Chaosium, which publishes Call of Cthulhu, is also the official publisher of the Rivers of London tabletop RPG.
In fact, author Ben Aaronvitch gets the lead writing credit on the game.
The Rivers of London TTRPG line editor Lynne Hardy is at Tabletop Scotland this weekend, and while she’s busy dealing with many fans, Geek Native may have managed to wrangle an exclusive.
You can get The Font of All Evil from Tabletop Scotland. The digital version is available from DriveThruRPG but the gaming convention in Edinburgh is the first time the traditionally printed adventure has been available.
Lynne has told us that the next adventure book is underway and will be called Jimmy’s Last Dance.
An earlier adventure, Going Underground has been available from earlier this year and the Rivers of London solo-adventure The Domestic is award-winning and entirely free to download.
With Ben Aaronvitch playing such an active role in the RPG, I asked Lynne whether any development in the game had made its way into the RPG.
No. Not yet.
“Yet” is a powerful world.
Lynne, of course, had to be careful how she answered, but she did suggest that since the American bits of the Rivers of London stories are not as well documented as the British side of the story, perhaps there’s opportunity there.
There’s no official news that future Rivers of London stories will be set in America. However, that was the topic Ben talked to Geek Native about four years ago.
Ben told me that the Rivers of London RPG could be used to take the adventures to America. Wizards in muscle cars are the vibe. I was so taken by the conversion that I titled the whole write-up “Rivers of London America”.
Rivers of London RPG
So we have the Rivers of London RPG being created as a whole line, not as a one-and-done. The Font of All Evil is available in print right now in Scotland, and Jimmy’s Last Dance is coming later.
Fans of the books must continue to theorise whether books 14 and 15 will follow without a time jump (back or forward) or a geographic leap (across the pond).
What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!
