News from Around the Net: 3-FEB-2012

February!?! Where’d January go? Geesh! Here in Colorado, the snow started to fly last night and we are in the first real winter storm in 2012. What does that mean for yours truly? Not much really… I work from[...]
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Arkham Horror begats Call of Cthulhu

Being down three players last night (Dan Dan the Power Game Man is overseas for awhile, Little Ben has to take a month or two off suddenly, and Big Ben had a cold), we decided to finally play Paul’s copy of Arkham Horr[...]
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Clockwork and Cthulhu

Well this certainly looks cool:From here:Horror Roleplaying in the world of Clockwork & Chivalry“Then she did confesse that she gained her powers from a Devill which did come to her out of the baye on moonless nigh[...]
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Medical Malpractice

Invasive Procedures is a scenario written for use with Fear Itself, Pelgrane Press’ RPG that pitches ordinary folk into a disturbing contemporary world of madness and violence. Like the majority of the titles published[...]
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DnDNext, Modular Games, and Setting

When a new edition of the world's most popular role playing game is announced, people react. Boy, do they react...I'm uninterested in stoking the fires of the edition wars with this post. If you're looking for flaming of[...]
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Sorcerer Klarkash-Ton

Over the past several months, I have had the pleasure of reading through a considerable number of the tales penned by the formidable Clark Ashton Smith. I started with the collection The Return of the [...]
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Saturday Seed ~ 86 (Call of Cthulhu)

This week’s seed is for Call of Cthulhu, and deals with a blend of things ancient and not so ancient, forgotten underfoot. The seed is written for the 20’s but can be easily used with other settings.   The Seed [...]
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Obligatory 5th Edition post

My experience with an D&D beyond 1st edition could fit into a thimble. In the early 90’s one of my players wanted to run D&D, so she went out and bought the 2nd edition stuff. She ran a few games, but I don’[...]
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Cradle of Rabies’ year 2012

I am a little late with new year. Well, obviously my year turned the same time as everybody else's but in this blog. I am not a fortune teller, but here are few ideas what year 2012 of this blog and my roleplaying could [...]
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New Year’s Gaming Resolutions

Before talking about the plans for 2012 let’s have a look back at the last year. Back in January 2011 I set one goal for 2011: play more. And while I discovered Google+ Hangouts as a perfect medium for online gaming, I[...]
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Cthulhutech – running CT campaigns

Cthulhutech – running a campaign in the Strange Aeon Cthulhutech can be quite a daunting game to run, especially if you’re new to running an RPG. The sheer volume of background material can be quite off-putti[...]
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Temple Of Demogorgon – 3 Years and still underachieving

As usual, a day late for my own party. Yesterday, Saturday, marked the 3rd anniversary of this most humble, somewhat under the radar and highly underappreciated gaming blog. I’m obviously not keeping a real keen eye on[...]
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Happy New Year

Even though I am still on vacation I wanted to give you a short update on what I’ve been up to lately. For the most time I have celebrated Christmas with my girlfriend’s and my family which means we had a lot of grea[...]
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2011 is behind me, 2012 is coming…

So, the year is nearly in the bag, and a new one looms ahead. Let's look back a moment. What did 2011 bring to the table? For me one of the best moments was when I scored both The First Fantasy Campaign, and a British 1[...]
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News from Around the Net: 23-DEC-2011

This must be the “It’s nearly Christmas” edition of “Around the Net”! If I haven’t mentioned it enough already, I wish everyone reading a very happy holidays – from Cthulmas and [...]
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My New Year’s Wishes

Christmas is almost here and the impending doom of 2012 is right around the corner. So in an act of defiant denial, I now present my hopes and wishes for the new year of table top RP gaming. Acquire and Play Shadowrun. S[...]
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2011 year end retrospective of ORC Edinburgh

ORC Edinburgh has had an “interesting” year – in the same vein as “May you live interesting times!”. This has been my second year as defacto ORC webmaster (and general heid yin) for ORC Edi[...]
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Krampusnacht

Some of you may have heard about Krampus, that mythical creature that somewhat resembles the devil that accompanies St. Nicholas during the Christmas season. While Santa Claus hands out gifts to children who have been ni[...]
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One campaign wraps, some others begin

