Pyramid Review
The Keeper's Companion 2 - Prohibition, Firearms, Tomes & Creatures (for Call of Cthulhu)
Published by Chaosium Inc.
Written by Adam Gauntlett, Brian M. Sammons, William Dietze, Greg Henrikson, Charles P. Zaglanis, J. Gordon Olmstead-Dean, M. J. Lempert and James Crowder
Cover by Paul Carrick
Illustrated by Paul Carrick and Keith DeCesare
168-page b&w softcover; $23.95
For the Keeper of Secrets, one of the most useful releases for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu RPG during 2000 was The Keeper's Companion, an indispensable update and expansion of The Keeper's Compendium, which by then had been long out of print. Described as "A Core Book For Keepers, Vol. 1," Chaosium promised to follow it up with a second volume, and after a wait of some two years, it has finally arrived. While the first volume was near, but not quite perfect, hopefully time has enabled the authors to remove any such minor problems from this sequel.
Like The Keeper's Companion, The Keeper's Companion 2 sports a full wraparound of Cthulhu himself. Drawn again by Paul Carrick, the illustrations are so similar that initially I thought the original from The Keeper's Companion had been used again. Inside, the book is laid out in a less adventurous style than has been the norm with recent releases from Chaosium for Call of Cthulhu, but is nevertheless easy on the eye and backed up by a decent index -- unlike the first book. Paul Carrick's interior illustrations are as excellent as ever, and Keith DeCesare's depiction . . .
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Article publication date: February 7, 2003
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