Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition

Skirmisher Publishing

This book is a completely revised, expanded, and updated version of the acclaimed live-action roleplaying game based on the horror tales of H.P. Lovecraft.

This newest and best edition of Cthulhu Live includes a richly detailed and uniquely playable rules system that incorporates more than 12 years of best practices and refinements from hundreds of gamers worldwide.

Features of this self-contained game include:
• All-new rules for skills, combat, Sanity, Magic, and Psychic powers
• Extensive information on organizing events, stagecraft and special effects
• Guidelines on role-playing Outsiders tainted by the touch of the Mythos
• New and improved photographs, graphics, and other images, including works by renowned Cthulhu Mythos artist Richard Alan Poppe
• ...and much more!

The PDF edition includes a screen-friendly lo-res version of the book that includes the "parchment" background of the original print edition and red blood spatters that had to be printed black in the original, and a printer-friendly hi-res version of the book from which background images, blood spatters, and other material that might eat up toner or affect the quality of home printouts have been eliminated.

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: The Old Man of Damascus

Skirmisher Publishing

The first adventure for Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition is here!

The Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1190 is in dire peril. Saladin’s army has retaken Jerusalem. The crusader army is in tatters. The once-mighty Christian kingdoms of Palestine are crumbling.

In the easternmost provinces of the Christian kingdoms, the fortress of Li Vaux Moise has been under siege for three months. The defenders have tried to hold out, but the fortress is clearly about to fall, and the commander of the Muslim army has requested a meeting to discuss terms of the garrison’s surrender.

But there are dark forces at work here far greater than any mortal army. Ancient evils from the wind-swept deserts stalk the stone walls, hungry for blood and power. Terrible, mind-shattering secrets from beyond the stars lie ripe to be exposed. Horrors beyond the comprehension of both Christian and Muslim threaten to devour them both—or force them into an unlikely alliance.

This full-length adventure for Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition places the players in the roles of the besieged Europeans and the Muslim ambassadors. Amidst their doom and desolation, they will face betrayal, intrigue, and a desperate fight for survival.

This adventure includes:
• Suggestions for props, costumes, and atmospheric effects
• New arcane abilities and mystic artifacts
• 27 pre-generated characters, so you can jump straight into the game
• Two versions of the adventure: one optimized for reading onscreen, and one optimized for printing

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: Muerte al Chupacabras!

Skirmisher Publishing

For three decades, Hobbsbad, New Mexico, has lived in fear of El Chupacabra, an unseen monster that comes in the night and feeds on blood. Every few years, the attacks become more frequent, and then stop just as quickly and mysteriously as they began. Nothing has been able to stop this malevolent creature. Now, one man has done the impossible and captured El Chupacabra alive, and tonight, he plans to reveal his prize to the world—or at least the highest bidder. Hobbsbad has been thrown into chaos, as crackpots, cryptozoologists, reporters, and ranchers swarm into it!

Muerte al Chupacabras! is a scenario inspired by B-movies and pseudoscience that is designed to be played with 15 or more players and two to four staff members. Although it is meant to stand on its own, this script can easily be woven into any other campaign that features a lot of travel.

Muerte al Chupacabras! is a Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition script that includes introduction, timeline, prop and costume information, and character stats and bios for 30 characters.

The PDF edition comes with three different variants—color, black-and-white, and background-free—and each of these comes in low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions.

Although designed for the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition horror live-action role-playing game, Muerte al Chupacabras! can easily be adapted for use with almost any other horror or action RPG.

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: House of Pain PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

Welcome to the New World Order.

It’s the autumn of 1991, and the world isn’t what it used to be. Saddam Hussein’s army lies in smoldering ruins. The Soviet Union is suffering its death throes. Germany has been reunified. Africa is aflame with small bush wars. Across the world, the balance of power is shifting. Old powers are dying out and the playing field of the future will be a chaos of warlords and rogue states.

In this full-length adventure for Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition, the players are power-brokers who have been invited to a private summit to help form the geopolitical landscape of the next century. But while they plot their moves and hide their secrets, they may find that they themselves are pawns in a much larger, more ancient game.

This adventure includes:
• Suggestions for props, costumes, and atmospheric effects
• World-spanning conspiracies
• 42 Pre-generated characters, each packing hidden agendas and deadly secrets
• Two versions of the adventure: one optimized for reading on-screen, and one optimized for printing

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: Mysteries of the Mythos—Murder at Miskatonic PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

Miskatonic University, that ivy league institution of higher learning that has produced many a fine young adult ready to shape the world the way they see fit. With diverse courses such as Peruvian Basket Weaving, Modern Occult Legends, and Ancient Languages, Miskatonic has a class for any student. And with the award-winning sports team, the Fighting Cephalopods, even the athletic scholar can find his path to a brighter future among these hallowed halls.

