Articles tagged with: RPG

Today we've had our second CHtulhu (paper) roleplaying session, continuing the history and characters of the first one.

We started just where we left, being interrogated by the police for the murder happened at the hotel, and took to a hospital to heal our wounds.

But we found it was no normal hospital. A creepy ghost started to appear whenever one of us was either alone or awake while the others were sleeping.

We managed to investigate the possible origin of the ghost, a strange doctor, and finally found the source, not after I almost killed one of my friends because he was being possesed by the spirit of the ghost...

We hope to have solved all problems on this town, because it is going to kill us if not...

Note: I've been a bit off because of moving to my new house, and because of having at last my awaited Odin Sphere game! It is great but don't expect an rpg, it is a beat'em'up with rpg touches.

Publication date: 2008-04-05

Tags: Call of Cthulhu RPG

I almost forgot to post the results of our first roleplaying session of Cthulhu!

The Module we used (The travesty) comes from The Resurrected Vol. Two: Of Keys & Gates, of Pagan Publishing.

We were 4 players and the keeper, and although the adventure had some risky moments, the keeper was too kind (too much ;) and we all survived encounters with a cultist... and other things, I don't wan to spoil the action :)

I hope to have another session soon, it was very fun and we demostrated that statistics sometimes fall of the average and we are able to fail every spot hidden roll in a 4h play session :D

Publication date: 2008-01-28

Tags: Call of Cthulhu RPG

Finally, and after so many years without playing a pen-and-paper RPG, this situation is coming to an end.

Some workmates and I are finishing preparations for some Call of Cthulhu roleplaying!

As some of us have not played in a long long time, and others are newcomers to RPGs, our master (keeper in the Cthulhu theme ;) has decided to start with basic rules and expand it as we progress.

To do so, we're using the following:

• GORE (Generic Old-school Role-playing Engine) as the basic ruleset, with some modifications and Cthulhu-specific tables.
• Call of Cthulhu Quickstart Rules, to provide Cthulhu settings and rules to the GORE system. It is a ultra-compact version of the standard roleplaying game.
• Byakhee + the Seet Back for Call of Cthulhu, for the character generation.

We know few more details... the game will be placed in 1922 in the north of Wisconsin.

Let's hope all goes well and we start having playing sessions each few weeks!

Publication date: 2008-01-13

Tags: Call of Cthulhu GORE RPG Tools

Last winter. in one of my visits to what me and my friends call "the roleplaying shops" (5 Comics, RPGs and boardgames shops in the same area) I bought a revised edition of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game.

Now that I've read some Lovecraft books (and I'm reading more right now) I feel like I'm ready to read the game rules and get the proper feeling about the game.

I don't know if I'll try to lure my friends to play it (like in the old times our "roleplaying weekends") or I will take a more "pure roleplaying" approach and maybe transform it into an email, turn based playing (focusing more on describing things and getting a deep history instead of dice rolls).

I'll post my oppinion as soon as I finish reading the rules.

Oh, and the title of this post comes from finding that the first edition of the RPG game came out in 1981, the same year I was born. Maybe that's the reason why I like so much the Cthulhu myths }:)

Publication date: 2007-12-01

Tags: Call of Cthulhu Elder's Thoughts RPG

Wizards of the Coast have announced in a press note that the fourth edition of D&D will be ready for may 2008.

The new features are integration with the plastic miniatures, web-based tools (including a "digital game table" to play over internet), faster gameplay and less gaming sessions preparation time.

For more details, read the press release.

Publication date: 2007-08-16

Tags: DnD RPG