Today's reviews are a little different in that you're getting three - these scenarios all come from White Dwarf Magazine and their Call of Cthulhu Omnibus. While most of this Omnibus is helpful articles, some are scenarios, and it's from two article sources, Trio of Terror and Ghost Jackal Kill, that I draw the reviews here. Think of them as rapid-fire mini-reviews, meant to showcase what I thought was some interesting creativity from the CoC community long before the Miskatonic Repository was a gleam in Chaosium's eye. Join me after the jump, won't you?
Okay, that title's a bit of a stretch, but I really wanted the alliterative title. The W is silent. Do not dwell upon its presence, for doing so will bring forth an unholy W-based form of the Unspeakable One. The W is silent, silent as the grave...
Today's reviews are a little different in that you're getting three - these scenarios all come from White Dwarf Magazine and their Call of Cthulhu Omnibus. While most of this Omnibus is helpful articles, some are scenarios, and it's from two article sources, Trio of Terror and Ghost Jackal Kill, that I draw the reviews here. Think of them as rapid-fire mini-reviews, meant to showcase what I thought was some interesting creativity from the CoC community long before the Miskatonic Repository was a gleam in Chaosium's eye. Join me after the jump, won't you?
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Welcome to another entry in the Dark Thoughts series, my Call of Cthulhu review series where I look at supplements great and small for the RPG. This time, boy do I have a doozy for you guys, because my God, never has a game given me nightmares like the one I have for you today... You know what I don't like? Things preying on me without my knowledge. You know what I really don't like? Unremitting horror that is something out of a nightmare. Guess what my Keeper friend Rob decided to do to everyone in Miskatonic Valley at one point, and how many nightmares I had from it?
If you guessed "He ran Stygian Fox's Forget Me Not from their recent The Things We Leave Behind", you're either actually a Yithian and come from the future, or you have played this ungodly hell-spawn of a scenario before. In any case, if any game can give you the shivers, if any scenario can make you want to bathe in bleach, this is it. Those of you who've played it know why. Those of you that aren't familiar with it, but wanna run it... well, read on, but know that I warned you... Welcome to a new segment on my blog, a review series I'm calling Dark Thoughts. In this segment, I will be reviewing Call of Cthulhu scenarios I have played in or run for my immediate group of IRL friends, Miskatonic Valley. This is intended to be an extension of RotOO Review, and as a result chronicles my experiences with various scenarios for the game. Because all of these are opinion-based, it basically is gonna be subjective. Also, it may have spoilers for people who have not played the scenario yet, which is why I'm using the jump. That way, nobody gets spoiled, even if the scenario is some 20-30 years old now and really has no reason for it. Better safe than sorry, after all...
Each one of these I do is going to cover mostly supplements that are traditional publications. That means no 'zine scenarios like Fear of Flying, nothing that is from the Miskatonic Repository, and nothing that isn't otherwise put out by a well-known publisher, new or otherwise. If the publisher's defunct or not prominent, they're also not getting reviewed due to scenario rarity. So that means stuff like the Games Workshop or Stygian Fox are game, but stuff like scenarios from The Unspeakable Oath or those published by T.O.M.E are generally not allowed. Only if it came out as a book or PDF is it viable, otherwise we'd be here all eternity. The only exception here is if the scenario itself really is worth some decent merit to warrant its own review. If I have a strong opinion about a scenario, it's gonna be heard regardless of the publishing format, so for all I know a MULA supplement may be reviewed here. It just depends what I'm feeling. To kick this off, here's a review of Mister Corbitt, one of the first scenarios I actually got the chance to play, a well known and beloved scenario by many from Chaosium's Mansions of Madness publication. I've already reviewed a scenario, The Plantation, in that supplement once before, however this is the first time I've gotten to review a scenario from the other side of the Keeper screen. So, here's what I thought about Mister Corbitt and its take on a Hitchcock classic. Does it hold up today? Read on to find out more. |
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