SunlessNick

It's also an argument at odds with the Mythic line, since one of its big draws is that the fantasy is derived from the myths told by the people of the setting.

Me too, I'm afraid.

I thought that might be the case. Still, the previous edition books I most want to see are all mentioned as being on the schedue :).

Is there a plan to make a 7th Edition version of Beyond the Mountains of Madness, or not, at the moment?

Is anyone else tempted to move either Tarryford or Totburgh so they're built on the same place?

Generally I'd suggest the dedicated monster book taking precedence. Though Crawling Ones should have some individual skills too.

Another vote for depends on the creature.

Well. cool!

I think it would be better to have a (somewhat) normal-looking Orient Express that interacts with the world in weird, dreamlike ways, such as every carriage being stopped at a different station.

Isn't that like Masks of Nyarlathotep without Nyarlathotep? I hope not. Anyway what I'm thinking of is a version of the campaign with the same basic plot structure, but the nature of the Sedefkar Simulacrum changed, along with the knock-on effects that implies. I want to focus on the Dreamlands, since they - and dreamscape versions of a couple of the cities along the way - already feature in the campaign, and I like the idea of linking the Dreamlands with the somewhat liminal nature of being aboard a long train journey. Also, with Gaslight, Dark Ages, modern, and Enlightenment era scenarios, it would be interesting to depict what the Dreamlands may have been like at those times. My current thinking of how to change things are: Mehmet Makryat: Still the main villain, looking to move up in the world. Professor Smith: I'm also looking to have the real Smith be the one to recruit the Investigators to the job, and Makryat to piggyback the scheme later. Sedefkar Simulacrum: A mechanism for bringing aspects of the Dreamlands into the waking world - it can be "possessed" by a being from the Dreamlands, allowing it to walk the Earth - or it can be used by a waking worlder to cast Dreamlands magic. Fenalik: He could be from the Dreamlands, but stuck in an astral form (or a precarious physical one maintained by a lesser version of the Simulacrum). Or he could still be a vampire, but with a dreamriding element to his feeding. Or both. If I make him from the Dreamlands, then the "crazed rationalism" of the French Revolution could have made the Dreamlands harder to reach, which is why things crapped out for him. Jigsaw Man: Someone who's died and lived on in the Dreamlands, but is using a lesser version of the Simulacrum to persist in the waking world - but that could be too similar to Fenalik. Brothers of the Skin: Thrive on access to the Dreamlands, and worship of the Great Ones - Selim Makryat believes the Simulacrum can allow the Great Ones to rule the waking world as well (while Mehmet thinks it can grant a better immortality than what the Jigsaw Man is subsisting on). Sedefkar Scrolls: Adjusted to the new purposes of the Simulacrum - eg the legs teach Dreamlands spells, while the Ritual of Enactment allows a Dreamlands entry to possess the Simulacrum (although I might switch round which scroll is named after which body part). Mims Sahis: It doesn't need to do any flaying, so it can be carried into dreams, and wound astral entities. Anyway. I'm about to embark on another read through of the campaign, and I was hoping to trawl everyone's knowledge of things to look out for, that will need reframing or adjustment.

Many thanks.

It's an excellent book, though most of the cult- and leader-building carries over to other deities. You'd have to either repeat that material in another Cults of book - at least very close to repeating it - or have other Cults of books be supplements of a supplement. Neither's a great option. It does open a new community content avenue though.

Excellent - which would work best?

Superb. I am really looking forward to this one.

It's described as being designed to fit the core book, the bestiary, and the GM screen pack. And there's a wider version for the leatherette editions. Will either of these fit the (hardback, not leatherette) core book, bestiary, and Glorantha sourcebook?

Necromancy I know, but I'm curious about why the Formless Spawn were decoupled from Tsathoggua. Their writeup describes them as spawn of the Old Ones generally.

One thing I'd suggest is waiving SAN loss from reading tomes, and just leave the reduction in maximum sanity from Cthulhu Mythos being increased. Part of the reason for this is that people in Lovecraft's stories generally don't go insane from reading books, even the Necronomicon - several of the cast of At the Mountains of Madness had read it before the story even began. The closest is Armitage in The Dunwich Horror, but that could be attributed to the specific revelation it gives him about the Whateleys.

Keep a note of this, to revisit later, whether or not they get suspicious again.

Iä, it is mine!

Is it specifically about cults of Cthulhu himself, as the name suggests, or does it take in the rest of the Mythos too?

I'm going to guess Dilettante. Then Investigative Jorunalist, then Archaeologist, then Police Detective.

It looks very nice.

Not a bad idea. Or perhaps they could have a small MR, but not increase the Cthulhu Mythos skill - if you have the skill, then you can use the book as a reference, picking out the truth behind the occlusion, but it remains impenetrable to the uninitiated. An observation made in a Trail of Cthulhu supplement (Cthulhu City) was that if the Mythos underlies all of reality, then looking into any subject would eventually lead to Mythos truths.

To answer less flippantly than I did before, the setting of Children of Fear is a critical part of play - atmosphere, plot, background, everything - it immerses itself in the milieu far more than most campaigns. How good a job it does of portraying the cultures along the way is therefore a part of how it plays. I'm not demanding you agree that that paragraph is the one to single out in a review that was glowing across the board, but it was an aspect the writing needed to do well in regardless of any of our political views, and it did.

Why isn't that "about the game?"