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 DOSSIER

Plotting Cthulhu
“A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying,
but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.”
- Bertrand Russell

This chapter aims to help you construct some truly nefarious One, as in The Thirty Nine Steps, does not mean you cannot
Mythos plots set against the backdrop of World War Two. update it to London, circa 1939.
By looking at various inspirational sources it hopes to show The table below contains a selection of films with a
how you, the Keeper, can mine them for ideas for your own horror or weird war approach that might provide a launch pad
games. If, after looking at these films and TV series you are for your plots. There are a lot of Nazi zombies in there, but if
still a bit stumped, there are also a series of plot generator you can get past the clichés to the background story, there are
tables to further aid you in your machinations. some great ideas just waiting to be developed further.
And don’t forget the wartime classics. These fantas-
tic movies tell tales of daring heroes, resistance fighters,
Ask yourself: what would happen if you
changed just one element of the plot?

Achtung! Cthulhu &

Combat
MOVIES & TELEVISION
Creating an Achtung! Cthulhu plot becomes a lot easier The events depicted in Achtung! Cthulhu take place
when you consider the wealth of movies at your fingertips. in the run-up to World War Two as well as during it; a
Just look at the enormous number of World War Two films period during which the Allies battle the Axis powers
and television shows, pretty much all of which can make a across the globe. Thus combat has a role to play within
great starting point for a Cthulhu Mythos story. Whether the Achtung! Cthulhu setting, potentially more so than
it is a classic war story, a ‘40s thriller, or a weird war horror, in a standard 1920s game (depending on what style of
there is enough mileage in many of these sources to help adventure your group prefers).
you prepare quite a few nights of creeping insanity for your Nevertheless, as significant as combat is to a game
players if you are struggling for ideas. set in wartime, it should not dominate a scenario or
When looking at old films, ask yourself: what would adventure at the expense of investigation. Achtung!
happen if you changed just one element of the plot? What Cthulhu is still, at its heart, a roleplaying game of
if it was not a Tiger tank guarding the gold bullion in Kelly’s Lovecraftian investigative horror, and so should be at least
Heroes? What if the German “Black Stone” spy ring was after as clue-orientated as it is combat-orientated. Not every
more than Britain’s plans for war in The Thirty Nine Steps? player character or investigator will be a soldier, a sailor,
The thrillers, or “shockers”, of the early years of Hollywood or an airman; some will still be professors, journalists,
are packed full of fantastic inspiration for Cthulhu Mythos librarians, and so on, and in order for your players to role-
stories, especially if you are looking for more investigative play these characters fully, they need mysteries to solve.
storylines. Just because something is set before World War

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 ACHTUNG! CTHULHU — DOSSIER

Horror/Weird War Films

War Films
25th Reich Outpost II: Black Sun
A Bridge Too Far Sands of Iwo Jima
Puppet Master III:
Almost Human Toulon’s Revenge Action in the
North Atlantic Saving Private Ryan
Below Raiders of the Lost Ark
All Quiet on the
She Western Front The Battle of the Bulge
Dead Snow
Hellboy The Bunker (1 and 2) All Through the Night The Big Red One

Horrors of War The Frozen Dead Attack The Bridge on the

River Kwai
Indiana Jones The Keep
and the Last Crusade Black Book The Dirty Dozen

Iron Sky War of the Dead Casablanca The Eagle Has Landed
Nazis at the Cockleshell Heroes The Great Escape
Warlords of Atlantis
Centre of the Earth
Come and See The Guns of Navarone
Oasis of the Living Dead Zone Troopers
Das Boot The Heroes of Telemark
Outpost Zombie Lake
Enemy at the Gates The Longest Day
Hell in the Pacific The Thin Red Line
Ice Cold in Alex The Train

