BRP Version of Stross’s ‘Laundry’ coming soon!

It looks like Cubicle 7 will be producing a role-playing game version of Charlie Stross's 'Laundry' setting, as described in The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue. I very much enjoyed The Atrocity Archives (I ha[...]
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When the Stars are Right.

When the stars are right, my players rock! You see, we had a pretty good session this last weekend. It's been well over 20 years since we'd played Call of Cthulhu and I'd never run the game, but it has quickly become o[...]
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Lost Vegas #2 (A Call of Cthulhu Campaign)

Episode 2: Love’s Lonely Children (Part 2) (an adaption of the Richard Watts scenario of the same name.) Wherein the investigators discover the unspeakable horror responsible for the murder Cast Joe …… Jame[...]
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A Few of My Favorite Things Man Should Not Know

As spring approaches, I find myself beginning to entertain thoughts of madness and despair - different from the thoughts of madness and despair that the passing of the winter holidays brings, that is. No, this time of ye[...]
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[TotalCon 2010] Call of Cthulhu: Curse of the Betrothed

Call of Cthulhu beckoned me on Saturday morning. It’s one of those games that inspires as many different interpretations as there have been of Lovecraft’s mythos in general. Pulp adventure with tommy guns and[...]
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Lost Vegas #1 (A Call of Cthulhu campaign)

(A summary of the first session of my Call of Cthulhu campaign which started last week. Cross-posted over here from our Obsidian Portal campaign homepage.) Episode 1: Love’s Lonely Children (Part 1) (an adaption of th[...]
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Need a 1920’s character photo?

I had a GM a while back who required us to all get photos for our characters. It wasn’t something I’d done before and I’m not sure we really used them much but I thought it was a decent idea. Today I fo[...]
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Lamborghini’s, Caviar, Dry Martinis, Shangra-la

So next week I will begin a modern Call of Cthulhu campaign set in the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. Wickedness, sin, glitz, glamor, and Mythos. A perfect storm. Not sure how it will go, to be honest. All of the players ar[...]
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Call of Kult – Kult/CoC convertion

I have planned my next FARP (stands for Forum Action Role-Play) for ages. I started planning it last year, but still haven't started it. I have to thank future players of that FARP for their patience.First I planned to u[...]
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[Call of Cthulhu] Call of ice

Call of ice is my recently started Call of Cthulhu campaign. Inspired by movies like The Thing, 30 Days of Night, Whiteout, The Abyss and reality series Ice Road Truckers I decided to use campaign to be set to something [...]
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Psst! Department 7 Needs You!

A message from Department 7...Department 7, Cubicle 7 Entertainment’s official demo team, is recruiting. We’re looking to strengthen our demo teams with people interested in running, and teaching, our games at conve[...]
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The Minotaur, Medusa, and Other ‘Things That Should Not Be’

Just added to my online wishlist… Cthulhu Invictus. I saw it on Friday whilst paying a visit to my local. My attention was immediately drawn to the book thanks to the eye-catching cover art (seriously… I thi[...]
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Fear not fellow cultists, Olde Yoggie has returned!

Edit 1/28/10: Looks like Olde Yoggie is back among the mortal realms. Thankfully, it appears that we didn’t have to sacrifice anyone to make it happen… at least no sacrifice occured that I was privy to…[...]
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To Impulse!

In the spirit of carpe jugulum, this afternoon I spontaneously decided to tag along with a crew going to TotalCon next month. I just got done going through the online registration process. Fingers crossed I haven’t[...]
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Setting the Game in Your Location

I am not sure if this is a common occurrence among role-players or not, but a group that I played in high school set many of the games in our town. For obvious reasons, this does not work as well for Dungeons & Drag[...]
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Spring Convergence is Set

We managed to finally set a date for the Spring Convergence. Trying to pick a single weekend that everyone can attend is getting progressively more difficult. Gaming takes a back seat to birthdays, family commitments, ho[...]
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Frame of Reference, Suspension of Disbelief, and Ease of Immersion

While driving around yesterday, the wife and I began a discussion on this Spring’s Convergence game possibilities and difficulties surrounding certain decisions. As a quick aside, I often chat with her about though[...]
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Happy 2010!

No time for a real post for at least another week, unfortunately, but I thought that I would mention that I’ve made a modest change to the blog. I’ve now divided the list of links on the right hand side of the blog [...]
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Cthulhu and Hot Chicks

Naw, that isn't the newest supplement to Carcosa. Great looking girls mixing it up with monsters from beyond the stars? Hey, beautiful women go with anything.Like most of you I come across tons of great fantasy art onlin[...]
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Snows of an Early Winter

In Snows of an Early Winter, the latest Call of Cthulhu scenario from Super Genius Games, the investigators are pulled into a series of mysterious events in modern day New York. While the rest of the city prepares for th[...]
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Understanding yields Insanity: Why the Mythos causes SAN loss

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents… – HPL One of the things that’s often discussed/debated/argued/studied in regards to Call [...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Virtual Fun Gets Solid: The multi-talented Felicia Day and Dark Horse Comics bring her popular online series, The Guild, to comic book format in March with a[...]
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New York, New York, It’s a Hell of a Town

Adventure premise is simple: it's New York, modern day. An election is coming up. Some bad guys are conducting dark rituals to try to steal said election by sacrificing creatures in Brooklyn. Those dark rituals, it turns[...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) A Dungeon Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas: The latest updated version of Greyhawk Grognard's Castle Of The Mad Archmage (his 'olde school' tribute to the[...]
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Review: The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia

Read it now at Examiner.com [...]
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Reversing The Polarity…

With mere days to go until Doctor Who: Adventures In Time And Space is due to be released on the (generally) unsuspecting public, publishers Cubicle 7 revealed it would be removing all reference to Doctor Who from its fo[...]
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Need Feedback – Where do we go from here?