There is, however, a class not in the curriculum that one person on campus is about to earn a masters in. That class is Murder 101. This class has only one test, but the final is a real killer.

Who will pass this course? Will it be the jock? What about the bookworm? And let us not forget about the professional rival! Only time and your sleuthing skills will uncover who the culprit is in Murder at Miskatonic. So get ready to uncover secrets and things that man was not meant to know as you ferret out the murderer. Fail and they go free, succeed and be the savior of the campus. The choice is yours!

Cthulhu Live’s Mysteries of the Mythos: Murder at Miskatonic is a self-contained sleuthing game. It is based on the popular Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition live-action role-playing game but does not contain any complex rules or game mechanics and is instead based almost entirely on player interaction. It is very easy to run and will usually take about two hours to complete

And if you would like to try running or playing scenarios like this with rules for things like combat, skill resolution, sanity checks, and monsters, be sure to check out the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition live-action horror role-playing game!

This download includes high-resolution versions of the basic murder mystery scenario (16 pages), bonus material designed to allow inclusion of an extra player (10 pages), and the booklet’s cover surfaces.

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: The Green Fairy PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

Paris at the end of the 19th century: a city of lights, music, excitement at the approach of the new century and aflame with the creative spirit of the Bohemian revolution. But for months the city has been locked in a state of fear as the brutal murderer known as the Raptor stalks the steep streets and narrow alleyways of the north-end hill neighborhood of Montmartre.

Many refuse to leave their homes by night. Others frequent establishments such as “The Green Fairy,” an absinthe bar and popular meeting place for artists, actors, whores, criminals, and the well-to-do seeking to taste the thrills and pleasures of Montmartre. This evening, the patrons of “The Green Fairy” will be joined by a visitor beyond their darkest nightmares.

The Green Fairy is a game script for Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition. The text contains the game overview and timeline, staging and prop guidelines, and detailed character sheets and backgrounds for 30 player characters! Ideal as an event for a Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) party with friends or as a convention event, it offers hours of fun, intrigue, and horror. This scenario requires the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition game rules.

This download includes three different variants of the game script—color, black-and-white, and background-free—and each of these comes in low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions.

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: Sight Unseen PDF

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Can we trust our senses? How do we know that what we see is real? Are our eyes inherently deceptive and prone to misdirection? If so, then such flawed organs must be removed, for only in blindness can one perceive the truth: that all the world is horror.

Sight Unseen is a LARP experience like no other. When an assortment of Arkham citizens check into the local hospital for surgery, they find themselves blinded by a madman and forced to confront the unearthly terror he has unleashed upon the world. Sight Unseen is a game script for Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition and requires the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition game rules. The text contains the game overview and timeline; detailed guidelines for simulating blindness in LARP, including safety precautions; prop, special effects, and stagecraft techniques designed to play upon your player’s senses of touch, smell, taste, and hearing; and detailed character sheets and backgrounds for seven player characters. Ideal as an event for a Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) party with friends or as a convention event, it offers hours of fun, intrigue, and horror.

This download includes three different variants of the game script—color, black-and-white, and background-free—and each of these comes in low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions.

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition Companion Suite (Download)

Skirmisher Publishing

The stars are right for the eagerly anticipated release of the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition Companion Suite! This collection of computer applications and support materials was created specifically for the thoroughly revised, expanded, and improved 3rd Edition of the Cthulhu Live live-action role-playing game (LARP).

Skirmisher partnered with Mantra Design Studio to produce this collection of resources (which were originally released as a CD-ROM). With a stunning graphic interface and a soundtrack by Midnight Syndicate, this is a fantastic tool resource for Keepers and Players alike that is compatible with PC, Mac, and Linux platforms.

This suite of resources includes:
• Advanced character creation program
• Character Card Creator
• Government ID Badge Creator
• Library of Cthulhu Live game scripts with ready-to-print handouts
• Fearsome collection of “Tome Texts” to print and bind for your own props
• Extensive selection of document props ready to be customized and used in your games
• A simulated secure email server ready to send encrypted email to modern agents
• And much more!

