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I ran a Call of Cthulhu Game at the Appalachian State University Game Club Gamefest. "Terror Over Tokyo 3: That Which Survives" took place during the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942. The B-25 Bomber that is part of the raid crashes in China after the bombing of Nagoya and find a village being harassed by ... something. The role playing journal of the game session can be found here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3101-terror-over-tokyo-3-that-which-survives-part-1-the-doolittle-raid/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3100-terror-over-tokyo-3-that-which-survives-part-2-the-village/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3099-terror-over-tokyo-3-that-which-survives-part-3-jiangshi/ Additionally, a playlist of 10 videos of the game session and a highlights video can be found here: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDqGnQ9y8Ziz9Q1bLeROoSh2" Players were: Alex Holler as 1st Lt. Isaiah Bean (Pilot) Mike Miller as 2nd Lt. Thomas Van Loan (Co-Pilot) Jonathan Griffith as 2nd Lt. Bryan Johnson (Navigator) Collin Townsend as 1st Lt. Michael Ulrich (Bombardier) Ashton LeBlanc as Staff Sgt. Daniel Emerson (Flight Engineer) Alex as Dr. Wu Yong (Chinese Physician)

Ready to leave the horrible village of New Dunwich, the investigators must wait until their boat returns several days hence. Will they survive that long? On October 2, I ran the third and final session of the Call of Cthulhu scenario Rise of the Sleeper. The role-playing journals of the game session can be found here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3096-rise-of-the-sleeper-session-three-part-1-the-trap-is-sprung/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3095-rise-of-the-sleeper-session-three-part-2-an-end-to-it/ Additionally, a playlist of 10 videos (and soon a highlights video) can be found here: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDoXiG1BYXLZDyXbRQ1qDswY" Players were: Collin Townsend as Nigel Bricker (Mechanic) Ashton LeBlanc as Evelyn Fairfield (Photojournalist) Katelyn Hogan as Suzanna Edington (Dilettante)

The strangeness continues at Harlow House in New Dunwich, Florida. Will our intrepid investigators learn what is going on in the Everglades, or die trying? On September 25, I ran the second session of the Call of Cthulhu scenario Rise of the Sleeper. The role-playing journals of the game session can be found here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3091-rise-of-the-sleeper-session-two-part-1-photography-and-hauntings/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3090-rise-of-the-sleeper-session-two-part-2-confronting-slater/ Additionally, a playlist of nine videos and a highlights video can be found here: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDp8qLomf1Aazm10OdaeFtnC" Players were: Collin Townsend as Nigel Bricker (Mechanic) Ashton LeBlanc as Evelyn Fairfield (Photojournalist) Katelyn Hogan as Suzanna Edington (Dilettante)

Having gotten an inheritance of a house in a village in Florida, Nigel Bricker contacts some friends to travel to the place from Providence. He is not pleased with what he finds. On September 18, I continued the Call of Cthulhu game I've been running with Rise of the Sleeper. The role-playing journals of the game session can be found here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3086-rise-of-the-sleeper-session-one-part-1-florida-inheritance/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3085-rise-of-the-sleeper-session-one-part-2-harlow-house-and-the-thing-in-the-pool/ Additionally, a playlist of eight videos (and a soon-to-be-added highlights video) can be found here: “https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDrTaadScAHUh5ULy9t_CHLA” Players were: Collin Townsend as Nigel Bricker (Mechanic) Ashton LeBlanc as Evelyn Fairfield (Photojournalist) Katelyn Hogan as Suzanna Edington (Dilettante)

Still held by the orcs, the heroes try another daring escape. Will this one work? Will they get away? On September 11, I continued the AD&D 2nd Ed Greyhawk game I started on June 26 with The Scar. Role playing journals of the game session can be found here: http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1973-Advanced-Dungeons-amp-Dragons-2nd-Edition-The-Scar-Session-Three Additionally, a playlist of 10 videos of the game session and (soon-to-be released) highlights video can be found here: “https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDpfoHcgBlE0eIIdNp46DI1g” Players were: Katelyn Hogan as Arya Amannodel (wood elf ranger) James Brown as Leon Chamberlyn (paladin) Ashton LeBlanc as Elriya Warrick (Halfling thief) Collin Townsend as Tarmak of the Winding Road (human priest of Fharlanghn)

