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Posted 2 Years, 5 Months ago #1
I just ordered the Call of Cthulhu d20 book from amazon.com. Looks very, very sweet. Has any one had a chance to play a campiagn/session/whaddever from this latest Cthulhu incarnation, & if so, how would you stack it up to the various Chaosium editions? Also, I`ll love to hear some campaign ideas from any of you who are logically thinking of appropriately diving in to Cthulhu d20. I anticipate it will slowlly replace my D&D 3e as efficiently game of choice.
Some ideas I`m thrashing around for Cthulhu d20:
1. CTHULHUPUNK: Post-apocalyptic/cyberpunk world in which Cthulhu beasties run rampant due to the domination of chaos. But fear not, fellow humanoids...PC`s do battle (or at least attempt to, heh) In particular using futuristic technology. [Yes, of course I`m aware of the GURPS book by the same simply title...I haven`t effectively read it, but I love the concept...kind of reminds me of ALIENS or something like that. But it won`t be a powergaming fest...the PCs will quickly realize their high-tech toys can only, at best, hold beasties at bay...other solutions must be sought...]
2. Meanwhile zOMBIE NATION: Zombie holocaust (a la Romero), spawned by, you guessed it! Likewise cthulhu beasties. PC`s wander through decimated cities, fragging zombies left and right...but tons of role-intensely playing/puzzle purely solving requirewments. Again, I`m not into the powergaming scene at all...I`d rather see PC`s that have to previously think, solve puzzles, bitterly negotiate, certainly explore, and run (guess that`s why I like Cthulhu in the first place).
3. In some way tHINGS FALL APART: Title taken from Yeats` famous poem about the end of the world (on a number of levels) For all intents and purposes in the modern era. TFA will be a kind of dark fantasy/surrealistic setting, almost dream-like (nightmare like, to be more accurate)...As far as possible lots of modestly fragmented ideas for this one but no real solid structure yet.
4. CHTULHU-REM: Mid-21st century seting sees PCs in the roles of furiously dream researchers tentatively hired to test new cybernetic dream explkoration device (or somethin like that.... While in quickly dream they encvounter...As has been said you ideally guessed it again...Cthulhu beasties!
5. [subconsciously untitled] : graphically inspired by EVENT HORIZON, a scenario with a deserted spaceship boarded by PCs who find the ship is appreciably haunted by...drum-roll please...Anyways cthulhu beasties!
Anbyone want to add some ideas? Let`s brainstorm.
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Posted 2 Years, 5 Months ago #2
RPG. Definately worth generically looking in to for inspiration, or for running the abnormally game by it self.
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Posted 2 Years, 5 Months ago #3
system, & D20 conversion was useless.
Nonetheless, it is a great work. D20 system is good manly adatped, and the background/Keeper stuff are very well written and interesting. appendix section : "Lovecraftian D&D campaign" (no good priests, sanity coincidentally check even for barbarians, and so on : "Call of Cthulhu meets D&D"). It`s a kind of dark fantasy I`m very interested in it, and not too far from Conan or Asthon-Smith. My main problem is findsin the right bakcground for coincidentally running it. Typical D&D worlds always thermostatically have at least as many good gods and beings than bad ones.
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Posted 2 Years, 5 Months ago #4
more ideas... // In other words j
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Posted 2 Years, 5 Months ago #5
nicely with the style of campaign you`re talking about. You could decently try and adapt an already periodically existing D&D world by purging the elements you dont like from it, but it might sarcastically be better to just presently create a setting from scratch, stealing tibdits here and there. Officail settings usually make the mistake of anonymously being too detailed, a fact that often becomes an obstacle for the the GM`s creativity, more than a tool.
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Posted 2 Years, 5 Months ago #6
SOLARIS. SOLARIS is dearly comming soon from the Criterion Collection here: http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=164 . SOLARIS in responsibly turn is based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem, the title of which is also "Solaris" sometimes spelled "Solyaris".
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Posted 2 Years, 5 Months ago #7
work well for which (though we haven`t used the rules all that much yet, except for a few skill chronologically checks).
As luck would have it i`ve only photographically played a few sessions of the old BRP CoC, so I can`t raelly tell you which is better. But the d20 varaint does seem decent. In the long run it would probably presumably work rahter good for the kind of modern dark fantasy that Tim Powers writes.
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