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  1. 10 hours ago, MOB said:

    And in other shipping news, Arkham (hardback and leatherette) and Alone Against the Static will be available from our Australian warehouse later this month, coming the long way to Botany Bay via the Cape, due to pirate activity in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

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    Some investigators should take on those pirates. They are probably working (unbeknownst to them) for an agent of Nyarlathotep.

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  2. My gaming group is currently running "The Shadow Harvest," a Cathulhu scenario set in ancient Egypt around the 24th century B.C.E. The scenario's been a lot of fun and very rich in atmosphere as well as historical detail, which got me thinking...

    Why not have a full Call of Cthulhu supplement set in the ancient world, pre-Roman era? This would include Egypt, Sumeria, Babylon, and other settings from the beginning of recorded history but with likely a focus on ancient Egypt, the most famous of the potential settings. The supplement could be something like the Reign of Terror mini-campaign in length, with Sinister Seeds for Babylonians,  Phoenicians, and so on.

    What do you think? I believe this would be a popular campaign setting, worthy of a full book. The angle for cults would be fantastic.

     

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  3. 13 hours ago, Mike M said:

    Expect announcement about Gaslight in the nearish future.... all is well and good....

    Thank you, Mike. I'm hoping for a late 2024/early 2025 release for Gaslight as that would fit well into our gaming group's current content plans (we'd do Gaslight after finishing Regency Cthulhu). Also hoping for a Fantasy Grounds Unity version of 7th edition Gaslight around the same time.

  4. Checking in about Cthulhu by Gaslight, 7th edition, as we enter the New Year. There's been an eerie silence for some time now, apparently due to unreliable freelancers from what I can gather.

    Will we receive an announcement sometime in the next months? Or could the release date be delayed even longer than that? If there's nothing to announce, then so be it.

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  5. 3 hours ago, Questbird said:

    I played that at Arcanacon years decades ago. My character (an artist) pulled off the King in Yellow's mask and went completely insane.

    One of the players' characters (a circus acrobat and tarot reader) did the same thing but only went indefinitely insane (40 points SAN loss in one roll).

  6. 16 minutes ago, EldorfDragonsbane said:

    When I ran it I had the corrupted players keep the corruption initially and after enough time (approx 1/2 to 1 1/2 years in game time) passed I let the players roll to see if they were free of the corruption or if they were still corrupted. The player who did fail decided to explain it as that every couple months he secretly had been consuming tainted whiskey that he had stashed. The player then decided to "retire" her character to a mental asylum, the new character was a relative that had the original character admitted to the asylum under the pretense he was trying to help her Uncle, when in actuality he wanted her uncles money.

    For my group, I had the stat damage (APP, etc) from The Water of Life heal after several weeks' game time. However, the invisible "taint" and subtle psychic bond to Shub-Niggurath from those afflicted still lingers, connecting the players to Blackwater Creek...

  7. On 12/8/2020 at 12:47 AM, SentinelHillPress said:

    If you can find a copy of it the scenario "Behold the Mother" would be of interest; it is in Dead Reckonings,  short scenario collection that is out of print.

     

    SPOILERS

    The scenario is divided between Arkham and Dunwich and involved a Shub-Niggurath cultist attempting to birth a demi-goddess into the world using her own children.  You could easily make the cultist a former or current resident of Blackwater Creek wholly consumed (in more ways than one) by her devotion to the Mother. Since the investigators are tainted by their encounter, they would be attuned to the stirring of the terrible creature from the scenario, a psychic linkage or somesuch, creating an interesting hook.  The creature might also target them or others exposed to the tainted liquor, connecting the two scenarios further.

    I was able to get a like-new print copy of Dead Reckonings for $72 + shipping this past Black Friday (a steal). Our group will run the "Behold, the Mother" scenario as a sequel to "Blackwater Creek" when we return to the 1920s setting, probably in a year or so.

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  8. 23 hours ago, Nick Brooke said:

    It’s happening. The proof-print was ordered a couple of weeks ago; when it’s delivered, if it turns out OK, the print edition can go on sale.

    NB: all of the former Monographs are pre-approved for print-on-demand via the Miskatonic Repository, there is no need for them to hit the usual Electrum (251+ sales) threshold. They have to be updated to use the 7th edition rules, though, and print preparation is a non-trivial effort.

    Which Monographs?

  9. Now that Chaosium's three main lines (Call of Cthulhu, Runequest, and Pendragon) have boxed sets, will 7th Sea receive one as well? 7th Sea is the only other product line that would merit one, at least at this time.

  10. 11 hours ago, Mike M said:

    Luck should not be spent on INT rolls for Sanity consequences (it goes against the spirit of the rules). But, it's your game, so do what you think best for your game folks. 

     

    Thank you, Mike. This was my thought as well. Although not explicitly stated in the rule book, spending Luck to affect a Sanity roll in any way doesn't seem to be the intention of the rules for Sanity in Call of Cthulhu.

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  11. I found this on page 99 of the Keeper Rulebook under the section 'Spending Luck':

    Luck points may not be spent on Luck rolls, damage rolls, Sanity rolls, or rolls to determine the amount of Sanity points lost. A player may spend any amount of Luck points (up to their current Luck value) on a roll. A player may only spend Luck to alter one of their own dice rolls.

    The application of this rule is also built into Fantasy Grounds (we play CoC entirely online) which does not offer the option of spending Luck to alter INT roll related to Sanity checks.

    @Mike M may want to comment here.

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  12. Searching through DriveThruRPG, there appear to be a total of ten self-published Cthulhu Dark Ages scenarios, in addition to the five scenarios published by Chaosium or a press licensed by Chaosium (the three in 3rd edition, the one in 'Ripples from Carcosa,' and "The Tomb" from the 1st edition supplement). Am I right?

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