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Slandering Egyptologists

Posted by MiskatonicProf in The Zen of the Strange, 26 June 2017 · 9 views

"Professional Egyptologists are curiously intolerant people, respecting few opinions but their own, and possessed by a strange reluctance to admit mystery in anything."
- Master of Villainy: A Biography of Sax Rohmer , Cay Van Ash and Elizabeth Sax Rohmer (1972)
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The Vampire of Schwarzbrunn Part 1 - Sent by the Church

Posted by Max_Writer in Blog Max_Writer, 20 June 2017 · 122 views
CoC 1-6e, Dark Ages

Sunday, June 11, 2017  (After playing the Cthulhu Dark Ages scenario “The Vampire of Schwarzbrunn” by Stefan Franck from Worlds of Cthulhu Magazine Issue 1 Saturday from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. with Ashton Leblanc and Collin Townsend.)  Two travelers topped the path that led through the Alps and wound down into a small valley. A small villag...
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Reading two Hugo Award shortlisted Lovecraftian stories

Posted by yockenthwaite in Blog yockenthwaite, 15 June 2017 · 96 views

I’m currently judging shortlisted items for the Hugo Awards presented at the World Science Fiction convention each year, and in 2017 to be held in Helsinki, Finland. Note that "scifi" reference there is a bit misleading: the awards cover fantasy and horror too, and are not just pure scifi. 
In this year’s awards the Novel category does lean heavily...
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NYC #13 Blackest Hills, Blackist Night

Posted by viscounteric in Blog viscounteric, 11 June 2017 · 89 views

New York, December 11, 1923 New York City proved to be the tonic to the ails of the weary. Dr. Nathaniel Millheim had been six months removed from his last mind altering Mythos episode and was at the top of his game as a pulp writer. Steven O'Hara was now a professor of physics at Columbia University, getting research offers, and giving his dilettant...
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Beyond The Bridgewater Triangle : First Session

Posted by DeUniversumMysteriis in DeUniversumMysteriis' Blog, 27 May 2017 · 251 views
CoC 7e, New to Cthulhu

Beyond The Bridgewater Triangle : First Session We are at the end of the morning when Ursula Bishop arrives at the south-west entrance of Bridgewater Park and while she's quite proud of herself for making all the way from Arkham to this part in the south of Massachusetts, the abnormal heat surrounding her makes her worried. But she won't wimp out. She really wants to get that raise so she will do that...
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Shadows of Yog Sothoth

Posted by Judgetrev in Judgetrev's Blog, 22 May 2017 · 194 views

I have started running shadows of Yog Sothoth. In the first episode I wanted the characters to get to feel at home in the society... So after the ritual of joining to become neophytes they spent a great evening drinking illegal booze. 
I described John Scott, and went into detail about how he was shaking their hand while meeting them. Each characte...
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CoC 6ed QuickStart in Japanese

Posted by Mimumu in Japanese CoC players Blog, 14 May 2017 · 500 views

CoC 6ed QuickStart in Japanese You can download this URL
https://www.dropbox....panese.pdf?dl=0
Chaosium Inc.® 2017/5/17　I fixed a part of the translation.
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Apparently, my paperbacks are available in libraries.

Posted by tammywilding in tammywilding's Blog, 12 April 2017 · 286 views

I am also disbelieving and not a little astonished.
Any way, at some point I ought to do some more writing, or try harder to get an actual job, or indeed, find a new hobby!
At some point I shall ask a friend of mine to verify the truth or otherwise of this development. My local library and I parted company due to mutual disinterest, some years ago.
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Writing progress for March

Posted by Shimmin Beg in Shimmin Bloeg, 01 April 2017 · 452 views

So thanks to a combination of a sanity-restoring cruise (well, holiday), the onset of spring sunshine, the tireless efforts of supportive friends, and potent mind-affecting substances, I've found myself once more reasonably on form and able to resume something approaching my usual productivity. Not being asleep most of the time helps a lot, I find. ...
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Azathoth: Cold and Gold

Posted by echofalls in Blog echofalls, 09 March 2017 · 350 views

"it is said, that, beneath all the chaos, there is an underlying pattern of perfect order."  Once, there was no change, no entropy. Only the pattern and everything that belonged, designed and created to suit its purpose.
Today, the pattern remains, but only in tatters, warped in new ways. From the echoes of the pattern came change and thought; driv...
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Death in the Post, second session

