The Keeper Screen for Call of Cthulhu 7E is something else.

By an artist named Ardila (whose work I am completely unfamiliar with), it depicts an investigation in progress in a foreign land, complete with menacing forest and foreboding ruins. I love it so much. It captures so much dread and mystery and adventure inherent to the game so perfectly. I especially like how it depicts the tension between man, nature and the supernatural. And the quality of light – every Call of Cthulhu adventure should be lit like this. This is my favorite screen art, full stop.

Anyway. *swoon**

The screen comes with some other goodies. First is a book containing two scenarios: Missed Dues and Blackwater Creek (it irks me a bit that despite the order of the titles on the cover, Blackwater Creek is the first scenario in the book – why do that?). They’re both pretty fun introductory scenarios – Blackwater Creek could be inserted in any ongoing campaign and Missed Dues is an excellent, crime-themed one-shot. I particularly enjoy the moody illustrations for Blackwater, which remind me quite a bit of comic artist Guy Davis (oh, to have a Guy Davis-illustrated RPG!).

Finally there are two maps, one of Lovecraft Country that looks like, well, a road map, and a lovely illustrated map of Arkham worthy of a frame (if it wasn’t machine folded, anyway).