I'll check that one out. Any idea in which period that film is set?
Perhaps a separate recommendation thread would be appropriate.
I'll check that one out. Any idea in which period that film is set?
Perhaps a separate recommendation thread would be appropriate.
RPGbericht (Dutch)
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It would be my pleasure. Our campaign started in 1883 in town I created call Ringo, located on Turkey Creek, not fare from where Johnny Ringo met his untimely demise. The group is fairly new to COC and is learning as they go. I have pulled some elements from Aces High, such as Animal totems.Originally Posted by Cole
The team is currently on the trail of a book. All of them are distant relations and this book is said to be worth a lot of money, and is their inheritance. So far they have been double crossed by a smooth talking lawyer. Upon searching their relative's home they obtained an ancient statue along with a name of a professor that was interested in buying it. They have met Zombies, had strange visions, and have met the spirit of "Horse can not be Tamed", and have been blessed with animal totems.
Right now they are in Tombstone, and are starting to wonder if one of the famous families of the area might have mythos connections.
In a nutshell.
Yours in the Mythos.
Lord Krieg
Sounds like you and your group are having a good time. That family wouldn't be the Earps, Clantons, or McLaury's by any chance? Keep us in the loop.
Did you play much traditionally set ('20s or modern) CoC before your Western campaign? In my planning stages I worried about challenges that would come from transitioning time periods from our comfortable 1920s era to the Old West. In play, it has been a surprisingly easy adjustment for my players and I. Wonder if others have found the same to be true.
The family is the Clantons. They just met John "Doc" Holiday, who has as small part to play but the session came to an end just after they met him.
Only one of the players played in the 1920's, the rest it is their first exposure to COC.
I will keep you posted.
Yours in the Mythos.
Lord Krieg
To satisfy my curiosity, were your new players drawn to your game primarily because it was a Western, because they wanted to try CoC or was it a more even blend of both?
For me, I found a pocket of dedicated and urbane Cthulhu players burning to play in the Old West. Similarly, in Philadelphia (a very non-Western place culturally and geographically), i kept seeing LFG posts of people who listed Lovecraft and Western games as ones they'd like to play.
One of my Lovecraft newbies is listening to classic HPL mp3s and growing a Western moustache for the game. It's really been a nice chocolate and peanut butter thing.
The veteran COC player came to me and asked if I would run a Wild West campaign for him and some of his friends.
Yours in the Mythos.
Lord Krieg
Has anyone else running an Old West Cthulhu campaign had success in re-setting classic or modern published material in the Old West? I've been doing this for my Western campaign.
I've never run an old west CoC game, but I've converted classic scenarios to modern; I think classic to old west would be smoother. Then there's Gaslight scenarios, that's the same period in a different local.
An old west setting could be a way to use some classic scenarios that I couldn't figure a way to convert to modern. My players have no interest in classic era, but I could probably sell old west.
What scenarios did you re-skin? Any stand out as particularly well suited to the old west setting?
I think The Spawn from The Great Old Ones would convert to the Old West smoothly.
RPGbericht (Dutch)
Try also The Secret of Castronegro, from the old Cthulhu Companion (reprinted in Cthulhu Classics? or somewhere else?). The old west book I'm working on has an article on creating campaigns and adventures in the era, and one bit deals with converting existing scenarios. For instance, with a little tooling you can probably refit The Haunting, Edge of Darkness, and The Madman, from the rulebook, to the old west setting. And that's just for a start...
KAR
desolation angel
So far, the scenarios that I've reskinned for the Western setting and ran successfully include:
Rise of Xnaaki from UBB 0
The Plantation from Mansions of Madness
Mater Tenebrarum from Our Ladies of Sorrow
They have all gone over extremely well and I found them all surprisingly simple to adapt. It's almost as much fun as writing and playing my own original scenarios with the group. Our team of investigators is having an absolute blast and we are relishing Mythos and non-Mythos play in this engaging setting.
Mater T, huh? I can definitely see Mater Suspiriorum working for the period. Heck, Mater Lachrymarum too for that matter (Mater?).
KAR
(still workin on it)
My next adaptation to the Old West will probably be MRP's Spare the Rod.
My group has totally fallen in love with the campaign and Western setting thus far. To set tone, we've had tequila, whiskey, and beer flowing. Beef jerky, chili, black coffee and with the warm weather we're playing outside around the firepit and smoking some pork for bbq and beans. I might put on 30 lbs before this campaign winds down.
Last month Spare the Rod went pretty well, but in all honesty it was not as well received as I had hoped. It was a poorly thrown change up on my part and not really a weakness in the scenario itself.
Spoiler:
This weekend I'm playtesting a scenario Kevin Ross drafted for his forthcoming Western sourcebook. The town setting attached to the story is staggeringly fascinating and reading it is better than sipping a great small batch bourbon or single malt whisky. Can't wait 'til Saturday to run this stuff!
That must be one heck of a read then. When is this book due out?
Yours in the Mythos.
Lord Krieg
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