Officina Meningi’s The Necronomicon Gamebook: Dagon is a short, illustrated adventure based on a faithful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu short novels Dagon, The Hound and The Festival (plus extracts from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath). These stories have been adapted with the utmost fidelity to the original text, in the style of the Master of the Supernatural, by using a narrative with interactive paths, where, armed with a die and a pencil, you will travel through the streets of Kingsport facing monstrous creatures, exploring nightmarish territories and crossing the border that divides dream from reality. Will you be able to prevent the Yule ritual from taking place, saving humanity from a gruesome fate, or will you just go crazy?
The Necronomicon Gamebook: Dagon has been inspired by classic interactive adventures to produce a new, unique game system, where you use a six-sided die and an adventure sheet, as well as collecting weapons and items that will be required to face upcoming trials and enemies, or to reveal secret paragraphs. Solve puzzles, avoid traps, test your FORCE and WILL, and recover RESISTANCE before entering the Dreamlands to face challenges that may increase your MADNESS.
Are you ready to go down the roads of Kingsport until you reach terrible and ancestral dark forces to ward them off with the power of the Necronomicon?
Featuring art by Jacopo Schiavo and Alberto Dal Lago, The Necronomicon Gamebook: Dagon is currently seeking funding via Kickstarter. In addition to pledging for a softcover, hardcover or e-book version, backers can also purchase a play set (six-sided die, pencil and a 16-page booklet) original art, and a limited edition portfolio of A4 prints by Alberto Dal Lago. All ‘early bird’ backers also receive FREE shipping!
The Kickstarter campaign concludes November 23rd.