| Desperate Adventures Against the Brotherhood | |
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 Cover art by Chris Marrinan, 1984 | |
| Designers | Keith Herber |
| Publishers | Chaosium |
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| Genres | Horror |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing |
| ISBN | 0-933635-08-7 |
The Fungi from Yuggoth is a set of eight adventures published by Chaosium in 1984 for the horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu , itself based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
The Fungi from Yuggoth is a campaign of eight sequentially linked adventures set in the 1920s that uses what reviewer Richard Lee typified as the "onion-skin" plot device: [1] The campaign starts with what seems to be a trivial event, but each adventure peels layer after layer, gradually revealing deeper and darker mysteries involving an apocalyptic cult called The Brotherhood of the Beast, until the overall plot is finally exposed in the last chapter. [1] The book is divided into eight chapters, each one a separate scenario:
Chaosium first published the horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu in 1981, and supported it with a large number of adventures and campaigns. The Fungi from Yuggoth, published in 1984 as an 80-page saddle-stapled softcover book, was written by Keith Herber, with art by Chris Marrinan. Chaosium released a second printing in 1987. [3]
The adventure was later included as one of the adventures in Curse of Cthulhu . [4]
William A. Barton reviewed The Fungi from Yuggoth for Fantasy Gamer magazine and stated that "The Fungi from Yuggoth is probably the best CoC adventure yet released of several excellent offerings." [5]
In Issue 21 of Imagine , Richard Lee reviewed several Call of Cthulhu adventures including Curse of the Chthonians and The Fungi from Yuggoth. Lee found writer Keither Herber had used "impeccable technique" and "conviction" in creating The Fungi from Yuggoth, commenting that the eight chapters "contrive to make Lovecraft's horrific worlds rather too close for comfort." He concluded "Curse and Fungi are worthy supplements indeed: well-detailed and original. With Call of Cthulhu so capably documented and now so reasonably priced, the world of Twenties style and pulp-fiction atmosphere must loom as a considerable threat to the more conventional RPGs." [1]
Ed Wimble reviewed The Fungi from Yuggoth for Different Worlds magazine and stated that "Overall, I'd say that The Fungi is a better buy than either of its predecessors. In spite of its flaws (and they are really not too serious or prevalent) the real bread and butter issue is how the adventure play. This is where The Fungi from Yuggoth excels. The three to five nights you spend in company with this book will be some of the best (albeit, at times with tongue in cheek) you've had in gaming." [6]