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home of CthulhuTech!
What
is CthulhuTech?
CthulhuTech
is an innovative
storytelling game that started out as a combination of two
popular genres. The first was that of cosmic horror, made
popular by H. P. Lovecraft and culminating in the modern
day with elements of Mike Mignola's Hellboy
and John
Carpenter’s In the Mouth of
Madness. The second was that of giant
mecha Japanese animation, made popular by such series
as Robotech,
Neon Genesis
Evangelion, and Rahxephon.
But the setting has grown far beyond what it started out to
be. CthulhuTech
is now a truly
unique hybrid of genres – cosmic horror, anime,
post-apocalypse, traditional horror, and science fiction
blended together seamlessly.
Ultimately, CthulhuTech
is set in our world
less than one hundred years from now, though as
unrecognizable to us as we are to the people of the early
twentieth century. Through the unorthodox blending of
arcane principles with modern science, Humanity has created
an inexhaustible power source that has revolutionized the
world. Hand in hand came greater cosmic understanding and
the acceptance of what was once thought to be magic. Our
blossoming power brought an alien race that had hidden
amongst us into the foreground as they descended upon Earth
to enslave or destroy us. Celestial mechanics have brought
ancient sleeping gods back into our world. The Aeon War
rages and three-quarters of the people on Earth have been
wiped out. But, combined with the might of unexpected
allies, the New Earth Government makes certain that we will
not go gently into the dark night.
It is in this rich setting that
players take on the roles of hot-shot mecha jocks, staring
down the front lines to save the world, self-sacrificing
Engel pilots, who have psychically attuned themselves with
giant cybernetic monsters, knowledgeable occult scholars
and powerful sorcerers, who use an understanding of the
hidden world and cosmic laws to bring eldritch power
against our enemies, brave combat soldiers, fighting where
giant machines cannot, and frightening Tagers, who have
undergone lost rituals to bond in symbiosis with a thing
from beyond space and time. And these are just a few
options in a much larger world.
Built on
Framewerk
Gone are the days that
hobbyists wanted intricate, complex mechanics in their
games. Simple, intuitive systems like White Wolf’s
Storyteller
or Eden
Studios’ Unisystem
are now the order
of the day. Even Wizards of the Coast's d20
has been
streamlined from its more complicated days.
Framewerk,
the proprietary system upon which CthulhuTech
is built, is not
only simple and intuitive, it is cinematic, exciting, and
puts destiny back in the hands of the player. Its easy to
grasp nature makes the game straightforward to learn and
quick to start. Its clever dice mechanics make even the
simplest of task resolutions exciting.
