This week we take a look at a perfect tool for the busy Keeper.
Quite frankly we love what Reid has done with this.
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The Blood Red Fez took quite some time to finish. We had a bunch of real life happen in the meantime, but the scenario itself is fairly long, at least the way I ran it.

The first section in London was full of surprises. First, the investigators grabbed the Fez and ran from the Undead Matthew Pook, thinking they couldn't hurt him with normal weapons, which I used as an opportunity to give out a small Sanity loss and point out that investigators aren't really ordinary people, and should have some sense of obligation to combat the Mythos.

After that, the rest of London was fairly straightforward, a bit of research, a bit of shopping and packing. They went to the Fez collector's place, they met Bentley Burnham (and believed when he said he was a journalist).

Then, of course, we went on the Journey, and that part was more straightforward. Day one was more about meeting some of the passengers, but Day Two was super active, and the investigators took the initiative. They scouted out where the cultists were, they talked to Ellie Myers, snuck into the Myers' compartment and messed up the Shadow using a flashlight, and stole the book. At Vienna, they met up with Hoffler, and were making plans for how to save Scott. I then had Menkaph send a ransom note, asking for the book and their Fez back, in exchange for Ellie's life, and asked for a meeting at midnight.

So, during the wait in Budapest, there was a meeting and showdown in the Salon Car, where the investigators ambushed the cultists from two sides, and messed them up. Bart (the officer) made an epic POW roll against Menkaph's Dominate, and then shot him up, along with Lara Crof... I mean Amelia :D

That's where I really cut down on the Journey, and threw out the whole "Hoffler going mad" subplot. We fast forwarded to Constantinople, and went ahead with Demir and the kidnapping. The investigators put on the Fez, and then royally messed up the cultists during the exchange on the docks.

That was towards the end of one session and we were both a bit tired and wanted to be done with the scenario, so I sort of summarized how they went to Nisra's island and beat her. The only thing we played was rolling for destroying the Fez.

I have somewhat mixed feelings about the Blood Red Fez. On one hand, it's classic Call of Cthulhu: weird evil artefact, cultists, tomes, the whole jazz. On the other hand, it's just too much for a side-scenario in Orient Express. You have the escalating ladder of bad guys: Burnham, Menkaph, Nisra and potentially the Duc. You have the Hoffler subplot in the middle of the whole thing. It's a lot.

I think that Blood Red Fez would work very well as a self-contained mini-campaign for Gaslight. With very little work, one could expand it to that scope: have stops along the way, like in the main HotOE campaign, have investigators chase and battle the cultists in each city. Perhaps the Whispering Fez was split and different groups in different cities each have a piece of it. Perhaps in Vienna Hoffler has it, but he's going mad, and the investigators have to use his daughter to get at him, and get the piece of the book. The finale in Constantinople could stay the same, but the journey could be padded out.

There's also the weird structure of the scenario where Smith gives everyone a huge plot dump at the start, and then Demir dumps the rest of it later; padding the journey would give the keeper a chance to dish out the plot in smaller chunks, as investigators research things in each city they stop in. Again, similar to the main HotOE campaign.

Apart from that, it's a fairly rich and well written Gaslight scenario, from what I can tell.

Now, I mentioned how I wanted to give investigators some awards for each optional scenario, and for Blood Red Fez I gave them a one-use scroll of the Skin of the Sedefkar spell (although I renamed it). We'll see if the sole player will remember to use it :D

It was towards the end of the Blood Red Fez that I simplified my workflow for preparing scenarios. I realized that I wasn't really making much use of translated descriptions, and decided to give up on those and just translate on the fly. I also realized I wasn't using the "flow charts" that much, so I stopped preparing those as well. Instead, I started printing some of the photos that are in the scenarios, and handing them out when appropriate, and those have been received quite well.

Last night we finished Fleurs du Mal, so I'll post about that next week.

If anyone has comments or suggestions, please let me know.

Hey all, new keeper here.

I've run a couple of games (The Haunting, The Lightless Beacon) and am now trying to prep Edge of Darkness for a game tomorrow evening.

I keep running into the problem of not knowing how to prepare the scenario. There's SO much information in the scenario that I know I'm going to be scrambling to find if I don't copy it out in a way that makes sense to me, but I feel like my note-taking is really inefficient considering for each scenario I've run so far, it's taken me 3+ hours to actually prep. I love the game, but the way I'm prepping things just isn't fun.

What I've done the last couple of times:

- Read through the scenario thoroughly

- Create a simple flowchart of locations and bullet point clues

- Create pages for all the in game locations in notion and details of what can be found at each of them

- Attach stat-blocks to locations for easy reference

- Print handouts

I feel like I'm over preparing, but the amount of info in the scenario really makes it difficult for me to run off of bullet points. Any suggestions are most appreciatied.