Posted by Taavi in Gold's Books and Antiquities, 24 February 2017 · 397 views
Jazz Age

Mr Tom Driberg, society reporter and scandal hound, currently working for the Daily Clarion , has revealed himself as the original recipient of the puzzling pseudo-Egyptian scroll which he passed to Mr Edmundson, knowing Edmundson's interest in antique manuscripts. Owen Davies also recognises Mr Driberg as a frequenter of a number of nightspots for young...
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A new group, a new campaign

Posted by coomber in coomber's Blog, 20 January 2017 · 603 views

Having not had a chance to play CoC for years, I finally got around to getting another group and getting started. 
The characters: Grant , a handsome jock with little going on between the ears whose sporting prowess managed to get him a scholarship and an education. 
Neilson , a big, fat, ugly doctor. 
Ullerton , a clumsy, gangly, but brill...
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M. R. Jame's Rules for an effective ghost story

Posted by Graham in Graham's Blog, 17 January 2017 · 537 views

Post the second... 
British ghost story writer M. R. James was one of the authors singled out for mention in Lovecraft's essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' as being one of the modern masters of horror literature. James's own opinion of Lovecraft's writing may be found in his essay 'Ghost's Treat Them Gently!', where he refers to the type of fi...
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2016 gaming log for RPGs

Posted by ash in ash's Blog, 15 December 2016 · 445 views

2016 has been a bad year overall but a very good one for gaming and enjoying hobby stuff. Thanks for everyone who took part and participated.
Recently took part in The RPG Brigade's third annual convention for Childsplay charity.
Managed to raise close to 2000 US dollars this year on donations and t shirt sales.  We played Mutant Future: The Bik...
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Film List 1 - Thoughts on describing a film as "Lovecraftian"....

Posted by yronimoswhateley in The Apocalyptic Log of Yronimos W., 22 November 2016 · 591 views

Background : It seemed like an easy project at first: I would try putting together a list of "Lovecraftian" films for the YSDC Wiki. What could possibly go wrong? After all, on one hand, there seemed to be only so many films out there that were definitely based on Lovecraft stories, and it seemed that most of us who were familiar with Lovecraft and w...
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Operation Piercing the Darkness

Posted by MonkeyPrime in Tell me about your Occult related Room?, 10 November 2016 · 523 views
CoC 7e

Dramatis Personae:
Lucas Finch, British mathematician
Patrick Richardson, British sportsman
Rev. Calvin Reed
Frank Moore, British Martial Artist
Philip Murphy, British former thief
Col. Roger Marsden, New Zealand Marine Setting 1941 SOE call in the investigators for a rather more mundane mission that what they're used to. Crothers wants them to...
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Ad-Hoc Scenario: The Voyage of The Caledonian

Posted by Galbraith in Mutterings from Providence, 08 October 2016 · 573 views
Jazz Age

This past week, I ran a completely ad-hoc scenario as the result of a poor decision at two in the morning. In all, we had playing:
James Wilkinson, Alabamian prizefighter with an EDU of 19 (!)
Cecile Bardot, French mystic and accountant for Wilkinson
Xavier Billingsford, British drug smuggler and "legitimate businessman"
Walter Williams, Billingsford's ch...
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Luck

Posted by Butters in Blog Butters, 25 September 2016 · 630 views

Did we use Luck wrong in previous editions? did anyone use it to save a character or was it just a skill you used to see if you had remembered to bring a flashlight?
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Session #5 - Ross' Corner, IL

Posted by DAR in Blog DAR, 16 September 2016 · 528 views
Pulp, CoC 7e

So, this came after a extra long break due to various work and recreation conflicts among the group. The game opened with the somewhat belated relaization that the group hadn't utilized thier downtime very effectively (I gave them the chance to do research, but nobody did so) and it was a great example of "time passes quicker than you realized" - just lik...
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Well-dressed man

Posted by K_Peterson in What I did on my summer vacation..., 23 July 2016 · 912 views

Well-dressed man This sharp-dressed fellow may be one of my favorite investigators to paint so far. The shader really helped his vest and exposed skin to "pop" (visually), creating a nice contrast to the tuxedo. He's got a casual, comfortable pose. 
Although it's probably not that visible from the (poor) photo, this minis has a lot of facial detail. Painting up the m...
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