BLOG POST! #MayThe4thBeWithYou, a #StarWarsDay#StarWarsRPG event at Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. Two Star Wars RPG sessions. One extra #DeltaGreen session. All in all, a fun day! Check out the blog post for more photos.
I’ve been reading way too many recently published #CallOfCthulhu scenarios that feature a perfunctory investigation before the Investigators board a train to creepy town that is a one way exercise in hit point and SAN attrition. Sure, some of the imagery is very creepy, but something is definitely missing, that being real problem solving and meaningful choices.
@luxet@Tim_Eagon@chakatfirepaw It also begs the question of "What is a minor issue in the mythos?," even something as relatively minor as the fungi from Yuggoth Trying to protect a mining interest on Earth essentially just gives the party the knowledge and probably physical evidence of alien intelligence and its activity on Earth.
That's a pretty big deal, as would anything which gave concrete proof of cults with actual magical power. or a deep sea species which frequently desires to breed with humans...
It's hard to get away from the idea that mythos knowledge itself is destabilizing. And if you had it, unless you had a significant reason not to expose it, that's exactly what you would do.
This might make minor issues easier to deal with in a one-shot because you don't have to deal with the fallout afterwards. But the idea of a sustained narrative where this information is going around a lot is inherently a problem. Again, something that Delta Green helps address just by its setup.