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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Cashel" data-source="post: 1550499" data-attributes="member: 321">I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic - with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain.--H.P. Lovecraft, "At the Mountains of Madness"Hello, folks!Yep, it's your old buddy-pal Uncle Thomas here with a poll to satisfy my curiosity.Without a doubt, D&D is the RPG I've played the most in my 20 years of gaming. But also beyond that festering shadow of doubt is the fact that BRP Call of Cthulhu is my favorite RPG of all time. It may get a bad rep for chewing up and spitting out PCs (or simply absorbing them into its protoplasmic mass), but my games were never so satisfying before I had the epiphany that the Keeper need not go out of his way to kill PCs. Since then, I've enjoyed games where all the PCs survived but I managed to scare witless the players themselves.Right now my group is about halfway through "Beyond the Mountains of Madness," Chaosium's epic (and out-of-print) sequel to Lovecraft's above-quoted tale, and widely considered one of the best RPG supplements ever written, for any game. So far I have to agree...it is gripping, well-written, and astonishingly complete. In three 8-hour sessions we've had a lot of fun, and learned an amazing amount of things about what it was really like to go to Antarctica on a ship in 1933. And they haven't even gotten onto the ice yet!So...the poll is just to find out how many devoted, D&D-loving, EN Worlders have played BRP Call of Cthulhu, and approximately how many times.The thread is for your comments: How did you like the game? Why did you dislike it? Have you played a campaign, or just one-shots? Have you played under GM/Keepers who ensured wholesale slaughter? ...or let the chips fall as they may? Anyone played BtMOM?Extra for experts: If you've played BRP and D20 Call of Cthulhu, which do you like better, and why? (I have never played D20 CoC, so you may enlighten me on its merits if you wish!)</blockquote>

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