Call of Cthulhu Homebrew on The Weaponized Trash Panda Collection

Fucked Up Cryptids, Here We Come - Alternate Skills

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 11:10:10 -0800

Fucked Up Cryptids, Here We Come - Outlooks - An alternative to Pulp Archetypes

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Goal: to provide an alternative to Pulp Archetypes that is better suited to non-pulp tales.

One of the biggest issues I had with using Pulp Cthulhu for non-pulp tales was the way the archetypes bound the tale to that era. To use the Pulp Cthulhu rules in more modern adventures, we need to find modern archetypes to use with them.

Generally, the Pulp Archetypes from the book have a Core Characteristic, 100 points to spread between 8-15 skills, some suggested occupations, traits, and pulp talents, as well as a little blurb for people to get an idea of what the archetype is meant to represent. Additionally, I will add a “stress breaking point”, which will mesh with my sanity overhaul rules. If you wish to add more to my collection, keep that in mind.

Fucked Up Cryptids, Here We Come - A mission statement

Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What is it? #

Fucked Up Cryptids, Here We Come is a homebrew collection for Call of Cthulhu, meant to help me run a campaign that doesn’t quite mesh with the Pulp Cthulhu ruleset. It is intended to be used as a toolbox for Keepers, and has the general goal of allowing stories of more local and/or obviously fantastical terror to be told. After all, the rules of a system are intertwined with the stories a system tells: power fantasies beget stories of dramatic heroism, not long investigations with sudden intermissions where our protagonists make a mad dash back into the frying pan. Similarly, having rules that reward character interactions at tense moments will naturally beget character interactions in tense moments.