As the intrepid investigators explore the strange, almost otherworldly tunnels beneath Brown Mountain, they run into more than they expect in the second and final session of The Strange Case of the Brown Mountain Lights from the monograph The Phantom of Wilson Creek by myself. Role-playing journals of the session are here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3082-the-strange-case-of-the-brown-mountain-lights-session-two-part-1-strange-tunnels/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3081-the-strange-case-of-the-brown-mountain-lights-session-two-part-2-aliens/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3080-the-strange-case-of-the-brown-mountain-lights-session-two-part-3-negotiation-breakdown/ Additionally, a playlist of eight videos of the game session (and soon-to-come hightlights video) can be found here: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDo_JMeaLNbH6lFdHrgditz3" Players were: Collin Townsend as Nigel Bricker (Mechanic) Ashton LeBlanc as Evelyn Fairfield (Photojournalist) Kyle Matheson as William Avery Rockefeller (Dilettante) Katelyn Hogan as Suzanna Edington (Dilettante)

With the start of a new semester, we return to the 1920s Call of Cthulhu campaign, this time with The Strange Case of the Brown Mountain Lights from the monograph The Phantom of Wilson Creek by yours truly. A visit to Brown Mountain Beach in the mountains of North Carolina sees a child missing. Can our intrepid investigators help find the child? What else will they find on Brown Mountain? Role-playing journals of the session are here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3077-the-strange-case-of-the-brown-mountain-lights-session-one-part-1-business-trip/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3076-the-strange-case-of-the-brown-mountain-lights-session-one-part-2-missing-child/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3075-the-strange-case-of-the-brown-mountain-lights-session-one-part-3-strange-tunnels/ Additionally, a playlist of nine videos of the game session (and soon-to-come highlights video) can be found here: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDr4Q0WbJQTeAHtDu2-NoSiX" Players were: Collin Townsend as Nigel Bricker (Mechanic) Ashton LeBlanc as Evelyn Fairfield (Photojournalist) Katie Gallant as Darla Greene (Alienist) Kyle Matheson as William Avery Rockefeller (Dilettante) Hannah Gambino as Alexe Hernandez (Boxer) Katelyn Hogan as Suzanna Edington (Dilettante)

The zombie apocalypse game entitled "Deadworld" continues with the seventh session. Two groups of survivors, all following Skadooter's roadside messages, find each other and make their way through the wilds of North Carolina, heading for the beach. A small group of survivors in the town of Wickwold say they are "protected" from the undead. Will our survivors find out how - or just continue on their way? The role playing journal of the seventh session of the Basic Roleplaying System game can be found here: http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1971-Basic-Roleplaying-System-Deadworld-Session-Seven-The-Weirdos-of-Wickwold Players were: Ashton LeBlanc as Manuela "Manny" Rodriguez (Mechanic) Collin Townsend as Jonathan Franks (Conman) James Brown as Dr. Mikil Wolfgang (Physician) Katie Gallant as Courtney Dean (Athlete/Cheerleader) Leigh Ann Philbee as Lindsay Munghan Fang (Explorer)

In April 1667, the pirate frigate Sweet Vengeance set sail in search of a supposed Spanish treasure ship leaving Porto Bello. What they found instead was a lost island and a terrible ruined city. Would the officers and crew of the ship survive seeking Forbidden Cargo? On July 10, I ran an original pirate scenario Forbidden Cargo. The role playing journals of the game session are here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3057-forbidden-cargo-part-1-treasure-ship/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3056-forbidden-cargo-part-2-island-of-terror/ Additionally, the nine videos of the game session can be found here: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDqnZBJZb08b0ZlmtaUtt-63" Players were: Ashton LeBlanc as Cameron Whitewall (Captain) Collin Townsend as "Red" Robert Burrows (Quartermaster)

I ran a short, impromptu bit of role playing to introduce a couple of people to the basic concept of tabletop gaming Wednesday. We only did it for a little while but the record of the session can be found here: http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1969-Impromptu-Zombie-Role-Playing Everyone just played themselves. With: Collin Townsend Ashton LeBlanc Camilla Ekker-Runde Herman Lee

