Is there a link between the return of Halley's comet and the resurgence of the Great Ancients who once dominated the land in a reign of terror? Legend tells tales of an ancient ritual ground, hidden deep in the shadows of the tangled forest, marked by an ornate and mysterious cross. Whispers in a dusty, secluded library ripple with fear as questions of the past are brought into the present. Beneath the peaceful tranquility of this small village, a horrifying truth lingers. Appearances can be very deceiving, however. Bathed in pale Spring sunlight, the small fishing port of Illsmouth is a sleepy New England town where time seems to stand still.

The frog thing pushed him into a lava pit and ate the two remaining characters and after that we put away our character sheets and drank in silence.The year is 1910. They met some resistance in the shape of a demented psychopath wizard and his army of deep ones but it might have gone either way had one of the PCs not cast a spell that summoned one of those flute playing frog monsters and fumbled the binding spell. They sweet-talked some communist insurgents into pointing their guerilla army at the weird island base and stormed it with machetes and submachine guns. The players skipped three chapters and went right to the end, ignoring all the warnings.

You can run a romance game using D&D rules, but why the fuck would you when the Romance Trilogy exists.ДЄnyway, the last time I tried to run Masks it went like this, spoiler warning for anyone who made it to the end of the podcast and still wants to play Masks. Can you do a pulp action game with Call of Cthulhu rules? I mean sure, if you hate yourself. I want to run a measured, noir investigation.

IвЂ™ve run Masks of Nyarlathotep four times in the last ten years and every time it goes the same way. I somehow internalised the idea of a perfect session of Call of Cthulhu having never played it, and IвЂ™ve been chasing it ever since. You pretty much nailed everything I donвЂ™t like about Call of Cthulhu in this. A few of his stories even directly contradict stuff heвЂ™d established in earlier stories, and it didnвЂ™t matter because that served the central themes he was trying to build up: That there is a larger, coherent framework to the universe and the horror that dwells within it, but itвЂ™s something man will never be able to get the whole picture of. You see this sort of disconnect even in the attempts to bring LovecraftвЂ™s work together into a connected mythos: While there were recurring names and items that showed up across his various stories, Lovecraft himself never really intended them to fit together into a coherent whole. The Terror Beyond Space and Time stops being a terrifying entity of the unknown when its history, society and stats have all been concretely laid out in the bestiary. One of the things you guys sort of brushed up against in your вЂњWorst ThingsвЂќ discussion of the mythos that I wanted to elaborate on: One of the other big things that makes the Cthulhu Mythos a weird fit for tabletop is that one of the central themes of LovecraftвЂ™s stuff was the idea that the universe is inherently strange and unknowable, and trying to stat out coherent and concrete details of a setting as presented in the source books kind of runs counter to that philosophy.

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