The Creature Companion (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game) [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Chaosium, Inc. (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568821336
• ISBN-13: 978-1568821337
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,378,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A monster fest, May 13, 2000

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Andrew Limsk (Kuala Lumpur, MY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Creature Companion (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game) (Paperback)

This book is meant for the Call of Cthulhu (COC) roleplaying game available from the same publisher. It is basically a compendium of creatures taken from Cthulhu fiction and older Chaosium books (notably Ye Booke of Monstres I and II) as well as several new, never-been-seen horrors.

The secrets of each creature are described together with statistics and line drawings, supplemented with color text. Well written and a pleasure to read, this book will give Cthulhu players more things to fear. As a bonus, four terrific full-colour art pieces are included which capture the the loathsome details of the Cthulhu mythos perfectly. The book is probably best used to surprise veteran COC players who think they have seen it all...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scary---period., June 5, 2002

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Julius Talyansky (Sunnyvale, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Creature Companion (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game) (Paperback)

If you think CoC is just an RPG game, think again. I recently bought the [price] CoC 20th Anniversary Edition Rulesbook (worth every penny) and was looking for some new monsters to enhance my gaming...Here they are in this beautiful guide...morbidly illustrated...crisp text (not simply a tedious chart collection)...and scares the living bejesus out of me. When I was first reading Lovecraft, I became hooked, and simply LOOKING at this book was a surprise - really quite cool. A must-have accessory for any player as well as keeper - even players can marvel at the creature statistics, and hope they don't meet whatever is in the book on their CoC adventures...Cthulhu's stats made me jump...Anyway, a visually pleasing (depending on your asthetic values) book, as well as a necessity to playing the greatest RPG ever created...enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars not a player, but love this book anyway, January 30, 2003

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Eric Orion "Eric Orion" (Arizona, Malkuth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Creature Companion (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game) (Paperback)

I dont play the game, but I bought this book anyway simply because it had such terrifying pics of the creatures that I have only read about in the literature. The posters included of the G.O.O's are really cool too. The descriptions of the entities are great and the sideline articles by the occult investigator are icing on the cake. Buy this book if you voted Cthulhu for President! (It couldn't be much worse than Dubya could it?)