I'm really looking forward to it. But I'm a little confused. When it comes out tomorrow (Friday) is that a just a phyical pre-order with the PDF releasing right away or is it ready to ship tomorrow?
I finished running Shadows of Yog-Sothoth maybe a year or so ago and heavily customized would be the way to go. The connective tissue between the adventures is pretty tenuous and thin and can be easily missed. As classic CoC campaigns go I would rate Shadows pretty much behind all the others.
I'll second the deluxe prop set. If you're going to invest the two years required to play the campaign spending the money for the prop set is definitely worth it.
I still haven't really looked into running the new edition of Masks with the Companion. I wonder how that would work out since alot...
I don't normally play using Pulp rules, but yeah, Masks really benefits from it. Not just in terms of enhanced player survivability but the sort of Indiana Jones vibe the campaign can emit in times really works well with the Pulp rules. I rarely use all of them. You don't even need the real Pulp...
You know, different trip, and it was in the bay area. But, I was on the 101 North near San Jose and I went 9 miles in THREE hours. I swore to never complain about Chicago traffic ever again.
You know, funny story about LA. I happened to be in town for a day and one of my buddies had moved there. I called him up and was like "Hey, let's hang out". We happened to be about 12 miles apart as the crow flies or something like that. And he declined. Turns out, in LA traffic at that time it...