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JanessaVR

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    Madness takes its toll - please have exact change.

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  1. Thought I'd alert my fellow Lovecraft fans to this one. If you've seen the Beyond Books film "Return to Innsmouth" years ago, the writer and director of that film, Aaron Vanek, has a new film he's working on. The Kickstarter is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/906612014/the-final-report-of-henry-barrow/description If the Kickstarter is successful, it will also see Return to Innsmouth available on DVD for the first time (along with his other films, as well). (As I'm the one who spent the last few years bugging him to finally do so, I really want this Kickstarter to succeed.) Anyhow, please have a look if you remember his first film fondly; if you haven't seen it, you really should.
  2. That jibes with what the attorney I just hired to investigate this issue says. Good news! :-)
  3. I just heard that some company trademarked this late last year / early this year. Does that mean Chaosium can't publish any more books featuring Miskatonic University? That would be terrible. Does anyone know anything about this? I'm hoping this isn't an issue for CoC, but it does have me worried.
  4. Some further reference works I've found: Audio Book: Boardwalk Empire Free Bonus Material: The Speakeasy Guide to Prohibition Era Slang – Extended Edition TV Series: Boardwalk Empire. From what I've been seeing, and reading up on, these guys really did their research for this show. Books: Flapper by Joshua Zeitz, and The Speakeasies of 1932 by Gordon Kahn and Al Hirschfield. And after watching it, I can't recommend the Ken Burns documentary "Prohibition" enough.
  5. @TK_Nylarlathotep: The rules for CoC vary in our group depending who the GM is. Two of our GMs run more horror-oriented campaigns, and while the other two of us lean more toward pulp. Or, as I put it, I'm running a Lovecraft Lite campaign, and not a Cosmic Horror Story campaign. So there is no shared world for our group - changing GMs means moving to a different Lovecraftian Earth with new PCs.
  6. I threw out the official CoC rules for Sanity well over a decade ago (I also run games under d20 3.5 rules, not BRP). My replacement system is called “Monster Familiarity”. If you not only survive but triumph against a specific type of monster, say Deep Ones, then you get a +2 bonus to SAN checks every time you face them in the future, up to a maximum of +20. So triumph against Deep Ones ten times, and you’re not likely to go mad from facing them at any point in the future. They might EAT you, but at least they won’t drive you to insanity. Record this on your character sheet as “Monster Familiarity (Deep Ones): +2” For every creature you “max out” at a +20 bonus, you receive a +1 bonus to ALL future SAN checks; this doesn’t stack with the bonuses for specific creatures. So once you’re “quite familiar” with Deep Ones, if you then encounter some Ghouls, you’re starting out with a +1 bonus to not freak out upon seeing them. And if you triumph enough against Ghouls to “max out” your Monster Familiarity bonus for them as well, your general SAN check bonus goes up to +2; this is also up to a maximum of +20. Record this on your character sheet as “Sanity Check Bonus (All): +1” Anyhow, that’s why, even though I own the 7th Edition books, I’ve never even looked at the Sanity section, as I don’t really care what’s in it.
  7. @jajagappa: It only cost me $5 for a copy of This Fabulous Century (1920s) on Amazon; it's on the way. @Darius West: Both of those documentaries are available on Amazon Video and I've started watching them. Thanks much! As to your other information - YES! That's exactly the kind of detail I was looking for! Do you you have any other references to recommend where you learned those details?
  8. @jajagappa: Thank you very much! I'll check those out.
  9. No, I'm not looking for an equipment catalog. I'm looking for more detail on what it was like to live in the 1920s. In short, fluff not crunch.
  10. Can anyone suggest any further resources on general life in the 1920s beyond the 1920s Investigator's Companion? I've found a few possible leads on Amazon, but I'm hoping for some suggestions. Thanks!
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