Colonial Gothic

[Crothian]

News item

http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?sid=25084

Colonial Gothic is a newer game that got released at Gen Con 2007. I ran it for my friends last fall and while fun the rules just did not fit the game. Usually that just means the game goes to RPG graveyard. But it seems that Colonial Gothic is being given a second chance in True 20. This is great news because the setting for the game was very well done. It was well researched and well written. I hope this game does well with its second chance.

 

[trancejeremy]

I've always been surprised no one made a Call of Cthulhu setting set in those times, as some of HPL's stories were (Case of Charles Dexter Ward, most notably)

 

[jgbrowning]

Yeah, I thought the frame of the game was cool, the premise and idea, but didn't much like the mechanics. A more tested system like True20 should do it better and Reality Deviant Publications has a solid grip on the system which will make the transitions easier as well, IMO.

joe b.

 

[Piratecat]

This is superb news. It's a wonderful setting with rules I really disliked. True20 will be perfect for it.

 

[bento]

Having run two "historical-horror" one shots using True20, I can attest its a good system for this style of gaming.

I hope they use some of the optional horror rules that appeared in the True20 Companion.