In Pulp Cthulhu, players take on the roles of adventurers, investigators, and explorers, navigating a world filled with ancient mysteries, supernatural threats, and hidden treasures. The game is set in the 1920s, a time of great change and upheaval, and draws inspiration from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and other masters of the pulp genre.
: Heroes have double the Hit Points and can spend Luck points to avoid certain death.
If you want a full campaign, buy The Two-Headed Serpent (the official Pulp campaign). It spans the globe from the Amazon to Africa to lost cities in Antarctica. The PCs fight serpent people, Nazi sorcerers, and a Cthulhuoid megastructure. It is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of TTRPG campaigns.
Pulp Cthulhu is a tabletop RPG system that combines the investigative gameplay of Call of Cthulhu with the fast-paced action and excitement of pulp fiction. Players take on the roles of adventurers, detectives, and explorers, navigating a world of ancient deities, mystical artifacts, and sanity-shattering horrors.
Standard Call of Cthulhu (CoC) is brutal. You play a librarian, a professor, or a journalist. You investigate a creepy noise in the basement. You find a ghoul. You lose 1d6 Sanity. The ghoul attacks. You die. The end. This is "Purist" horror, designed to emulate H.P. Lovecraft’s original stories where humanity is fragile and insignificant.
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Pulp Cthulhu's gameplay mechanics focus on:
