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The wait is killing me... doubly so now that my copy of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft won't ship until Children of Fear arrives, as they're part of the same order I placed with an online game store. The problems of the privileged indeed.

Paper Chase from the Starter Set is also a primarily investigative scenario, which might not involve any combat at all. I would, however, make some tweaks to the scenario to make it a bit more interesting.

Seems I might have the faded art version of the US printing. The spine, however, is correct.

I've watched some snippets of Becca Scott's (I think that's her name?) CoC sessions, and those are good too.

Indeed, as indicated previously, Bronze Age settings don't really inspire me (I realized after posting that I should not have implied that RQ is pseudo-medieval, when I knew otherwise... and my 2nd bullet was meant to clarify my stance). So let's just say that I've got plenty of RPGs featuring swords and magic, and that not being enthused by the Bronze Age setting made it easier for me to reject RQ. I've managed to make my D&D games much less about killing monsters and stealing treasure than the norm, and more about brokering alliances, solving mysteries, and political intrigue, though I have no doubt that Runequest is a better developed system for handling such things. But as it is, the pandemic has halted all of my in-person gaming activities (at least I have plenty of solitaire games!), and who knows when we'll be able to get back to it... after all, I have the good fortune of living in Alberta, the Canadian jurisdiction with the highest per capita rate of COVID-19 variant infection in all of North America, and plenty of fools per capita protesting public health measures... so long as they keep messing things up for the rest of us, there'll be no in-person gaming for me. We only just started playing D&D 5e when the pandemic struck (we were 3 sessions in), and everyone agreed that it was a much more enjoyable experience thus far than our more recent experiences with D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder 1e. So once we get back together again, I'll happily ride that wave for a while before proposing that we try something else (which is likely to be CoC or an Alien mini-campaign; I also know that most of my players would be happy to try both of those games as well as a Star Wars RPG... and I'd rather run something that excites my players than have to work to sell them on yet another system). Bottom line: my personal finances limit how many games I can afford to collect/read at a time. Now stop trying to convince me to buy what I can't afford, have a lesser interest in (Bronze Age), and friends are unlikely to want to play... unless you intend to gift me some RQ books to get me started! 😛 NOTE: That last paragraph was not meant to come across as hostile/angry, but more good natured/joking. And thanks for your support!

I must admit that watching/listening to other peoples' games usually bores me to tears. Started watching/listening to this one, and wow, I was truly impressed. Talk about setting a really high bar for a tabletop RPG session!

Main reason: I'm trying to find reasons to NOT buy into other RPG lines, as I have a massive library the contents of which aren't seeing much use these days! Also, my revenue is next to nil these days. Additional reasons: . Between D&D (various editions), Pathfinder (1e, not interest in 2e), Symbaroum, The One Ring, Shadows of the Demon Lord, A Song of Ice and Fire, Yggdrasill and Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok, I think I've got my fill of pseudo-medieval fantasy RPGs. And on top of that, I haven't even gotten any of my sci-fi (Star Wars, Mutant Year Zero, Alien) or horror RPGs (CoC, The End of the World) to the table yet! . I've never really been excited by Bronze Age settings. . I doubt my players would want to try yet another RPG game system... especially with their limited time to play and investments in other systems. The main reason I would like to pick up the new edition of Pendragon is because I'm a sucker for Arthurian Britain, and I've heard that Pendragon is a masterpiece of a system. I doubt I'll ever play it, but I think I would enjoy reading it. Like you, one of my main priorities at the moment is getting caught up with CoC 7th ed, which I started collecting a year or two ago. If I win the lottery, then I might add Runequest to the collection. 😉 EDIT: That said, if someone else proposed to run RQ and they invited me to their game, I would gladly jump on board. But as I don't really enjoy playing RPGs online, that's not likely to happen anytime soon.

I'm sorry to confess that the only book partially authored by Greg Stafford in my vast library is the BRP core book. I would like to pick up Pendragon someday. Don't think I'm quite as interested in Runequest/Glorantha, in spite of all the great things I've heard about them.