Period/Atmospheric In Which We Serve Three Kings

Films & Television Inglorious Bastards (both
To Have and Have Not
original and new versions)
Die Nacht von Lissabon The Good German Kelly’s Heroes Twelve O’Clock High
Foyle’s War The Third Man Malta Story Valkyrie
Key Largo The Thirty Nine Steps Passage to Marseille We Were Soldiers
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Underground Paths of Glory Went the Day Well?
Margaret Rutherford’s Roma, Città Aperta Where Eagles Dare
Warehouse 13
Miss Marple

soldiers, commanders, and situations that will give you might Harry Lime (The Third Man) have been smuggling
inspiration and background ideas for your wartime charac- during the war? Is there more behind the murders in a sleepy
ters and adventures. English village than the local spinster (Miss Marple) suspects?
Again, remember that with some of these, just chang- Here are three takes on some film classics to show you
ing a few details can give you a fresh take on what would what we mean:
otherwise seem to be very familiar territory. What are the
commandos really destroying in Where Eagles Dare? Why
is the last Ryan brother so vital to the war effort in Saving
Kelly’s Heroes
Private Ryan? Remember though, your Achtung! Cthulhu versus The Bunker
adventures do not have to be set amidst the carnage of the Allied soldiers find a map on a captured German officer
battlefield—you can just use these to help create dynamic that tells of a fortune in Nazi gold which has been safely
scenes that your characters must traverse. stored in a secret bunker. Put together as a rag-tag force, the
There are also a number of other movies and television group must fight its way through enemy lines to reach the
shows that you can use as inspiration, either in terms of their location. But as this is a Mythos adventure, the journey is
plot, or in terms of their atmosphere and setting. What else anything but straightforward, becoming increasingly fraught

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 PLOTTING CTHULHU

as the characters must soldier through a series of bizarre and castle and steal a book. And not just any book, but a very
unfortunate events. important one that the Germans must not read!
Finally the characters discover the secret bunker, which is The characters make their way into the castle and
mysteriously deserted. However, they are not alone, and they discover that the Germans are preparing some kind of
find themselves trapped when three giant Chthonians emerge ceremony. There is just one thing missing: the guest of hon-
from the ground around the bunker, enraged by a strange our—a notable member of Black Sun, who will read from
machine inside the complex which has drawn them to it. the book and unlock a terrifying creature to destroy their
The group must rely on a wounded scientist to defeat enemies! When (if!) the characters return the book to the
the Chthonians. This man claims that the other soldiers French, they thank them and then prepare their own version
deserted their posts, leaving him for dead, but is he all that of the ceremony. The characters must now decide whether
he seems? Will the disturbing ceremony he describes truly or not to stop the French Resistance, their supposed allies,
win them their freedom? before they unleash something they cannot control…

Section M is using the circle The Thirty Nine Steps

to give Spitfire pilots enhanced The investigators meet a man who claims to have faked his
night-vision abilities. own death to hide from his pursuers. He seems half insane
and babbles about all manner of strange things. Soon he is
found dead, and the shadowy assassins now seem to be after
the characters. A mysterious group, who call themselves
Inglorious Bastards “Black Stone”, are trying to secure something important
(Original) in England, and the characters find themselves chased to a
Allied soldiers or agents kill a German patrol. However, it remote stone circle adjacent to an RAF airfield. Section M is
turns out that they were actually a special Allied undercover using the stone circle to give Spitfire pilots enhanced night
unit tasked with meeting the French Resistance. The Resist- vision abilities, and Black Stone want the keystone which
ance insists the soldiers must take the dead patrol’s place, triggers this change. Can the investigators stop them before
as there is no time to waste. They must infiltrate a German they ruin the RAF’s plans?

