Call of Cthulhu, Greyhound style

[Tom Cashel]

I'm thinking of an episode (can't remember the name) which essentially postulated that everyone has a doppelganger- an evil double from nearby dimension, that sometimes can slip through and make a person's life hell.

"Mirror Image." Great episode.

 

[Rhialto]

Or there's "The Hitchhiker"- a woman driving through a storm passes a hitchiker. Then she passes him again several hours later- and she keeps seeing him as she drives across country. And at every stop, regardless of the weather, he looks as if he's just come out of a heavy rain.

That one's based on an old radio play. In fact Light's Out and its ilk can be a pretty good source of stories...

"You see, I--haven't got a face..."

 

[Yellow Sign]

Great Ideas

I was thinking about the driver of the bus. I would have him never leave his seat. Well at least the passengers never see him leave it. Make him a large brutish fellow who slumps over the wheel. Stares straight ahead and responds with silence or a few low grunts when talked too. Pasty white features. Thick hands with no fingernails........hummm


PS. I LOVE CTHULHU TOO!

 

[Tom Cashel]

Funny that the Twilight Zone would come up in this thread...my first exposure to Call of Cthulhu was a long article about the game, written by Gahan Wilson, in Twilight Zone magazine in the early '80s.

So...do you guys play D20 or Classic? It's always been Classic for me; these days I play 5th ed. (I started with 3rd.)

 

[kipling]

Funny that the Twilight Zone would come up in this thread...my first exposure to Call of Cthulhu was a long article about the game, written by Gahan Wilson, in Twilight Zone magazine in the early '80s.

So...do you guys play D20 or Classic? It's always been Classic for me; these days I play 5th ed. (I started with 3rd.)

It's always been Classic for me, but this particular campaign I want to try in d20.

John Tynes' gamemastering advice really got me going.

Though I admit I want to read Ken Hite's Nightmares of Mine too. And I'll get Delta Green when it's finally reprinted. (I didn't want to get Countdown because I just felt as though it were a sequel and I wanted the original.)

 

[Wraith Form]

It's always been Classic for me, but this particular campaign I want to try in d20.
*snip*
Though I admit I want to read Ken Hite's Nightmares of Mine too. And I'll get Delta Green when it's finally reprinted. (I didn't want to get Countdown because I just felt as though it were a sequel and I wanted the original.)

Put in my vote for BRP 5.5th edition, too. I'll mine the CoCd20 book for ideas, but place them in the BRP ruleset, thank you very much.

Hite's book is pretty good. Well worth the $$, and an interesting read besides.

If you liked Delta Green, really you should give DG:Countdown a try. It's quite well written, and mostly expands on an already fascinating universe....no "sequel" there! (Take it from one who's sick to death of sequels, as they're usually total crap.) Countdown is worth every bloody cent that was ripped from my sweaty, shaking hands, trust me!

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

I'll second Wraith on his opinion of "Countdown". What it basically does is fill in the rest of the world, while the original DG book focused more on the US government and the Greys and all that. Countdown doesn't even really require the original book, which I don't have- and I've still gotten plenty of use out of it.

I've read "Nightmares of Mine" by Ken Hite and I think it's one of the best books out there on horror rpgs (and possibly the horror genre in general). Again, highly recommended.

Is anyone else familiar with this book? It came out from ICE a few years back, and was supposed to be first in a series of books on running different style RPGs, but I have no idea if the rest of the series was done or not.

 

[Wraith Form]

Is anyone else familiar with this book?

Erm, not to be obvious but I am. (I think you probably meant aside from me.) Don't know if the other books were published, but I really don't think so.

 

[kipling]

Werewolves

To put a modern spin on werewolves, I'm thinking about the beast within, and about sex. Specifically that when certain people get too aroused, their self-control slips, and they change.

And I'm thinking about a little fundamentalist town, and the people who live there, and what happens when you introduce this sort of thing into Peyton Place.

 

[Wraith Form]

I'm thinking about the beast within, and about sex.

(Insert Bevis & Butthead joke here.)

Sorry. My immaturity (at 33) just had to resurface for a moment. Actually, it sounds pretty cool, kinda like a twisted Bruce David Banner/Hulk thing gone twisty.