| The Fungi from Yuggoth | |
| Subtitle: | Desperate Adventures Against the Brotherhood |
| Publisher: | Chaosium |
| System: | Basic Role-Playing |
| Designer: | Keith Herber |
| Isbn: | 0-933635-08-7 |
The Fungi from Yuggoth is a set of eight adventures published by Chaosium in 1984 for the horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu, itself based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
The Fungi from Yuggoth is a campaign of eight sequentially linked adventures set in the 1920s that uses what reviewer Richard Lee typified as the "onion-skin" plot device: The campaign starts with what seems to be a trivial event, but each adventure peels layer after layer, gradually revealing deeper and darker mysteries involving an apocalyptic cult called The Brotherhood of the Beast, until the overall plot is finally exposed in the last chapter. The book is divided into eight chapters, each one a separate scenario:
Chaosium first published the horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu in 1981, and supported it with a large number of adventures and campaigns. The Fungi from Yuggoth, published in 1984 as an 80-page saddle-stapled softcover book, was written by Keith Herber, with art by Chris Marrinan. Chaosium released a second printing in 1987.[2]
In Issue 21 of Imagine, Richard Lee reviewed several Call of Cthulhu adventures including Curse of the Chthonians and The Fungi from Yuggoth. Lee found writer Keither Herber had used "impeccable technique" and "conviction" in creating The Fungi from Yuggoth, commenting that the eight chapters "contrive to make Lovecraft's horrific worlds rather too close for comfort." He concluded "Curse and Fungi are worthy supplements indeed: well-detailed and original. With Call of Cthulhu so capably documented and now so reasonably priced, the world of Twenties style and pulp-fiction atmosphere must loom as a considerable threat to the more conventional RPGs."[3]