French (Sans-Detour) Masks of Nyarlathotep

[PhoneCallOfCthulhu]

Very awesome screen art.
My favourite was their BtMoM screen but now I'm not so sure.

[WiseWolf]

I´ll get it and I will decide later...LOL

[Butters]

Apparently they (Sans-Detour) have done a podcast which goes into more details about the revamped Masks. From the Google translation of the Sans-Detour site the new book has a mighty 672 pages as opposed to my Chaosiums copy with a total of 252 pages so there does seem to be a lot extra.
I would be interested to hear what any French speakers can glean from the podcast.
http://www.tentacules.net/index.php?id=511

[Kallisto73]

I checked out the publication, downloaded the files, fell in love with this and their 30th anniversary edition and have ordered both.
Now, waiting patiently....

[PhoneCallOfCthulhu]

I'll have to take a look at that podcast. I'll post a report here if nobody else does it first.

[dce]

Holy Shoggoths!

If you weren't already slavering over the upcoming French edition of Masks, you should scoot over to the Sans Detour site and take a look at the limited edition they will be releasing. Again, while I don't speak French it's pretty easy to see what this special edition will contain ... the box set (with limited edition cover), the screen, deluxe handouts, a numbered ticket (?), a 40 page index booklet.

But the thing that made my jaw drop ... this limited edition comes in a freakin leather satchel, embossed with the Elder Sign.

I'm not sure, but I think these French folks may have upstaged the English-language version again ...


Dean (from Adelaide, sadly in a country Sans Detour don't ship to)

[twist]

While I'm not familiar at all with this campaign (I might get some names wrong along with the translation), I'll try to do my best translating what I saw about the contents.



What it actually says is :

• The main box,with an alternate cover, and with its 8 booklets, and the famous previously mentionned matchbox
• The cinemascope Movie poster, 60x80 cm
• A numbered entrance theater ticket
• Actual realistic handouts (business cards, photograpies, maps, flyers…) (This is where I think I won't resist getting this campaign, even if I'll only run it in 2020 given my actual schedule ...)
• a color booklet "Trails and clues", de 40 pages long, a summary of all the campaign links, perfect for a messy Keeper !
• The 3 part game Keeper screen, with an extra scenario in it.

.. And of course, a leather, elder sign embossed, satchel, as pictured ...

All for a rough 160 euros.

I think I'm going to get this as soon as the paycheck hits the bank !!!

ps: to moderators, don't hesitate to edit my post, as I'm not quite familiar with the anti-commercial regulations around here. Forgive my ignorance of a newcomer.

[PhoneCallOfCthulhu]

Really cool stuff. But I'm not enough of a collector to spent around 200$. Especially that I have a tendency of buying collectible items and never using them after because I don't want to risk damaging them.

[PhoneCallOfCthulhu]

I would be interested to hear what any French speakers can glean from the podcast.

Just listened to the first minute, it's just someone reading H.P. Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep.

[WiseWolf]

Have you seen the limited edition?

[Butters]

Just listened to the first minute, it's just someone reading H.P. Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep.

Lol thanks, slightly disappointed as it seemed that they were going to go into detail about how they put the campaign together changes made etc.

[Butters]

Have you seen the limited edition?

Yes and I am trying not to compare it with a certain collectors edition.

[PhoneCallOfCthulhu]

Yes and I am trying not to compare it with a certain collectors edition.

I'm not trying to defend Chaosium or anything but it was 45$ vs 210$.
Personally I'm pretty happy with my Chaosium limited since it was affordable to me.

[Butters]

I'm not trying to defend Chaosium or anything but it was 45$ vs 210$.
Personally I'm pretty happy with my Chaosium limited since it was affordable to me.

Sorry this is an old argument that Ive had before and I really should let sleeping dogs lie. Yes the Chaosium edition is nice and is way more reasonably priced and I am also aware that it takes a large investment of capital to produce these special editions which Chaosium may not have but I look upon these products of core campaigns done by a licensee and they have a WOW factor which to be fair the Chaosium product lacks.
To be honest I can't afford to buy this or the previous Mountains of Madness special edition but I really wish I could whilst Chaosiums was a "Meh maybe"
I know this is a shallow magpie reaction to something new and shiny as if the adventure is good it should not matter what the packaging looks like the whole shouldn't judge a book by its cover argument but I'm afraid it does.
Its because I want Chaosium to succeed in today's market that I feel this way about the Collectors editions, the ones produced by these other companies jump out at you.
And pricy as they are they get people checking their bank statements to see if they can wrangle the money from somewhere whilst the Chaosium one fades into the background.

By the way the new Cthulhu by Gaslight is I feel a good sign of things to come (fingers crossed) an old classic reworked, updated and given new life. I've got the P.D.F and I am really looking forward to buying the hardback. Thanks and top marks to all those involved in the project.

[dce]

Interesting note: the original Sans Detour press release about the limited edition Masks of Nyarlathotep (the one in the leather satchel) said that orders would open at 9PM last Friday.

It would seem that there was enough interest gamers eager to buy one of these that the Sans Detour website melted down and ground to a halt. No copies were ordered. Since then they retooled their site and eventually re-launched the sale of these $210 items at 9PM Saturday. Looks like they have already sold out (the original 200 copies pre-released). That's in less than 9 hours.

All this makes me wonder whether either (a) European gamers are happy to pay a LOT more for products than their US counterparts, or (b) whether publishers like Chaosium really aren't making enough of the fact that there's a "cashed-up" group of potential buyers who will shell out for premium items like this ...


Dean (from Adelaide)