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Just short things that might be adventures for your group. Feel free to contribute your own. Presented as three parts: HOOK: How the Justiciars get involved. MYSTERY: How it appears on first investigation. SECRET: What's really behind it. HOOK: A writer has been kidnapped, and loved ones are...

Thank you for replying, and thank you for letting me know that there was a second printing (I had the first printing). I appreciate the information. On reading the material about Terror Checks in the second printing, I see that it still doesn't mention that any appropriate attribute can be...

Motorcycle Gang Member Untested in play; made by cutting down other archetypes. MOTORCYCLE GANG MEMBER He's tough and combat-savvy; he can fix a bike and he knows obscure trivia about chopper, hookers, and cities he's been in. But he has no miracles, and with Fidelis damage he'll fold like a...

My copy says that Holy Aura activates automatically and, once activated, functions for the remainder of the scene. Unless you deliberately turn it off; then restarting the Aura would be a new use of the Miracle. You can use it, in total, Rank number of times a day, I think; maximum is seven.

Sorry, don't know the answer to the Terror Check question. When I played, I used Fidelis as well--though I wrestled with the idea of not using any attribute at all, or that the attribute changed depending on the type of terror it was. (Certain terrors would use Mentus, others would use Spiritus...

I know TTA is planning a monsters supplement, but does anyone who is playing Against The Darkness have some monsters to share?

If you've read John Varley's short story, "The Barbie Murders," it features a future cult where everyone has undergone biosculpturing to look identical. The perverts use things like makeup and wigs to look...different.

Well, pr0n in the sense of something verboten is only a few hundred years old in our world; censorship laws only came about in what, the 18th century? There are a number of examples of the, erm, earthier nature of earlier eras. The oft-cited example for games of French peasantry (laughing at...

Yeah, I've set whole campaigns in a single city. Granted, I did name all the continents and name many of the countries but that was because it was a city that had a lot of tourism, so I wanted to be able to name tourists. We did do one short adventure that went to the pass guarding the entrance...

Back on the old Wizards board, somebody posted a d20 CoC NPC generator--I can probably find that if you want. And if you don't want to use the other (excellent) suggestion for characters: Private Investigator Secretary to PI, herself wanting to be a PI Writer of ghost stories here for The...

I'd be interested. You'd want to make sure you have enough stuff to distinguish it from Eden Studio's All Flesh Must Be Eaten, but the classes and unique items should do it.

Thanks for the clarification. That's why I made the assumption explicit.

I'm afraid I'm still dubious. Downloading the entire 3.5 SRD and then searching for the word "sanity" gave me a list of files that all refer to the insanity spell or symbol of insanity. I mean, I'm basing this on the idea that if they make it OGL, they'll put it into the SRD. Maybe I'm wrong...

They are? I'm a little dubious about this; I don't recall any spot in the CoC d20 book that makes stuff OGL (though admittedly I haven't scanned the fine print, and I haven't my copy with me). Since the Sanity rules are lifted whole cloth from the BRP version, I would be surprised if Chaosium...

I ran an extensive adventure in the sewers underneath my campaign setting. I don't know how much of it you can use, but it was the climax to a year or two of adventuring. The city: Aegis, source of all magic and place where magic (and *things*) enter the world. Monsters are citizens, bound by...

I have read that something similar happens to some people when lost in the wilderness. They make a transition from "searching for help" to "paranoid avoidance of help". Too bad if the person avoiding them has something they need....

That's certainly one way to play horror, and an effective way--but I've done others as well. I've run (short-term) games that concentrated on the gross-out, for example. And we've certainly run CoC games as if they were Paranoia games. I think I lost four characters in the first half of Masks...

I'd like to try running the Jenkin Lives adventure, hidden in various places around the web. I think that would be a fun introductory.

I ran a shortish adventure (five or six sessions) for classic CoC involving Dunwich and the "truth" behind the Dunwich Horror (how that young Whately fellow was trying to stop the world from being destroyed) and it was a blast. Shame if you drop the shotgun when the byakhee picks you up...

Hmmm. I don't think I'd say that. I played Champions starting in 2nd edition, and still play it. It's an excellent system and there are parts of it that are engraved on my cerebellum. Hero is still my default system if I'm trying something new because the mechanics are second nature to all of...