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: Arcanum Imperii PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

But life in ancient Rome isn’t just one big party. The Second Triumvirate has been shattered and Rome is embroiled in civil war once again. Octavian has declared Marc Antony and his Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, enemies of Rome and the legions march south toward Alexandria. The situation seems dire for Marc Antony following destruction of his fleet at the Battle of Actium, but in the dusty hills of Macedonia a dark secret of the empire is waiting to be unveiled.

Governor Publius Artorius Stabo thought he was comfortably distant from the war. He was happy taking bribes and tribute from the local Macedonian nobles, indulging himself with slave girls, and avoiding his shrew of a wife. Then, a ragged band of survivors from Actium washed up on his shores, a group of Marc Antony’s legionnaires and a collection of Egyptian priests and priestesses who claim they are carrying a secret weapon to crush the forces of Octavian

Suddenly, his palace is full of opinionated nobles, Roman officials, and military men, all with different opinions of what need to be done with these castaways. Something’s not sitting right in the pit of the governor’s stomach, and it’s not just the pickled larks tongues in aspic. There seems to be something real, dark, and dangerous to the Egyptians’ claims and Publius now has to decide who he’ll be supporting in this war.

Arcanum Imperii is a Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition script set in ancient Rome designed for a dozen or more players that includes introduction, timeline, prop, and costume information and character stats and bios for more than 30 characters. This download comes with three different variants of the game script—color, black-and-white, and background-free—and each of these comes in low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions.

All Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition Products Bundle PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition is a completely revised, expanded, and updated version of the acclaimed live-action roleplaying game based on the horror tales of H.P. Lovecraft. This newest edition of the game includes a richly detailed and uniquely playable rules system that incorporates more than 12 years of best practices and refinements from hundreds of gamers worldwide.

Features include:
• All-new rules for skills, combat, Sanity, Magic, and Psychic powers
• Extensive information on organizing events, stagecraft and special effects
• Guidelines on role-playing Outsiders tainted by the touch of the Mythos
• New and improved photographs, graphics, and other images, including works by renowned Cthulhu Mythos artist Richard Alan Poppe
• A screen-friendly lo-res version of the book that includes the "parchment" background of the original print edition and red blood spatters that had to be printed black in the original
• A printer-friendly hi-res version of the book from which background images, blood spatters, and other material that might eat up toner or affect the quality of home printouts have been eliminated
• And much more!

This bundle contains all of the currently available downloadable products for Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition and provides a player or game master with everything they will need to jump right into the game.

Items in this bundle include:
• Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition 216-page core rule book
• Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition Companion Suite of scripts, downloads, character generators, and other useful items and applications
• Six complete scripts, including House of Pain, The Old Man of Damascus, The Green Fairy, Sight Unseen, Arcanum Imperii, and the rules-free murder-mystery script Murder at Miskatonic

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition Scripts Bundle PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition is a completely revised, expanded, and updated version of the acclaimed live-action roleplaying game based on the horror tales of H.P. Lovecraft. This newest edition of the game includes a richly detailed and uniquely playable rules system that incorporates more than 12 years of best practices and refinements from hundreds of gamers worldwide.

This bundle contains all six of the currently available downloadable scripts for Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition, including:
• House of Pain
• The Old Man of Damascus
• The Green Fairy
• Sight Unseen
• Arcanum Imperii
• Murder at Miskatonic (rules-free murder-mystery script)

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition Core Rulebook and Companion Suite Bundle (Download)

Skirmisher Publishing

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition is a completely revised, expanded, and updated version of the acclaimed live-action roleplaying game based on the horror tales of H.P. Lovecraft. This newest edition of the game includes a richly detailed and uniquely playable rules system that incorporates more than 12 years of best practices and refinements from hundreds of gamers worldwide.

Features include:
• All-new rules for skills, combat, Sanity, Magic, and Psychic powers
• Extensive information on organizing events, stagecraft and special effects
• Guidelines on role-playing Outsiders tainted by the touch of the Mythos
• New and improved photographs, graphics, and other images, including works by renowned Cthulhu Mythos artist Richard Alan Poppe
• A screen-friendly lo-res version of the book that includes the "parchment" background of the original print edition and red blood spatters that had to be printed black in the original
• A printer-friendly hi-res version of the book from which background images, blood spatters, and other material that might eat up toner or affect the quality of home printouts have been eliminated
• And much more!

