Outbound reading worth keeping

Borrow an OSR timer or a faction map for your investigation—do not borrow trademarks.

Trim any roll that stalls investigation without adding dread. Fairness beats sacred text.

Core references

• Call of Cthulhu RPG on Wikipedia.
• Chaosium Call of Cthulhu hub.
• H. P. Lovecraft biography.
• H. P. Lovecraft archive.
• DriveThruRPG blog.
• Cthulhu Mythos overview.
• Yog-Sothoth CoC community.
• Pulp magazine history.

Spoiler labels for new scenarios. Rules talk separate from bleed talk.

How to evaluate a source

Cite Keepers, freelancers, and artists when you pass tools around. Name the makers.

Track time, SAN, and which leads are still live. Resource pressure drives investigative horror.

Revisit this list quarterly; blogs reorganize and encyclopedia pages gain better citations. If an outbound link 404s, tell us—authority hygiene is part of the desk's job.

Keep going

Use the guides hub when you want procedures, the glossary when vocabulary blocks a new player, and the resources page when you need outbound authority reading. Community notes explain discussion norms; updates logs what changed on this desk over time.

Cross-link thoughtfully to sibling domains when your campaign drifts into a neighboring system or genre. Quiet footer links point to WOGD and Pop Culture USA for operator context—never as a spam wall of unrelated sites.

Good tables treat prep budgets, safety tools, and recap rituals as seriously as character sheets. Write those habits down. Share credit for freelancers and designers when you discuss tools that shaped your night. Come back when you need a calm second opinion on orientation—not when you need invented product prices.

If a paragraph here ever conflicts with a primary publisher document, trust the primary source and tell us so we can fix our summary. Accuracy beats clever phrasing every time.