My Gamer ADD

These days, typically in snippets of 5-10 minutes, I find myself reading the following RPG materials: · Various Call of Cthulhu materials (parts of the core book, various adventures, bits from the Dreamlands). [...]
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1 Spell 3 Systems: Decompose

The cultist grabbed a handful of the strange yellow-gray dust and cast it into the air above the body of Sir Reginold of Larksley. To the horror of those still in the right frame of mind, the body immediately decomposed [...]
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1 Spell 3 Systems: Hasted Decomposition

As the zombie shambled about the grounds below the tower, Thomas realized the divine power his goddess had granted could save them again. Summoning his faith he strode to the bottom level of the turret, preparing to step[...]
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Lovecraft’s Philosophy

Today is the birthday of H. P. Lovecraft (20 August 1890). To commemorate this day, I thought that I would quote a passage from S. T. Joshi’s “Introduction” to one of the many collections of Lovecraft stories t[...]
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Call of Cthulhu Fridays: Time Periods

Happy 120th birthday HPL! You sick bastiche.It has been around 10 years since my last Call of Cthulhu game, and now that my group seems to be getting more open to lots of non-D&D alternatives to our regular game, I f[...]
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The Stars Are Right…

Happy Birthday, HPL!Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) - the finest and most inspirational horror writer of the 20th Century.To learn more about one of my favourite authors check out his Wikip[...]
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Deride the system in a sentence

There’s been a lot of horror on this blog of late and I thought it time to counter the terrors with some comedy. In that light I submit a list made to make you laugh. Disclaimer: This post made of 100% Total tongue[...]
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Pre-American Gothic

I owe an apology to Richard Iorio II and James Maliszewski at Rogue Games. I have had a copy of their Colonial Gothic: A historical supernatural role-playing game for far too long and not reviewed it. There is no excuse,[...]
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1 Spell 4 Systems: Terrain of Terror

Next up in our Trilogy of Terror is the spell Terrain of Terror… fear for your sanity as your worst nightmares are made manifest! “The spell is an outrage! An abomination!” yelled Kalek as he slammed h[...]
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Mythos Tome: Eruditio de Sodalitas des Occultus Aranea

A bonus post born of the Ol’ Cob’s Webs work of fiction. Like all good Mythos stuff, this blends some fiction wtih reality and history. Blurring the lines is a well practiced art in Lovecraftean inspired work[...]
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1 Spell 3 Systems: Ol’ Cob’s Webs

This post is part two of a three part series. This spell Ol’ Cob’s Webs and the creatures it summons inspired by the fictional horror story of the same name. Creature description and statistics to follow in a later[...]
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1 Spell 3 Systems: Spiderfall

Mealdor opened the scroll and began to read the spidery script. The dark elven priestess who they defeated had tried to do the same before the rogue’s arrow pierced her heart through. As he finished the incantation[...]
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Arkham Country Six, Sanity Zero

One of the strongest of debut books for Call of Cthulhu since Chaosium, Inc. began letting others publish for the game was New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley from Miskatonic River Press. Conceived the late and much misse[...]
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Call of Cthulhu Friday: Princess Tasha

During the 90’s I had a long running CoC campaign that I called “Canal House.” The character home base was in a small, two story house on the newly built Canals of America in Venice Beach, California. The house was[...]
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In praise of a player: Terry

This coming weekend my friend Terry is taking me to Las Vegas again. She took me for a weekend earlier this year not long after an immediate member of my family had passed away, and I can’t tell you how much I needed a[...]
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Cthulhu Who?

