Servants of the Lake
SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu 7e September September 16, 2022 I decided to do a one shot of a random adventure I had not run yet. I picked one that seemed simple – Servant of the Lake in the Doors to …
Tag: Horror
B-Movie Inspirations: Blood Creek
Blood Creek, previously known as Creek and Town Creek, is a horror film directed by the famous (and infamous) Joel Schumacher, starring Michael Fassbender, Dominic Purcell, and Henry Cavill. Where else are you going to get Magneto, Heat Wave and Superman in one movie. Written by David Kajganich, the film apparently had a limited theatrical release in 2009. I came across it in my streaming options, and it was highly recommended by a friends. Dominic Purcell and Henry Cavill play brothers on a mission of revenge who become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich. Yes, Nazis, Occult and Zombies in the same movie. I am all in!
The Derelict (mini-mace 2017)
SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu 7e DATE: 2017-01-28 I was not entirely satisfied with the way this one went. Maybe I needed more prep time but the group never got to a point that made them want to stay on board and …
The Derelict
SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu 7e Cool little adventure that is very similar to the one I ran in generic modern Savage Worlds. This one had a cool monster that only a few characters can see. The central premise is to …
Dark Rivals (RonCon Spring 2016)
From the Dead Reckonings Sourcebook (converted to CoC 7e) Pre-Game Read and Prep I am planning on running this on Dark Rivals for one of my game day events, RonCon. I picked it relatively randomly although I like the “caught in …
B-Movie Inspiration: Harbinger Down (2015)
Harbinger Down (2015) I am a sucker for a movie inspired by Alien or The Thing. Show a sci-fi monster movie and I am there. I ran across this movie while browsing Netflix, not know anything about it. The blurb interested me so …
Savaged Ghost Ship (RonCon Fall 2015)
Setting: Modern. System: Savage Worlds Step aboard the ghost ship and experience a new horror from Hogshead. On September 18,1942 the German auxiliary cruiser Loki vanished. Around the world, there have been mysterious sightings ever since. Now a desperate man …
Kontamination, Achtung! Cthulhu Adventure
Kontamination is a new RPG Adventure/One Shot from Modiphius Entertainment Ltd. When I try to run a published adventure, I sometimes find myself asking if the adventure was written with the GM in mind. For me, it’s important to convey the story of the adventure to the players in the most succinct and clear fashion with minimal page turning and book diving as possible. However, not everyone retains the same information at the same rate and every GM is different. So what is the way to best write an adventure? Keep it as simple as possible in terms of wording and stat blocking, and make key aspects of the adventure easy to reference if at all possible.
Blackwater Creek
Setting/System: 1920s USA/Call of Cthulhu 7e I ran this at RonCon Spring 2015 in 7th edition CoC. It was a blast. The basic premise deals with a source of illegal whiskey somewhere in the backwoods of Massachusetts. I did not …
Rapture – The End of Days RPG
The Rapture has been the subject of various books and movies and all have approached it from a similar fashion – portraying it as something in the near and foreseeable future. No one that I have seen before this game has ventured out and asked the question “What if it happens way far in the future after man has found ways off this world?” Rapture: The End of Days is a game about that very thing.