Humble Bundle has dropped another great TTRPG deal - this time a Call of Cthulhu book bundle for Lovecraft lovers. As of this writing, the bundle has raised over $22,000 for the World Wildlife Fund. It's also a pretty good deal from a buyer's standpoint.

The bundle includes not only the game's starter set, but also tips for keepers (the game's DM/GM equivalent), a PDF full of terrifying monster cards that will doom players, and an "Alone Against the Tide"-like campaign, includes numerous supplements to help run stories ranging from occult pulp mysteries to modern horror, and much more.

My experience with this system is limited to a few one-shots, but I do know that "Down Darker Trails" - a booklet that can transfer the call of Cthulhu to the strange western frontier. The system is a bit hard to chew on (and perhaps a bit blasé about the approach to sanity mechanisms, a legacy from which other systems like Critical Role's Candela Obscura are moving away from), but it's still a fun time.

If you don't want to deal with 100-sided dice - in my experience we usually deal with two 10-sided dice, but our keepers had actual 100-sided dice like the world's crappiest golf balls.

Our senior editor (and fellow TTRPG enthusiast) Robin Valentine strongly recommends "Cthulhu's Way," which "combines a classic and thoroughly researched mythological setting with innovative mechanisms designed to make spooky mysteries easy to execute. This is a good thing, since "The Call of Cthulhu" sometimes makes you crunch numbers so much that it distracts from the horrors you are fighting. He also mentions the "lean and deadly" Cthulhu Dark in his handy list of D&D alternatives. Normally, you wouldn't drop money on books from other systems just for inspiration, but here you can buy 25 whole books for the price of one.

Additionally, as with other Humble Bundles, you can purchase specific items, so even if you're not interested in the system, you can still get a coloring book of "The Call of Cthulhu." Don't worry: you're so far below the Great Old Ones' massive cosmic vision that you won't be noticed if you turn him an attractive shade of hot pink.