{"id":41234,"date":"2020-08-15T05:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T02:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=41234"},"modified":"2020-08-15T05:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T02:43:04","slug":"a-cold-fire-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/15\/a-cold-fire-within\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cold Fire Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reviews from R&#8217;lyeh<\/em> considers the new mid-1930s RPG <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rlyehreviews.blogspot.com\/2020\/08\/hollow-earth-horror.html\">A Cold Fire Within: A Mind-Bending Campaign for Pulp Cthulhu<\/a><\/em>. It seems worth noting here. Not just because it&#8217;s a major new Lovecraftian pulp work, albeit done as an RPG, but also because it&#8217;s not just mobsters, monsters &#8216;n machine-guns&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019s 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 \u2014 or \u2018Science!\u2019 and fringe theories ranging from Theosophy to the Hollow Earth. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears to have been launched in February 2020, and requires two other core game-books. Here&#8217;s the blurb&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/coldf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/coldf.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"551\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who are not gamers there are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7WJoZS6ogXI\">twelve recorded &#8216;play&#8217; episodes<\/a> of this on YouTube, though as yet no YouTube playlist to collect all these.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/play.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/play.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"190\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For artists there&#8217;s also a full look at the &#8220;making of&#8221; the front cover at <a href=\"https:\/\/mariusz.artstation.com\/projects\/qAPYzz\">Mariusz Gandzel&#8217;s ArtStation pages<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/coverdraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/coverdraft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews from R&#8217;lyeh considers the new mid-1930s RPG A Cold Fire Within: A Mind-Bending Campaign for Pulp Cthulhu. It seems &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/15\/a-cold-fire-within\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}