Tamlyn - Green and pleasant land : the British 1920s-1930s Cthulhu sourcepack

H.P. LOVECRAFT
1890-1987

Pete Tamlyn.

Andy Bradbury, Graeme Davis, Richard Edwards, ChrisElliot, Marc Gascoigne, Pete Jeffrey, CarolineRogers,Marcus Rowland, Norman Tamlyn & Pete Tamlyn.

BrianLumley, 1987 Brian Lumley

Lee Gibbons, 1987 Lee Gibbons

Martin McKenna & Ian Cooke

PHOTOGRAPHS & REPRODUCTIONS: Courtesy of the illustrated London News Picture Library, A Pictorial& Descriptive Guide to London, Harrods Catalogue 1929, Advertising: Reflections of a Century.

MAPS & DIAGRAMS: Charles Elliott

Excerpts from the Harrods Catalogue courtesy ofHarrods and David & Charles Publishers. Excerpts fromAdvertising: Reflections of a Century courtesy of WilliamHeinemann Ltd.

Produced by the Games Workshop Design Studio: Do Boss: Bryan Ansell;Studio Manager: Richard Ellard;ProductionManager: Alan Memett; ProjectsManager: Paul Cockbura ; Development Manager Jervis Johnson; An Manager:John Blanche; Graphic Design: Charles Elliott; Editors: Mike Brunton, MarcGacoigne; Fdironal Assistant: Paul Ryder; Winters: Jim Barbra, GraemeDavis, Phil Gallagher, Marc Gascoigne, Rick Priestley; Artists: Tony Ackland,Dave Andrews, Colin Diann; Typesetting : Julie V-1- ving, Gail Morgan ;Production Assistant: Anthony Barton; 1rsualiser: Mark Craven ; FinishedArtists : Ruth Jeffery, Susan Md.ougtdin, David Oliver, Juamre Podoski, IanVarley, Richard Wright ; Inrvluable Support Susan Smith, Margaret Collishaw

Published by Games Workshop Ltd.

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By permission of Arkham House.
1987 Games Workshop Ltd.
Call of Cthulhu is 1983, 1986, 1987 The Chaosium In.
All Rights Reserved. Printed in the UK.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means withoutthe prior written consent of the publishers.The mentionof historical characers is not intended to imply any connectionbetween them and thefictitious events, characters and places of theCall of Cthulhu game.All characters in the adventures Horror Of the Glen, Death In the Post andShadow Over Darkbank are fictitious. Any resehtblance to persons living ordead, or to major star-faring races with unmentionable powers is purelycoincidental .All new roles implied or presented in this book should not be regarded asofficial additions to the Call of Cthulhu miles.

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ISBN: (UK) 1 869893 06 9(US) 0 933635 39 7

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was English by descent and apparently proud of it. Certainly he believedhimself to be a gentleman in the English fashion. Though he set most of his stories in New England,tales such as Rats in the Walls show that he was well aware of the possibilities of British settings.Indeed, it has even been suggested that Lovecrafts village of Dunwich was based on the real Suffolkvillage of the same name.

It seems, therefore, that Lovecraft knew that the awesome creatures of the Cthulhu Mythos were activein Britain. Later writers, such as Brian Lumley, have proved as much. And why not, for at the beginingof the 20th Century the British Empire covered a third ofthe land surface ofthe world, and its Navyruled almost all of the worlds seas. What better nation for Great Cthulhu to wish to overthrow?Futhermore, during that period, British archaeologists were responsible for a vast number ofspectacular finds, not all of which will have been as innocent as they seemed.

This book, then, is designed to provide useful background information for those keepers who wish toset Call of Cthulhu games in the stately homes, country villages and green fields of Britain and Ireland.

Green and Pleasant Land covers the period 1918 to 1939, between the two World Wars, though much ofthe information contained herein is applicable to other periods. Given this, one question which mustbe answered is how the book relates to Cthulhu by Gaslight, which is set in the Britain of the lateVictorian Era. Are two books justified when there is amere 20 years between the periods covered?The answer to this is yes, mainly because the changes which took place in British society during thattime were vast and far-reaching. For example, the introduction of the motor car and radiorevolutionised transport and communications.

In addition, any book such as this cannot be fully comprehensive. The only overlap between Cthulhuby Gaslight and Green and Pleasant Land is in the description of the sd (pounds, shillings andpence) monetary system, but there are several parts of Gaslight which will be of great use tokeepers running 1920s campaigns, notably the excellent sections on London and Occult Societies. Equally thereare parts of this book which I hope Gaslight players can make good use of, for example the sections onarchaeology, insanity laws and follies.

Having said that the book is not fully comprehensive, I must now apologise for leaving so much out.With the material available I could have easily filled two books of this size, but compromises have to bemade somewhere along the line. For the benefit of keepers who wish to delve further into the subject Ihave included a bibliography of helpful titles. If any readers have ideas for substantial and usefuladditions to the information contained herein, I am sure that Games Workshop will be pleased to hearfrom them.

Although I hope it will be otherwise, I fear that Green and Pleasant Land will not be wholly free frommistakes. It is surprising at times how difficult it can be to get accurate informationabout even such recent times as the 1920s and 30s. Of course we have done our best to eradicatehowlers. but if any have crept in, or if you have any questions we might be able to help youwith, please write to Games Workshop, Chewton Street, Hill Top, Eastwood, Nottingham NG163HY, including an sae for a reply. Try to keep your questions simple, so that they can beanswered yes or no, and we will reply as soon as we can.

Finally, it remains only for me to extend a warm thank you to all of thewriters, artists and playtesters who have helped produce this book; toPaul Cockburn, Marc Gascoigne and everyone else at Games Workshop;and, of course, to H P Lovecraft and Sandy Petersen for making it allpossible in the first place.

Pete Tamlyn
Aylesbury, 1986

Here is a short list of books which have beenused in compiling Green and Pleasant Land.Keepers may find them useful if they findneed for more detailed information than isgiven here. ISBN numbers have been listedwhere they are known, to make it easierto order books.