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 ACHTUNG! CTHULHU — DOSSIER

THE PLOT GENERATOR The Antagonists

No set of random tables can ever fully write you a truly vis- Let’s start with those that would bring destruction on our
ceral, bells-and-whistles Cthulhu-based plot, but you can use world and rain fire on our hapless investigators.
the following tables in part or as a whole to give you the When plotting, one way you can begin is with an open-
bare bones of your mind-shattering adventures. You can roll ended roll which, in the case of the Antagonist (Table 1),
your way through the entire plot, taking advantage of the can give you anything from an individual to an Elder God
almost limitless variations, or just check one or more tables as your starting point. Roll for what they are, then roll for
for inspiration when you are stuck. Dip in for a location, an one or more descriptions. If the results suggest one of the
artefact, or much, much more. Cthulhu Mythos gods, roll up the rest of the plot and then
Remember to keep asking yourself questions when you take a stroll through the pages of Call of Cthulhu, Sixth
see each result, and try not to just take what you get with the Edition or Achtung! Cthulhu: the Keeper’s Guide to the Secret
fall of the dice literally as read—Cthulhu plots are frequently War, to see what entity fits this particular story best.
anything but plain and simple, often consisting of devious Alternatively, you might already have an idea that they
and twisted schemes, so use your questions to put your own belong to a certain group, so roll on Table 2 instead.
unique spin on matters.

Table 2: Antagonist
Table 1: Individual Groups
Antagonists
D20
Antagonist (Group)
D20 Antagonist Antagonist Roll
Roll (Individual) Description
1 Brotherhood of the Beast*
1 A scientist Old
2 Brotherhood of the Beast*
2 An aristocrat Ancient
3 New World Industries*
3 A leader Rich
4 New World Industries*
4 A cult Evil
5 Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh*
5 A politician Cursed
6 Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh*
6 Experimental subject Corrupt
7 Cult of the Bloody Tongue*
7 A gang Doomed
8 Cult of the Bloody Tongue*
8 An organisation Magical
9 Tribes of the Tcho-Tcho
9 A military unit Secret
10 Tribes of the Tcho-Tcho
10 Black Sun Unstable
11 Brothers of the Yellow Sign
11 Nachtwölfe Mysterious
12 Brothers of the Yellow Sign
12 A priest Deranged
13 Starry Wisdom Cult*
13 Villagers Delusional
14 Starry Wisdom Cult*
14 An officer Rogue
15 Miskatonic University
15 Royalty Tortured
16 Miskatonic University
A Mythos creature (see
16 Nazi
Opponent Objective) 17 Nachtwölfe
17 An Elder Race Psychopathic 18 Nachtwölfe
18 An Outer God Malicious 19 Black Sun
19 An Elder God Unspeakable 20 Black Sun
Appears to be (roll
20 Cthulhu twice: first is real, *Nyarlathotep cults.
second is appearance)
 PLOTTING CTHULHU

The Plot of trouble (Table 5, p.6). When you roll on this table, try
Next we want to find out what is at the core of the plot thinking about how you can make the twist that much more
(Table 3), followed by what is motivating the people painful and affecting for the characters…
involved (which can be more than one thing if you want to You will notice that some results suggest rolling on addi-
complicate matters further). You can also roll to see what the tional tables to clarify the results; these tables can be found
Antagonists need to be successful in their mission. in later sections (p.8 onwards).
Now you have the foundations for your adventure, layer
on some trouble and strife by determining what obstacles
befall your investigators en-route to the finale (Table 4, p.6). The Characters
If you are feeling particularly wicked, roll several times to How on earth do the characters stumble across this foul
inspire a thoroughly wretched course for your adventure. plot you have developed, and how is this information
No Cthulhu plot would be complete without a dastardly imparted to them (Table 6, p.7)?
plot twist that sees the characters landed in all manner

Table 3: Antagonist’s Plot, Motivation &

Success Requirements
D20 Motivation To be Successful, the Antagonist Needs:
Plot Concept
Roll
Open a gateway for a Mythos creature to For revenge Willing sacrificial victims
1
come through
Open a gateway to travel to a Mythos Following orders Unwilling sacrificial victims
2
location
3 Unleash the power of a Mythos creature Pure hatred Humans to experiment on

