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Blood Brothers
Publisher: Chaosium
by Ian M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/14/2023 06:37:35

This is a great collection of cinema inspired call of cthulhu scenarios. It can come across as goosebumps or comedic at times and there are some spots that would benefit from expansion or additions.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Blood Brothers
Publisher: Chaosium
by Stephen M M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/25/2023 18:44:04

These adventures are deliberately camp and not intended for play by campaign characters. One-off pregens are supplied and should be used.

The concept is "B Movie Cthulhu" which means that the cosmic horror motif is put on the back-burner and this alone might make unsympathetic gamers ask "Well why play Call of Cthulhu if you are going to nerf the main conceit?"

There is quite a bit of advice for hamming it up, down to the idea of painting miniatures in shades of grey to evoke the black-and-white movie ambiance.

Very much a book for those who will not play anything BUT Call of Cthulhu yet need a break from the endless descent into blitherhood, or for a group who has never played because they find the concept of the regular Call of Cthulhu structure and expectation less than exciting. This might be the best vehicle for getting a group of die-hard D&Ders to have a go at Call of Cthulhu, but then again they won't be getting the "genuine" experience.

Pays your money, takes your chance.

The book dates from Call of Cthulhu ed 5, and the stats inside are for that version with a conversion chart for earlier editions skill lists.

A star comes off for the rather poor quality of the page scans. The font is not well-imaged in places, there are distortions in the text. Zooming too much might make your eyes water.

As is usual for all early Chaosium pdfs, there are no bookmarks, which won't bother the tablet user but blows from the very depths of Azathoth's Myriad Ventral Orifices for the PC user who will be forced to use search to find anything.

Still, you can't really complain for the price.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Blood Brothers
Publisher: Chaosium
by A customer [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/15/2022 04:08:56

Non-mythos adventures based on B Horror Movies. 13 short adventures, I would say 8 are excellent, 3 are good, and 2 are dull. (Looking at you zombie apocolyse.) Also several adventures felt like they were playing it for laughs more than I was happy with. (Tho, you don't have to GM it that way of course.) I don't feel that this is quite a 5 star product, I would rate it 4.5 stars. If you like the idea of low-budget-movies horror, this is a must buy. Even if you are looking for some non-Cthulhu adventures to mix things up a bit, I would suggest you consider this.

Warm regards, Rick.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Blood Brothers
Publisher: Chaosium
by Andrey S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/20/2021 03:41:34

A very classic Cthulhu supplement, useful for demonstrating the mechanics to those who are less fans of cosmic horror and more fans of classic 80's movies. Requires some conversion to 7th edition and not every scenario is as great as the others, but all in all a wonderful collection.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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