And characters now have the option to fight back instead of dodging, which makes combat more of a two-way process. This book, the Keeper Rulebook, contains the core rules, background, guidance, spells, and monsters of the game. The content of course is fantastic as well, as long as you enjoy skill-based games with high levels of player danger and a reduced focus on combat. In player versus player situations Opposed Rolls can be used, even though they are not recommended against NPCs.

Absolutely gorgeous book, great binding quality, and filled with everything a keeper needs and then some. Last there is a vast appendix that provides you with quick access to the important rules or frequently referenced details that the keeper can have at their fingertips. The supernatural does exist, namely in the form of cosmic beings of unfathomable powers that perceive humanity as nothing more than irrelevant insects. Optional rules include Insane Insight, becoming numb to the Mythos' alien nature, or even rolling more than one rolls when multiple sanity draining events occur at once and using the worst result, for a more brutal experience. I noticed a couple of typos, but they don't reduce the enjoyment of either reading or using the product.So pretty much everything listed under “option rules” seems to be stuff that should be part of the regular rules. Chaosium would be surely very happy to sell to an older player the rulebook of the game that he already has, admittedly however the whole point of the 7th edition is to attract new players to this glorious game, players who were not exposed to it before. c Muzy, Paul Carrick, Scott Neil, Jonathan Wyke, Victor Leza, Sam Lamont, Celeste Burcham, Caryad, Antonio Mainez, Tom Sullivan, Marco Morte.

Chapter seven covers Chases and formalizes an aspect of the game that in past editions was dealt with in a rather abstract way. Luckily this sort of oversight can be easily corrected in the next iteration of the electronic document, and thus distributed to those who already own it.

If the Keeper manages to transmit all the information he has on the NPC protagonists to the players with good roleplaying alone and without exposition, the adventure will really shine. I personally do not think so at all; in fact, I do find that such an frame was sorely missing, and that also accommodating action-oriented scenes does not underline a change in scope. The end pages on this book are amazing and I just wish they would use these end papers all the time. A table of one hundred phobias and as many manias can provide ample inspiration, and then there are the side-effects as well: reality checks and how the Investigator reacts to non-Mythos stimuli.