German CoC publications in the wiki

[Clemens]

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During the next couple of months, I will try to add entries of all official german CoC publications into the wiki. This will take time and updates might be as sparse as one every other week or so.

Nonetheless if you ever wondered what german titles have been published (and what horrors hide behind that 'awful german language') make sure to monitor this thread, as I will post updates in here as well.

Feedback is highly appreciated (I'm new at this ).

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To start this endeavour, I have added the oldest and the newst title.

Auf Cthulhus Spur (1986)
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/inde...ndregelwerk%29

Die Janus-Gesellschaft (2013)
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/inde...enteuerband%29

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Oh and if you are interested in any particular titles and want to see them added sooner rather then later, let me know.

[PoC]

Popped this thread over to META.

[Shimmin Beg]

That would be great! And sparsewise, well, I'm the last one to complain about erratic editing Vielen Dank, Clemens.

[dce]

The entries that are there look great.

I've always taken the philosophy with the CthulhuWiki that it's better to have sparse information rather than NO information. If you look through the pages dedicated to English language products, right now most are somewhat detailed about the basics, a few are really well developed, and a few others are nothing more than basic info (I keep meaning to go back and write a proper page for Beyond the Mountains of Madness, but haven't got back to it yet!). I would love to see pages for German products, regardless of which of these types they fall into.

BTW: if I was going to be *entirely* self-interested about it, I would really like to see a page sooner-rather-than-later about the German edition of Orient Express, with pictures of the inside of the books. This is one of the editions which Chaosium cited as a possible source of inspiration for the "look & feel" of their 2nd edition, but I have only ever seen pics of the front covers of the books.

After that ... info about all those cool-looking original German campaign box sets (eg Auf den Inseln) and books would be really neat too. Anything that would let those of with only an imperfect grasp of the German language get a feel for what we are missing out on!


Dean (from Adelaide)

[PoC]

BTW: if I was going to be *entirely* self-interested about it, I would really like to see a page sooner-rather-than-later about the German edition of Orient Express, with pictures of the inside of the books. This is one of the editions which Chaosium cited as a possible source of inspiration for the "look & feel" of their 2nd edition, but I have only ever seen pics of the front covers of the books.

Here's a few pictures from the German edition of Horror on the Orient Express that I've borrowed from one of my old posts.

[dce]

Thanks Paul.

As expected, those look gorgeous ... Chaosium certainly have their work cut out for them


Dean (from Adelaide)

[Clemens]

The first PDF released by Pegasus Press:

Der Nachtexpress (2012)
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/inde...28Abenteuer%29

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BTW: if I was going to be *entirely* self-interested about it, I would really like to see a page sooner-rather-than-later about the German edition of Orient Express, with pictures of the inside of the books. This is one of the editions which Chaosium cited as a possible source of inspiration for the "look & feel" of their 2nd edition, but I have only ever seen pics of the front covers of the books.

Noted But first I have to get my copy of the Orient Express (and the other boxed sets) from my parents' (where I keep my library), which might take till early march.

The second PDF released by Pegasus Press:

Die Geheiligte Flamme von Bubastis (2012)
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/inde..._%28Artikel%29

The player's handbook for the current German edition:

Spieler-Handbuch, Dritte Edition (2011)
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/inde...ndregelwerk%29

[paladin2769]

Wow, they look amazing. I am interested in seeing the Spielleiter-Handbuch - that's the GM book with monster stats and such, right? Maybe an interior pic or two? The Necronomicon and Malleus Monstrorum would be good too.
I don't speak a lick of German but I am interested in getting the two core books if only as a collector. I am so impressed with the French and Spanish versions of the game, and it seems Germany is no slouch either. So far, I have the main rules in French and Spanish, the Spanish gm screen, and the Spanish Masks book (which is so great looking). Chaosium can't possibly compete or compare with the foreign language versions of the game, in my opinion, even with the Orient Express Kickstarter later this year (and the 7th edition rulebook due whenever).

[G.Roby]

Wow, they look amazing. I am interested in seeing the Spielleiter-Handbuch - that's the GM book with monster stats and such, right?

yes. here is the "GM's handbook" 3rd Ed (536 pages)... Spielleiter-Handbuch



and the "player's handbook" - Spieler-Handbuch 3rd Ed (271 pages)



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the videos are from a Video-blog which is called Durchgeblaettert ("flip through") http://durchgeblaettert.blogspot.de/ and gives reviews about RPG books.

[paladin2769]

I will have to check out the videos tonight at home; can't access them here at work. Wow, 536 pages for the GM book alone and 271 pages for the Players book. That's alot of info along with the superior photos and illustrations, etc.

[Clemens]

Spielleiter-Handbuch, Dritte Edition (2012)
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/inde...ndregelwerk%29

I have included the two video reviews (thanks for the links G.Roby) and information on the limited editions of both the Spieler- and the Spielleiter-Handbuch for the serious collector ().

Thanks to the mod that merged my previous posts. I'll stick to one post until someone else posts from now on.

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Cthulhu Design (2012)
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/inde...28Portfolio%29

This rare volume represents the complete Cthulhu design work of Manfred Escher, one of the people that made the German Call of Cthulhu look as gorgeous as it does. (BTW as of today a few copies are still available via the cthulhu webshop).

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Manfred Escher, author of Cthulhu Design, gave permission to upload his nice wallpaper of the spines of the German Cthulhu books that together form a new picture.

Also I will be able to access my library this weekend, so expect the requested entries (Horror on the Orient Express, Auf den Inseln, Necronomicon, Malleus Monstrorum) soon (TM). After those books have been added and baring new requests, I will go through the titles chronologicly from oldest to newest.

[Clemens]

hm .. my edit button seems to be missing

I have added stubs or to be more precise dead links for all Hobby Products, Laurin, Ars Ludi and most of the Pegasus Stuff. The remaining Pegasus books as well as most thrid party publisher will get listed tomorrow.

[dce]

Hi Clemens,

Great work on the German publications ... I really like the tabular summary of all German releases, in particular the way you have shown which products are "German Originals" and which are translations of English-language material.

One minor suggestion, though ... when books have combined material from Engish-language releases with extra German-original material, it might be a little easier to see what's going on if your table entry had something like "German Original material + part of Mansions of Madness + parts of XYZ". Granted it is hard to summarise something so complicated in a tiny table cell .. but even just adding in some "+" marks would help a bit.

Excellent work though!


Dean

[Clemens]

Thanks dce

One minor suggestion, though ... when books have combined material from Engish-language releases with extra German-original material, it might be a little easier to see what's going on if your table entry had something like "German Original material + part of Mansions of Madness + parts of XYZ". Granted it is hard to summarise something so complicated in a tiny table cell .. but even just adding in some "+" marks would help a bit.

yeah I'm not too happy with that either. my first instinct would be something like

German Original
adv x
from supplement y
adv z
from supplement q

but that would bloat some entries. anyways I will revist all the entries once I have the stubs in place (and get my books to were my scanner is - damn logistics)

two further questions.
(1) exact date in the list or only in the actual entry?
(2) any ideas what to do with the location column? I like the fact that I can see immediately if a sourcebook/adventure is located where I want my campaign to go. then again it's a bit messy, especially considering countries might no longer exist, which makes the abbreviation suspect, it has some spoiler issues (seeing where a campaign takes place for instance), it's not very precise (think big countries like china - shanghai and tibet have the same entry, and it has a tendency to bloat (think 7 adventures with multiple locations each).

[WinstonP]

I just wanted to offer my thanks for adding information on these titles to the wiki.