Bayt al Azif

31/07/2024

new crowdfunder from Golden Goblin Press starts tonight!

30/07/2024

"The articles in Bayt are substantive and well-edited, while also infectiously enthusiastic and heartwarming. This magazine might well be the best way to get a sense of how enthusiastic, kind, and diverse the Call of Cthulhu fandom is just by reading something in the comfort of your home."

Thanks to the Zgrozy - Call of Cthulhu RPG supplements team for this kind and thoughtful review of Bayt al Azif for their recommended reading shelf in the Zgrozy Library!

Bayt al Azif issues 1 through 4 are indeed on sale for the last few days of Christmas in July if you want to follow their link to pick them up!

Zgrozy Library: Bayt Al Azif

We continue the Zgrozy Library, presenting independent Call of Cthulhu releases we can wholeheartedly recommend you to all Call of Cthulhu fans. Most of the entries in the Library will be devoted to supplements from the Miskatonic Repository, but today we want to make an exception.

Bayt al Azif is a title that many people don't need to be introduced to, but still deserves more recognition. It’s a magazine dedicated to Call of Cthulhu and, to a lesser extent, other Lovecraftian games. It has five issues already, and each one radiates a huge fascination with all the new exciting things that can be done with Lovecraftian horror.

The main concept behind Bayt Al Azif seems to be: Lovecraftian mythology belongs to people today, and let's show what people are doing with it. In each issue you will find several Call of Cthulhu scenarios from different eras and places, as well as a discussion of the publishing line of various Lovecraftian RPGs from right before the issue was released, interviews with people active in the Cthulhu fandom in various ways, talks about personalizing and modifying official scenarios, and a whole bunch of other proofs that Cthulhu is alive and well. The team responsible for the magazine operates mainly from the USA, but they search for both topics and authors all over the world – which, of course, makes us very happy!

For example, in issue two, from August 2019, you will find:
-Interview with German fans who publish the fanzine Cthulhus Ruf
-English translation of Falsche Freunde, the first scenario from that fanzine
-Extensive recollections from Lisa Padol about adapting the Our Ladies of Sorrow scenario for her team
-Interview with Lynne Hardy, the editor of the Call of Cthulhu line, about writing and editing scenarios
-And much more!

The articles in Bayt are substantive and well-edited, while also infectiously enthusiastic and heartwarming. This magazine might well be the best way to get a sense of how enthusiastic, kind, and diverse the Call of Cthulhu fandom is just by reading something in the comfort of your home.

Issues are usually around 100 pages long, PDFs of them cost $6-10, and are currently on sale for 20-40% off as part of Christmas in July. If it is in your budget, we also highly recommend the print-on-demand versions ($10 and up). Bayt Al Azif is nice to have on the shelf, so that you can return to it every now and then. Link to all issues is in the comments.

21/07/2024

Today is the last day to vote for the ENnies Awards, given out at Gen Con every year. Voting is open to all!

There are many Cthulhu Mythos games nominated this year!

Arkham Investigator’s Wallet by Andrew Leman and Sean Branney of The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
Call of Cthulhu: Alone Against the Static by B. W. Holland
Call of Cthulhu: Los Hobos and the Wolves of Carcosa by Alex Guillotte of Critical Hit Publishing
Call of Cthulhu: The Last Dance of Lola Montez by David Waldron
Call of Cthulhu (Regency Cthulhu): The Well of All Fear by Kat Clay
Call of Cthulhu liveplay: William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion - Ballarat Heritage Festival 2024 by Tales from Rat City
Delta Green: God’s Teeth by Caleb Stokes
Musketeers vs. Cthulhu by M. Bill Heron

Plus some of our friends who have written for us are also nominated, Justin Alexander of The Alexandrian and Stu Horvath of Vintage RPG!

vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2024/

15/07/2024

Some interesting mail!
Finally got the new Musketeers vs. Cthulhu from Nightfall Games , a cute little book for a 17th century setting where you play the French Musketeers, based on the short story by Christian and McAuley. It includes a short campaign.
Also got a mysterious package from someone who is taking over the Petersen Games fulfillment so they can focus on making games instead of mailing them. There are many clues hidden in the letter but we haven't delved too deep into them yet.

04/07/2024

Lots of info about NecronomiCon Providence this year in their latest newsletter, plus lots of updates on their site!

They are still looking for more games if anyone wants to run something!

NecronomiCon Providence 2024 approaches! - https://mailchi.mp/necronomicon-providence/an-eldritch-reminder-tickets-on-sale-at-noon-9517068

29/06/2024

Big things are being announced for NecronomiCon!

We will see you there!

Lots of BIG announcements about to drop (and, yes, we've been a tad behind on this 🥲).

