Reviews from R’lyeh considers the new mid-1930s RPG A Cold Fire Within: A Mind-Bending Campaign for Pulp Cthulhu. It seems worth noting here. Not just because it’s a major new Lovecraftian pulp work, albeit done as an RPG, but also because it’s not just mobsters, monsters ‘n machine-guns…

As an [RPG] campaign, A Cold Fire Within does something different. There have been plenty of scenarios for Call of Cthulhu which deal with the science fictional aspects of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror, but not a campaign. It is very much not a campaign of Lovecraftian investigative horror in the eldritch sense, but rather one of fringe science — or ‘Science!’ and fringe theories ranging from Theosophy to the Hollow Earth.

It appears to have been launched in February 2020, and requires two other core game-books. Here’s the blurb…

For those who are not gamers there are now twelve recorded ‘play’ episodes of this on YouTube, though as yet no YouTube playlist to collect all these.

For artists there’s also a full look at the “making of” the front cover at Mariusz Gandzel’s ArtStation pages…