Cthulhu Awakens Roleplaying Game

A project in Seattle, WA by Green Ronin Publishing
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Spin epic Mythos tales of cosmic horror across the Weird Century in a complete, stand-alone roleplaying game powered by the AGE System!
Backers: 1423
Average Pledge Per Backer: $64

Funded: $91,309 of $10,000
Dates: Feb 15th -> Mar 23rd (37 days)
Project By: Green Ronin Publishing
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Latest News

Eldritch Texts in Cthulhu Awakens

March 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
The campaign ends tonight at 8pm PDT! We've almost secured that 1960s adventure, and it would be fantastic if we can add the second Weirdness Overflowing document as well!  This will be our last content-focused update during the campaign, but we'll... (Read More)

Eldritch Workings and the Powers of Cthulhu Awakens

March 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Last night the 48 hour reminder emails went out, and we have reached the $80k stretch goal for the Modern AGE: Enemies and Allies PDF! Can we hit that 1960s adventure before the day is over? Art by Maurice Risulmi Cthulhu Awakensprovides three... (Read More)

Secret History in Cthulhu Awakens

March 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Art by Tentacles and Teeth In expanding the source material to cover the Weird Century, Cthulhu Awakenspresents a world with a secret history, where the Mythos is never acknowledged in public life, but still represents a pervasive, dangerous... (Read More)

The Weird Century

March 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Art by Andrew Vasilchenko The key setting concept of Cthulhu Awakens is the Weird Century, a rough period from the 1920s to the present characterized by rising Mythos activity. Isolated cults such as the Esoteric Order of Dagon become worldwide... (Read More)

Bonds: An AGE Mechanic Evolved

March 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Art by Tentacles and Teeth If you’re familiar with Blue Rose or Modern AGE, you’ve come across Relationships: a system that provides mechanical benefits based on your character’s powerful feelings for another person, whether it’s love,... (Read More)

Alienation: A Mind Adapted to the Unknown

March 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Contrary to popular belief, encountering Mythos entities, reading texts that convincingly upend the supposed laws of reality, confronting the dark miracles of sorcery, or witnessing the dark miracles of alien gods do not drive you mad—at least, not... (Read More)

Other Crowdfunding Campaigns We Think Are Cool!

March 16th - via: kickstarter.com
When we’re running a campaign like Cthulhu Awakens, I like to write an update that highlights other cool looking crowdfunders that are happening at the same time. I’m also going to talk about some fundraisers that might interest you. Cthulhu is... (Read More)

By Popular Demand: Cthulhu Awakens GM Kit!

March 14th - via: kickstarter.com
This morning we are pleased to announce that we WILL be making a Game Master's Kit for Cthulhu Awakens! The Cthulhu Awakens Game Master's Kit is a collection of resources that help you smoothly deliver terror and adventure to your players. It... (Read More)

The Cthulhu Awakens Menagerie

March 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Cthulhu Awakens is a game of fear and weirdness, and that includes the people you meet, from mortal conspirators to otherworldly monsters. I thought folks might like to see all the listings with full game statistics provided in Chapter 9 of the... (Read More)

Cthulhu Awakens With Modern AGE

March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
This week we've been posting over on our blog, and in past Kickstarter campaigns, about how Cthulhu Awakens can work with other AGE system games like The Expanse RPG, or even Blue Rose: The AGE RPG of Romantic Fantasy. For today's update, we thought... (Read More)

Weirdness Overflowing: Cults of the Mythos

March 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Art by John Anthony Di Giovanni As mentioned in our last update on the subject, Weirdness Overflowing is a PDF supplement that grows with the campaign, adding new chapters as we go. The first chapter, which qualified backers will be receiving, since... (Read More)

Entity Sneak Peek!

March 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Sample Entity: The Gregarian When insects and worms feast on the remains of certain psychics, sorcerers, and certain strong-willed individuals, they sometimes copy the residue of that individual’s personality, and a Gregarian is born. These... (Read More)

What is Weirdness Overflowing?

March 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Art by Tentacles & Teeth Skimming the stretch goals, the $70,000 Weirdness Overflowing supplement may have caught your eye? What is it? How do you get it? The hint is in the title. Since we’ve blown past all the stretch goals that expand... (Read More)

Session Zero Livestream, and a Podcast!

February 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Last night The Expanse RPG developer, Ian Lemke hosted a Session Zero for a new Cthulhu Awakens livestream game! Keep an eye out for future sessions, as the group gets those dice rolling! Our friends over at Game Knight Heroes have also recorded an... (Read More)

More Goals, Less Stretchy

February 24th - via: kickstarter.com
If you take a look at the main campaign page you might notice that we’ve revised our stretch goals. We’ve done that for a few reasons. 1) We’re in the middle of the campaign for Cthulhu Awakens and we want to keep the hype going! I mean,... (Read More)

The AGE of Cthulhu Awakens

February 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Over the weekend we unlocked another stretch goal and our second adventure for the core book. As if that was not exciting enough, we have more information coming soon about what "Weirdness Overflowing" is going to look like. In the meantime, we have... (Read More)

Adventure Game Engine (AGE) 101

February 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Cthulhu Awakens uses the Adventure Game Engine, also called the AGE system.  What is AGE? How does it work? The AGE system is designed to be straightforward and easy to learn. You use normal, 6-sided dice, rolling three of them against a target... (Read More)

Come join us for ThursdAGE!

February 17th - via: kickstarter.com
ThursdAGE is our weekly livestream show were we discuss all things AGE-related. Come join us today for lots more information about Cthulhu Awakens! Join @Owen_Stephens and disembodied @YesImTroy as we pick Lead Developer Malcolm Sheppard's brain on... (Read More)

Day Two Madness

February 16th - via: kickstarter.com
In less than 48 hours you have all helped to unlock so much weirdness!  We also have decided that our first two full days went so well, we'd extend the DREADCRAWLS free Issue 0 offer to Noon Pacific tomorrow, just to give folks who were on the fence... (Read More)

Why Cthulhu Awakens?

February 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Why Cthulhu Awakens? The genesis of Cthulhu Awakens was Modern AGE, Green Ronin’s multi-genre modern era AGE system RPG. Modern AGE is a platform for multiple settings, and the Cthulhu Mythos, as a classic inspiration for roleplaying, seemed like... (Read More)

DAY 1 RECAP

February 15th - via: kickstarter.com
What a day we had!  Not only did we fund in only 40 minutes, but we have also unlocked two stretch goals already. Thank you so much for your support, everyone! We are definitely going to need some new stretch goals! Fortunately, we have a whole... (Read More)

We have funded!

February 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you so much to everyone who helped us fund Cthulhu Awakens in less than an hour! Come hang out with us on our launch livestream! https://www.twitch.tv/greenroninpublishing (You can also join us on YouTube, Facebook, etc. Whatever happens to be... (Read More)

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