Instead of classes and specializations, each character chooses an occupation, such as doctor, journalist, and private investigator, which can help them determine where to invest their characteristics and skills. Each character also has a set of skills that will determine how they interact with the in-game world, as well as secondary attributes, a notable one in this universe being sanity. Similar to the six main attributes in D&D, players in CoC choose to invest in four similar characteristics of strength, intelligence, dexterity, and constitution while also choosing four different characteristics - power, appearance, size, and education. In Call of Cthulhu, the players are working to investigate a scenario - and trying to survive as intact as possible. Where D&D is set in high-fantasy realms populated with different races, and focused on player triumph of good over evil through combat, Call of Cthulhu campaigns take place in an alternate, darker version of our world, usually (but not always) set in the early 1900s.

While Dungeons and Dragonsand Pathfinder come to mind when thinking of high fantasy inspired TTRPGs, over the years, different TTRPGs with unique systems and settings have been created in order to appeal to different types of players. Lovecraft and the overall Cthulhu Mythos. Call of Cthulhu is a popular tabletop role-playing game published by Chaosium that, as its name would suggest, is rooted in and inspired by the cosmic horror works of H.P.

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