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Scenario Seed: Death by Moonshine

Here's another idea for a scenario based on a historical event. The setting involved - the United States in the 1920s - inevitably points...

Investigations and the Frame Problem

One thing which perpetually gets discussed in relation to Call of Cthulhu and many other investigation-oriented games is that of skill...

The Name of the Game

Here's the thing: I've played a lot of Call of Cthulhu over the years, mainly as GM; I've also dabbled in the one-player variant of Trail...

Scenario Seed: The Mystery of UB-85

Here’s a scenario seed to get the week started, most likely for a Cthulhu Mythos game. It’s based on true events (for a given value of...

A Different Dreamlands

For an idea which is only tangentially connected to Lovecraft’s best-known stories, the Dreamlands have a substantial presence in the...

Why Scenario Seeds?

Different people get different things out of playing and gamesmastering an RPG. I enjoy the process of actually running a game very much...

Into 2021

So here we are in yet another new year, which so far doesn't look like much of an improvement on the last one. But let's try to be...

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