Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen explained

Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen
Publisher:Chaosium
System:Basic Role-Playing
Designer:Chaosium
Isbn:978-1-56882-410-9

Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen is a 1985 role-playing game supplement for Call of Cthulhu published by Chaosium.

Contents

Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen is a three-panel cardstock gamemaster's screen with tables to help the gamemaster keep track of ranged and melee weapons, monsters, spells, rules for sanity loss and fictional Mythos books. The Keeper's Screen features tables for combat, magic, and skills, with third edition Call of Cthulhu rules data; the second version of the screen also includes the "knock-out" rule, and weapons data from the supplements Cthulhu Now and Cthulhu by Gaslight.

Publication history

Keeper's Screen features art by Tom Sullivan, and was published by Chaosium, Inc., in 1985 as a cardstock screen.[1] A second edition was published in 1988 and says "New Edition" on the cover.[1]

Reception

Guy Hail reviewed Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer No. 80.[2] Hail commented that "The new tables will settle some disputes about thrown weapons, and a Keeper should have a cthuloid screen to hide his secrets from nosy investigators, but Chaosium should have used this opportunity to cumulate Call of Cthulhus monsters and spells in a single supplement."[2]

Review

Notes and References

  1. Book: Schick, Lawrence. Lawrence Schick

    . Lawrence Schick. Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books . 1991. 0-87975-653-5 . 243.

  2. Hail . Guy . October–November 1987 . Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen. Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer. Diverse Talents, Incorporated. 80. 40–41.
  3. Web site: GDW Challenge38 .
  4. Web site: Keeper's Screen.