4 Destroy a place, a group, or a creature Simple greed A piece of art

5 Prove the existence of a creature or entity For country A ley line

6 Summon a Mythos entity for the purpose of... For honour and glory An invention
Some particular knowledge
7 Learn more about a greater power Forbidden knowledge (see Knowledge Objective)

8 Experiment on a group of people or creatures Superiority A location (see Location Choices)

9 Protect someone or something Pure evil A tome

10 Control someone or something A blood feud A stone circle

11 Steal secrets from someone Being controlled A strange contraption

12 Force the enemy back into retreat To divert attention A specific ancient site

13 Gain superiority over the enemy Because of visions Some ancient crystals

14 Force a breakthrough Delusional A long-lost spell

15 Take revenge for a previous event Self-defence A certain alignment of planets

16 Cover up a secret A debt A certain alignment of stars

17 Recover a Mythos artefact To cover a mistake A certain Mythos artefact

18 Recover an entity or person/people To protect The body part of a Mythos creature

19 Hide something Beliefs The presence of an Outer God

20 Destroy something unspeakable! Simply unspeakable! The presence of an Elder God

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 Table 4: Obstacles Table 5: Plot Twist

D20 D20
Obstacle Twist
Roll Roll

1 They must make a sacrifice (one or more

Time is short 1
members of the group)
The distance is great (this world, the It is an experiment (a group or entity is
2
Dreamlands, or another Mythos world) 2
testing them)
There are distractions along the way (side It’s a trap! (they are the missing ingredient or
3
missions, people in need, opportunities) 3
motivator)
Knowledge is required (e.g. where to find
4 4 No-one leaves alive
something, specific research, people to ask)
Physical difficulties or harsh environment 5 The antagonist is part of the group
5
(mountains, underground, desert, polar, oceans) The antagonist is not who they thought it
6 Another group or entity is also on the trail was; someone or something else is behind
6
it all (roll another antagonist who is really in
7 It is guarded by a powerful force charge)
They must take a problematical thing with them They thought there was just one to deal with,
8 7
(e.g. something fragile, a person, a prisoner) but they were wrong…
Nature is closing in (volcanoes, storms, Wait—you know him? (a family or previous
9 8
earthquakes, floods) connection)
War-torn (must traverse frontlines or There’s a traitor in their midst, working for
10 9
battlefields) another group
A Mythos group interferes (roll on the 10 A lot of good people die (the Pyrrhic victory)
11
Involvement Method table)
The antagonist makes them an offer they
Resources (spoiled, faulty, destroyed, stolen; 11 cannot refuse (e.g. “let me go and the Nazi
12
food, transport, equipment) attack fails, saving thousands of lives”)
Hard bargain (i.e. they must give something up The essential person or item they had to bring
13
to progress) along is key to the antagonist’s plot, and they
12
just delivered exactly what he wanted straight
Moral dilemma (connection to antagonists,
14 to his door
uncomfortable partners, better offer)
Moral dilemma—they have to become the
15 Unrest (riots, scavengers in the ruins) 13
villain to achieve their goal
Corruption (a member of the group is bribed, The villain(s) in question were coerced
16
an official wants money, double-cross, traitor) 14 as a cover for the true villain (roll another
17 Misinformation antagonist)
The villain has already achieved their objective
Problems with the authorities (members
18 (the group watches helplessly as events unfold
arrested, border permits required) 15
around them, or learn that they have arrived
19 Strange illness too late)

20 Ambushed The villain was trying to prevent a greater evil.

16 Will the group let him finish, or will they stop
him?
A key character is killed, only to be found safe
17 and well later (can be tied to the experiment
outcome on 2)
The investigators are the villains, and the
18
s reality antagonist was only trying to stop them
“Far too often the choice
It is not what they think it is (roll another plot
proposes are such as to take away 19
concept)
one’s taste for choosing.”
Escalation (roll on this table twice, ignoring
20
any further 20s)
- Jean Rostand

