The Good Friends of Jackson Elias

287: Injury and Disease in Call of Cthulhu (long cut)

Added 2024-05-21 16:36:59 +0000 UTC

This is the unedited version for backers only.

This episode, we’re looking at how injury, disease, poisons, and other physical hazards work in Call of Cthulhu.

Being an investigator is fraught with hazards. While we’ve discussed sanity a few times, we’ve never really got into more corporeal damage before. We discuss how the game mechanics handle physical harm, some options for portraying it narratively, and some of the different ways in which an investigator can get hurt in the first place. As ever, we throw in a few ideas about how we handle these things in our own games, and what plot hooks dealing with serious physical harm might present.

The Blasphemous Tome Issue 12

Issue 12 of The Blasphemous Tome will be going out in early July. This is the fanzine we produce for Patreon backers of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Each issue contains a brand-new Call of Cthulhu scenario authored by one of us and licensed by Chaosium.

Every backer will receive a PDF of issue 12 as soon as it’s available. Anyone backing us at the $5 level or above by the end of June will also get a printed and signed copy.