For now, here's the Guest of Honor list for 2024 (with one more announcement here to come 🤞) :
https://necronomicon-providence.com/programming/guests-of-honor-2024/

Stay tuned for a big email early next week - which will get shared here, too.

New poster art! Thanks, Kurt Komoda!!

29/06/2024

Happy birthday to one of our great artists, Toren Atkinson, Artist! Toren has a lot of their earlier art up for sale if you want a present for yourself!

It's my birthday! All I want is the gift of people getting my art onto their walls! Here's a pencil drawing from Green Ronin Publishing Book of Fiends

08/06/2024

Thanks to Bridgett Jeffries for sending these pics of Bayt al Azif down under at the first Chaosium Con Australia!

Anyone else there send us more pictures!

31/05/2024

You can find Bayt al Azif at booth 1-630 at the UK Games Expo this weekend!

Thanks to Brittannia Game Designs Ltd & GMS Hobby Game Logistics Ltd for letting us share their space. They have lots of other great Cthulhu Mythos RPGs as well. Only two spots down the row from Chaosium Inc.!

Send us pictures when you see our magazines!

10/05/2024

Bridgett Jeffries, author of Beasts of Gévaudan in Bayt al Azif 2, has a new story guide for Call of Cthulhu in the Regency Era, Echoes in the Mist!

Echoes in the Mist, my newest Miskatonic Repository story guide for Regency Cthulhu, is now available on DTRPG! 1816. Mount Tambora has erupted. It is the Year without Summer. A blue comet passes overhead. It leaves something behind. And our investigators will be forever changed. Enjoy!

https://buff.ly/3WAcuCp

08/05/2024

Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Andrew who's coordinating the Vendor Hall, there will be copies of Bayt al Azif for sale at Chaosium Con Australia!

Chaosium Con Australia is now just a month away - June 8-9 in Melbourne, Australia. Here's the draft schedule (so far – more events are being added daily!) We have over 100 events already including tabletop gaming sessions, board games, seminars, VIP games, plus an auction and the Stream of Chaos ...

08/05/2024

The MythBrigade have successfully plundered some tomes and taken them back to their headquarters for further... research.

Didn’t have room in my luggage to get these back from Chaosium Con without crumples. The FedEx guy was happy to handle that for me on my return. Heh… if he only knew the evil he had on his cart with our other things!

Hats off to Jared for some great Keeper resources and insightsBayt al Azif

01/05/2024

The second edition of the out of print The Sassoon Files will be fundraising soon!

Horror in the Pearl of the East! A 1920s Shanghai campaign for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

28/04/2024

A very in-depth (and spoiler filled) review of Bridgett Jeffries's "Miskatonic Shoreside Conservatory" scenario. It's statted for the free Cthulhu Dark rules, but can be easily run in any Cthulhu Mythos system.

"Miskatonic Shoreside Conservatory is remarkable in that it takes seemingly mundane and cliched themes such as college horror movies and the [spoiler] and uses them in such a way as to make them feel fresh."

A group of young performing arts students are offered a summer scholarship at the lauded Miskatonic Shoreside Conservatory. Graduates from the intense 4-week performance bootcamp will find doors op…

26/04/2024

Happy LV 426 Day to those who celebrate (or LV 264 for our non-American friends).

There is a sale on the highly-recommended Alien RPG, and several theaters are showing the original Alien today!

https://www.fandango.com/alien-45th-anniversary-re-release-2024-235716/movie-overview

ALIEN DAY CELEBRATIONS!
Massive Sale For the Multiple Award-Winning ALIEN RPG!

https://buff.ly/3wdybgT

26/04/2024

A new Call of Cthulhu scenario is now fundraising from New Comet Games - "The Ice Caves of Mt. Fuji"!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/newcometgames/ice-caves-of-mt-fuji-call-of-cthulhu-adventure

25/04/2024

We are back from Chaosium Con 2024 and we have photographs, writings, and other mysterious clues!

https://baytalazif.com/chaosium-con-2024/

24/04/2024

A new Call of Cthulhu modern-era campaign is coming soon from Shadowlands, "Scions of the Dark Goddess". Shadowlands has published many RPGs in Spanish, but this is their first one in English!

You can sign up to be notified when it goes live on May 13!

(and get a free intro scenario)

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/d03c3e17-ef1a-42bf-ac07-4727fd63b4ba/landing

21/04/2024

We are already sold out of a few books and low on others but we still have plenty of great stuff Chaosium Con 2024!
We are in the vendor hall until 2 pm with Sentinel Hill Press & Geekach Games. Круто зварені ігри & Sixtystone Press & Sons of the Singularity & Stygian Fox Publishing & Squamous Studios !