Sorry I’ve been a bit lacking in the posts arena lately. I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking about how to move forward. With the great, constructive feedback from the October 2009 playtest session of the[...]
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Magazine Review: Kobold Quarterly Fall 2009 Issue 11

Hi all! Along with many other folks, I had an opportunity to check out the Fall 2009 issue of Kobold Quarterly in October… And I’m just now getting back to writing up the review. But here I am! I have to admi[...]
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Spread Thy Tentacles

Though it was originally conceived as a fairly by-the-numbers D&D style campaign for Castles & Crusades, the more I think about my Freed Lands setting, the more Cthulhu Mythos-influenced it becomes. I don't know [...]
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Physical Evidence

. . . there are few things louder or more terrifying than the shrieks of a 13-year old girl discovering a preserved Lovecraftian beastie chilling in the freezer. Trust me, I know. - Propnomicon, This Week’s Crass C[...]
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The Ghouls All Came from Their Humble Abodes

Here's another post in - ahem - the spirit of the season: a scenario I whipped up for a recent session of Call of Cthulhu: In the deep woods of northern Massachusetts, the PC's (or, since this is CoC, the "investigators"[...]
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After Lovecraft

My friend Rick Dakan, author of many fine books (including All Flesh Must Be Eaten and the Geek Mafia novel series) has returned to RPG publishing with The Horror at Red Hook: The Cold Case of Robert Suydam. As the title[...]
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Small Press Week: Interview with Steve Russell of Rite Publishing

As part of Zachary Houghton’s wonderful Small Press Week, I got in contact with Steve Russell of Rite Publishing.  Steve started Rite Publishing himself and forms the (lively) backbone of the company.  I have tho[...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Passing Of A Legend: Doctor Who producer, director and writer Barry Letts died last week, aged 84. See also The Guardian Obituary.(2) X-Scribe In The UK: Leg[...]
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Group Size – what’s your pref?

In my last post I talked about digging on the full group of six players I currently have. Of course that might change before too long (in the last year I’ve had a total of four new players come and go, and three regula[...]
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Our Ladies of Sorrow

Evil walks among us in the form of three sisters: Mater Tenebrarum, the Mother of Darkness; Mater Suspiriorum, the Mother of Sighs; and Mater Lachrymarum, the Mother of Tears. These three evil women are the mystical bei[...]
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Our Ladies of Sorrow: Modern Gaming, Scary Women

I'm always on the lookout for solid modern adventures. But many of them fall into the more cinematic style where everyone is an action hero, spy, or both, thus making the subset of adventures I'm looking for even smaller[...]
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GURPS High Tech: Pulp Guns

As their titles suggest, GURPS High Tech: Pulp Guns, Volume 1 and GURPS High Tech: Pulp Guns, Volume 2 are two PDF supplements devoted to the type of weaponry found during the Pulp Era, roughly from the end of the Great [...]
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Lazy Friday Video Post: The Whisperer in Darkness

Recently I learned about the upcoming “The Whisperer in Darkness” movie. It’s the second adaption of a H.P. Lovecraft story by the people who brought us the awesome “Call of Cthulhu” silent [...]
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Halloween Adventure Idea

This is mostly a systemless idea, although I envision it as a Don’t Rest Your Head or Call of Cthulhu game. I love holidays.  They are basically an excuse for me to be a kid in small bursts.  I especially love Ha[...]
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Ah….More Delta Green

My love of Delta Green knows no limit! Yes, it looks like March of next year for the new book, but that’s fine. I KNOW it will be fantastic and as always, one of the best RPG supplements written. EVERY book I hav[...]
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Read Through: Realms of Cthulhu

Some products are hard to write about. Like this one. It’s Call of Cthulhu for Savage Worlds.  That pretty much sums it up. It’s put out by Reality Blurs, the Savage Worlds bits are officially licensed by PE[...]
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The end is nigh!

The end of the year that is. It’s mid-September now and fall is approaching fast (at least in the northern hemisphere). Perfect time to start a horror RPG campaign! So, why should you start a horror campaign now? Espec[...]
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1 Spell 4 Systems: Exchange Pain

Exchange Pain Try though he might, the warrior did not understand why the foul sorcerer did not defend himself from the onslaught. As the signs of damage and death began to show upon the frail body of the necromancer, th[...]
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Interview: Joshua Stevens of Open Design

Open Design is the Wolfgang Baur-led studio effort for designing roleplaying game adventures, primarily for D&D. Open Design uses a unique model to make the adventures: instead of the traditional single designer or c[...]
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Madness in London Town

Age of Cthulhu Vol. II: Madness in London Town is the second scenario to be released by Goodman Games for Call of Cthulhu, the RPG of Lovecraftian horror published by Chaosium, Inc. It follows the first scenario, Death [...]
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1 Spell 3 Systems: Watery Grave

Watery Grave When the clay ship and figures were ready, the three women and the Devil-dog went to an empty house near the seaport… They gathered there, then they all went down to the water’s edge, called out[...]
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Convergence: Not My First Choice

I’ve been pondering another major arc game to run at this Fall’s Convergence. I’ve begun to think the best setup for the get-together is a couple of major games punctuated by one-offs. Since Mark has a[...]
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You’re all going to die – Take 2

I had such fun running the previous “You’re all going to die” game at the Spring Convergence that I’m planning on running another session for the Fall event in October. In fact, if I can manage i[...]
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Seventies Flashback Saturday

Hopefully, normal posting will resume Monday. In the meantime:[...]
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