Terror Australis
Details
Publisher: Chaosium
Product Code: 2319
Publishing Year: 1987
Pages: 136
Cover Price: $17.95
Author(s): Penelope Love, Mark Morrison, Lynn Willis, Larry DiTillio, Sandy Petersen
Artist(s): Tom Sullivan, Ron Leming, Phillip Anderson (maps), Marion Anderson (maps)
Setting(s): 1920s
Format(s): Softcover
ISBN: 0-933635-40-0
Contents
Scenarios: Pride of Yirrimburra, Old Fellow That Bunyip, City Beneath the Sands (actually the Australian chapter of the campaign Masks of Nyarlathotep)
Articles: About the Nation, Australian Language, The New Ghosts (Australian hauntings), Australian Timeline, The Aboriginals, Alcheringa, Creatures From The Dreamtime
Additional: Introduction, Map of Australia, Player Handouts
Front Cover Text
Cthulhu Down Under: Australian Background and Adventures
Back Cover Text
TERROR AUSTRALIS
Cthulhu Down Under: Australian Background and Adventures
"Welcome to the land of wonder -- the land Down Under!"
"..Man must be prepared to accept notions of the cosmos, and of his own place in the seething vortex of time, whose merest mention is paralyzing. He must, too, be placed on guard against a specific, lurking peril which, though it will never engulf the whole race, may impose monstrous and unguessable horrors on certain venturesome members of it." -- H.P. Lovecraft
AUSTRALIA is a new-settled land, full of opportunity. But it is also an ancient land, filled with the dreamings of the Aboriginals, hunters and gatherers who came first. And, as famous horror writer H.P. Lovecraft wrote, long before the humans came shocking and awesome entities, whose purposes are unguessable.
TERROR AUSTRALIS includes three roleplaying adventures, "Old Fellow That Bunyip", "Pride of Yirrimburra" and "City Beneath The Sands," as well as extensive information about the Aboriginal inhabitants, their mystical concept of Dreamtime, inhabitants of the Dreamtime, Australian history, transportation in the 1920s, contemporary Australian slang, famous hauntings, and a special chapter analyzing the Dreamtime (Alcheringa) in roleplaying terms. Intended as a roleplaying supplement and useful for any roleplaying system, TERROR AUSTRALIS also contains many pages of illustration and maps to intrigue and Australia buff.
This book is a companion to publications such as H.P. LOVECRAFT'S DREAMLANDS and GASLIGHT, which also situate Cthulhu players in other times and places.
Comments / Trivia
Playtesters for "Old Fellow That Bunyip" were Marion Anderson, Phil Anderson, Royd Burgoyne, Bernard Calco, Terry Cooper, Ron Jones, Phil Keast, Mark Robins, Bill Routt, Dierdre Routt and Richard Watts.
Playtesters for "Pride of Yirrimburra" were Marion Anderson, Phil Anderson, Anton Parker, Dean Scully and Richard Watts
Links
Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only
Players should not read any further.
Comment here to Keepers about this book. Comments on specific Scenarios and Campaigns go on their respective pages. Keep DISCUSSION on the talk page.