Blood Brothers (Call of Cthulhu)
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- Keith Herber
- Sam Shirley
- Kevin A. Ross
- Gregory Dewiler
- John B. Monroe
- John Scott Clegg
- Geoff Gillon
- Marcus L. Rowland
- Tony Hickie
- Michael Szymanski
- Scott Aniolowski
- Fred Behrendt
- Barbara Manui
- Chris Adams
| 13 Tales of Terror | |
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 Cover by Lee Gibbons | |
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| Publishers | Chaosium |
| Publication | 1990 |
| Genres | Horror |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing |
| ISBN | 0-933635-69-9 |
Blood Brothers is a light-hearted anthology of short adventures published by Chaosium in 1990 for the Lovecraftian horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu.
The book is an anthology of thirteen short adventures that use themes, characters or monsters from classic B movie horror films: vampires based on Bela Lugosi's 1931 portrayal of Dracula; werewolves similar to Lon Chaney Jr.'s 1941 Wolf Man; zombies similar to those in George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead; cavemen and dinosaurs from 1975's The Land That Time Forgot; gremlins akin to those in 1984's Gremlins; and a killer alien from 1979's Alien.[1]
Players are offered a variety of one-shot characters. In keeping with the light-hearted B-movie theme, the usual Sanity check in the Call of Cthulhu rules has been tweaked so that a character who fails a Sanity check, rather than developing psychoses or phobias, instead screams, or falls down in the path of an approaching monster, or faints.[1]