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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6590120" data-attributes="member: 11146">[ATTACH]67872[/ATTACH]Credit: Chaosium, Inc.I'm a huge Agatha Christie fan, and I'm also a fan of PbP gaming.  <a href="http://www.chaosium.com/horror-on-the-orient-express-pdf/" target="_blank">Horror on the Orient Express</a>, a Call of Cthulu mega-adventure, caught my eye today while I was looking at CoC .pdfs.  I admit it.  I drooled.  The .pdf sells for $60.  The blurb on the Chaosium website says that the campaign contains nineteen (19) adventures and 1100+ pages.  Have any of you run or played Horror on the Orient Express?  Anyone seen or thumbed through a print copy?  I would like to know the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Is it fun?  Does it have (a lot of) errors?  Does each adventure contain monster stats?  What would I need to purchase separately to successfully run it?  Are any of the 19 adventures better suited to PbP?  If you played through some or all of it, how often did you lose characters due to death or insanity?  Is there anything particularly relevant to this adventure that you'd recommend a DM or players know when creating characters or planning the campaign?The sheer length of this bad boy makes me uncomfortable.  I wouldn't attempt to run all of it as a PbP; I'd want to select snippets to run.  $60 is pricey.  I'm hoping someone here will have experience with the adventure and can speak to its worth.</blockquote>