Interesting #CallofCthulhu session last night. Still processing what happened but it turns out that my group really hates pre-generated characters.
I think it's broadly a product of my encouraging them to be independent and to have agency. Present them with a adventure where there is literally none and they bucked.
They compared the scenario to a murder-mystery dinner, discussed walking away, then discussed group suicide. Things only settled when I improvised a problem they had to solve.
I would never want to game with pregens as my main thing. I love characters I create even more.
But, pregens let me strut my stuff in a way my own characters can't They're a special chance to flex a different set of roleplaying muscles, like a cooking show where you're handed weird ingredients.
But I'm HTT, so I have zero love for player agency. 😅
Wrote a review of the Call of Cthulhu scenario Servants of the Lake, written by Glynn Owen Barrass, from Chaosium Inc.’s scenario anthology, Doors to Darkness.
A sleek little investigative/survival horror scenario that could still benefit from a bit more fat cutting to bring it to a light 2-ish hour play time, or to give more time for a longer, player-led conclusion.
I already had the old one volume Masks of Nyarlathotep, and I already ran it once (as Masks of Tzeentch for Dark Heresy), but it is one of the best campaigns written for rpg.
Love all the extras for Kids on Bikes 2. Still haven’t played it yet, but I’ve got everything I need if I ever go.
#MiskatonicMonday#257: Glimpses of Terror: The Works of I.G. Payne—A Cthulhu by Gaslight Birmingham-set scenario for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc.
Wrote a review of the Call of Cthulhu Gaslight scenario The Phthonus Cabinet, written by John Crowdis, an investigation-heavy scenario romping through the 1890s London dockyards with a novel Mythos threat.
Wrote a review of the #callofcthulhu scenario The Hoodlums, written by Alex Guillotte and Ian Christiansen, the seventh and final scenario in the Grindhouse Ultimate Collection.
A short and spooky dungeon crawl-esque scenario with a fun cast of characters, both the pregenerated investigators and the NPCs, human or otherwise.
@SJohnRoss Thanks!
Small-press RPGS, much less community program stuff like this, barely get any reviews or feedback. Trying to at least leave some words about what I play out there for others so they know what they're getting into (or not getting into, in your case!) before hand.
This is 100% the start of a Call of Cthulhu story. A spaceship sent beyond the wan light of our sun into the dark starts returning nonsensical data, but then starts talking to you again?
Into #ttrpgs since the mid-90s, mostly playing #osr-style #dnd, #callofcthulhu, #shadowrun, #dsa, #harnworld, but open to others.
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@CatDad One of my favorite #CallOfCthulhu scenarios is "What Goes Around, Comes Around" by Jeffrey Moeller, which appeared in The Unspeakable Oath 8/9.
I actually prefer scenario anthologies over longer campaigns, but I have a real soft spot for At Your Door, which is an epic campaign set in the early 90s. It's like the most early 90s thing published too!