In March 2024 we reanimated through dark arts the October 2021 Cthulhu Hack Bundle, enhanced with the newly manifested 2024 Second Edition of Cthulhu Hack, the simple and accessible Mythos tabletop roleplaying game from Just Crunch Games. This fast-playing standalone investigative game, based on David Black’s minimalist fantasy RPG The Black Hack, pits ordinary people against the sanity-shattering horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. With simple Save die-rolls and three resources (Flashlights, Smokes, and Sanity), Cthulhu Hack deftly supports published Investigations and campaigns for any Mythos RPG. Learn the whole system in 20 minutes, teach it to your players in five minutes more, and in another five their characters will be ready for a slow spiral into self-destruction.
This revival also brought back the core rulebook for the Just Crunch RPG The Dee Sanction. In 16th-Century England, you’re a disreputable amateur Agent for occultist Doctor John Dee, hunting supernatural threats and hoping to earn a pardon.
There were six titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $27) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete Cthulhu Hack Second Edition Core Book; the new 2E version of the short campaign Forgotten Duty; The Dark Brood sourcebook about Shub-Niggurath; and two mini-sourcebooks: From Unformed Realms and Strange Materials.
(If you purchased this Cthulhu Hack offer during its original October 2021 run, you received the new editions of the Core Book and Forgotten Duty automatically on your Wizard’s Cabinet download page and in your linked DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later – even much later.)
Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got this revival’s entire Bonus Collection with six more titles worth an additional $57.50, including The Dee Sanction corebook and six Cthulhu Hack sourcebooks and Investigations. Three were newly added in this revival – Haunter of the Dark 2E, Thro’ Centuries Fixed 2E, and the Australia sourcebook Island of Ignorance – and again, all previous purchasers of the original run automatically received the new versions. Returning alongside the newcomers were the Investigations Mother’s Love, Three Faces of the Wendigo, and Valkyrie Nine.
You’ll never find a simpler and smoother path to the mind-shattering realization of humanity’s cosmic insignificance than Cthulhu Hack. Embrace existential despair!
