Recent content by Memnoch3434

Hey Everyone! I have a campaign that I am working through. The idea is to start the campaign as a very generic, run of the mill hack and slash for maybe the first session or two. You know hooks like "The innkeeper wants you to get rid of the goblins in the nearby mine," and "They kidnapped the...

I wanted to run a dungeons and dragons game for newbies. Of course I had a limited number of interested persons so I decided to increase my player base. When that happened I had a few self invitations, a few last minute additions, and in the end my measly 3 player group turned into a 13 player...

I'm sure you have a group that has experienced players, but it seems to me that newbie players hate restrictive magic systems. You could try to simplify by giving each effect a number. So for each 1dx damage of fire (starting as a touch) is 1 point. each enhancement of that same "fire" could...

Act 1 scene 2 The party relaxed at Oscar Quinn's apartment. Letting go of their stress with a few drinks. A very flirtatious Adriana and Sal were getting close to intimate over their white lightnings, meanwhile a calm and collected Jack Thompson was going over the details of the case in his...

Act 1: Scene 1 April 7, 1930. Coroner's report: Helen Barton Cause of Death: Strangulation. Place of Death: Near Victim's Home 283 Cherry Grove Drive Things of note: Multiple stab wounds, one premortem on the knee, all others post-mortem. Body was dragged and placed from original position...

Act 0: Scene 4 Sal and Jack worked fervently on their paperwork. A slow day in Chicago was rare. They might finally catch up and even have an easy day. Chief O'Brien walked into the office, he did not pause long enough to even let them look at him. "There is a reporter Adrianna Brinn she is...

Act 0: Scene 3 Lance Caine sat in his office with his legs on the desk, reading the newspaper. Capone's gang suspected in Valentine's Day Massacre...what children. The knock at the door would have alarmed most men, but Caine looked like he was expecting it. "Come in," Caine said coldly...

I suppose the way I would look at it is a bit videogamey. There is a "main quest" and several "Side missions." I pulled a few ideas for a few of the side missions from this site, but the "main quest" is completely my own. I'm actually making evidence boxes (pictures and clothing and things...

Act 0: Scene 2 Oscar Quinn trudged around the underground laboratory. The random bodies strewn about the room were missing various limbs and organs. Legs, arms, fingers, kidneys, skin. The animals too were missing limbs, the scorpions were missing their tails, the sharks their eyes and noses...

Act 0; Scene 1 Adriana Brinn came to work exhausted. She looked at a new pile of hate mail. In her mind's eye she imagined what they said on the inside. "Muderer, Whore, Tomboy." At work she received hate mail for taking a job away from a man and his family. Her family received hate mail from...

Background. The Setting: Chicago, 1930. The great depression has just begun to wreak havoc on daily life. Mobsters and corrupt police litter the city with sin and vice. Alcohol flows more now then it did before it was illegal. Around the characters a complex symphony of death and horror beyond...

My favorite part of FLGS's is interacting with the other customers. It might be a good idea to set up some things to get people interested in right off the bat. Friday Night Magic is a no-brainer, but maybe you should have a few local DM's come in and run a few gaming sessions with new (to them...

Call of Cthulhu is the best horror system I have played. There are tons of resources at your disposal (novels, system books, stories on this site). The Mythos is strange and deep, but at the same time it's contradictory and incredibly difficult to begin to comprehend. It's an interesting way to...

The best introduction to a villian was in my friend's 12 game. We were in a generic town that suddenly was taken over by masses of varmin in all direction coming from a strange building that we hadn't seen the inside of. When we entered the building a mass of 10 or so NPC's ran from the...

I'm working on a game in a historical setting for a Call of Cthulhu game I am running right now. The setting is Chicago starting in June 1930 and should finish up before that December (game time). The play group for this game largely hate history, so it's working out well so far. Besides the...