Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
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 Darkness supplement, read it through and ran it. It was a very fast session. This…
Danvers State Hospital has been a passing obsession since I saw the movie Session 9. When Chaosium published an adventure about it (I had some ideas myself) I wanted to run it so badly. I decided to add a little more horror to the story. I was disappointed on our the story developed in the adventure…
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 investigate everything. Or perhaps I gave out too much up front, but by the time…
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 hunt down this monster and figure out why some can see and others can’t. It…
I found that the Call of Cthulhu A Restoration of Evil” mini-adventure, although perfect for a convention game, still did not convey enough about the cult. In one instance, I am not sure the group completely understood that it was a cult at the center of the plot. Nevermind the fact that there is a…
New Hook The Investigators are hired by Arkham Archeology Society and sent to Red Hook because HORACE BAKER reported finding an artifact in the wreckage of the Park Place disaster. When they arrive, they will find the door open and BAKER murdered. Why kill the others? – Existing motive or they know about the artifact….
“Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she had coupled with the archangel Samael” – Wikipedia The Cult of Lillith – In the HPL story The Horror at Red Hook, there is indications that the cult in question is related to the…
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 the middle of a Livecraftian War” aspect to it. However, I do have a few…
I am reading a mini- adventure that was published with the 6th Edition Keeper Screen, The Restoration of Evil. It takes place in Red Hook NY, as sort of a sequel to one of Lovecraft’s stories – The Horror at Red Hook – but it just doesn’t cut it for me. Sometimes I just wonder how some of…
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.