While the dark times prophesied that this would occur when the stars were right, I was still shocked when Chaosium announced a Kickstarter for their 7th Edition of Call of Cthulhu.
I've mentioned elsewhere the underwhelming sense of "meh" for the new edition. Too many changes for the sake of change when they aren't needed. The desire to add more pulpiness into the system to draw back players who are perfectly happy with Trail of Cthulhu and the other Lovecraft variants.
CoC is an old, wonky system to some, but it has survived six or seven generations of "cutting edge" systems that have faded into obscurity. Previous editions were minor revisions and addendum. This has too many concept changes.
The new edition will also be broken down to a Keeper's Rulebook and an Investigators Handbook. Even though it is repeated many times that the Keeper's Rulebook is a complete game, with character generation, the next sentence usually follows with "The Investigator's Handbook contains contains rules for character generation (inc. further optionality and more occupations, plus specific player advice etc). By that sentence, the extra sections are NOT in the Keeper's book.
Color me nonplussed.
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