Several strangers find themselves the prisoners of orcs, forced to work as slaves to uncover something the orcs are after in an ancient, buried temple. Can the adventurers work together to gain their freedom or will they die in the Scar? On June 26, I started a new Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition campaign. The first scenario is The Scar. The roleplaying journals of the scenario can be found here: http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1968-Advanced-Dungeons-amp-Dragon-2nd-Edition-The-Scar-Session-One Additionally, a playlist of eight videos and a highlight video can be found here: “https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDpIEmrHAA8g2DoFQVc9npcx” Players were: Logan Scott as Helius Wik (human mage) Collin Townsend as Tarmak of the Winding Road (human priest of Fharlanghn) Aaron Scott as Kilb Bronzescale (kobold thief) Nathaniel Steelman as Rome (elf priest of Corellon Larethian) Kyle Matheson as Arthelion the Enlightened (human mage) Hannah Gambino as Noiree Fragginth (dwarf fighter) Ashton LeBlanc as Elriya Warrick (Halfling thief)

January 1603. Still investigating the seemingly unconnected deaths of playwright John Croft and a young girl visiting London from Amsterdam, the investigators have uncovered clues leading to a plot to murder William Shakespeare as well as connections between the two earlier deaths. Can they protect Shakespeare? How are the deaths connected with the fragments of a play by Christopher Marlowe called "The King in Yellowe" and Hastur? What is Dr. John Dee's connection? Who is Joseph Barker? On June 5, I ran the conclusion of the scenario "The King of Shreds and Patches" with my group. The roleplaying journal for the session is here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3046-the-king-of-shreds-and-patches-session-two-part-1-saving-shakespeare/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3045-the-king-of-shreds-and-patches-session-two-part-2-dr-john-dee-and-housebreaking/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3044-the-king-of-shreds-and-patches-session-two-part-3-tween-scylla-and-charybdis/ Additionally, a playlist of nine videos and a highlight video can be found here: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDotpKHGcDKilef38OZDpKXo" Players were: Kyle Matheson as Vincent Hawksworth (actor/censor) Katie Gallant as Octavian Skern (printer) James Brown as Reginald Selwyn (thief/locksmith) Collin Townsend as Peter Godfrey (banker)

In January, 1603, London is in the grip of a bitterly cold winter. The air is crisp with a heavy frost that is slow to thaw. Rumors abound that the plague is once more abroad in the city. Numerous houses have already been boarded up and people have again taken to the slaughter of stray dogs, wearing too-strong perfume, and applying arsenic under their armpits. The Pest House is filling and deaths are on the rise. Queen Elizabeth is unwell and wil probably die before the spring. Everyone is wary of others and foreigners certainly are carriers. Stranger events are also on the rise. Can the investigators deal with a possible grave threat to London and the British crown? On May 22, I started the Elizabethan scenario "The King of Shreds and Patches" with my regular group. We didn't finish and should have a second session soon. The roleplaying journal for the game is here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3041-the-king-of-shreds-and-patches-session-one-part-1-suicide-and-strangeness/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3040-the-king-of-shreds-and-patches-session-one-part-2-discovery-at-london-bridge/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3039-the-king-of-shreds-and-patches-session-one-part-3-william-shakespeare/ Additionally, a playlist of eight videos and a highlight video can be found here: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDpqn3iLRJijP8lvkSZwC9ML" Players were: Kyle Matheson as Vincent Hawksworth (actor/censor) Katie Gallant as Octavian Skern (printer) James Brown as Reginald Selwyn (thief/locksmith) Ashton LeBlanc as Dr. Everett Whitewood (physician) Collin Townsend as Peter Godfrey (banker)

The zombie apocalypse game entitled "Deadworld" continues with the sixth session. After leaving the area of Boone, North Carolina, our stalwart survivors head east for the coast. En route, they encounter more survivors, these a few people taking place in a bunker experiment at Duke University. Will they survive? The role playing journal of the sixth session of the Basic Roleplaying System game can be found here: http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1964-Basic-Roleplaying-System-Deadworld-Session-Six Players were: Ashton LeBlanc as Manuela "Manny" Rodriguez (Mechanic) Collin Townsend as Jonathan Franks (Conman) Katelyn Hogan as Ella Auditore aka Elizabeth Tolini (Assassin) Hannah Gambino as Dani Batman (Biology Student) Kyle Matheson as Jaiquan Jayshawn Skadooter (Athlete)

Great idea! I always thought a great vehicle would be a combine and then just run the zombies down, though I've been told bones would probably jam up the mechanism. I'm using the triffid stats from Malleus Monstrorum. Impaling weapons (i.e. all firearms) do minimum possible damage. I've also statted out the triffid guns: Triffid Gun: Base 10%, DMG 1D6, Rng 10 yds, RoF ½, Mag 1, Hands 1 or 2, HP 12, Malf 98. Notes - Silent. No Impale. The triffid gun fires a sharpened steel boomerang called a bolt, projected by a powerful spring. If triffids are hit on the stem, it decapitates them and renders them harmless.