Glad to have found some like-minded Sargent fans on these boards. And I agree with @klecser, for all that I respect Gygax's historical importance in the development and popularization of our hobby, I find his deification in some circles to be ridiculous (for all the reasons previously mentioned).

In my opinion, Carl Sargent - the author of Night Below - was the best writer TSR/WotC ever had. I own but have never actually run Night Below, but other great products of Sargent's (all for the AD&D 2e era) are: . Monster Mythology . Greyhawk: From the Ashes boxed set . Greyhawk: The Marklands . Greyhawk: Iuz the Evil . Greyhawk: Ivid the Undying (unpublished except for excerpts in Dragon magazine, but the complete book is widely available on the net... if I'm not mistaken, TSR themselves authorized its release back in the day) Many grognards don't like what Sargent did to the Greyhawk timeline, but I think the grittiness and historical/political cohesiveness he brought to the setting are second to none. Just as importantly, what he wrote was a pleasure to read, which I can't say is true of all D&D material, regardless of era. I look forward to seeing how you adapt the adventure to CoC. Many of the monsters in Night Below are great candidates for - and were obviously themselves inspired by - the Cthulhu mythos.

Can't believe my luck... I just scored a new-in-shrink copy of the set from a FLGS in my province (more than 3 hours drive away, so I've never been there in person), for a very reasonable price! They only recently found it collecting dust in the back room and added it to their online catalogue. I definitely rolled a bunch of elder signs. Will hopefully have it in my hands next week!

Hmmm... I might consider that too (I'm in Canada). Not for immediate purchase but maybe later this year, if it were still available then.

I would also be interested in acquiring the Cthulhu Britannica - London boxed set, if someone is looking to sell and the price is right. Other things I'd like to acquire: the other books in the Cthulhu Britannica line (except for Scotland, which I have), as well as "Europe Ablaze" for World War Cthulhu. I'm in Canada.

One Canadian retailer has the anticipated release date of March 30, 2021 on their website.

In hindsight, what I should have asked is... Has this title already been submitted for printing (it was previously scheduled to be released in 2020)? I see it is available to pre-order on some retailer websites (I'm in Canada), but what's making me reluctant to pre-order is the risk that doing so might delay a larger shipment of games for months if the printing of Does Love Forgive? will be postponed much longer. I usually order several items at once in order to save on shipping costs. While having a shipment delayed by a month or two is no big deal, if it's going to be much longer than that, then it wouldn't make sense for me to pre-order now. Cheers!

Thanks for bringing this show to our attention, Rick... I just watched the first 4 episodes and am truly impressed!

Is there an ETA on when the print version will hit retailer shelves? Thanks in advance...

Just bumping this thread, as I would also be interested in seeing the official reply.

Congratulations! Looks great!!! I also appreciate the overview video. Well done!

I'm going based on the previews, as I do not yet have the PDF... hopefully someone else can provide actual page numbers, if what I've spotted is indeed an error. Is the unnamed "dot" in the mountains west of Darjeeling on the Central Asia map intentionally unnamed? Or is that an oversight?

Beautiful! One question though... is that unnamed dot in the mountains west of Darjeeling on the Central Asia map intentionally unnamed? Or is that an oversight?

Thank you for sharing this, and to all the panelists for their time and valuable insights!

Congrats, Bridgett! The scenario looks amazing! I love the premise and the historical, geographical and cultural context in which you've chosen to set it. In all honesty, while I've been buying up alot of the books, at the moment I have yet to play/run Call of Cthulhu at all. If fortune should smile, my spouse might be willing to play solo investigator in the Paper Chase scenario from the Starter Set for Hallowe'en. But I unfortunately can't see myself being in a position to run a game for 3+ investigators in the foreseeable future. If that should change, I will definitely keep your scenario in mind!

Thanks, @klecser!

Can anyone tell me what differences (if any) there are between the versions of The Dead Boarder and What's In the Cellar? published in Gateways to Terror, compared to the free downloadable demo versions available on this site? Has the guidance for convention keepers, etc., been removed? Has anything new been added? Thanks in advance for your time and assistance!