Brian M. Sammons

Thanks for posting that, I enjoyed listening to it and it sounded like a very well-run game. Hopefully everyone had fun.

Excellent work on the timeline, TheLordWinter. Admittedly, the first chapter is the most complex (perhaps downright chaotic) but that was done by design. But yeah, we may have overdone it a bit.

That makes me happy. I love the detailed play by play, please do keep it coming, if you would.

In both the times I have run this campaign the groups decided to do the right thing and then just slink away and leave what was left as it was. One group did debate on cutting the poor boy up and burying what human parts they could retrieve from the stone, but in the end they didn't have the stomach for it. One player did grab some branches and covered up the body the best she could. When someone said "what's that gonna do?" she said it seemed like the best thing they could do. I liked that and gave her a few (1-2) Sanity Points back for that for that simple act of humanity.

I love your covers. Well done.

Thanks for the very detailed report, as well as your others, Morganhua, I have really enjoyed reading them. Yeah, I tend to write that way. You can always lessen the number of threats or possibly eliminate some encounters altogether if it's too much a meat grinder for your players. I've run this campaign twice, and then watched as someone else ran it, and my regular group had a few deaths and total insanity moments, but they are CoC vets. The next group was a mix of vets and newbies and for whatever the reason, they had even less casualties, but then they were really cautious to the point of being paranoid about everything. The third group, not run by me, I'm not aware of their experience with the game, but I got the feeling from talking with them that they had played CoC more than a few times. They were a bit more gung-ho and bloodthirsty than my usual group, and it cost them. But they had two original investigators make it to the end, although one of them had to go away for a few chapters and get some much needed help at a asylum before coming back for the climax.