Ken Hite is Call of Cthulhu’s number one fan. He might not own the number one copy of Call of Cthulhu, but is more than qualified to write what is essentially an initiate’s guide to Cthulhu and the Cthulhu Mythos. Hi[...]
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My Late Introduction to H.P. Lovecraft

As I've mentioned before, I didn't discover the joy of H.P. Lovecraft's works until sometime in the mid-80's. I'm pretty sure it was in the summer of '85, but it may have been '86. I may not be able to accurately recall [...]
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1 Spell 3 Systems: Rain of Brains

This had to be what his grandfather had warned him about. But Baxter was undeterred by the old man’s pleas for caution. How now he wished it were not so. Baxter watched in horror as the strange beings began to writ[...]
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Call of Cthulhu Fridays: The Sundered Veil

(above image is fan art for this story found online)OK, with scheduling conflicts and so much going on right now, I won’t be running any of my game stuff for the group for a few weeks (I don’t do my main 1st edition [...]
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The stars are right… For a winner! The results of the Realms of Cthulhu Giveaway Contest

Following the post for the Realms of Cthulhu giveaway, many of our loyal readers sent in their submissions and once the contest closed we sat down to give each one good read. After much consideration and difficult delibe[...]
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Origins 2010 Expanded Coverage – Delta Green

My session of Delta Green from Origins 2010 Related posts:Origins 2010 Expanded Coverage – Call of CthulhuOrigins 2010 Expanded Coverage – Realms of CthulhuOrigins 2010 Expanded Coverage – ADGNEPSEF55[...]
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Review: End Time

Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere’s End Time is a dark vision of the future, a world where the stars where right and humanity had to abandon Earth. The book itself also had a quite tumultuous past. The basic idea came from LaB[...]
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Review: End Time

Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere’s End Time is a dark vision of the future, a world where the stars where right and humanity had to abandon Earth. The book itself also had a quite tumultuous past. The basic idea came from LaB[...]
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The ol’ Bait and Switch

So I’m looking for some insight from a player’s perspective. Here’s the (completely hypothetical) situation: Let’s say you are invited to play a rpg. For the purpose of our discussion let’s [...]
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Origins 2010 Expanded Coverage – Call of Cthulhu

My session of Call of Cthulhu from Origins 2010 Related posts:Origins 2010 Expanded Coverage – Realms of CthulhuOrigins 2010 Expanded Coverage – Delta GreenOrigins 2010 Expanded Coverage: Fellowship of the [...]
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Review: Cthulhu Rising

Usually Call of Cthulhu games are set into the 1920s, the Victorian age or modern times. But there are some exceptions. This week I want to have a look at two books that help Keepers running Call of Cthulhu games in the [...]
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Review: Cthulhu Rising

Usually Call of Cthulhu games are set into the 1920s, the Victorian age or modern times. But there are some exceptions. This week I want to have a look at two books that help Keepers running Call of Cthulhu games in the [...]
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Ladies & Gentlemen, We Will See You All Again Soon…

Although I am now - to quote Ross from Friends - "on a break", it's great to still see new faces joining the HeroPress superteam. I intend to keep a tag of all new recruits between now and when we return and celebrate th[...]
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Origins Game Fair – Day 2.57893 +3

A long night of gaming bleeds into a longer day of the same; and it is good. Related posts:Origins Game Fair Day 4 – Advanced Dimens…Origins Game Fair Day 3 – To Green, or not to Green?Origins Game Fa[...]
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A Picture of a Dungeon Room With Cthulhu in it…

Also, in the theme of the above, here's some concept art for ALIEN... [...]
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100 Posts, ya’ll!

Holy cow, I only noticed this weekend that I hit 100 posts! Hurray for me!Really, no big deal. Anybody can do a bunch of posts. But in the last several months or so I have tried only to post when I actually had something[...]
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Tell Us About The Freebies

If you have been wondering why there has been no review this week, it is because I have been busy writing reviews for elsewhere. As many of you know, yesterday was Free RPG Day, an annual event that works to bring gamers[...]
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My RPG DNA, Part 2: The Early Memphis Years

Last time, I talked about my early gaming experiences in junior high/high school in Texas in the ’80s.  Star Frontiers, Red Box D&D, and AD&D, almost always DM, with some diceless, PvP, and single player a[...]
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Dungeon Master as Civil Servant

Am I too easy as a DM? Is this really a low paying (read: non-paying) job that forgoes my fun or frivolity for the service to others? I started as much an adversarial DM as anybody from my time. That’s how D&D game[...]
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Do I like Champions more than D&D?

