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    Arkham is superb

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    On 3/13/2024 at 4:45 AM, Mike M said:

    I look forward to hearing all manner of stories from everyone's games set in the legend-haunted town!

    I appreciate that you took the time to include "in the future" sections to give Keepers options.

    We haven't had an opportunity to play Arkham at the table yet (neither of our current CoC games are nearby - yet), but I did bring the Leatherette to the table. It was fun to watch people pour over it. It induces "careful reads" of people hesitating when they see an entry they really like. The humor injected into the Arkham Advertiser was also appreciated.

    I've read about halfway through, and my mind is just abuzz with possibilities, Mike. Congratulations.

    Michael

    RPG Imaginings

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    Arkham is superb

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    7 minutes ago, EldorfDragonsbane said:

    Easyly explained, do you know all the history of your town, everyone in your town or where everything is located in your town? Probably not. Most likely you can locate the local High School, Post Office, City Hall, Police/Fire Station(s), etc... If I had to assign a History or Navigate score for my real life knowledge of my hometown that I have grown up and lived in all my like, I could say its as follows: History 25%, Navigate 40-50%. I have a basically familiarization of the Town History from elementary school, one of my teachers was a big history buff, while for navigating around the town I am familiar where most the restaurants are, along with the grocery stores, pharmacy's, all the elementary schools, middle school and high school are, along while the banks, churches, gas stations, care dealerships, hardware stores, etc... are, now as for the city residents I am only familiar with my neighbors, and I cant tell you every store in the town.

     

    Now the same can go for any lifelong resident of Arkham, they may know most the town "stories" but not the actual facts behind the stories, and they may know the area of town the live in, along with major landmarks/locations but ask them where the local quilting circle meets there's the possibility they don't even know about one existing let alone knowing where they meet.

    Well described. And noteworthy that this book is easily multiple campaign's worth of material that could concentrate in and around Arkham. CoC 7 has focused a lot on globe-trotting, and there is nothing wrong with that. I also think that this book, like Berlin and Regency, is particularly focused on one region, therefore regional skills make sense, especially as play rewards. I would start residents at 25-50 in Navigate (Arkham) depending upon how long they've lived there and their occupation. I would also increase Navigate (Arkham) by d6 after every session that they had to move around within the city.

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    Dead Of Night Scenario?

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    The new Arkham book makes reference to "Chaosium's Dead of Night scenario." Does anyone know which past supplement this scenario is contained within? Searching online hasn't found anything. I acknowledge that there is a new scenario book coming soon and I wonder if it is a future reference to that book.

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    Arkham is superb

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    There's many new things. Art matters to me. The art in the new book is spectacular, the cartography is better, and the character portraits are far more superior. The book comes with two brand-new, double-sided maps and a copy of a new Arkham Advertiser. I find these to be invaluable updated props. I couldn't showcase them because they didn't come with the review copy I received. Whether or not these new things meet your threshold for "worth it?" I have no idea. You may need to hit up your FLGS when it gets there and flip through the book. I'll also be posting an Unboxing when I receive my Leatherette, so if you subscribe you'll be notified when that video hits: https://www.youtube.com/c/rpgimaginings/videos 

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    Seperate note: I don’t get why you would have seperate skills of Navigate (Arkham) or History(Arkham). It seem to me that if you are an Arkham native you just get a bonus die or two to your relevant base skills if you’re in your hometown.

    Options, options, options. As a Keeper, I interpret anything in a book as options. I may run a game almost exclusively in Arkham, and as such, grant Navigate (Arkham) and/or History (Arkham) as player post-session awards/updates. If that were the case, I might discourage my players from wasting character creation skill points in Navigate, in favor of a broader array of skills. Not all skills are intended for character creation.

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    Newbie here - advice needed for solo play to start with

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    On 1/28/2024 at 8:19 PM, JrKingofBeer said:

    @klecser Thanks for the link to your video. Does it include spoilers ? I have found a few other videos reviewing these solo adventures but I'm a bit hesitant to watch them before I have played them at least once (I just bookmarked them). But perhaps it shouldn't be a concern. I don't know.

    I have received my copy of Alone against the Static, it's a beautiful hardcover book !

    Depends on your spoiler threshold, I suppose. Does it reveal anything major? Not in my opinion.

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    Are you a new Keeper? Here's some tips and options!

    in Call of Cthulhu

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    Updated to include some great recent releases! Cults of Cthulhu, A Time To Harvest, and Alone Against the Static are confident recommendations. For some godawful reason I did not have a direct link to Seth Skorkowsky's Channel, which is probably criminal on my part. Don't send mob bosses after me, please. It's been corrected.

    Celebrating with a discount on my Miskatonic Repository products!

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    In celebration of being granted the Honorable Mention in Stars Are Right's One-Page Scenario Contest I am discounting all of my Miskatonic Repository products by 50% through the end of September!

    Here are the links: 1) Test Subjects (Silver) https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9f230efe58

    2) The Lair of Lo'thysss (an expansion to Test Subjects) https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9f26c60c02

    3) Keeper Reflections: Call of Cthulhu Campaigning (Copper) https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9f25d11602 

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