Blood Brothers (Call of Cthulhu)

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Blood Brothers
13 Tales of Terror
Blood Brothers, role-playing supplement.jpg
Cover by Lee Gibbons
Designers
  • Keith Herber
  • Sam Shirley
  • Kevin A. Ross
  • Gregory Dewiler
  • John B. Monroe
  • John Scott Clegg
  • Geoff Gillon
  • Marcus L. Rowland
  • Tony Hickie
  • Michael Szymanski
  • Scott Aniolowski
  • Fred Behrendt
  • Barbara Manui
  • Chris Adams
PublishersChaosium
Publication1990;
32 years ago (1990)
GenresHorror
SystemsBasic Role-Playing
ISBN0-933635-69-9

Blood Brothers is a light-hearted anthology of short adventures published by Chaosium in 1990 for the Lovecraftian horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu.

Contents[]

The book is an anthology of thirteen short adventures that use themes, characters or monsters from classic B movie horror films: vampires based on Bela Lugosi's 1931 portrayal of Dracula; werewolves similar to Lon Chaney Jr.'s 1941 Wolf Man; zombies similar to those in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead; cavemen and dinosaurs from 1975's The Land That Time Forgot; gremlins akin to those in 1984's Gremlins; and a killer alien from 1979's Alien.[1]

Players are offered a variety of one-shot characters. In keeping with the light-hearted B-movie theme, the usual Sanity check in the Call of Cthulhu rules has been tweaked so that a character who fails a Sanity check, rather than developing psychoses or phobias, instead screams, or falls down in the path of an approaching monster, or faints.[1]

Publication history[]

Blood Brothers, a 128-page softcover book, was the first supplement that Chaosium published for Call of Cthulhu.[1] The thirteen adventures were written by Keith Herber, , , , , , , , , Marcus L. Rowland, , , , and ,.[2] Earl Geier produced the interior art, and cover art was by Lee Gibbons.

Two years after publication of Blood Brothers, Chaosium followed up with a sequel, Blood Brothers 2, featuring nine more movie-themed Call of Cthulhu adventures.[3]

Reception[]

In the November 1991 edition of Dragon (Issue #175), Allen Varney enjoyed the humour of the product, saying, "This supplement highlights a surprising and welcome turn in our hobby: the impish sense of humor in the field's leading horror game... that fine tap dance on the line between horror and comedy."[1]

Reviews[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Varney, Allen (November 1991). "Roleplaying Reviews". Dragon. TSR, Inc. (175): 84–85.
  2. ^ Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 240. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
  3. ^ Varney, Allen (November 1992). "Roleplaying Reviews". Dragon. TSR, Inc. (187): 91.
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