Down Darker Trails Campaign

[karlhayden]

Last Saturday I finally got my DDT campaign started. I ended up making my own town "Dark Rock", instead of using the ones in the DDT PDF. This was mainly due to the length of time it took to get a play date. Dark Rock is located basically where Cortez Colorado is now. I made each character part of the town. Ranch owner has a ranch a days ride from town, Pastor has a church in town, one owns a saloon, one a smithy, one is the town marshal.  It went really well for the first scenario they investigated missing homesteaders East of town. Eventually finding Mi-go as the problem. The Diary from the DDT source book played a part in the clues. Now they have to decide what to do with the settlers brains. Overall I am very happy with the setting provided by Chaosium and the way 7th Edition works and the Pulp rules work, I haven't played since the first edition in the 80's. We used some house rules to make it feel more Western. I used the card based initiative from Deadlands and everyone got a poker chip that allowed a reroll for the character or forcing the keeper to reroll. If the chip wasn't used it could be used as a successful skill advancement check at the end of the session. This went over well since it gives a western feel. I also gave each character family and employee stats. They ran their own NPCs which allowed everyone to participate in case their main character was doing something else. Overall, everyone seemed to enjoy it and wants to play again.

Edited April 12, 2018 by karlhayden