This bundle includes:
• Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition 216-page core rule book
• Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition Companion Suite of scripts, downloads, character generators, and other useful items and applications

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: Witchfinder PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

Set in Yugoslavia in 1943, during the height of World War II, this tense and exciting scenario focuses on the struggle between Allied and Axis special operations teams to seize control of information critical to control of the Balkans. Players can assume roles as military or civilian operatives in one of four opposing factions, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the SS Ahnenerbe occult operations division, the Communist partisans, or the Chetnik royalist freedom fighters.

Little by little, however, the characters will begin to realize that their war is not the first to have left its mark on the region in which they are battling for supremacy—and that their actions are uncovering a powerful and dangerous evil that is beyond anything they ever expected to face.

WitchFinder is a Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition script set in the Balkans during World War II that includes introduction, timeline, prop, and costume information and character stats and bios for 30 characters. This electronic script comes with three different variants—color, black-and-white, and background-free—and each of these comes in low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions.

Although designed for the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition horror live-action role-playing game, WitchFinder can easily be adapted for use with almost any other horror or action RPG.

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: Muerte al Chupacabras! PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

For three decades, Hobbsbad, New Mexico, has lived in fear of El Chupacabra, an unseen monster that comes in the night and feeds on blood. Every few years, the attacks become more frequent, and then stop just as quickly and mysteriously as they began. Nothing has been able to stop this malevolent creature. Now, one man has done the impossible and captured El Chupacabra alive, and tonight, he plans to reveal his prize to the world—or at least the highest bidder. Hobbsbad has been thrown into chaos, as crackpots, cryptozoologists, reporters, and ranchers swarm into it!

Muerte al Chupacabras! is a scenario inspired by B-movies and pseudoscience that is designed to be played with 15 or more players and two to four staff members. Although it is meant to stand on its own, this script can easily be woven into any other campaign that features a lot of travel.

Muerte al Chupacabras! is a Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition script that includes introduction, timeline, prop and costume information, and character stats and bios for 30 characters.

The PDF edition comes with three different variants—color, black-and-white, and background-free—and each of these comes in low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions.

Although designed for the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition horror live-action role-playing game, Muerte al Chupacabras! can easily be adapted for use with almost any other horror or action RPG.

Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition: The Island PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

When their ship is sunk by a freak storm. the survivors swim to the nearest land, a small island off the New England coast. Safe on land they feel that their troubles are over ... but they are wrong.

The Island is a Cthulu Live live-action role-playing (LARP) game scenario for up to 13 players. It is set in 1947 and brings the characters face-to-face with their own twisted lineages and the madness carried in their very souls.

The text contains the game overview and timeline; prop, special effects, and stagecraft tips, including instructions for creating an elaborate working Moon Clock prop; and detailed character sheets and backgrounds for the player characters. Ideal as an event for a Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) party with friends or as a convention event, it offers hours of fun, intrigue, and horror.

The Island requires the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition game rules to use as-is but can easily be adapted for use with almost any other horror or action RPG.

The Mythos Society Guide to New England PDF

Skirmisher Publishing

The Mythos Society Guide to New England is an expansive universal sourcebook by veteran game designer Clint Staples that can be used to enhance any horror, mystery, or adventure roleplaying scenarios set in New England. It is particularly suited for Mythos-oriented games like Call of Cthulhu and Cthulhu Live. It is also a fun and provocative read for anyone interested in the esoteric history of New England, and a resource for stories or other projects that have horror or the weird as themes; are based on or inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft or other Cthulhu Mythos authors; or are set during the period between the two World Wars.

The Mythos Guide to New England provides a record of the land and its inhabitants, its prehistory and history, and its natural and unnatural characteristics. In these pages you will find tales of the witchcraft, hauntings, monsters, and malevolence that have plagued the peoples of the region, from pre-Colonial days into the 20th century.

New England is a diverse territory. Some the earliest settlements in the New World lie check by jowl with rugged country that, to this day, is all but untraveled by humanity. The sea, with its rocky shoals, rugged coves, unknown depths, and centuries of legend and lore holds sway over the minds of the region's inhabitants. The mountains and forests are just as mysterious and deadly, keeping secrets centuries and even millennia old, some of which mankind would be better not off not knowing. Between these wild areas are the settled portions, farms and orchards inland and harbors filled with ships and the folk that sail them on the coast. Man prevails in such places, but in the shadowed lanes, forgotten cellars, and lightless passages beneath his world there is still much that is unknown and unsettling.

Read and use the knowledge contained within this book at your own risk.

Author: Clint Staples
Artist: Bradley K. McDevitt (cover)
Pages: 142