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Call of Cthulhu: The Order of the Stone Reviewed

Sep 25, 2024

Title: Call of Cthulhu – The Order of the Stone

Authors: Jared Twing, Lynne Hardy, and Paul Fricker

Artists: Nicola Silvani, Hannah Elizabeth Baker, Bloom Báirseach, John Barry Ballaran, Franz Michael A. Bautista, János Brumár, Massimiliano Bruni, Gabriel Campagnolo, Andrew Clark, Erik Davis-Heim, Gabriel Fecury, Susanah Grace, Heikki Korhonen, Nikoloz Kuparadze, Herman Lau, Pat Loboyko, Stjepan Lukac, Luke Marcatili, João Henrique Mileski, Kelsey Phillips, Raphael Lucchini, Nicola Silvani, John Sumrow, Kathryne Emily Wilson, and Nathaniel Pilgrim

Year: 2024

Genre: A three part adventure campaign set in the 1920s for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game

Pages: 152 pages

MSRP: Hardcover (with PDF) $42.99 or $21.99 for the PDF alone at DriveThruRPG

I sit down to share my review of The Order of the Stone, the new three chapter adventure campaign for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. The tale places the investigators squarely at odds with a cult aiming to summon a creature of immense hunger and hatred destined to warp the very fabric of reality. The adventure is suited for just about every player regardless of their experience with the RPG.

Call of Cthulhu The Order of the Stone Reviewed

SUMMARY

Sadly, Order of the Stone feels very rushed and ends up coming across as an uneven campaign. Quite a few aspects of the adventure don't make much sense either when you think about them and the big bad also turns out to be rather underwhelming overall. A good chunk of the artwork throughout is fairly lackluster too. There are some interesting set pieces which stand out but this is nowhere near the sort of top quality release we've come to expect from Chaosium Inc. I could honestly tear this tale apart and get mileage out of it at my game table, as it's not horrible, but this is no doubt my least favorite release in years for Call of Cthulhu.

Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media, Jeff tackles any and all sorts of games but has a special fondness for strategy, conflict sims, and roleplaying games. Plus, he's certainly never at a loss for an opinion...