Cthulhu Eternal: Age of Revolutions SRD

Cthulhu Eternal is a multi-era, setting agnostic ruleset which aims to support inventive game designers who have original ideas for Lovecraftian roleplaying games or scenarios. It draws upon the long line of D100 games of Cthulhu-themed investigation, offering a beautifully streamlined and elegant set of mechanics to support a diverse range of gaming styles. Different eras of human history each have their own flavor and character – due in part to the technology available, and in part due to social conventions of the day. Recognizing this, Cthulhu Eternal exists as a family of inter-related rules engines – each based on the same mechanics but tailored to the needs of a specific era. This version of Cthulhu Eternal is specially designed to support Lovecraftian games set in the period from approximately 1750 to 1850. This was an era when the world was on fire, buring with the flames of Revolution (both literally and figuratively). It was the century which saw both the American and French Revolutions, as well as several epic, globe spanning wars (the Napoleonic Wars and the Seven Years' War/French and Indian War, just to name a couple). It is also the century in which the colonial expansion of the European powers – and their brutal oppression of indigenous peoples across many continents –was at its absolute peak. It's the time of the founding of the penal colonies of Australia, but also the time when the so-called Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution were placing science and engineering ahead of centuries' worth of superstition and tradition. This era also spawned the first of the bleak novels that would later be called "gothic", as well as the genteel society of the Regency period. Regardless of whether you wish to weave your Lovecraftian tales in amongst the tumult and upheaval of war, or in quiet places where the distraction of such world re-shaping events has allowed dark things to grow unnoticed ... the Age of Revolutions offers many intriguing opportunities. If you're willing to scratch the surface of its often-brutal world ...