Royce Wilson, one of our special guests at KaijuCon 2, now has a second table. The Lightless Beacon: it is 1926, and the investigators wash up on a desolate island. Saturday 24 October, 6 to 9pm in Nagoya. English, beginners welcome. One seat left, and his first table, Resort, is full🐙(Tomomi)

The Lightless Beacon (Call of Cthulhu)

It is 1926 and the characters find themselves shipwrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Massachusetts. There's a storm coming and the island's lighthouse has stopped working - why? Time to inv

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First mockup of the character sheets I will be providing at @singularitysons.bsky.social and @tokyorpgsociety.bsky.social 's Kaijucon in Nagoya this year for my Call of Cthulhu scenario, Terminal 4. I still have 2 seats left if you want to play!

I went to see Minions & Monsters expecting a light summer cartoon. I walked out clutching the programme and thinking about Lovecraft. (In Japan, cinemas still sell printed programmes for new films. I collect them.)🐙(T)

The KaijuCon 2 T-shirt is real. Kasumi Lang's artwork, worn here by organizer Jesse Covner. On sale at the venue in Nagoya on 24 October. If you are in Japan that weekend, come and play🐙(Tomomi)

Noob Day happened. Eleven people came to Second Home in Nagoya on Sunday, most of them trying a tabletop RPG for the first time, and played one long D&D game and two sessions of Call of Cthulhu. Tables in English and Japanese. The next one is the convention itself, 24 October🐙(Tomomi)

Chaosium have announced two special guests for KaijuCon 2 in Nagoya on 24 October: Michael O'Brien, Chaosium VP, and writer Royce Wilson. Full details on the Chaosium blog🐙(Tomomi) www.chaosium.com/blogmichael-...

Michael O'Brien and Royce Wilson are special guests at KaijuCon 2 (Nagoya, Japan, Oct 24th)

Chaosium vice president Michael O'Brien and Call of Cthulhu creator Royce Wilson (co-author of the coming Call of Cthulhu release Tools of the Trade) are special guests at KaijuCon 2, taking place in ...

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Doing some prep work for my site and my game at @singularitysons.bsky.social's Kaijucon next month in Nagoya. And also inspiring some conspiracies apparently. Anything on my desk is fair game for notes. Not like.. any of the notebooks I have in my office. Lol. Joys of being a writer.

Two weeks to Noob Day. Sunday 13 September, 1:00 to 5:30pm at Second Home in Sakae, Nagoya. A free afternoon for absolute beginners. Tables in English and Japanese, no experience needed, twenty places. Email kaiju.convention@gmail.com to grab one🐙(Tomomi)

When I was young, the scariest manga on my shelf had no ghosts and no killers. It was about ancient things under the soil of Japan, patiently waiting. Daijiro Morohoshi taught me that history itself can be a horror story🐙(Tomomi)

Chaosium's MOB sat down with Mexican horror site Círculo Lovecraftiano, and was asked a question he's never been asked before – interview available in Spanish and English!

Unspeakable Lovecraftian Whispers - Michael O’Brien

Unspeakable Lovecraftian WhispersVoices that explore the arcane and the indescribable horrorMichael O’Brien — Vice President & co-owner Chaosium IncCultists of the Círculo Lovecraftiano & Horror, the ...

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I recently finished #Metaphor ReFantazio, which was on my to-do list for 2 years. The themes of discrimination, injustice, turning anxiety into strength-- Considering everything happening in the world (even in my adopted home of Japan), it was just what I needed.

Our huge table in the NecronomiCon vendor hall with TEN Cthulhu RPG publishers! @baytalazif.bsky.social @cthulhureborn.bsky.social Geekach @nightfall.games @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social @singularitysons.bsky.social @sixtystonepress.co.uk @stygianfoxpub.bsky.social @symphonyhorror.bsky.social

If you’re in Nagoya and have ever thought about trying a tabletop RPG but never, we're running a free introduction on Sunday 13 September, 1 to 5.30pm, at Second Home in Sakae.🗣E/J 20 tables, no experience needed. Just order a drink from the cafe while you play. ✉kaiju.convention@gmail.com🐙(Tomomi)

In English-language fandom, August Derleth is the man who ruined Lovecraft. In Japan he is a foundational author, translated in full and widely read. Both are true, and the gap between them is the most interesting thing about him. A thread🐙(Tomomi)

Ultraman has fought Cthulhu Mythos gods, and it was entirely deliberate. The final boss of Ultraman Tiga (1996) is Gatanothoa, lifted from the Mythos. Ultraman Gaia has byakhee. Ultraman Nexus has one simply called Cthulhu. A thread🐙(Tomomi)

A generous review of Twin Suns Rising from Reviews from R'lyeh. The part that pleased me most: he credits the book's authenticity and sense of place to it being co-written by people who actually live in Japan. That is the whole point, and someone noticed🐙(Tomomi)

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Call of Cthulhu is big in Japan . Bigger than Dungeons & Dragons and the Japanese devotees of Call of Cthulhu have their official campaign...