Well, last night we did what will be the last KOTOR session for awhile . After having done Night Below with 1st edition for two years (with little breaks for Metamorphosis Alpha and Champions) I was a little burnt out, s[...]
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What I don’t like about Trail of Cthulhu

Since I just ran a game of Call of Cthulhu, including some rules and concepts from Trail of Cthulhu, I have spent some time pondering the qualities of the latter. Why did I not just run a ToC game? Basically, my main b[...]
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How did it work? Combining the Cthulhu game rules

So, now I have run to sessions of my Trail of Cthulhu infused Call of Cthulhu hack. How did it go? To begin with, I think more sessions are needed to really expose the dark corners of the system. But, I think I some imp[...]
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Freebies: Renaissance

Yay! I have been waiting for this since I first read about it: Renaissance is a free roleplaying system designed for historical and fantasy games in, as the authors put it, “age of blackpowder weapons”. It was create[...]
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We could be heroes… (Blog Carnival 12-2011)

I have been gaming for a long time, but I haven’t played many heroes. I have had my share of great and memorable characters, but few I would call heroic. Even as a GM with a strong tendency toward using settings which [...]
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Anyone have a good source of sound effects?

In the prep work for my stint as a Keeper of Arcane Lore for Call of Cthulhu, I browsed around for some sound effects to use as ambient background noise during the session. When we played Beyond the Mountains of Madness,[...]
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News from Around the Net: 02-DEC-2011

Did December sneak up on anybody else? Now I’m suddenly behind on my gift shopping and I never even think November waved as it zipped by… We have a ton of news today, so let’s dive right in, shall we? F[...]
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The Hils Rise Wild – some impressions

Last Saturday we played The Hills Rise Wild for Call of Cthulhu. Now after the fact I'm wondering why I decided to play that scenario? Let me put it this way. In the scenario, the text describes how the players are intr[...]
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Saturday Seed ~ 79 (CthulhuTech)

This week’s tiny little seed is for CthulhuTech, but could be adapted easily to any Mythos-based system or setting with little difficulty. Although little more than an extended scene of deep role-play, the ramification[...]
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News from Around the Net: 25-NOV-2011

Happy Black Friday to those of you in the U.S. Those of us not hitting the malls and shopping centers are most likely still recovering from our turkey-induced comas. I have to say that for Thanksgiving this year, I have[...]
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Tome Team

As the effects of Depression spread across England, the great families of the land, the aesthetes, and the bibliophiles have fallen on hard times. Turning to assets of least consequence, they ransack their libraries to p[...]
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Reckon You Can Write RPGs?

One of the UK's top roleplaying publishers - Cubicle 7 - is looking for freelance writers to contribute to its game lines, including Doctor Who, The One Ring, Primeval, Pathfinder, The Laundry, Call of Cthulhu, Starblaz[...]
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CoC character generation

So, this weekend we generated some character for CoC. I will be running The Hills Rise Wild when we next meet. It will be interesting. I decided to include as much cool stuff from Trail as I had earlier been pondering. [...]
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Oriental Adventures & The Legend of Green Snake

I was going through a box of my older DVD’s last night, and came across my copy of the 1993 Hong Kong film Green Snake. I really love this movie, which I think I originally saw at the WLA revival theater The Nuart in t[...]
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News from Around the Net: 11-NOV-2011

Today is an auspicious day… Not because it’s Friday… Not because it’s fun to see a numerically repetitive date like 11-11-11… Not because it’s the 11th Doctor’s Day (in honor of [...]
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Hexcrawling Call of Cthulhu

This coming Saturday I'm supposed to be running a Call of Cthulhu game. I guess it goes without saying that if you plan on playing in that game, the rest might be less fun to read before the game. Since I like Arkham, a[...]
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Cthulhu and Lovecraft Political Campaign Posters

More here! (Hat tip: Christopher Robichaud.)[...]
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News from Around the Net: 04-NOV-2011

I’m going to start my Friday post off with a question… What is gaming to you? And yes, I’m hoping you’ll leave me some feedback in the form of comments on this one… Is it the gathering of fr[...]
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