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 Cover by Tom Sullivan | |
| Designers | Chaosium |
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| Publishers | Chaosium |
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| Genres | Horror |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing |
| ISBN | 978-1-56882-410-9 |
Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen is a 1985 role-playing game supplement for Call of Cthulhu published by Chaosium.
Contents
[edit]Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen is a three-panel cardstock gamemaster's screen with tables to help the gamemaster keep track of ranged and melee weapons, monsters, spells, rules for sanity loss and fictional Mythos books.[1] The Keeper's Screen features tables for combat, magic, and skills, with third edition Call of Cthulhu rules data; the second version of the screen also includes the "knock-out" rule, and weapons data from the supplements Cthulhu Now and Cthulhu by Gaslight.[2]
Publication history
[edit]Keeper's Screen features art by Tom Sullivan, and was published by Chaosium, Inc., in 1985 as a cardstock screen.[2] A second edition was published in 1988 and says "New Edition" on the cover.[2]
Reception
[edit]Guy Hail reviewed Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer No. 80.[1] Hail commented that "The new tables will settle some disputes about thrown weapons, and a Keeper should have a cthuloid screen to hide his secrets from nosy investigators, but Chaosium should have used this opportunity to cumulate Call of Cthulhu's monsters and spells in a single supplement."[1]
Reviews
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Hail, Guy (October–November 1987). "Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen". Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer (80). Diverse Talents, Incorporated: 40–41.
- 1 2 3 Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 243. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
- ↑ "GDW Challenge38".
- ↑ "Keeper's Screen".