$139 plus postage?
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@Taskerland And the horse you delivered it on.
That's a ropey looking cover too.
@Printdevil Yeah... it's not great, but then their taste in art is decidedly ropey and frequently AI-adjacent.
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$139 plus postage? Fuck off. Absolutely fuck off.
Call of Cthulhu: Chaosium 50th Anniversary Slipcase Set
The home of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, and Questworlds. Your gateway to mythic adventure.
Chaosium Inc. (www.chaosium.com)
@Taskerland "You've bought it before, you'll buy it again."
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@Taskerland "You've bought it before, you'll buy it again."
@RogerBW At this point, the children of people on YSDC need to take their elderly parent's bank cards away.
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@Printdevil Yeah... it's not great, but then their taste in art is decidedly ropey and frequently AI-adjacent.
@Taskerland obviously they have to spend the $139 on something
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$139 plus postage? Fuck off. Absolutely fuck off.
Call of Cthulhu: Chaosium 50th Anniversary Slipcase Set
The home of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, and Questworlds. Your gateway to mythic adventure.
Chaosium Inc. (www.chaosium.com)
Today, in „How to tell if your favorite hobby product is a Cash Cow.“
Also: „Variant covers: Looking at you, DCC and D&D.“
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Today, in „How to tell if your favorite hobby product is a Cash Cow.“
Also: „Variant covers: Looking at you, DCC and D&D.“
@Morgunin Gamers are absolute rubes.
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$139 plus postage? Fuck off. Absolutely fuck off.
Call of Cthulhu: Chaosium 50th Anniversary Slipcase Set
The home of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, and Questworlds. Your gateway to mythic adventure.
Chaosium Inc. (www.chaosium.com)
Also, the game was first published in 1981 and this ship in 2026. They're five years early!
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@Printdevil Yeah... it's not great, but then their taste in art is decidedly ropey and frequently AI-adjacent.
@Taskerland I've always felt CoC should have expressionism poster style art. The "here is bloke with a book, a hat and gun standing in front of Cthulhu" rather misses the crazy.
Eric Heckel or something. That style would really fly for me in CoC
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$139 plus postage? Fuck off. Absolutely fuck off.
Call of Cthulhu: Chaosium 50th Anniversary Slipcase Set
The home of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, and Questworlds. Your gateway to mythic adventure.
Chaosium Inc. (www.chaosium.com)
@Taskerland 50ish Anniversary!
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@Taskerland I've always felt CoC should have expressionism poster style art. The "here is bloke with a book, a hat and gun standing in front of Cthulhu" rather misses the crazy.
Eric Heckel or something. That style would really fly for me in CoC
@Printdevil Yes, but that would require a) taste, and b) anyone working at Chaosium to have heard of German Expressionism.
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@Printdevil Yes, but that would require a) taste, and b) anyone working at Chaosium to have heard of German Expressionism.
@Taskerland @Printdevil Presumably David Larkins has.
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@Taskerland 50ish Anniversary!
@cumush It'll be doubly funny when they decide to do an eighth edition between now and 2031.
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@Taskerland @Printdevil Presumably David Larkins has.
@RogerBW Definitely... but the person who did the art direction on his book clearly hadn't. @Printdevil
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@Printdevil Yes, but that would require a) taste, and b) anyone working at Chaosium to have heard of German Expressionism.
@Taskerland Imagine a whole Caligari/Mabuse poster style gazetteer of Arkham. Sumptuous. With crazy linocut faces and maps done with dripping oleaginous black inks.
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@Taskerland Imagine a whole Caligari/Mabuse poster style gazetteer of Arkham. Sumptuous. With crazy linocut faces and maps done with dripping oleaginous black inks.
@Printdevil I just think not over-saturated AI-adjacent slop would be nice.
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@Printdevil I just think not over-saturated AI-adjacent slop would be nice.
@Taskerland @Printdevil That is apparently What The Punters Want (because they've been brought up on modern D&D). Of course, giving the punters exactly what they're used to is a recipe for a crash.
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@Taskerland @Printdevil That is apparently What The Punters Want (because they've been brought up on modern D&D). Of course, giving the punters exactly what they're used to is a recipe for a crash.
@RogerBW D&D art is of a style... but it's a better style than Call of Cthulhu. That selection of single-page Faerun adventures they did had a fab cover. @Printdevil
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@Taskerland I've always felt CoC should have expressionism poster style art. The "here is bloke with a book, a hat and gun standing in front of Cthulhu" rather misses the crazy.
Eric Heckel or something. That style would really fly for me in CoC
@Printdevil @Taskerland I feel like some 90s TTRPGS used at least a bit of art along these lines, particularly in some books published by White Wolf. Maybe im just thinking of John Cobb’s art in particular
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Also, the game was first published in 1981 and this ship in 2026. They're five years early!
@Taskerland Probably Chaosium's 50th.
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@Printdevil @Taskerland I feel like some 90s TTRPGS used at least a bit of art along these lines, particularly in some books published by White Wolf. Maybe im just thinking of John Cobb’s art in particular
@pcas First edition Vampire books look better than contemporary CoC. Like most RPG books of that period, it's a lot of simple monochrome linework but it looks stark and suits the subject matter. @Printdevil
