JeffB
Legend
But I just found this website...
Yog-Sothoth
What an amazing fan-site. I'm a huge fan of CoC the game (bought the 1E box set as soon as it hit the shelves) and Lovecrafts tales, and this is just a fantastic resource. The forums, the gaming downloads (a nice bit of D20 as well), the articles, the images/art, the Podcasts, etc.
There is one podcast in particular with a Sandy Petersen interview that really was informative- about the game itself (beginnings, design goals, etc), how he runs the game, some neat plot twists in some of his own games, the BRP system's strengths, working at Chaosium, etc etc.
I really liked when he was describing how he messed with his players-totally throwing them for a loop and freaking them out. I will have to steal some of those ideas for D&D as well as CoC.
Also interesting to note is that he designed around and runs the game in modern times- the whole 1920s emphasis was implemented by other Chaosium employees for flavor/narrative writing reasons as they were not keen on Lovecraft in the first place! (thanks to them for that decision, cos thats one of the best things about the game IMO!).
Yog-Sothoth
What an amazing fan-site. I'm a huge fan of CoC the game (bought the 1E box set as soon as it hit the shelves) and Lovecrafts tales, and this is just a fantastic resource. The forums, the gaming downloads (a nice bit of D20 as well), the articles, the images/art, the Podcasts, etc.
There is one podcast in particular with a Sandy Petersen interview that really was informative- about the game itself (beginnings, design goals, etc), how he runs the game, some neat plot twists in some of his own games, the BRP system's strengths, working at Chaosium, etc etc.
I really liked when he was describing how he messed with his players-totally throwing them for a loop and freaking them out. I will have to steal some of those ideas for D&D as well as CoC.
Also interesting to note is that he designed around and runs the game in modern times- the whole 1920s emphasis was implemented by other Chaosium employees for flavor/narrative writing reasons as they were not keen on Lovecraft in the first place! (thanks to them for that decision, cos thats one of the best things about the game IMO!).
