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Maybe. The version of that argument I've seen more often is whether viewers are there for the cast or the game system. I'm there for the cast. I'm one of those outliers who prefers the whole main cast together at the same table. But there's something compelling enough about Brennan's style...

TIL these two sites exist. The numbers seem a bit off in places, but generally useful sites for people who like horror up to a point. Would be a bit more useful with more context and data about the films. Specific types of horror and tags, etc. Still, useful. Dracula (1958) - Scary Meter...

Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax put all that sci-fi into your soup. OD&D had robots and androids.

Yeah. It’s going to be tough going. Despite hating D&D combat, it looks like the soldiers table will be the place to be. The players, characters, and the dynamics are the least distracting. At the seekers' table, I’m hoping Ashley and Matt won’t keep trying to out badass each other. Aabria...

Added a link the Dhole's House, a site for online resources including a character generator and character library.

I love factions in games. They can be so much fun. I don't really have any book recs with pre-written factions, but do have one on making your own. Check out The Game Master's Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying. It's a great guide for building the setting, NPCs, factions, etc around the PCs and...

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I’m looking for OSR/NSR modules that are examples of the best of the best in regards to layout, design, information presentation, usefulness at the table, ease of reading, finding information, running the content from the module at the table, etc. The actual game system doesn’t matter. The...

Nice. Our house is filled with skulls, sugar skulls, Catrinas, and alebrijes. But no papel picado for some reason. Always loved marigolds. My dad always had great timing. He died on 1 November a few years back.

Love Día de Muertos. Such a cool holiday.

Yeah. Having a grab-bag of investigators can work for one-shots but it requires more effort from the referee to make it work. It also kinda falls apart if you want to keep playing. The books are great at pushing the notion of investigator organizations the PCs can belong to as a means of keeping...

Yeah. Crafting props can be great fun. There's also lots of options for buying Call of Cthulhu props. I've added a ink to the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society to the OP. They have wonderfully done prop sets.

Absolutely. It’s just one of those things for me. shrug I don’t care about perfect, that’ll never happen. But I do care about not getting it egregiously wrong. I’m also a fan of verisimilitude, or even a vaguely passing attempt at faux-realism. Up until things pop off. A baseline of “normalcy”...

The starter set has a solo scenario, Alone Against the Flames, to help you learn the system. It also has a 1-2 investigator scenario, Paper Chase, which would be great for you and yours when you get to it. Edge of Darkness and Dead Man's Stomp are both for 2-5 investigators.

You're right, of course. But the devil is in the details. My hesitance for using the 1920s is mostly down to people (myself absolutely included) constantly flubbing things by decades. Having to look things up mid-game sucks, so I prefer not to. Making the wrong call and having something not...

Nice. The Haunting is a great scenario. It's kinda too bad it's so famous, though. Makes it harder to run the thing without people knowing exactly what's coming. Not from cheating by reading the scenario, but it's just general gamer lore at this point. Yeah, that's one of the most common myths...

General music suggestions for Call of Cthulhu. Alien franchise OSTs and scores, including the games. Anything by Wojciech Kilar. Anything related to the folk music of Romania. Babylon Berlin. Bioshock game OSTs and scores. Bloodborne OST. Call of Cthulhu video game OST. Castlevania OSTs. City...

As strongly as it's possible to suggest, don't prep a plot or story for the PC to follow. Prep a situation with NPCs who have goals. Having something solid in your head about scene A, then scene B, then scene C, etc will only end in frustration all around. Follow the advice in the core book...

Considering the extent of the Spanish Empire in the Americas, it’s no surprise.