Great ideas. This group started in Boone, N.C. and decided to head for the coast in hopes that perhaps the Outer Banks might be safe/defendable.

Great ideas. I do have access to some Chill products so I'll look into those. I think I have a PDF of White Dwarf Cthulhu scenarios as well. I'll see what I can find. Thanks so much for the help.

YES! That's a great idea.

Yes, I own both of the supplements. None of the scenarios really deal primarily with ghosts. But thanks!

Awesome! Thanks. This will help. I also figure on a few small, fortified compounds. I like the idea of a church with a sniper in the steeple, warding off anyone passing through.

Thanks! It does help. I have Curse of Cthulhu so I'll take a look at it.

I've started a game I named "Deadworld" (not realizing there is a comic by that same name) dealing with a zombie apocalypse (along with triffids and, soon, feral ghouls) using BRP. My players are heading across North Carolina from the mountains to the ocean in the hopes of hiding out on the outer banks. What I need are some casual encounters along the way to give the feel for the quickly degrading society of the United States circa June 2015 as the infrastructure of the country falls apart. The basic premise of the game was a meteor shower that dropped tens of thousands of infected meteorites on the planet. Each one dispersed, in a three-mile radius, an alien airborne pathogen that immediately killed everyone who breathed it in. The airborne disease died very shortly afterwards due to the toxins in the atmosphere, but the bugs in the dead bodies then mutated, bringing them, essentially, back to life. This bloodborne pathogen now tries to spread itself by biting living humans to create more hosts for itself. The thousands of meteors that fell also caused physical damage (knocking out buildings and electricity and the like) further leading to the collapse of ... well just about everything. Any ideas for short encounters - even something that could just be narrated as the players pass by - would be helpful. I'm looking for things to creep them out as they make their way cross country.

I've been searching for a few scenarios that deal with actual haunted houses (as opposed to mythos creatures using their powers to make a house seem haunted ala The Haunting) but can't seem to find anything. I'm looking along the lines of something similar to the hauntings in The Haunting of Hill House, Hell House, or The Uninvited - the house actually being haunted by (sometimes violent) ghosts. Can anyone give me any leads to published scenarios that deal with such? Thank you.

I ran a Call of Cthulhu Game at NerdCon 2016 at Appalachian State University. "Terror Over Tokyo 2: The Fog Village" took place during the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942. The B-25 Bomber that is part of the raid crashes in China after the bombing of Nagoya and are found by Chinese pygmies who are much worse than they originally seem. The role playing journal of the game session can be found here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3031-terror-over-tokyo-2-the-fog-village-part-1-the-doolittle-raid/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3030-terror-over-tokyo-2-the-fog-village-part-2-escape/ Additionally, a playlist of six videos of the game session and a highlights video can be found here: “https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDoG0l8IhQGSyI3t04aoq6Ml” Players were: Bret Hammitt as 1st Lt. Bryson Theard (Bombardier) Michael Beal as Sgt. Hunter Underwood (Flight Engineer) Z. Logan Berg as 1st Lt. Stephen Atkinson (Co-Pilot) Alex Bernard as Captain James Elloitt (Pilot) Ebenezer McKnell as 2nd Lt. Kaden Young (Navigator)

Only a few weeks after the madness of the missing children in Aylesbury, our intrepid investigators get into a car accident with a local dilettante who has a job for them: find his brother. What strangeness will they find on the way? The role-playing journals of the last session of Call of Cthulhu for the semester, the scenario Furious Driving, can be found here: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3027-furious-driving-part-1-rupert-putneys-problem/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3026-furious-driving-part-2-detroit-and-new-york/ http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3025-furious-driving-part-three-the-show/ Additionally, a playlist of six videos of the game session and a highlights video can be found here: “https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDqNOhVZVNo2DLiKv_91GyHk” Players were: Collin Townsend as Thomas Adler (psychologist) Daniel Houchins as Raymond Sayers (police detective) Ashton LeBlanc as Evelyn Fairfield (photojournalist) Katelyn Hogan as Abigail Daughton (nurse)