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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6676244" data-attributes="member: 11146">Cool.  I looked at all three on the Chaosium website.  Pros:  Hello, Cthulu!  Also, Masks of Nyarlathotep and Tatters of the King have a vibrant pulp feel to them.  Con:  They're massively long, probably too long for PbP.Beyond the Mountains of Madness is the least appealing to me because it weighs in at 400+ pages and appears to be limited to a cold-weather climate.  I would not care to be stuck in one highly specialized environment for a long period of time.  Doing so limits character creation in ways that are unappealing (to me).Masks of Nyarlathotep (248 pp) looks great.  I like that it starts out in NYC, the moves to different locales (one of which is Egypt!).  I like that it's pulpy.  I like that it bills itself as a Cthulu classic; I'm interested in tropes.  It would probably be easy to create a character for this module as there are lots of varied and interesting elements to draw upon.Tatters of the King (236 pp) looks great, too.  I love that it contains art-related investigation; I adore anything having to do with art.  It might be trickier to draft a character for this module, but I like that I could really gun for magical realism and could probably have a ball playing a curator, doctor, or journalist in this setting.  I like that it's set in London.  And, just like Masks of Nyarlathotep, I like that it appears to have a pulp feel to it.  I particularly like that it purports to mix politics, government, and finance with art.  Sounds like a win to me.I voted for Tatters.  But really I think either Tatters or Masks would be great.  Not that I'm going to submit a character...just had a few minutes and wanted to chime in.</blockquote>

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