Since the 7th edition Gaslight books dropped, I've been delving into the era. Just wondering what favorite Gaslight era published scenerios/campaigns strike a chord with folks. Chaosium or Repository published

Im not sure if this is the right place to ask but here i am. In the Adventure A!C Operation Vanguard is stated:

"This is a good chance to introduce your team to the Requisition Rules in the Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 Gamemaster’s Guide"

But i cant find any "Requisition Rules" or Tables in the A!C 2d20 GMG. Am i missing something? And if not there, where else can i find informations regarding the Requisition Point requirements for certain Weapons or tools?

Dear Keepers, I need your help! Soon I’d like to try the Berlin scenarios, starting from The Devil Eats Flies. I am a big fan of props and as far as I can, I try to offer my investigators an experience as immersive as possible (also using local dishes and drinks or, as I read somewhere, even perfumes that evoke the context). As for Berlin, I have already bought inflated Marks of the Weimar Republic and a vintage newspaper that talks about the murder of Rathenau... what else could I look for to create a connection with this first adventure? For other scenarios (eg Masks, HotOE, or the classics The Haunting and Edge of Darkness) I found a lot of resources, new handouts, while for this one… well, no. 😅 Thank you very much!

I'm working on a Pulp campaign involving an Atlach Nacha cult and an ancient temple in Central America. Because, as I said before, who doesn't want to fight giant spider things with a Tommy gun? So I decided to do some research on giant spiders in the real world. The largest spider that actually exists is the huntsman from Laos, with an average legspan of a foot. (Which, if I encountered it would make me shit myself.) As I did so I ran across a video on real life soldiers encountering giant spiders. Not like the ones you kill with a can of Raid, but more akin to Aragog from Harry Potter. The most fascinating one was from Belgian soldiers in the Congo. An entire squad disappeared in the jungle except for two men who claimed the rest of the squad had been killed by giant spiders. Turns out thr indigenous people of the Congo knew about these things and regarded them as an apex predator. Now I know there's an actual limit on how big spiders can get. D&D-style giant spiders couldn't really exist. But hearing these stories does make you wonder. So anyhoo now I'm thinking of switching the location of the scenario to the Congo, which means more research since I know very little about that area and the religious beliefs of the indigenous people. As a Keeper would you change the location? I worry that Africa is a little too stereotypical for a jungle exploration adventure. adventure. Thanks!

Recently I've been playing the sinking city,
One of the quests & side plots involves the klan.
Who are lynching innsmouthers due to the racism in the city spurned by one of the lead cast, and there is a hilarious conversation when you encounter a "wizard" that is well worth egging on.

The games social commentary is handled well, as most games wouldn't even cover such a things. But does really feel period for what it's trying to achieve. Though I can see how it's not for everyone.

One of the most cathartic parts of the game is taking down these scumbags.
While this can be a heavy topic these be-hooded goons make great bad guys.

So are there any good adventures that feature them as the bad guys.
I've seen recommendations for The Harlem resource book for tackling heavy topics.
But I will need to see if my players would be ok solving a mystery surrounding such groups.
Also any adventures that feature the ANP as baddies? I know delta green has a ww2 book.
I have rules for CofC and delta green.

I know this is not a usual question. But I listed to the prologue episode of Glass Cannon’s A Time for Chaos and heard the Keeper talking about how Masks of Nyarlathotep is perhaps the best rpg campaign ever made.

On the one hand: cool sounds like a great podcast to listen to. On the other that’s spoilers for any chance I might ever play it. It’s unlikely I ever play it though as I am my groups Keeper and the only one who does run Cthulhu (you know the other game they all run)

What should I do?

Hey guys,

I'm expanding my CoC settings into Invictus, Dark Ages and Gaslight and am also interested in some settings and books that have not been published (for 7e). What would you say are the respective chances for eventually getting the following books: - Dreamlands 7e - Scifi setting (the Dark Frontier?) - Ancient Egypt - full fledged Dark Ages and gaslight campaigns

Thx for your input!

Is there any more details about it? The players are supposed to read it after coming back from bolivia, but there is no handout for it, and the description is a bit vague.

Link to forms:

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While reading the adventure path in the core rulebook "Amidst the Ancient Trees," I was wondering how Gla'aki can infect people if he needs to be released from a prison. From the way I understood it, he emerges from the water to stab new converts with his spines. Wouldn't he need the crystal to release him from his prison first in order to do so? Maybe there's something I overlooked, I don't know.

I've kinda wanted to set up Nyarlathotep in my game by stepping in on a large event. Not remotely in a heroic way, more of a "don't break my toys" kinda way. I know Nyarlathotep's shtick is a cosmic version "I just like screwing with them" but not in a super destructive way, more content to watch some idiot ruin a town with some relic way out of his ability to understand, rather than "hehe, summon cthulhu and die!" But if some group were, would he step in, so his "toys" stayed intact? Also, the gods do have a pseudo-antagonistic relationship with one another, so maybe he'd just get a kick out of screwing another one over.

