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Now at Awesome Dice — Cthulhu Elder Sign leather dice bags! These are the same high quality genuine leather construction as the rest of our leather dice bags, but with a green foil stamped Elder Sign design on the bag, to keep your dice safe from the unfathomable machinations of Old Ones. With this dice bag, Great Cthulhu himself cannot steal your dice. The Cthulhu dice bag is what we consider the perfect sized dice bag: about six inches tall by about 4.5 inches wide — capable of holding up to 50 dice, but still small enough to stuff into a jacket pocket....

My extended group of gamer friends are getting together for our annual RPG excess this coming weekend — sort of like a house con, with 3-4 games running per slot and 30+ people invading my house for a weekend. I’m only running one game this year, a Call of Cthulhu one-shot, which I have yet to write. I know the premise of the game, and I know how it’s going to end (not necessarily with everyone dead, depending) but I don’t yet know how I’m getting there. However, over the years of running Call of Cthulhu games, I’ve developed the generic Cthulhu...

Today I’m going to list what I think are some of the best Call of Cthulhu mood music options out there. Just about every Call of Cthulhu game is made better with the addition of some nice creepy background music. Some games suggest a very specific kind of music — like period music for a 1920s Cthulhu game — but for the most part just a generic spooky soundtrack will help set the mood. Unfortunately it can be hard to find good Call of Cthulhu mood music. Too much of the spooky music out there is far too intrusive and...