19/04/2024

We are blowing through our books at Chaosium Inc. Con 2024! Set up in the vendor hall with Sentinel Hill Press Stygian Fox Publishing Sons of the Singularity Geekach Games. Круто зварені ігри & Sixtystone Press!
Open Friday 10-4
Saturday 10-4
Sunday 10-2

18/04/2024

See you at Chaosium Con!

17/04/2024

Another unboxing of Bayt al Azif 5!

See Pookie from Reviews from R'lyeh go through the whole issue with first impressions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1TpX56euW8

15/04/2024

It COULD be a coincidence that the Sentinel Hill Press books for Chaosium Inc. Con just arrived in the middle of a five minute hailstorm...

12/04/2024

The Laundry RPG is back in a second edition from Cubicle 7 Entertainment!

Fundraising now:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cubicle-7-games/the-laundry-roleplaying-game-second-edition

11/04/2024

It is one week until we return to Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA for the third Chaosium Con!
As usual, you can find us in the dealer hall with our publisher friends!
We will have Bayt al Azif 1-5, plus we have our returning friends Sentinel Hill Press with Arkham Gazette and Double Dare, Sons of the Singularity with The Sassoon Files, Journal d'Indochine, and their brand new The Blessed and the Blasphemous!

Plus we have two new publishers at our table this year:
Sixtystone Press, with Investigator Weapons for the classic, gaslight, and modern eras, Lost in the Lights scenario, Cathulhu rules, and the return of The Black Seal magazine!
And finally, we are very proud to have copies of the Ukrainian translation of the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition Quickstart from Geekach Games. Круто зварені ігри!
Other booths include Stygian Fox Publishing, The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, New Comet Games, and Petersen Games and a bunch of Mythos artists!

10/04/2024

Looking for the deeper lore?

We are starting a secret message to the most dedicated cultists.

An irregular communique (no more than once every month or two) with all the latest on Cthulhu Mythos RPGs, as well as letting you know when a new issue of Bayt al Azif is released!

You can sign up here:
https://baytalazif.com/contact/

Art by Jensine Eckwall from Bayt al Azif 2!

09/04/2024

The paralyzation caused by the eclipse finally cut off the screams, and then everyone could only stare in frozen silence as reality began to tear apart...

07/04/2024

If you are going to Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio, USA, there are two sessions of Double Dare from Bayt al Azif issue 1 being run by Lynn Firestone Hill in the Lurking Fears group!

https://tabletop.events/conventions/origins-game-fair-2024

28/03/2024

Congrats to our friends at the Deutsche Lovecraft Gesellschaft e.V. on their 10 year anniversary!

They are also looking for an editor for their Lovecrafter Online magazine if you are fluent in German!

🕵🐙 NACHFOLGE GESUCHT ✍️🚀

Manchmal spielt einem das "wahre Leben" einfach nicht in die Karten. Sebastian, der erst zum Jahreswechsel mit großen Engagement in die Redaktion des Lovecrafter Online eingestiegen ist, muss sein Amt leider kurzfristig niederlegen. Unser Dank gilt Sebastian, der sich wirklich schnell in das ganze Thema eingearbeitet hatte. Schade, dass unsere Zusammenarbeit von so kurzer Dauer war!

Daher sucht der Lovecrafter Online per sofort eine:n neue:n Redakteur:in. Das phantastische Onlinemagazin der Deutschen Lovecraft Gesellschaft veröffentlicht seit mehreren Jahren wöchentlich Beiträge mit Bezug zu Kosmischem Horror:
👉Interviews
👉Rezensionen und Berichte verschiedenster Art
👉Autor:innenvorstellungen
👉Kurzgeschichten
👉Fotostrecken
👉u.v.m.

Gemeinsam mit Redakteur André sind deine Aufgaben:
👉Artikel von der Einreichung bis zur Onlinestellung betreuen
👉Reinkommende Texte korrigieren und auch mal beim Aufbau helfen
👉Ideen für kommende Inhalte finden
👉Rezensionsmaterial besorgen und an interessierte Leute verteilen
👉Bei Interesse eigene Artikel schreiben

Wir arbeiten mit beitragenden Leuten aus dem Verein und außerhalb zusammen. Schaue gern in die bisher erschienenen Beiträge, um ein Gefühl für das Magazin zu bekommen: www.deutschelovecraftgesellschaft.de/category-article-list/7-lovecrafter-online/

Interesse geweckt? Wenn du dir eine Mitarbeit vorstellen kannst oder Fragen hast, kontaktiere gern das Lovecrafter-Online-Team (www.deutschelovecraftgesellschaft.de/kontakt/).

27/03/2024

Preorders are open for a new Roman Empire era book from our friends at Golden Goblin Press! And if they get enough orders, it will be printed offset instead of Print On Demand!

Welcome to the Golden Goblin Press Online Store!