Masks of Nyarlathotep [OOC]

[Yellow Sign]

Nice to have a good chuckle in the morning !!!

 

[Shapermc]

Shorty grabs the Teach and shakes him awake! "Man it was all just a dream! What was the takl about a BBQ and zebras? Your stange, see."



Anyways, YS I picked up H.P.'s Dunwich the other night and am almost completly done with it. Quite impressed, but kind of unsatisfyed with it. Well at least the d20 part. It seemed like an after thought and I was pretty much just doing stat conversions in my head rather than just flimming to the back all the time. Oh well. Really great otherwise, I could imagine runnning an entire campeign for about a year wandering around and exploring all that Dunwich has to offer. Although I like the 2 adventures, honestly I feel that this is more of a Campeign setting than it is a module/adventure. Great anyways. I reread TDH again I havent read that story in about 5 or so years, and forgot alot of the crunchy bits. It also reminded me that not all the Cthulhu story end in the investigators dieing. I am thinking of playing the old fart in Smoke and Mirrors just because it will supply some neat roleplaying oppertunities.

 

[Yellow Sign]

Yeah, I didn't get the Dunwich book myself. I kinda leafed through it at the store and it looked pretty much like a their old Dunwich book but with some d20 conversions in it and a new scenerio or two. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth how Chaosium treats the d20 COC like a red headed step child.

As for the Dunwich Horror, yep it's one of the few lovecraft stories that the protagonists win in the end. I guess you could say that for The Call of Cthulhu too. But there is that undercurrent that even though the heroes won. It's only a short lived victory and that the Endtime is fast aproaching.

Hey Shapermc, have you ever looked at Beyond the Mountains of Madness campaign book. I just wondered what you thought of it.

 

[VorpalBunny]

I'll probably end up using Dunwich as a campaign setting too - IMO that's this book's strength.

I really liked the Return to Dunwich adventure (mi-go under Dunwich? Oh yeah, baby!), even though I thought the d20 stats for the son of Yog-Sothoth were a little over powered.

Overall though, since I missed the original BRP printing I'm very happy with it.

As for The Dunwich Horror - Armitage had to win in the end. The son of Yog-Sothoth was loose, and if not stopped would have helped bring the "end" very quickly.

 

[Shapermc]

YS: Do you mean Beyond the Mountains of Madness? If you mean that then I had read the first like 25-50 pages about a month ago at my FLGS when my friend was there for "other" purposes. I was really starting to dig it, but then I got to the price tag and I would not have enough for it for a few weeks. Well low and behold it sold in that ammount of time. I am trying to hunt it down right now by emailing all kinds of places, but so far no luck. I hate Ebay for RPG stuf so that is my last resort. But from my first inital thoughts it is a great book, but like someone else said that would take a long ass prep time to run effectively.

Honestly I just want to say to my players, "Guess what! I got you all tickets to Ancticartica!!!!!" LOL

 

[Shapermc]

As for The Dunwich Horror - Armitage had to win in the end. The son of Yog-Sothoth was loose, and if not stopped would have helped bring the "end" very quickly.

Well he diden't have to live after he stoped it. And also he seemed quite sane after comming down the mountain. He was even more sane then after reading the journal.

 

[Yellow Sign]

LOL, yes I ment Beyond the Mountains of Madness. Did you know that there is a Antarctic Expedition Pack for it too. It's pretty cool. It has a better map and a VERY NEAT sew on patch of the Starkweather Expedition in it too. I have read it through and its very good. Though personally I think the beginning is too slow starting out but the end has a slam bang finish with a very big plot twist at the end.

PS anything with antarctic exploration and zeppelins in it has to be GREAT!!!

 

[Shapermc]

YS: are you looking to unload both of those ? I did know about the supplemental stuff and I was interested in that as well. But honestly I would love to take them off your hands

 

[Yellow Sign]

LOL!
I think I am going to hold on to them for a while. I know how hard it is to get OOP stuff and as soon as I would sell it. I would want to run it!

 

[Shapermc]

I feel kind of stupid now for pulling myself out of the room, but staing IC is essential. Don't think that I am out of the game if I don't post, but I probably wont post at the IC thread untill things are resolved. At least I got a small bit of information we may not have had otherwise

So ... I almost finished that Retun to Dunwich and ... Shorty knocks on Yellow Signs door, when he opens it he finds a gangster out of the 1920 ready to kick him in the shins. After YS doubles over in pain the man ransacks the house and then runs out the fron door carrying a large book (aprox. 440 pages) and a box set with a picture of mountains on the cover ...

Did I distract you long enough?