The 2nd season of 100 Endings Book Club kicks off with the House on Sentinel Hill for September.
The House on Sentinel Hill
This month the 100 Endings Book Club read is The House on Sentinel Hill by Graham Plowman, exploring a haunted house. Join us on the 100 Endings & Rand Roll Discord if you've got any questions or want to join in.
The House on Sentinel Hill by Graham Plowman is a Lovecraftian Horror Gamebook with 586 passages. It's recent (published 2022) and the only one so far in the Cthulhu Mythos Gamebook series. It won our September poll, coming from our list of 2nd Chances gamebooks.
You're exploring an old house in 1926 New England, investigating a murder from 10 years before. You start with 7 Attributes & Skills. These can be tested using 2d6 and there are combat rules for fighting one-on-one or multiple opponents. As you get lower in Health or Composure, other skills suffer too (unlike other games like Fighting Fantasy / Lone Wolf / Fabled Lands where your tests don't suffer until you're dead). There are also Mythos points, awards for finding clues and performing certain items. These points persist between games, giving a permanent record on how your investigation(s) go.
Ways to Play The House on Sentinel Hill
The House on Sentinel Hill is available only in physical format (as far as I know) in paperback or hard back. As it was published in 2022 it's relatively easy to get hold of. I also found several 2nd-hand options (looking from the UK)
For bonus material you can download an investigator sheet, and there's a podcast episode from Fantastic Flights covering the House on Sentinel Hill. Finally there's also a soundtrack for the House on Sentinel Hill, as the author is also a composer of Cthulhu Mythos Music. There is music for other related Cthulhu and Lovecraft related bits.
If you've already read The House on Sentinel Hill (or can't get hold of it), there's other haunted house gamebooks. Two worth mentioning are House of Hell by Steve Jackson (UK, Fighting Fantasy) and the Ghosts of Craven Manor by Joseph Daniels (Magma Gamebooks)
Finishing Up
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