & Tom Sullivan
Cartography by David Conyers & Janice Sellers
190-page perfect bound black and white book; $24.95
Secrets of San Francisco: A 1920s Sourcebook for the City by the Bay is the third in the Secrets of . . . supplements published for Call of Cthulhu. The first was Secrets of Japan, the second Secrets of New York, and the fourth will be Secrets of Kenya. The city of San Francisco has been visited before by Call of Cthulhu, most notably in the classic campaign, Day of the Beast (originally The Fungi From Yuggoth), in Games Workshop's The Statue of the Sorcerer & The Vanishing Conjuror, and for Cthulhu Now in "This Fire Shall Kill" from The Stars are Right! Although Secrets of San Francisco includes details that mark the early appearances of elements that occur in The Stars are Right! and the modern day campaign, At Your Door, the emphasis for this supplement is firmly in the 1920s.
Secrets of San Francisco details the City by the Bay, the Golden gate to the Pacific, and the inheritor to the wealth of the California Gold Rush, going into detail about its (surprisingly long) history, geography, climate, information on San Francisco city and . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: July 27, 2007
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