The Cthulhu Hack: Core Rules

What's The Cthulhu Hack?It's a standalone game of investigation horror, pitting ordinary people against the sanity-shattering horrors of Lovecraftian gods and monsters.It's a fast and simple system, with just two mechanics - Saves and Resources - that handle your ability to escape threats and to manage your dwindling faculties for investigation and sanity.Why Choose The Cthulhu Hack?Role-playing offers a lot of games set against a backdrop of Lovecraft's mythos; The Cthulhu Hack focuses on simple, accessible rules and mechanics designed to emulate the slow spiral of self-destruction that dominates Lovecraft's original tales. Campaigns becomes about the over-arching threat against the whole of humankind, rather than the insignificant lives of just a few investigators.What's in the Core Book?Revised and expanded since the original 2016 release, The Cthulhu Hack: Core Rules offers:simple mechanics to handle threats and investigation, using a standard set of seven polyhedral dice (from 1D4 to 1D20)read-to-play archetypes for quick pick-up play or a fast and flexible character creation system to tailor Investigators to your specific needsa range of tweaks to the core mechanics, both standard and optional, to tailor the game to your style - including Wealth, Fortune, Adrenalin and Shocka shambling horde of Mythos horrors - including Mi-Go, Deep Ones, Shoggoth and more - to challenge your Investigatorsa complete and updated adventure - Save Innsmouth - as well as a 2-page example of play