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Call of Cthulhu RPG
Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers features 13 one-night scenarios, all based on familiar themes typical of the kind found in B-movies. Explore the land that time ignored, escape from a town infested with the living dead, spend the weekend in a haunted house, fight the mummy, meet an animated scarecrow, track down a vengeful villain, and tangle with ___ shamans. A light-hearted break from the grim world of the Cthulhu Mythos.
144 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1990
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March 5, 2017
I like to enjoy my old age-keeping-me-awake by reading Call of Cthulhu modules. This is a collection of more light-hearted investigations based on old B-movie tropes. One of the investigates revels in the title "Ancient Nazi Midget Shaman." That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about this publication.
December 23, 2011
There is some gems among these scenarios.
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May 19, 2024How? CoC readthru.
What? Blood Brothers and Blood Brothers 2 is a series of one-shot, often campy adventures based on or highly allusive to classic horror films. "Lighthearted" is the word I see in several reviews, and I can't quibble with that.
Yeah, so? I also can't quite jump for joy about these books. Like, sure, there's a long history of horror and horror-adjacent cinema that isn't anywhere near the cosmic gothic of Lovecraft. And as with the modern Call of Cthulhu providing a lot of pulp options -- to make sure that people can play in this sandbox as either doomed schmucks or valiant heroes -- this is sort of attempt to make other sorts of horror-comedy available to people who like the CoC system.
For future, reference, here's the types of movies being done:
Book One:
1. a haunted house you have to stay at for inheritance reasons
2. vampires
3. phantom of the opera/Vincent Price
4. dinosaur land(!)
5. mummy
6. killer dolls
7. gremlins (sorta)
8. mad scientist in deadly swamp
9. zombies
10. werewolves
11. fishman
12. scarecrow/tree/druid
13. alien planet
Book Two
1. silent German expressionism (supposed to be played silently)
2. Hammer Horror
3. beach movie/alien invasion of pod people
4. detached body part
5. luchador vs. monster
6. horror western
7. zombie (explicitly a sequel to book one's zombie adventure)
8. killer clowns
9. splatter
Some of these might be fun to run or play with the idea of; and I certainly don't mind a non-Mythos adventure; but the whole thing feels a little bit more like something you'd find in Chill (which literally had an anthology of adventures branded as being hosted by Elvira).
What? Blood Brothers and Blood Brothers 2 is a series of one-shot, often campy adventures based on or highly allusive to classic horror films. "Lighthearted" is the word I see in several reviews, and I can't quibble with that.
Yeah, so? I also can't quite jump for joy about these books. Like, sure, there's a long history of horror and horror-adjacent cinema that isn't anywhere near the cosmic gothic of Lovecraft. And as with the modern Call of Cthulhu providing a lot of pulp options -- to make sure that people can play in this sandbox as either doomed schmucks or valiant heroes -- this is sort of attempt to make other sorts of horror-comedy available to people who like the CoC system.
For future, reference, here's the types of movies being done:
Book One:
1. a haunted house you have to stay at for inheritance reasons
2. vampires
3. phantom of the opera/Vincent Price
4. dinosaur land(!)
5. mummy
6. killer dolls
7. gremlins (sorta)
8. mad scientist in deadly swamp
9. zombies
10. werewolves
11. fishman
12. scarecrow/tree/druid
13. alien planet
Book Two
1. silent German expressionism (supposed to be played silently)
2. Hammer Horror
3. beach movie/alien invasion of pod people
4. detached body part
5. luchador vs. monster
6. horror western
7. zombie (explicitly a sequel to book one's zombie adventure)
8. killer clowns
9. splatter
Some of these might be fun to run or play with the idea of; and I certainly don't mind a non-Mythos adventure; but the whole thing feels a little bit more like something you'd find in Chill (which literally had an anthology of adventures branded as being hosted by Elvira).
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