Rating: [ 6.71 / 10.00 ]

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Title  Shadows over Scotland
Author  Stuart Boon
Book Type  Background: Setting
Rank: [ 54 / 3183 ]
Genre  Horror / Cthulhu
Setting  1920s
Place: England, Scotland
Time: 1920s
Series 
Awards 
Diehard GameFan (Best Adventure Collection, 2011)
Origins Awards (Best Role-Playing Supplement, 2012)
ENnie (Gold for Best Setting, 2012)
Edition Info  Cubicle 7 Entertainment (2011 Hardcover)
Stock: 7353
ISBN: 978-0-85744-046-4
System  Call of Cthulhu 6
Parent: [ BRP ]

Game Summary

Fiendish things haunt the hive-like alleys and wynds of old Edinburgh. Glasgow’s streets whisper with rumours of dark terrors in the shipyard shadows on the snaking, poisonous Clyde. And in the isles, murmurs on fishing boats and ferries speak of far older things, of sites of power and standing stones, awakenings and stirrings in forgotten places. Mysterious, wild, and beautiful, Scotland in the 1920s is home to horrors modern and ancient, man-made and star-born. From the rolling pastoral Lowlands to the snow-capped peaks of the Highlands and seaweed-choked Western Isles, creatures and cultures have taken root in Scotland whose maddening, corrupting influence can be felt far and wide. Something terrifying lurks in the night, casting dark shadows over Scotland. This 288 page supplement for the Call of Cthulhu RPG provides everything you need for a short jaunt to Scotland or an entire Scottish campaign—including six sinster adventures and loads of handouts

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5 + 5kafka. Cubicle 7 has another winning Cthulhu supplement here. It is gorgeously illustrated and well edited. It is rules light, information heavy (although, never feeling that it is burden) giving the right amount of information. It contains a thorough examination of a timeline for Scotland and its predecessor states. This takes us from mythical times up to the 1920s. The first section is meant to be historical and commonly known facts. Then a briefer section that follows gives the history of the Mythos in Scotland, there is overlap between the two but fortunately no redundancy. The source material covers the lowlands, highlands and the islands in more detail than I have ever seen in any sourcebook. We get the lay of the land with maps; we get history, comprehensive overview of the cities, geological information, local flora & fauna, people & culture and Mythos-touched local myths. Rounding things are six scenarios.
5 + 4Antonios S. What would Cthulhu say on Scotland Brexiting against her will?

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10 / 10ChillinghamStands up as one of the best Call of Cthulhu sourcebooks I've ever read and owned. This is heads and tails above some of the recent sourcebooks from Chaosium. Not to say that the book isn't without its flaws, but luckily they are small nitpicky ones and fade in the light of all the atmospheric content the book provides. Better perhaps for Keepers than players, but more on that in a full review - now that I've managed to read the whole thing!

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