milkomix Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 (edited) So I've sat through the CriticalHit's CoC live play podcasts based on King in Yellow and got me an instant urge to host one. But sadly when I looked at the published stories in the store, they all seemed a bit too light hearted to me. One is on space the other medieval... I just want a straight up classic story based on the play's mystery, without huge monsters poping up all the time. Long story short, do you guys have anything to recommend? Perhaps there is a scenario out there that I'm not aware of, I'm fairly new to CoC so don't know all the published stuff. Edited March 20, 2017 by milkomix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khedrac Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 (edited) Tatters of the King is a large adventure centred around stopping the King in Yellow coming to Earth - will that do? Note: - I played it as a player and I think we all enjoyed it, though my character didn't 'come back' from the end (rolling 00 on a SAN check when into single digit SAN got the GM to pull me aside and tell me my charachter was now trying to help bring about the King's arrival). Edited March 20, 2017 by Khedrac spelling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alter Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Tell me have you seen the Yellow Sign? By K.Ross! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dce Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 1 hour ago, alter said: Tell me have you seen the Yellow Sign? By K.Ross! That's a great pick -- and it was only reprinted a year or two back by Golden Goblin Press (in "Tales of the Crescent City"). Kevin also wrote a new scenario for that book which is a direct sequel to "Tell Me Have You Seen The Yellow Sign?" Other suggestions -- "Tatterdemalion" by Richard Watts & Penelope Love (in the book "Fatal Experiments") ... and for modern-day conspiracy creepiness, the obligatory "Night Floors" by Dennis Detwiller (in "Delta Green: Countdown"). Honestly, though, there are quite a lot of creepy and not-at-all-cheesy scenarios out there which showcase The King in Yellow -- it's a shame that those encountered by the OP weren't like that Dean (from Adelaide) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColoradoCthulhu Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 I ran "Tatterdemalion" by Richard Watts as a one-shot years ago on Halloween night, as the scenario features a masked ball. Freaked my players out entirely, especially the trip to Carcosa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Questbird Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, ColoradoCthulhu said: I ran "Tatterdemalion" by Richard Watts as a one-shot years ago on Halloween night, as the scenario features a masked ball. Freaked my players out entirely, especially the trip to Carcosa! I played that at Arcanacon years decades ago. My character (an artist) pulled off the King in Yellow's mask and went completely insane. Edited December 15, 2023 by Questbird 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColoradoCthulhu Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 3 hours ago, Questbird said: I played that at Arcanacon years decades ago. My character (an artist) pulled off the King in Yellow's mask and went completely insane. One of the players' characters (a circus acrobat and tarot reader) did the same thing but only went indefinitely insane (40 points SAN loss in one roll). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoudHyena Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 Good stuff have not heard of half the ones you guys are talking about. I did work the King in Yellow in my South Dakota campaign where he was one of several powers trying to control a portal that was constructed by a coalition a long time ago to thwart the plants of the "Dark ones". I also added a new home brew Mythos power one of the yellow Kings brides a former Valkyrie. I tossed in a few groups that had there own agendas including the Serpent people. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajagappa Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 The new Miskatonic Repository work Heinrich's Call of Cthulhu Guide to Carcosa is a solo adventure (though could easily be run by a GM) taking characters into a struggle for your soul in the King in Yellow's home. It is very well done, and is certainly not light-hearted. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alter Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 On 3/21/2017 at 6:41 AM, dce said: the obligatory "Night Floors" by Dennis Detwiller (in "Delta Green: Countdown"). Or rather Impossible Landscapes by Detwiller now? Don't You think @dce? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Zarnak Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 “The King of Shreds and Patches” by Justin Tynes (from Strange Aeons) is set in Elizabethan London, and involves historical personages John Dee and William Shakespeare. It’s an excellent spooky mystery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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