D&D is my first and always will be my best love. I think. I’ve been running my 1st ed. (started out as OD&D) game world for over 30 years, and it would be hard not to look at it as a favorite son. And jeez, I [...]
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The Week In Geek (third course)…

A final round-up for the day of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Star Wars Zombie Bust: Gentle Giant has produced its first zombie storm trooper mini-bust to tie in to the Star Wars horror tale Death Troo[...]
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Two Cthulhu-themed ‘Jack Chick’ Tracts

In my last blog post I mentioned Jack Chick's amusing and absurd cautionary tale concerning the devilish dangers of 'Dungeons and Dragons' entitled 'Dark Dungeons' (now the title of a retro-clone of the D&D Rules Cyc[...]
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The Haunter of the Ring

I've been working on an adventure but it is taking longer then I thought. I'm mostly done the statblocks & body of the adventure but still need to write up the finale and locations for when the players inevitable bre[...]
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Three by Three

While the bulk of campaigns and scenarios published for Call of Cthulhu are set during its Classic period of the 1920s – and to a lesser extent in the contemporary period of Cthulhu Now, the growing number of scenarios[...]
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Nuff Said: The Stars Are Right — CthuLegos

Who knew that you could use Legos in your regular Call of Cthulhu rpg sessions? [...]
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Mini-Campaigns I’m Looking Forward to Running

I’ve been blabbering on and on about Mini-Campaigns and their benefits. I know, I know. “Move on!” you say, “we get it.” But I thought I’d share some mini-campaigns I’m looking f[...]
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Thoughts on Dehydration and Starvation

I did a precursory scan (read: “I googled it”) and did not find any gritty, simulationist rules of dehydration or starvation.  I’m looking for something that is not too complicated to keep track of on [...]
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The Sleep of Akrasia…

... breeds 5 HD monsters ...As some gentle readers may have noticed, I haven't had time to write any posts over the past month. Frustratingly, I likely will not have any time for blogging over the next few weeks as well[...]
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Lovecraftian Week: Roundup post

Last week we brought you several post on gaming inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. But all good things have to come to an end, and so the “Lovecraftian Week” concluded with a Lazy Friday Video Post featuring Li[...]
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An Update to my BRP Advantages

Just a short post today, updating one of my old posts. Sorry my adventure isn’t done, I’ve been being social and moving way up north. I’m on the final encounter and then the statblocks. The original adv[...]
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Five by Five

To date, the third party supplements published for Call of Cthulhu have been scenario or scenario anthologies, but the latest from Super Genius Games is actually a sourcebook. In fact, A Peculiar Pentad is only a mini so[...]
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Have Cultists, Will Travel…

My latest batch of figures has arrived from my painter-of-choice, Neil Wilson. This collection was mainly the multi-purpose pulp cultists I've had cluttering up my 'unpainted figures drawers' for several years.I was supp[...]
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Lovecraft, how do I love thee? Let me count with my tentacles… – My Top 5 Favorite Lovecraftian Stories

I’ve gushed about Lovecraft on my previous post for Stargazer’s World Lovecraftian Week. Through my love for role-playing I discovered one of the masters of the genre and have enjoyed his work and that of others insp[...]
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Lovecraftian posts from the archives

I gathered all my mental strength and delved deep into the dusty archives of this blog to bring back some of the unspeakable truths about the Mythos. Behold! All the posts listed here are either about some Cthulhu game p[...]
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Old McWhateley had a cult… Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn! – My Top 5 Lovecraftian gaming products

In keeping with the theme of Lovecraftian Week here in Stargazer’s World I want to do a series of mythos themed top five lists inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. And since this is a gaming blog what better list t[...]
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