Call of Cthulhu, RETURN to DUNWICH, Chaosium #2330 1st. Ed. 1991 GOOD/FAIR

Description: RETURN to DUNWICH Chaosium #2330 First Edition, First Print 1991 by Keith Herber, Snyder, et al. For use with the Call of Cthulhu RPG. Vintage Classic, Book 2 in the "Lovecraft Country" series. Details and background info for the town of Dunwich and the larger surrounding area, and scenarios to play in the locale. A VERY COOL book for fans of Lovecraft's fiction in general. Like so many of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu offerings, this can make for a Super-FUN read, even if you aren't going to game with it! Original owner. This is our second reader copy; it was never used for play, only to read. In Fine/Good Condition, Fair overall. The spine is still tight and the interior is 100% clean suffering no pen or pencil marks. All of the player hand- outs, as well as the cool frameable map of Dunwich and surrounding wilds are all still firmly attached at the rear of the book (the last picture is of our loose map, to properly show what it looks like unattached and unfolded). The only real flaws are a ding in the top right corner of the first few pages, a couple small creases and a few very light scratches on the front and back cover wraps. Difficult to see depending on the light and we tried our best to show them, but the covers still look pretty good despite this! Please see photos. Review from RPG.NET: "RETURN to DUNWICH is a must buy and is one of the tightest role-playing books that I've seen in a good while. This is what I think of when I think of the best that Chaosium has to offer: The perfect mix of localized spookiness, inbred locals, backwoods plots, and a ravening menace that threatens to destroy the entire Dunwich Valley if the investigators don't twig to what's going on. Hell, you could run an entire scenario on the NON-Mythos events in town, just because of the strength of the characters! The layout is familiar to anybody who's been through the Lovecraft Country books: The area is laid out by sections, with each section and building labelled by number. Each building has its own entry, some short, some long, and some expanding on facts laid forth in other sections. But damn, any single entry is the seed for an adventure! Alcohol-soaked corpses waiting resurrection, horrible secrets contained within attics, weird behavior, diseased family pathologies, murders (regular and supernatural varieties), dark swamps, statuary dug up out of the ground, a hunt for the alchemical secret of gold, a local cult that isn't as sinister as expected and above all, hints pointing towards the awful thing behind it all, something that's deliberately pushing the town of Dunwich into a decaying backwoods. And oh, yeah, there's the star of "The Dunwich Horror" hanging around somewhere as well, although he's not the focus of the book... And to boot, there's even an actual history of the town - not just generalizations, but specific information on how the valley's character has developed. Rumors of Whateley gold go back a long ways, resulting in assorted parties trying to get their hands on the secret; meanwhile, the local cultists are slowly learning how to manipulate magic, but haven't fallen into the gaping maw of Mythos worship. Yet. The Whateleys have been affecting this place for a while, but there's ample hints that there were people here before the locals moved in... The book is laid out less along geographical lines as it is of people, which is where the book really shines. There's enough material here to fill about two years worth of campaigning. The Dunwich Horror is assumed to have been dealt with, but there's a host of other problems manifesting themselves. For example, although there are a few generic families represented with a name and nothing more, almost every building has a hook to it. This family may have two kids and a family dog, but it might also have skeletons buried in the basement that they don't know about; or maybe they can rent out hunting dogs; or maybe they found some old statuary in the field out back. Or maybe play the guitar, and can teach the skill. Or maybe they're cannibals! That's just a hint at the amount of detail that this book has. The entries don't waste time - most aren't much longer than a paragraph, but it's amazing what they've managed to put into a single paragraph! It only needs a paragraph to detail, say, Lewis Martin's naïve pride in being able to summon fish into his hand by magic alone, but the effect on players will be much more lasting. Some of the residents are paranoid, some of them think nothing's wrong, some of them are examples of just how far Dunwich is sliding into a nightmare state. The steady escalation of hints, dropped with each entry, is guaranteed to weird players out. Is it perfect? Pretty close, but not quite. Is it worth buying? A thousand times YES! It's better than Masks of Nyarlathotep, in my opinion. I was always partial to the backwoods horror of Lovecraft, rather than the globe-spanning (and occasionally ludicrous) machinations of "Masks." The only problem is organizational, but without this product, you'll never know just how good Chaosium can be at writing supplements! Style: 5 (Excellent!) Substance: 5 (Excellent!) As a sourcebook for Dunwich this product ROCKS!" Thank you for checking out our listing, and do not hesitate to message us with any questions or reasonable offers! In the coming days and weeks we will be listing a LARGE number of mostly vintage Call of Cthulhu items, come back and see what we have! Or if you are looking for something specific, again, don't hesitate to shoot us a message. And please visit our store for MANY other Fine Goods both New and preowned, common and RARE, and ALL PRICED TO SELL! ALL Books, Games, Blu-Rays & DVDs are ALWAYS "Buy 3, Get 1 Free!" 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