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The Sinners director is rebooting The X-Files, and promising proper monster-of-the-week episodes. Good timing to notice how Lovecraftian the original was: Topps comics opening with the "correlated contents" quote, Mulder and Scully at Miskatonic University. Mythos in a trench coat🐙(Tomomi)

If you play Call of Cthulhu, Japan has a manga that reads like a campaign you wish you were in. Yokai Hunter by Daijiro Morohoshi, from 1974: a folklorist, Reijiro Hieda, digs into old rituals and buried history, and keeps unearthing things that should have stayed buried. A thread🐙(Tomomi)

【試し読み】妖怪ハンター 1 地の巻／諸星大二郎 | 集英社　―　SHUEISHA　―

【ページ数が多いビッグボリューム版！】ぬばたまの闇の底どよもす呻き声。冥き世界にうごめく異形の者ども…。異端の考古学者・稗田礼二郎が暴きだす、触れてはならぬ…暗黒の日本史!!　その圧倒的スケールで、漫画界を震撼させた空前絶後の傑作「妖怪ハンター」第一弾!!　幻のミッシング・ピース「死人帰り」も掲載!!　暗黒の邪神、深き底より…まいる。

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Completing the set: Sutra of Pale Leaves author Damon Lang brings a special playtest of a brand-new scenario to KaijuCon 2. A story nobody has played yet, run by the person who wrote it. No Sutra knowledge needed, newcomers welcome. Oct 24, Nagoya🐙(Tomomi)

Japan has its own Cthulhu Mythos epic, and almost nobody outside Japan knows it. Makai Suikoden, by Kaoru Kurimoto, running from 1981: the Great Old Ones arrive in modern Japan and collide with our own gods and yokai. Fans call it Makasuko. A short thread🐙(Tomomi)

James Wan's Call of Cthulhu is still in development, still fighting its budget. He says he'll keep chipping away. Meanwhile the most faithful screen Cthulhu remains a 47-minute silent film from 2005, made by fans. Does cosmic horror even need a blockbuster?🐙(Tomomi)

As someone who works in horror, I love the shark-movie revival, but the sea has always belonged to cosmic horror. Lovecraft drowned us in it: Deep Ones, Dagon, Cthulhu in the deep. What is your favourite horror that comes from the water?🐙(Tomomi)

#KaijuCon 2 spotlight: The Scottish Play, by KevinM. In City of Mist you pick a legend that haunts you, and it becomes your power. Here: a cursed Halloween Macbeth, and something rotten in the playhouse. Oct 24 evening🐙(Tomomi) events.tokyorpgsociety.com/games/cmrj9l...

The Scottish Play (City of Mist)

‘Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble…’ A local playhouse has reached out to you about the unusual circumstances surrounding the unfortunate fates of the lead actors putting

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#KaijuCon 2 spotlight: Into the Wasp's Nest, FPS Derek's second table. L5R in Rokugan. Two clans bury a centuries-old grudge with a friendly archery demonstration, where surely nothing will go wrong. Beginner friendly, bring d10s. Oct 24, evening🐙(Tomomi) events.tokyorpgsociety.com/games/cmrdny...

Into the Wasp's Nest (Legend of Five Rings (L5R))

The founder of the Wasp Clan, Tsuruchi, was born the bastard son of a Lion and a Scorpion. He defied both parents, stole a castle from the Scorpion, and petitioned to have his clan recognized to prote

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Part two of our big news: Michael O'Brien is not just our special guest of honor. He is also taking the Keeper's chair for The Necropolis, an introductory scenario in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Learn Call of Cthulhu from the source. Two seats left. Oct 24, Nagoya🐙(Tomomi)

By the way, you don't need to know anything about the Sutra of Pale Leaves to join my game. Even Cthulhu newbies are welcome! (I think all the players who signed up for my Japanese table have played the entire Sutra campaign, though😂)

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#KaijuCon 2 spotlight: Sutra of Pale Leaves author Damon Lang runs a sneak-preview playtest of Eternal Carnation, a brand-new scenario nobody in the world has played yet. Japan, 1986, a trail of broken memories. Three seats left. Oct 24, 14:00🐙(Tomomi) events.tokyorpgsociety.com/games/cmr4lt...

#KaijuCon 2 spotlight: a homebrew gem. big_eye runs Arthurian's Legends in Space, their own game of King Arthur's knights on sun-forged steeds, facing the synthbeasts of M0RG-AI-N3. Easy rules; bring a chivalrous heart. Four seats. Oct 24, 14:00🐙(Tomomi) events.tokyorpgsociety.com/games/cmrkgx...

Arthurian's Legends in Space (Knights of the Star Table)

The soulless synthbeasts of M0RG-AI-N3 are ravaging the star spanning kingdom of King Arthur while the Saxonites are invading from the galactic south and Pictorian hordes are raiding the northern bord

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#KaijuCon 2 spotlight: learn Call of Cthulhu from the source. Chaosium VP Michael O'Brien keeps The Necropolis, an introductory one-shot in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. No experience needed, everything provided. Two seats left. Oct 24, 14:00🐙(Tomomi) events.tokyorpgsociety.com/games/cmr8rh...

The Necropolis (Call of Cthulhu)

What ancient horrors lie slumbering in a newly discovered tomb deep in Egypt's Valley of the Kings? As you stand at the entrance to the darkness below, the unfortunate events surrounding Tutankhamen's

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#KaijuCon 2 spotlight: Sutra of Pale Leaves author Damon Lang runs a sneak-preview playtest of Eternal Carnation, a brand-new scenario nobody in the world has played yet. Japan, 1986, a trail of broken memories. Three seats left. Oct 24, 14:00🐙(Tomomi) events.tokyorpgsociety.com/games/cmr4lt...

The Sutra of Pale Leaves - Eternal Carnation (Call of Cthulhu)

Japan, 1986: An acquaintance of the investigators approaches them for help in finding a missing relative. When they find her, some unknown tragedy has befallen her, leaving her mentally broken with no

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A lovely thing happened today. A Japanese player asked, half joking, whether a handful of English words was enough to run a game at KaijuCon 2. The replies were all warmth: yes, come, we will meet you halfway. Dice and smiles need no translation. That's the room we are building🐙(Tomomi) kaijucon.org

KaijuCon — 怪獣コン

Nagoya's first dedicated tabletop and board gaming convention.

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