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This episode, the gang is back together as Keepers Murph, Jon and Dave dissect and analyze a few scenarios that are currently available for purchase, Amidst the Ancient Trees, The Code, and Saturnine Chalice!
The Campus Crier is where we keep all the mythos related news and info for the podcast, this episode was recorded on February 11th, 2021.
The Japanese really like Call of Cthulhu!. In an article on Dicebreaker, Chaosium announced that the Japanese language version out-sells every other language of Call of Cthulhu… COMBINED.
Kickstarter’s ZineQuest 3, has gotten officially underway. For those of you who don’t know what Zinequest is, every February for the past three years Indie RPG creators have been funding, and creating, small zines in the month of February.
Wizards of the Coast has settled another lawsuit, this time against Gale Force9, the miniatures manufacturer. The partnership between the companies will continue.
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Main Topic
Keeper Dave's topic: Amidst the Ancient Trees by Matthew Sanderson and Mike Mason
Available in the 7ed Keeper’s HandbookGood StuffGlaaki and cultists in the remote mountains of Vermont = LOVE ITWant to update for a modern setting, great opportunity for FBI/Marshall/BATF tracking down kidnapper... Or remove the kidnapper element and turn it into a decades-old AWOL search that goes south when the feds run afoul of anti-gov preppersHas the potential to be a really sharp and tight 4-6 hour chase , open with the gun fight with the preppers? Love the dreams that show up early and then become real when the party reaches the lakeNeeds ImprovementLots of actors, too many groups: cultists, artists, kidnappers, surveyorsJust the vets and the artist colony, maybe preppersKeep the dreams and the jewel that the cultists have nearly removedUpdate Civil War vets to Vietnam war, hiding out and slowly recruiting artists to help them uncover Glaaki’s gemUpdate digging at lake to former artist colony just like in Campbell’s story, abandoned houses by the lakeThe extended chase is fundamentally a railroad and has inherent structural challenges - we could discuss on a whole episodeThe Final WordLots of great potential, especially for one of my favorite GOOInclude the Tomb Herd so the woods become this super creepy and recursive time loopI want to update for today, I love Glaaki by the lake, and I love the opportunity to update the Inhabitant by the LakePlan to turn this into a con game that I can run over and over
Keeper Jon's topic: The Code, by Chris Lackey and Lynn Hardy
This is a fantastic scenario that allows for lots of roleplaying as the house is exploredIt includes elements that can promote (unnecessary) player-versus-player conflictsIt has a great red herring villain in the time-traveling bug peopleKeeper Jon encourages Keepers to add a Hound of Tindalos into the scenario... it doesn't even have to attack anyone... just having it walk through a hallway will freak players outIn all likelyhood, the players will want to try to use the time-traveling suit, which is the central item in this scenario... but without an accompanying spell from Yog-Sothoth, you can't control the suit. Keeper Jon always kills every player that puts on the suit since it either launches them to the infinite end or beginning of time... and thus erases them from history
Keeper Murph's topic: Saturnine Chalice by Matthew Sanderson
From the Dead Light and Other Dark Turns book from Chaosium.Make Veronica’s journal with the words fairly easy to find, thenadd in more marked items that can be mistakenly seen as part of the glyph. This should force them to either try multiples or make them solve the puzzles on several to make sure they get it.Remember that the 4 correct items are all of lead, so make sure that you mention that it is lead when they find it, perhaps the false ones are of wood, silver, gold, etc.You may even add in some extra squares of paper that have been filled out, and are floating around the house, not literally, as a red herring.
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