Publisher: Steve Jackson Games

Author: Chris W McCubbin

Format: Softcover Book, 128 pages

ISBN: 1-55634-288-8

Rating: 3/5

GURPS CthulhuPunk combines the world of GURPS CyberWorld and puts it through the lense of the Cthulhu Mythos. You need neither GURPS CyberPunk nor GURPS CyberWorld to use this book though they certainly help as GURPS CthulhuPunk has only so much space.

Contents

Chapter One: The Cthulhu Mythos

A short background of the Mythos. A list of Mythos books with the Mythos Lore and Fright Check statistics. We end with a Mythos timeline including references to Conan's world of Hyboria.

Chapter Two: The CthulhuPunk World

History of the world to 2041. Short descriptions of the major political blocks and criminal organizations.

Chapter Three: Characters

Character concepts. Sanity and terror rules for the Cthulhu Mythos (basically you get half your Will vs Mythos Fright Checks). Clarifications to some advantages and disadvantages for a CthulhuPunk campaign. Cthulhu magic (the basic Call of Cthulhu spells). Some special CyberPunk equipment.

Chapter Four: The CthulhuPunk Campaign

Campaign themes and tenor. The six major Cthulhu plots.

Chapter Five: Investigators

Different groups that investigate the Cthulhu mythos: independents, Miskatonic University, governmental special forces, the Korps, organized crime, religions groups, fringe mystical groups. NPC writeups.

Chapter Six: Cultists

Opponent groups. From lone cultists to the bigger cults. Brief descriptions of several examples. NPC writeups.

Chapter Seven: Mythos Bestiary

Statistics for a cross section of Great Old Ones and lesser Mythos creatures including Fright Check modifiers. Enough to stat other monsters as needed.

Chapter Eight: Adventure Seeds

Six adventure seeds, each described in a handful of paragraphs.

Chapter Nine: Conversions

Two page conversion notes of Call of Cthulhu stats into GURPS.

Final Word

I consider this book a supplement. If you want to run Call of Cthulhu adventures in GURPS there are enough notes here: the sanity rules, mythos monsters and CoC conversion notes.

For those of you with GURPS CyberPunk and CyberWorld, the additional notes in CthulhuPunk are quite interesting. Although there is enough information to run a campaign using just CthulhuPunk I'd rather have the other books to really flesh things out more.

So overall it's a nice book to have but you need other books too.