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Today, in „How to tell if your favorite hobby product is a Cash Cow.“

Also: „Variant covers: Looking at you, DCC and D&D.“

$139 plus postage? Fuck off. Absolutely fuck off.

Call of Cthulhu: Chaosium 50th Anniversary Slipcase Set

The home of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, and Questworlds. Your gateway to mythic adventure.

Chaosium Inc. (www.chaosium.com)

$139 plus postage? Fuck off. Absolutely fuck off.

Call of Cthulhu: Chaosium 50th Anniversary Slipcase Set

The home of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, and Questworlds. Your gateway to mythic adventure.

Chaosium Inc. (www.chaosium.com)

@Taskerland I've always felt CoC should have expressionism poster style art. The "here is bloke with a book, a hat and gun standing in front of Cthulhu" rather misses the crazy.

Eric Heckel or something. That style would really fly for me in CoC

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@Taskerland @Printdevil Presumably David Larkins has.

@Taskerland Imagine a whole Caligari/Mabuse poster style gazetteer of Arkham. Sumptuous. With crazy linocut faces and maps done with dripping oleaginous black inks.

@Taskerland @Printdevil That is apparently What The Punters Want (because they've been brought up on modern D&D). Of course, giving the punters exactly what they're used to is a recipe for a crash.

@Printdevil @Taskerland I feel like some 90s TTRPGS used at least a bit of art along these lines, particularly in some books published by White Wolf. Maybe im just thinking of John Cobb’s art in particular

@Taskerland Probably Chaosium's 50th.

It also can be printed on very good paper stock a lot cheaper than the shiney-toilet paper approach so common in gaming books now.

Which is very friable.

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