Secrets of San Francisco: A 1920s Sourcebook for the City By the Bay (Call of Cthulhu Horror Roleplaying)

By Cody Goodfellow, David Conyers, Brian M. Sammons

In all of North the US there's no extra ideal intersection of weather, tradition, and colourful historical past than San Francisco the fruits of occur future, the Golden Gate to the Pacific Ocean, and the treasure residence of the wealth of the nice California Gold Rush. Purged of her wild, anarchic prior via a devastating earthquake and fireplace at the start of the 20th century, San Francisco has emerged because the so much cosmopolitan urban at the West Coast.

San Francisco is deceptively historic; its background shrouded in a fog of fake domesticity. The Bay region has identified many masters, each one leaving a particular mark upon the land. As San Francisco blossoms it draws fugitives and practitioners of unorthodox faiths from the world over. stories of the area suppose mythic proportions because it turns into the main ethnically varied, and so much lawless, position in the USA.

SECRETS OF SAN FRANCISCO offers very good history for a decision of Cthulhu crusade set within the Bay sector of the Nineteen Twenties. It comprises city geography, civic heritage, examine venues, and mythos lore. Many interval images are supplied and dozens of historic figures are brought, together with numerous who collaborated and corresponded with Lovecraft. listed here are supplied descriptions of the place San Franciscan s are despatched once they holiday the legislations, cross insane, or pass-beyond. listed here are the points of interest, sounds, and secrets and techniques of this position that makes it a special city.

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