Recent content by overgeeked

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.

Yeah. I have a long list of Call of Cthulhu-appropriate music. I’ll have to round up my favorites and post them at some point.

Wow. That’s certainly a take. It makes a lot of your posts make sense though. Definitely means adding you to the soft ignore list.

I think it’s more toxic. One poster doing a drive-by isn’t that big of a deal compared to page after page of yelling from multiple posters.

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the same old, tired arguments about the style of play, genre, and time periods. There are plenty of other threads to hate on games and play styles you don’t like. Also, this isn’t the place to argue about H. P. Lovecraft’s racism. He was a racist...

Definitely recommend Call of Cthulhu. There are lots of great horror-mystery scenarios out there, but they do often involve combat. Nowhere near the amount of combat you'd find in a D&D module...mostly. But after a few sessions of tracking down clues, research at the library, and trips to the...

It shouldn't warrant it, but it would still need it. There are quite a few people who simply cannot abide anything even remotely negative or critical being said about 5E. They always treat anything negative as a user error rather than anything like a fault or flaw with the game. Even when the...

I do hope Billie does it for at least a special. But you could argue it’s a CYA situation. They had to put someone’s face in, and Billie agreed. Watch the end of the last episode again.