CthulhuTech
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| RPG published by Catalyst Game Labs |
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| Rule System | Framewerk | |
| Authors | Matthew Grau Fraser McKay Mike Vaillancourt |
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| First Publication | 2007 (Mongoose Edition) 2008 (Catalyst Edition) |
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CthulhuTech is a roleplaying game developed by WildFire LLC and published by Catalyst Game Labs (formerly published by Mongoose Publishing). It combines Lovecraftian eldritch horror with Anime mecha sensibilities set in the grimdark future of the late 21st Century.
Backstory
Early in the 21st century woman by the name of Teresa Ashcroft discovered arcanotechnology, the science behind magic. The discovery revolutionised the world and sent her mad.
Unfortunately for humanity the rapid advancement in technology brought attention of the Migou, an alien race living on the outskirts of our solar system. They waged war with us, seeking to destroy the human race and acquire the secrets of arcanotech for themselves. To do this they engineered a race in our image called the Nazzadi, who unaware of their artificial nature and roots, believing they were Earth exiles, warred with Earth for 6 years, completely decimating our population until a few billion left became aware of their true nature and relation to us. They made peace, joined Earth as allies against Migou, brought their armies alongside humanity, and settled around the Caribbean.
Meanwhile a less obvious war had been going on. Cultists that had been in the shadows of humanity since the discovery of fire saw the advent of arcanotechnology as a sign that it was a time to revive their dead gods. The Chrysalis Corporation, innocent at first, corrupted afterwards by Nyarlahothep himself, worked to undermine the New Earth Government and other cults worked to corrupt humanity through vice.
After the defection of the Nazzadi, the Migou decided to wage their war themselves and so the second Arcanotech War began. The Migou, seeing the threat of the cults, also worked against them.
Now with the cults becoming more and more blatant in their actions and the Migou becoming more aggressive in an effort to stop them, the New Earth Government has realised that the war was evolving into something new and so declared the Arcanotech War to have ended and the Aeon War to have begun.
TL;DR Human-Nazzadi(Dark Elf expy's) Alliance versus the cold, technocratic Migou versus the Cult of Dagon versus The Rapine Storm, the Scourge expy of World of Warcraft led by Hastur. Yup, everybody is an enemy.
System
CthulhuTech uses a system called Framewerk, known to some fa/tg/uys as 'lol poker dice'. The system uses d10s and success is based on either the single highest dice rolled or the sum of the highest sum of multiples of dice rolled or the sum of the highest straight of dice rolled (e.g. 4 5 6) hence the poker dice moniker.