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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 2574324" data-attributes="member: 835">-lines 710-13 I am considering beginning a Cthulhu Dark Ages campaign for a few (as few as 1, 4 is the max) players that will initially be set in sixth-century Scandinavia. I wanted to see if there was enough interest for me to continue planning it out.  This would not be d20 Cthulhu (Lack of experience with Chaosium's CoC or Cthulhu Dark Ages is fine - I can walk you through it.  This will be my first time GMing the system anyway.)  There may or may not be Mythos involvement in the events of the campaign - from your character's perspective, it will be best just to take things as they come without assumptions implied by the system of choice.  The key here will be playing a person who outlook is appropriate to the time period (we won't be rigidly historical in this, though, and I'll ask that people be willing put up with that - I'm looking for good role playing with  historical atmosphere, not good history with opportunities for role playing, if that makes any sense.  I love the poem, but I'm not an expert in the time period - more like an enthusiast <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).  Characters may very well believe in magic, but it won't be present in the D&D sense (at least not which the characters have seen with their own eyes).  Rather, most people of the time will have an ever-present superstition and a belief that anything that happens has a magical cause or consequence.  Whether those beliefs are correct is another matter entirely.  They will place a huge importance to family, and I will ask that each character has at least one NPC that is curently alive that is somehow important to them - spouse, child, friend, etc describedat least briefly in their character sheet.The PC's will probably be Geats and members of Beowulf's warband on their way to save Hrothgar's people from the murderous Grendel;  If you have different ideas, that's fine too, within a cerrtain range (no travellers from China please).  Either way, expect some differences from the poem.  If anyone is interested, please let me know.</blockquote>

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