Billed as a very shortened version of rules to allow some easy roleplaying in the Cthulhu Mythos, the rules are, alas, too short. They lack the necessary detail to permit all but the most experienced Keepers to use them in any meaningful way. There is no discussion of what the players or keeper are supposed to do with the values generated, and no guidance whatsoever on how to fit the values into an existing scenario or campaign. Even a brief example of play (a paragraph or two) would have enormously improved the value of this document. It seems as if the author assumed a great deal of knowledge on the reader's part -- an assumption that usually proves wrong with this kind of material. One more page of explanation or examples would have made this item worth having. As it is, I can only thank my lucky stars that I didn't actually pay anything for this, because even a dime would have been too much. Were the author to go back and flesh it out even a teeny bit, my rating would undoubtedly be much higher, but as it stands, I can't give it anything other than a "two."
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