Pyramid Review
The Black Seal #2 (for Delta Green/Call of Cthulhu)
Published by Brichester University Press
Edited by Adam Crossingham and Nick Brownlow
Written by Andy Bennison, Nick Brownlow, David Conyers, Tobias Cooper, Adam Crossingham, Daniel Harms, Rik Kershaw Moore, Davide Mana, Graeme Price and Brian Sammons
Illustrated by Adam Crossingham, Neil Beattie, Robert Corcoran, Sarah Evans, Paul J. Holden, David Lee Ingersoll, Baz Nugent, Charlotte Ronald and Luis Corte Real
Cartography by David Conyers and Koen Goorickx
84-page softcover; $13
The long wait between official supplements and scenarios for Call of Cthulhu is something that the devoted fan has long learned to bear. This is particularly so for Chaosium's Cthulhu Now setting, and Pagan Publishing's still-stunning and Origins award winning Delta Green campaign setting. While they wait, it leaves room for the amateur step in and fulfil the need for new material, which is where last year's initial issue of The Black Seal, published by Brichester University Press, proved to be so useful. This was never more so than for the Keeper running a campaign set in the British Isles, as it updated the United Kingdom for Call of Cthulhu far better than any previously published on the subject. In addition, it further developed the material describing Great Britain as presented in Delta Green: Countdown.
Of course, to describe many of the authors of The Black Seal as amateur is wholly unfair, as many of them contributed to the contents of . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: May 30, 2003
Copyright © 2003 by Steve Jackson Games. All rights reserved. Pyramid subscribers are permitted to read this article online, or download it and print out a single hardcopy for personal use. Copying this text to any other online system or BBS, or making more than one hardcopy, is strictly prohibited. So please don't. And if you encounter copies of this article elsewhere on the web, please report it to webmaster@sjgames.com.