Looking for an interesting font for your arcane tome or spell scroll? Check out Dhingion Niginair from Pieter Rottiers. He's a prolific worldbuilder and conlang artist who has produced a number of languages and scripts for his fantasy world of Dardaniell. If you're really into full immersion, click through on the link to download the font and take advantage of phonetic pronunciations provided to build a complete document.
It's rare to come across a depiction of Hastur that doesn't embrace his King in Yellow form. Turkish artist Ebrahel Lurci brings us his take on the Unspeakable One, complete with a nicely done presentation case.
McCormick Wands returns to our pages with a trio of their "Aurora" style wizarding wands in Bolivian rosewood and maple. As always, and incredible level of craftsmanship on display.
Artedarme Workshop returns to our pages with their latest LARP weapon. This time it's a recreation of a 16th century Cinquedea dagger, based on an original in the Metropolitan Museum collection. If you're not familiar with this type of weapon you can learn more over on Wikipedia. It was one of the few daggers designed for slashing instead of piercing.
This is pretty cool. Thomas E. Shkurti has released a free Call of Cthulhu tabletop scenario set in gaslight-era Australia.
No Place of Honour is a tale of mystery, science, tragedy, time, and Victorian hubris, set deep in the Australian Outback in 1888. Investigators will be joining a medical aid mission to the remote mining settlement of Monument Station, which has been stricken by a mysterious plague- or, have the miners instead awakened an ancient, invisible killer?
The scenario includes 137 pages of slow-burn, sandbox exploration and investigation; with 6 full-color maps, 12 handouts, and 6 full-page illustrations, along with 6 pre-generated characters. It provides roughly 15-20 hours of play, and best accommodates a small group of 2 or 3 players.
The full scenario is available for free download from Google Drive here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kzbe9SAzUEmSycs1LHLsM1Lt6mxypo2L
Based on a quick read-through, it's an interesting period adventure with a great twist. (You can find out more about that by clicking through to Mr. Shkurti's Reddit post and looking at the spoiler text.) The complete adventure package includes an impressive collection of maps and handouts, exactly the kind of thing that's our bread and butter here at Propnomicon.
Kudos to Mr. Shkurti for an intriguing scenario and a willingness to share it with the community free of charge.
This sounds like the first act of a Mythos story, but it's absolutely true.
In the late 1950s the governments of Romania and Yugoslavia decided to move forward with the Iron Gate hydroelectric dam. The project would create a massive artificial lake, impounding the water of the Danube and flooding the banks of the river. Archeologists started to survey the soon to be inundated areas and discovered evidence of a previously unknown culture dating back to 7000 BCE. The buildings were arranged in a complex geometric pattern, and excavations uncovered dozens of idols depicting human/fish hybrids. Even stranger, it's the only European site where a "double sunrise" astronomical alignment has been found.
Author Dan Davis has a great look at the Lepenski Vir site over on YouTube. It's just the thing if you're looking to incorporate some real-world inspiration into a Mythos scenario. You can find even more information, including the effort to relocate the entire complex above the flood line, in the Wikipedia entry.
This Cthulhu plaque WIP shot comes to us from Irish artist Eoin McMorrow. I like how he's captured the organic shapes of a skull without directly mimicking a human skull.
