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Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen

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Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen
Cover by Tom Sullivan
DesignersChaosium
PublishersChaosium
Publication
  • 1985 1st edition
  • 1988 2nd edition
GenresHorror
SystemsBasic Role-Playing
ISBN978-1-56882-410-9

Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen is a 1985 role-playing game supplement for Call of Cthulhu published by Chaosium.

Contents

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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

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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

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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]

Review

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Hail, Guy (October–November 1987). "Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen". Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer (80). Diverse Talents, Incorporated: 40–41.
  2. ^ a b c Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 243. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
  3. ^ "GDW Challenge38".
  4. ^ "Keeper's Screen".