Learn basic rules and play a short scenario. First an intro to the game and horror role playing before players discover cosmic horrors they must face and defeat for the good of humanity.
Description:
We've been running Call of Cthulhu at Gen Con for decades and like teaching people how to play. During this event, we will briefly talk basic rules, characters, horror role playing, and then we will run a scenario. We run games that focus on story, character interaction, and problem solving. While other types of play style are welcome to come, we usually find that communicating our style really helps set our players in the right mindset. In the short scenario, the players with portray investigator in the normal world solving a seemingly normal (if unusual) issue. The layers of reality are peeled back as they discovery cosmic horror just beyond the veil of society that must be thwarted for the good of all humanity and for their own survival and sanity.
Learn basic rules and play a short scenario. First an intro to the game and horror role playing before players discover cosmic horrors they must face and defeat for the good of humanity.
Description:
We've been running Call of Cthulhu at Gen Con for decades and like teaching people how to play. During this event, we will briefly talk basic rules, characters, horror role playing, and then we will run a scenario. We run games that focus on story, character interaction, and problem solving. While other types of play style are welcome to come, we usually find that communicating our style really helps set our players in the right mindset. In the short scenario, the players with portray investigator in the normal world solving a seemingly normal (if unusual) issue. The layers of reality are peeled back as they discovery cosmic horror just beyond the veil of society that must be thwarted for the good of all humanity and for their own survival and sanity.
Learn basic rules and play a short scenario. First an intro to the game and horror role playing before players discover cosmic horrors they must face and defeat for the good of humanity.
Description:
We've been running Call of Cthulhu at Gen Con for decades and like teaching people how to play. During this event, we will briefly talk basic rules, characters, horror role playing, and then we will run a scenario. We run games that focus on story, character interaction, and problem solving. While other types of play style are welcome to come, we usually find that communicating our style really helps set our players in the right mindset. In the short scenario, the players with portray investigator in the normal world solving a seemingly normal (if unusual) issue. The layers of reality are peeled back as they discovery cosmic horror just beyond the veil of society that must be thwarted for the good of all humanity and for their own survival and sanity.
Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires. To this day there are remote valleys that have never known a road. Places with no name and no purpose. And there are older residents, much, much older residents.
Description:
The longest war in American history wears on, with no end in sight. Afghanistan, The Graveyard of Empires. Great Britain and The Soviet Union abandoned their occupations. Before them: Alexander the Great, the Mauryans, the Kabul Shahi, the Arabs, the Mongols, the Timurids; names that shaped the history books were all driven in defeat from this mountainous plateau. The history of Afghanistan traces back through the centuries to the Crusades, to the prophets Muhammad and Jesus, to the Great Enlightened Indian civilizations, to the misty dawn of Buddhism. To this day there are remote valleys that have never known a road. Places with no name and no purpose. And there are older residents, much, much older residents.
It's November 1994. Central State Hospital in Indianapolis has officially closed its doors after 150 years. A patient remaian, awaiting release, as does a long contained malevolent presence.
Unrequited Love? A Difficult Breakup? Feeling lost, alone, and helpless? Group therapy is often the salvation to confronting one's inner demons. RGD Anonymous may be the answer.
Description:
This is a previously run scenario that is heavy on mood. It is immersive and is particularly well-suited for people who enjoy story, character development, acting, and problem solving.
Unrequited Love? A Difficult Breakup? Feeling lost, alone, and helpless? Group therapy is often the salvation to confronting one's inner demons. RGD Anonymous may be the answer.
Description:
This is a previously run scenario that is heavy on mood. It is immersive and is particularly well-suited for people who enjoy story, character development, acting, and problem solving.
Unrequited Love? A Difficult Breakup? Feeling lost, alone, and helpless? Group therapy is often the salvation to confronting one's inner demons. RGD Anonymous may be the answer.
Description:
This is a previously run scenario that is heavy on mood. It is immersive and is particularly well-suited for people who enjoy story, character development, acting, and problem solving.
Novus Ordo Seclorum Final: The Sun Also Rises Again
Summary:
In the final round of the Novus Mini-Tournament, you are a group of dissipated friends hanging around Paris in the 1920s when you are all invited to the Bullfights in Spain and discover horror there.
July 13, 1890. 215 people boarded the Sea Wing for a cruise and to listen to some music. No one knew that 98 of those people would die horribly. What really happened? Come join us and find out!