Masks of Nyarlathotep

The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep

Perilous Adventures to Thwart the Dark God
1st edition cover by Tom Sullivan, 1996.
Designers	Larry DiTillio Lynn Willis
Publishers	Chaosium
Publication	1984 1st Edition, Masks of Nyarlathotep, boxed set 1989 2nd edition, Masks of Nyarlathotep, softcover 1996 3rd edition, The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep, softcover 2010 4th edition, Masks of Nyarlathotep, hard & softcover 2018 5th edition, Masks of Nyarlathotep, two-volume slipcase set.
Genres	Horror
Systems	Basic Role-Playing

Masks of Nyarlathotep, subtitled Perilous Adventures to Thwart the Dark God, is an adventure campaign first published by Chaosium in 1984 for the second edition of the horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu. A number of revised editions have subsequently been published. Masks of Nyarlathotep is a series of several sequential adventures set in the 1920s that take the player characters from New York, to London, Cairo, Nairobi, and Shanghai (with Australia and then Peru added in subsequent editions) as they deal with the threat of the god Nyarlathotep. Screenwriter Larry DiTillio wrote the adventure with game designer Lynn Willis during a writer's strike. It received positive reviews in game periodicals including Casus Belli, The Space Gamer, White Dwarf, Different Worlds, and Dragon, and is considered to be one of the best roleplaying adventures of all time.