Campaign Journal

So, there's been a notion that's been squattiing ominously in the back of my mind for some time now. It tells me that I should try to run the Classic Era campaign Horror on the Orient Express for a group of friends. its voice tries to sway me by reminding me how much fun I had when I went through it as a player. It also speaks of my amusement at hearing the Innsmouth House Players (under their previous stage name) go through it.

I've kept this whispering notion at bay for years by saying ...

Hmm... It seems it's been nearly a year since I posted something here. It's amazing how time flies. Anyway, some updates:

1. The 'Lovecraft Country" campaign is on indefinite hold. A combination of Keeper fatigue and the players wanting to get away from Call of Cthulhu for awhile...

2. ...because they went through the Cthulhu Invictus campaign, "The Legacy of Arrius Lurco". There was much death and insanity in the second century A.D. For the most part, it ...

It's been a while since i posted anything. The good thing is that my regular table-top group's "Lovecraft Country" campaign is going well. Now it's on hold for a few weeks, as we wrap up our run through "The Flood" campaign for 'Deadlands: Reloaded". Ah, the joys of being a steampunk scientist with a proton gun.

I also wanted to get some lead time to work on my own ideas for after I'm done running the published scenarios on my list. At the moment, I've ...

(Note there are some spoilers below for 'The Condemned', a scenario from the Arkham Unveiled book.)

So as I was planning for the next session of my CoC campaign, I found myself having to pull together the info to make a calender for May-October 1925. This was done so as to keep a better track of how long it takes my players to read future Mythos books, as well as to be sure when certain things happen in the next adventure I'm running.I found it rather refreshing to compile the data ...

So most of the month of December has passed and my players are now beginning to see a background plot in the campaign beginning to unfold.

Someone has killed two people in Arkham, and posed in the bodies in such a way that they appear to be suicides at first glance. The first victim was a young thug called Aldo Guarini, who was found with his wrists slit with a broken bottle and a bullet hole in his temple in the filth of Orne's Gangway. The second victim, Henry Atkins, a bank teller, ...