Temple of the Crawling Chaos – Call Of Chtulhu One-shot by Man Of Thousand Hobbies is a role playing game supplement published by Chaosium Inc. through the Miskatonic Repository Community Content Programme for use with Call of Cthulhu, the horror role playing game based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. This is a 1920s scenario.
The supplement is available as a four page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover.
Scenario Overview explains that the characters are hired by George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carvernon, to retrieve anything worthwhile from the temple.
The Background explains that a tomb beneath the Tomb of Tutankhamun is actually a temple to Nyarlathotep and a worker stole something from it that awoke a Mythos creature. The entrance was hastily shut and collapsed.
The Characters details the major and minor NPCs.
Locations maps out the temple.
How Does it End? explains that the temple needs sealing up again and how to do it. It also says an alternative creature can be used to replace the one used. This also covers the items and rewards.
Finally, there are stats for various creatures.
Temple of the Crawling Chaos – Call Of Chtulhu One-shot in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks but is short enough that these are not needed. Navigation is okay. The text maintains a two-column format and some minor errors were noticed; in particular, the misspelling of Cthulhu and Carnarvon. There are no illustrations. Presentation is adequate.
This is a short adventure based around some actual historical events; given this, it has a limited time period when it can be set without changing history, which makes it much less flexible as-is; however, work, primarily changing the NPCs, could change this. It is also potentially deadly, even by Call of Cthulhu standards. Temple of the Crawling Chaos – Call Of Chtulhu One-shot can be found by clicking here.
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