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 PLOTTING CTHULHU

Now you have these facts sorted, there are only a few investigators to achieve? Some of the answers from Table 7
more steps you need to take to finish off your adventure. can appear a little odd at first, so just roll with it for now
There are two more questions that you need to ask: what and see what your mind suggests (one’s mental faculties will
is the essence of the investigators’ mission (Table 7), and often lead you down very strange and unexpected paths if
what is its goal (Mission Objective)? After all, you know you allow them to). Remember, you can also read between
why your antagonist is involved, but what do you want the the lines, if it helps. Alternatively, if you are running a

Table 6: Plot Hook & Table 7: Character

Involvement Method Mission & Mission
D20
Objectives
Plot Hook Involvement Method
Roll
D20 Character
1 A friend Delivered orders Roll Mission Mission Objective

2 A prisoner of war Sent an invitation 1 Explore An ally (Person Objective)

Provided with travel
3 A mystery letter 2 Recover An enemy (Antagonist Table)
documents or directions
A last will and 3 Attack Identity of a person
4 Given an ancient map (Antagonist Table)
testament
An advert or article 4 Destroy A Mythos opponent
5 Offered a fortune (Opponent Objective)
in the paper
Asked for help 5 Protect A Mythos opponent
6 A professor
(Opponent Objective)
7 A mystery woman Blackmail Documents
6 Deliver
Driven into a hard (Knowledge Objective)
8 A sinister man bargain Documents
7 Capture
Framed for a crime or (Knowledge Objective)
9 A clerical error treasonous act An artefact
8 Find/locate
(Artefact Objective)
10 An item in an auction Threatened
9 Negotiate An artefact
Someone important (Artefact Objective)
to them is missing, is
A physical location
11 An aristocrat insane, or has been 10 Reconnoitre (Location Choice and
murdered (Person
appropriate sub-table)
Objective)
A physical location
12 A wealthy individual Want revenge 11 Divert (Location Choice and
Stumble upon an appropriate sub-table)
Offered a contract for
13 event or strange their services An ancient map to…
location 12 Distract (Mysterious Location
Offered an artefact Objective and From/Where)
14 An old colleague (Artefact Objective) An ancient map to…
Offered forbidden 13 Expose (Mysterious Location
A telegram knowledge (Knowledge Objective and From/Where)
15
Objective) A Mythos creature’s body part
14 Hide
(Opponent Objective)
16 Another antagonist Sent a warning
15 Understand A Mythos creature’s body part
17 An accident A debt is called in (Opponent Objective)
A mysterious 16 Prove The current antagonist
18 Family in need
telephone call
17 Disprove The current antagonist
A member of a secret Your country needs
19 you!
organisation 18 Steal A military unit
Offered details on
another antagonist 19 Insert A military unit
20 An enemy
(Antagonist Table)
20 Rescue A secret organisation
Photo: Unknown — Nettuno 1944 — Bundesarchiv,
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military campaign, roll on Table 9 to determine the under-

lying focus of the mission before rolling on Table 7 for the
mission objective.
As with the Plot Twist table, some mission objectives
suggest that you roll on additional tables for specific people,
items, or locations. These tables are also useful when you
need to quickly generate a random person, object, or piece
of information.

Table 8: Artefact
Objectives
D20 Artefact State/
Added Flavour
Roll Condition
Table 9: Knowledge,
1 Scroll Corrupt Military & Person
2 Book Magical Objectives
3 Key Priceless D20
Knowledge Military
4 Statue Doomed Roll

5 Rare plant or flower Schematics (weapon,

Cursed 1 Pathfinder
base, ship, plane, vehicle)
Ancient
6 Secret Technology/scientific
technological device 2 Invade
discovery
7 Crystal Ancient 3 A strange illness Liberate
8 Drug Alive 4 A weakness Infiltrate
9 Strange life-form Evil 5 An ancient secret Defend
10 Ore or resource Broken 6 Escape route Ambush
11 Prototype Locked 7 Conspiracy Evacuate
12 Priceless art Out of power 8 Chemical formula Rescue
13 Religious icon Buried 9 Criminal activity Attack
Extra-dimensional
14 Unstable 10 A spy ring Seek and destroy
object
15 Mythos artefact Fragile 11 A legend Scout/recon

