Call of Cthulhu’s ‘Horror on the Orient Express’ RPG Campaign Is On Sale During Kickstarter
While the Horror on the Orient Express board game is making a huge splash on Kickstarter, Chaosium has both volumes of the RPG campaign on sale.
Cthulhu and Poirot, two great tastes that taste great together. In the RPG Call of Cthulhu, players take on the role of investigators, who are often detectives of a sort who get into scraps and scrapes with the occult and eldritch. While in Agatha Christie novels, such as Murder on the Orient Express, characters like the detective Hercule Poirot deal with the evil that lurks in the heart of humanity, most often taking the form of murder most foul.
Both of these make for a fantastically good time. But put them together and you’ve got yourself a taste explosion, so to speak. Which is exactly why Horror on the Orient Express made for such a legendary ttrpg campaign, winning the 2015 Gold ENnie for Best Adventure back in the beforetimes.
And now, as the Kickstarter for the board game of the same name is making a monumental success for itself, Chaosium has put the two campaigns up on sale to mark the meteoric success.
Horror on the Orient Express on Sale til April 19th
Per a blog post on Chaosium:
“For the duration of the board game Kickstarter campaign (April 19th), you can purchase our two-volume Horror on the Orient Express Call of Cthulhu campaign for only $49.99. Normally $89.99, that is a saving of $40! Note, you do not have to back the board game Kickstarter to avail yourself of this Chaosium.com exclusive offer.
Winner of the 2015 Gold ENnie for Best Adventure, described as “a high water mark for Call of Cthulhu” and a “must-own campaign”, this is is a reprint of the 2014 boxed set, reformatted into two hardcover books.
19 scenarios across 700 pages, Horror on the Orient Express is a modern classic. The adventure takes the intrepid investigators from London, to Paris, and to the ancient city of Constantinople.”
This campaign does exactly what it says on the tin. You’ll take the Orient Express across Europe and perhaps into the unknown, depending on how you manage it. It starts with three identical men found dead in the same room of the Chelsea Arms Hotel. Each of them stabbed through the heart. The unexplained killings see the investigators embark on a thousand-mile journey on the legendary rail service to Constantinople—the Gateway of the Orient.
