Showing posts with label CoC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CoC. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Vampire sandbox

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I listened to a podcast that discussed the first scenario for Vampire, in the back of the 2nd ed rulebook. I remember when Vampire was the h...
Friday, September 9, 2011

Rules found by re-reading

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As some of you know, Initiative is something many D&D refs have house rules for. Ordering the chaos of real life combat, or just the mon...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Vistiting Kingsport

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I just recently found out that you can actually visit Kingsport! Well, it's called Marblehead , MA, but it is the town that inspired Lov...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

When not playing, listen!

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I have not posted much lately, but it comes down to me not being able to involve myself much in gaming. Long hours at work and I still haven...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

15 games - the list

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"So, just name me 15 games you've played. The first ones that pop into your mind" "Like, any kind of game?" "...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The dread curse of cthulhu

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Very recently I got my copy of Horror on the Orient Express in the mail, after finding a complete copy on . This is the first time I've...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Collecting games, or playing them?

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A few days ago I got a package in the mail. It was my second copy of DragonQuest . Yes, I have bought a second copy of a game I have not yet...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Ice Cold Horror is very popular!

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I don't know about you, but I can be somewhat obsessive about collecting rpg's. One of the games where is can be expensive is Call o...
Friday, January 1, 2010

Looking forward to 2010

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I have been keeping quiet for a while now, with the holidays taking all the time for me. For some people, this is the time to meet old frien...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Playing a RPG with a famous literary person

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I have the last few days been on a Sherlock Holmes high. Since I managed to score a mint copy of Sleuth Publications The Queen's Park Af...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

How to do mysteries - the three clue rule

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This is very short post. I'm just going to give you the link to Justin Alexander's great post about designing mysteries. He lays it...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Is investigative roleplaying railroading by default? A CoC case study

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Some of you might have followed along in the discussion on Grognardia's retrospective on Shadows of Yog-Sothoth. The question arose if...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Call of Cthulhu - what are the rules used for?

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Having ended a campaign I tend to think back a bit not only on the regular war stories, but also on the mechanics of the game. I have writt...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Beyond the Mountains of Madness - a few thoughts about a CoC campaign

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So, after playing very intensively we managed to play through all of the campaign before the whole crazy mess of Worldcon and moving starte...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Travel Plans ahead - Worldcon in Montreal

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I am in the midst of pulling up all the tent poles and moving across the pond. That takes a lot of time, and limits my energy for blogging....
Thursday, July 9, 2009

The value of immersion - CoC At the Mountains of Madness

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I have mentioned before that I am playing At the Mountains of Madness right now. This is the first time I have actually played CoC in one of...
Saturday, June 6, 2009

Call of Cthulhu, rules analysis redux

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Brian Gleichman over at Whitehall ParaIndustries (a very nice blog, go read it!) saw my post about Call of Cthulhu and posted a response i...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Call of Cthulhu - the game where the rules tell you not to go on adventures

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I have been thinking a bit about Call of Cthulhu lately. Fairly recently we started to play the gigantic campaign At the Mountains of Madn...