16 Heirloom Ever-changing 12 An artefact Support

17 Evidence Holy 13 A state secret Patrol

18 Photographs Radioactive 14 A language Take and hold

19 Weapon Mythos 15 A tome Breakthrough

Appears to be X, but is 16 A theory Pre-emptive strike

20 Technological item actually Y (roll twice;
17 A traitor Hold the line
first result is X, second
result is Y) 18 What happened? Rearguard

19 What’s there? Resupply

20 Resources Field test

 Table 10: From/Where, Mythos Opponent &
Person Objectives
D20
From/Where Mythos Opponent* Person Objectives
Roll

1 France Deep one Civilian

2 Germany Mi-go Policeman
3 Britain Nightgaunt Soldier
4 United States of America Colour out of space Pilot
5 South America Servitor of Nyarlathotep Sailor
6 Spain Great Old One (choose appropriate) Fugitive
7 Italy Cultist of the Old Gods Criminal
8 North Africa Chthonian Spy
9 Middle East Hound of Tindalos Refugee
10 Soviet Union Elder thing Crashed pilot
11 Scandinavia Bloodborn Priest
The Low Countries
12 Ghouls Scientist
(Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg)
13 Canada Die Draugar Militia
14 Pacific Die Gefallenen Politician
15 China Halja Actor/singer
16 Japan Manneskin Archaeologist
17 Asia (other) Serpent people Heir/heiress
18 Commonwealth Die Toten Blackmarketeer
19 Australia Die Auserwählten Madman
20 New Zealand Cold ones Wounded… (roll again)
*See Call of Cthulhu, Sixth Edition and Achtung! Cthulhu: the Keeper’s Guide to the Secret War.
 ACHTUNG! CTHULHU — DOSSIER

Locations If you want something truly unusual and a little bit

Finally, you can decide on the region or place where the mis- freaky, it is often worth rolling up the plot, some obstacles
sion will occur by rolling on the following Location tables, and a few objectives, followed by a bunch of locations, with-
or you can randomly pick a location (or series of locations) out rejecting anything at first sight or thinking too much
for the different parts of your adventure. If you already know about what you get. Once you have assembled your random
what you want—say, somewhere Mysterious, then just roll on plot elements, take a closer look at them: quite bizarrely, you
the Table 12: Mysterious Locations for ideas. Don’t forget to are likely to find some very peculiar matches that make total
check for the location atmosphere (Table 11) to add some sense. Just don’t ask why…
additional ambience to the proceedings.

Table 11: Locations -

Mission Region, Choice Table 12: Locations -
& Atmosphere Buildings, Countryside
& Mysterious
D20 Mission Location Location
Roll Region Choice Atmosphere D20 Building Countryside Mysterious
Roll Type
1 Western Front Building Derelict
Old
2 Western Front Building Ruined 1 Town Castle
battlefield
3 Eastern Front Building Peaceful 2 Village Cavern Temple
4 Eastern Front Building Abandoned 3 Monastery Plantation Stone circle
5 Pacific Front Building Windswept 4 Factory Mine head Church
6 Pacific Front Countryside Dreadful 5 Laboratory Settlement Mansion
North African 6 Prison River Cemetery
7 Countryside Overgrown
Front
Chemical Desert Cave system
North African 7
8 Countryside Submerged plant
Front
8 Casino Glacier Tomb
9 Middle East Mysterious Ancient
Archaeological
10 Middle East Mysterious Impossible 9 Palace Swamp
excavation
American home 10 Library Coastline Ruins
11 Mysterious Perched
front
11 Hospital Canyon Mine
American home
12 Mysterious Mountain-top
front 12 University Lake Sanatorium
British home
13 Mysterious Cliff-top 13 Church Forest/jungle Monastery
front
British home 14 Mansion Mine Museum
14 Sea Flooded
front
15 Museum Farm Swamp
15 Occupied France Sea Underground
16 Train station Fields Outpost
16 Occupied France Sea Remote
17 Hotel Hills Battlefield
17 Germany Military Ominous
Government Mountains Gateway
18
18 Germany Military Dripping building

