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Showing posts with label Cthulhu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cthulhu. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Dragonflight game highlights

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Last weekend I went to a local gaming convention, Dragonflight. It was a ton of fun. Because of my work and sporadic volunteering, this was ...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

The Last GwenCon

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Gwen Con X, the last Gwen Con ever, was this past weekend. After some troubles with a bus Friday night, Sarah and I were able to make it ove...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Tekeli-Li: fun, but muddled and sloppy

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A couple weekends ago I played a card game called Tekeli-Li. It's a Cthulhu-themed card game. Or, at least, it's trying to be. And t...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Azathoth Upstairs, Cthulhu Downstairs

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One of the other players in Fordyce Hall (a Cthulhu by Gaslight scenario I played in at Gwen Con) put up this lovely picture of me about t...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Infallibility in Trail of Cthulhu

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The other night, we wrapped up the second mystery/adventure of my Trail of Cthulhu campaign. This session exposed elements of the mechanical...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Fourth-Dimensional Lifeforms

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I just finished a big page on 4th-Dimensional Lifeforms over at ArcanaWiki, and I'm kind of proud of it. It took a little bit of library...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Using Cthulhu Mythos (aka Mythos Lore to us Old Schoolers)

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The cliff hanger I left off with in monday's session of Trail of Cthulhu was the realization that a monster was creeping up behind her, ...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Don't Try This At Home

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You know it's a good Cthulhu session when, 15 minutes after the session wrapped up, your wife takes great pains to specifically spell o...
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Friday, May 8, 2009

2 out of 3 have climax

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Heavy gaming week for me. Wednesday night I ran Trail of Cthulhu. Last night I played in a Savage Freeport game. Sunday I'll be running ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Deputize Yourself

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The Trail of Cthulhu RPG has a two-page spread of advice for players, and my favorite bits are: "the best way to fail is to become defe...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Dreams In The Witch House

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My Trail of Cthulhu game is chugging along full speed. We're four sessions in, and 3 of them have been fantastic (the initial session wa...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Theodore Gericault

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I've name dropped Theodore Gericault in my Trail of Cthulhu campaign. Probably, it's just a verisimilitude-rich nugget of background...
Monday, March 9, 2009

Trail of Cthulhu Session Recap

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Synopsis: The Trail of Cthulhu campaign I'm running is a one-player game. Sarah (my wife) is playing a newspaper reporter named Ginny M...

I'm really digging Trail of Cthulhu

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When I bought Esoterrorists, nearly a year ago, I was excited by the possibilities of the system . Reading the Cthulhu version of Esoterrori...
Friday, March 6, 2009

GM set to overload

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That whistling sound you hear in the background is just me, not a Phaser set on self-destruct / overload. Close enough, though. Sunday: 1st ...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Are you sure you don't want to search the car again?

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For context, read my previous post first. It tells the tale of my first GMing experience way back in the early 80s. I've carried that d...
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Sunday, September 7, 2008

GwenCon RPGs - Pure Evil

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The second RPG one-shot I played in at GwenCon was Pure Evil. It was a very unique Cthulhu scenario run by Mike Lee. Rules were BRP - that ...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

b3 Delta Green

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Last Thursday, I played in a Delta Green one-shot. Or rather, it was the Delta Green setting, but with a home-brewed system called the ...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Reviewing Cthu-Clue

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You may recall that earlier this year I got The Esoterrorists from Pelgrane Press, and thereafter I reported that I was looking forward to ...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Porting Gumshoe

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You could easily use "the GUMSHOE system" from The Esoterrorists in any mystery / suspense / horror setting. In particular it...