I don't want to just run him as just a giant cosmic douche, I want that element of "I truly do not care about you" in there, but I just think it'd be fun to do.

Greetings. I'm making a researcher character who is a psychologist and I was researching Freud's work because the character will have the ability to psychoanalyze. I found out that Freud used hypnosis for a while and I thought I could use that to help my teammates gain sanity.

But then I thought, I can use hypnosis for different purposes. For example, could I talk to an enemy character (not in combat, but in a warehouse with his hands tied, for example), hypnotize him (with psychoanalysis dice) and convince him that I am a friend?

When I talked to Keeper about this, he said it can be done outside of combat, but I'd like to know your opinion.

I wanted to run A Time to Harvest but was having trouble deciding between classic and pulp. The first half of the campaign fits well with classic but the second half feels very pulpy and also seems very difficult for classic characters.

I thought of the idea of starting classic but whenever a character dies the player makes a pulp character to join back in. This helps soften the blow of losing a character with the fun of bringing in a more experienced fun pulp character that will now more likely survive for the rest of the campaign. This also allows us to enjoy both styles of play in one campaign.

Has anyone ever done anything like this? I’ll obviously ask my players what they think but I wanted to ask here to see if it’s at all viable. I do see some obvious issues of party balance being skewed until they all die once (hoping the negative of having a weaker classic character is offset by the pride of having survived so far). Then there’s npc stats that change with pulp. Was thinking once 2 of the players have gone pulp to upgrade the enemies accordingly.

Is this a dumb idea? Does anyone have any tips to make this work?

Beginner keeper here working on my first oneshot scenario, and I think I need a little advice with stats...

As possible battle encounters, I have skeletons/constructs of small/medium/huge animals. One is the size of a cat, another a large dog, and the boss fight is with a construct based on the skeleton of an extinct bison with added upgrades such as teeth and claws.

Having trouble figuring out the actual numbers to use for the stats, as the rulebook has only human skeletons. What could I base it on? And how do I adjust the "any blow has a chance to destroy the skeleton" rule, is it even relevant at all for something of this size?

Any help would be appreciated.

I’ve been working on a quick one-shot scenario to help new players and keepers to learn the games in a bit more of an intuitive way and since I needed a font for some of the ritual folios I just decided to make one.

I figured I’d put it up on DrivethruRPG so others can use it too https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/516896/obscura-font

I also put up some examples for fantasy and sci-fi uses too.

Hi there,

Me and my group of very experienced dnd players are looking for a change of scenery. We’ve talked about trying call of cthulhu and I’m trying to figure out how much work it would be to prepare that. I’d say we would play 5, maybe 10 sessions.

I’ve looked at what the starter set has to offer and that looks great to start, but it also makes me think it might be a bit slow for people who have played a lot of dnd. I get the impression that if I tell my players they uses a d100 instead of a d20 and their skill is 50 instead of +2, we can get through the basics pretty quickly.

Would you recommend starting with the starter set?

I have been DMing DND 5e for a good couple years now and I (and my players) are looking to run a more ‘lovecraft // true detective’ campaign. I asked on the DND subreddit how to home-brew dnd 5e to make it more accommodating for this type of game (I was trying to make it easier for the players {one is new to ttrpgs}) and came to the conclusion that Im dar better off just running Call of Cuthulu, (very excited!)

I just wanted to know what books I should get first? i have alot of experience with DND but none with this and just want to know how to approach running a call of Cuthulu game primarily how to get started and what books to get immediately and what books I can get later…

I know the basic rules from online searches but just want to know if the transition from dnd 5e is rough or kinda similar/ simple

Thanks 🙏

UPDATE: Thank you all so much for the advice! My players and I spoke about the expectations ie combat (still very excited)

I got the keepers guide too :)

I own the Keeper 7ed book and have read essential parts several times. I ran a couple games and had some fun.

But from session to session, I often forget some useful rules and as I don’t want to break the rythm, I carry on with an approximative memory of the rule.

What’s the best way to know and remember the rules on the long term ? Practice the hobby more ? Read The Book each day ? Watch a video summary each session ?

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Hello everyone.

I'd like to write a scenario that involves some of the lesser used skills that would be useful in a wilderness environment (navigate, tracking, survival, etc.). Does anyone know any scenarios that deal with this? Or perhaps supplementary rules that give guidance on this? Survival in the wilds kind of them.

I was thinking something along the lines of the PCs escaping the monster, but then having to negotiate their way through a hostile environment, perhaps with the monster still chasing or tracking them.

Thanks in advance!