Other occupied 19 Sanatorium Delta Island

19 Mythos Frozen
territories
Department Snowfields Monolith
20
Other occupied store
20 Mythos Too quiet
territories

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 Table 14: Locations -
Table 13: Locations - Mythos-related
Military & Sea
D20
Extra-terrestrial Local
D20 Sea Roll
Military
Roll
1 Dreamlands Carcosa
1 Headquarters building Shipyard
2 Azathoth’s Court Carcosa
2 Military base Cargo ship
3 Aldebaran Arkham
3 Battlefield Warship
4 Yuggoth Arkham
4 Supply dump Underwater ruins
Deep One city
5 Wewelsburg Castle Deep sea ridge 5 Xiclotl (Y’ha-nthlei, Massachusetts;
Ponape, western Pacific)
6 Wewelsburg II Submerged wreck Deep One city
Underwater base 6 N’Kai (Y’ha-nthlei, Massachusetts;
7 Bunker system
Ponape, western Pacific)
8 Frontlines Lost island 7 Fomalhaut Elder thing city
9 Trench system Floating base 8 Leng Elder thing city
10 Fenrir’s Seat Ocean liner 9 Abbith G’harne (North Africa)
11 Wolf’s Lair Open sea 10 Celaeno G’harne (North Africa)
12 Arms factory Coastal waters Irem, City of Pillars/
11 Korvaz
The Nameless City (Arabia)
13 Weapon testing laboratory Coast
Betelgeuse/ Irem, City of Pillars/
12
14 Radar installation Port Glyu-Ohu The Nameless City (Arabia)

Launch facility Underwater caverns 13 Ktyanga Kingsport

15
Airfield Beached wreck 14 Kythanil Kingsport
16
Naval base Deep sea trench 15 Uranus/L’gy’hx Plateau of T’sang/Sung
17
Submarine base Island chain 16 Rigel/Orion Plateau of T’sang/Sung
18
Elder Race
19 Path of advance Sinking island 17 Severn Valley
colony (working)
20 Convoy Fleet Elder Race colony
18 Severn Valley
(abandoned)
Mythos-
19 Innsmouth
conquered world
Mythos-ruined
20 Innsmouth
world
 ACHTUNG! CTHULHU — DOSSIER

PLOT GENERATION • Player Characters:

SUMMARY »» Roll for a Plot Hook (Table 6).

»» Roll for an Involvement Method (Table 6). Roll on
• Antagonists: any additional tables as directed (Tables 1, 8, 9, 10).
»» Roll for an Antagonist Description on (Individual or »» Roll for a Mission/Military Mission (depending on
Group; Tables 1 & 2). your campaign; Tables 7 & 9).
»» Roll for the antagonist’s Plot Concept (Table 3). »» Roll for a Mission Objective (Table 7). Roll on any
»» Roll for the antagonist’s Motivation (Table 3). additional tables as directed (Tables 1, 8-14).
»» Roll for the antagonist’s Success Requirements
(Table 3). Roll on any additional tables as directed • Locations:
(Tables 9-14). »» Roll for a Mission Region (Table 11).
»» Roll for a Location Choice (Table 11). Roll on any
• Obstacles: additional tables as directed (Tables 12-14).
»» Roll for one or more plot Obstacles (Table 4). Roll »» Roll for a Location Atmosphere (Table 11).
on any additional tables as directed (Table 6).
»» Roll for a Plot Twist (Table 5).

“Imagination is the
.”
beginning of creation
- George Bernard Shaw

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