Pseudodog

In the name of Skinless... I buy this no matter what...

Hi, what happened with the campaign? I'm still waiting for it.

On 12/8/2021 at 4:46 PM, Pseudodog said:

Hi, same here, going to run it later next year and can't understand how to resolve the situation, when you need to

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keep everything in secret when about 100 people know about elder things (graves in Lake's camp), some people know about the city and few know about the Construct, but in any case, people will find it in the future next time they will arrive again. It's not possible to find elder things, the cave in a Lake's camp and stop to keep trying to explore it further. In this case, when Acacia asks to kill two Germans who left them at the Construct, it make no sense at all! Everybody will know everything, in the end, the Construct will be found, some stupid people will destroy it. She told the party that she need to shoot the film to make it looks right and help keep the secret. She stays in the city...to do what? I didn't find the explanation. How exactly the film about ELDER CITY OF UNKNOWN UNEXPLORED RACE will help to keep this place hidden.

This campaign looks like the beginning of the apocalypse, even if it will be played in a pulp way where players will extinct every person near the south pole with a navy machinegun. But I still want to run it, just don't know how exactly and don't want it to be a prologue to Cthulhu Apocalypse.

 

Any update on this 😃 ?

On 1/12/2022 at 11:05 PM, mvincent said:

BtMoM discussions that might help are available here and here.

Sorry, but both links are not available even for registered members.

Hi, same here, going to run it later next year and can't understand how to resolve the situation, when you need to

Personally, I don't think we need new edition, instead we need more big campaigns like Masks (old and new). Please bring new editions of Mountains, Innsmouth and Tatters )))

Hi everyone. Currently, running Masks and one of my players would like to go really deep into occult and mythos things at the end of the London chapter and he asked me about interesting favor. Is it possible, somehow, to cover his body with tattoos (occult or mythos) and get magical protection? Is there any guide about it? I'm trying to stick to the rules to keep things balanced and it's not a problem to home-rule this feature but if there exists any solution I would be glad to use it. Could you please guide me where I can look for the info?

P.S. of course, there are some artifacts and spells, but he wants tattoos on top of it. I just don't want to give him it for free )

On 2/23/2020 at 10:28 PM, Darius West said:

In an interview, Charles Stross mentioned that he thought that the combination of espionage and C'thulhu were a natural fit, in that the paranoia, bureaucracy, and institutional indifference of the world of espionage mixed well with the mythos. The child of this has been the laundry files and arguably Delta Green.  But arguably a mix that is intrinsically very similar would be the paranoia, bureaucracy and institutional indifference of Stalin's USSR.  We have seen a number of scenarios for the time period  "Secrets of the Kremlin" in Glozel est Authentique, Cold Harvest, The monogram "Terror", and potentially the Eastern Front info from Achtung C'thulhu all provide some background.  So historically, in 1927, when CoC is generally set, Stalin is still consolidating his control.  By 1929 he was actually in control of the USSR.  He dies in 1952, but arguably is at his worst in the 1930s.  Has anyone else actually contemplated putting together a campaign in this historical setting, or done so?  Is anyone interested in discussing it? 

Difficult plot ) If the goal is to make a campaign in this specific era and somehow connected to real historical events, it's not a problem. But if you want to write something really close to real culture and people in USSR - it's impossible. All the mentioned scenarios, with all respect, are "cranberry". I can try to explain what does this means (cranberry). If you look at Bollywood movies and think that life in India looks like it for real, well, it's "cranberry". Vodka, balalaika, bears in the street, matryoshka, nuclear reactors in each household - cranberry. Any native speaker, when he reads any of the mentioned campaigns will notice "cranberry" because of the names of main characters (not all, but most of them). Of course, I'm not talking about more detailed work with cultural aspects of everyday life.

But my advice will be really bad without any positive feedback ) What can be really interesting and could work well - US and UK intervention to the Soviet North in 1918.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War

Long story short:

End of the Great War.

The civil war in USSR. Two main forces - the White army and the Red army. More easily - ex-Imperial forces, protecting the old system and communists on the other side.

Allied armies invasion to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk (in English it means Archangel) to support the White army.

In this case, you will have a lot of common and well-known culture in your campaign from one side (the US and England troops + Canadians, Australians + some french colonists + a lot more other small ethnic groups) and USSR setting on the other side. From March 1918 till November 1919 at minimum, your players will be able to visit a lot of northern Russian cities and make some mythos related story out of it. Your players can be any nationality, you will have danger all around and some isles of peace in big cities captured by Allied forces.

Just, for example, "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" begins in Arkhangelsk (original book). Also, you may find inspiration in the last episode of "Love, Death & Robots" - «Secret War». It's pretty close to not a "cranberry". Please, welcome, if you have any questions.