Takeshidude

I've been running a DDT arc in my game for about six months now. I love the book and the setting, although I'm still learning my way through being a GM, and Keeping Call of Cthulhu, so including western flavor in that is a bit of a balancing act. I actually haven't run either scenario but I really like the look and feel of Pawheton's adventure ("Something from Down There"?) I started out with Sundown, a 6e convention scenario for free on Chaosium's website. Since then I've used this campaign to flex my homebrewing muscles and tie into an earlier campaign. One session I had the PCs adventure into the deserts near San Rafael and had them explore the Ghost Mission and accompanying Shadow Desert, though I wish I had spent more time on that. We stopped in Black Mesa, Oklahoma, after that to visit one PC's estranged father who had gotten himself involved with the man in the tan jacket (Nyarlathotep). Our last session was spent in Normal, OK, where they investigated a few disappearances that turned out to be a wendigo. I'm preparing to run "The Iron Ghost" from Fearful Passages as it is based around various space-times converging on a train, as well as "Amidst the Ancient Trees" from the 7e Keeper Guide (that will be relocated to Bozemon, Montana). If you're looking at other scenarios that could make the jump to ~1880, I think Dead Light could work well if you found a location where a torrential rainstorm is plausible; you could also look into moving "An Amaranthine Desire" from Nameless Horrors to some coastal settlement in the Pacific Northwest. I'm sure "Ties that Bind" (Doors to Darkness) would work well too. Music is a big part of my games, so I've had to dig a bit to find tracks that fit the mood and the western flavor. Tracks from The Legend of Zelda tracks such as "Stone Tower" (I'd look for a more mellow version of "Gerudo Valley" if that was an option), The Adventure Zone (Dust and The Eleventh Hour music is perfect), Derek & Brandon Fiechter's western music, and instrumental versions of a few popular music songs ("Doolin-Dalton" by the Eagles and Marty Robbins' "Big Iron") are what I've built my soundtrack around. One of my books (can't remember if it's DDT or Doors to Darkness) says that there are supposed to be two more books in the Down Darker Trails lineup, so that could be even more fun.

Looking forward to running an epic gun-slinging descent into madness once I finish my trek through a few more of the rulebook scenarios. Has anyone here run Sundown before? I'm trying to decide whether to use it as the opening to DDT or as an epic finale. Can anyone speak to its lethality?