Second, you can base a whole campaign around some element of the Mythos – such as Cthulhu rising from the deep, or Ithaqua bringing an Ice Age to the world.ĭo you want to present or discuss any upcoming projects you are currently working on? First, you can simply add them into an existing campaign as more player races, spells, magic items, and opponents. My theory is that you can use the Cthulhu Mythos elements in a high fantasy game in two ways. Fantasy and horror have long been bedmates. Sandy: of course, as monsters they can fit into a fantasy world. Do they fit easily in the fantasy world? Are you planning to release scenarios for these systems using Mythos monsters? You have adapted the monsters from the Cthulhu mythos to Pathfinder and more recently to D&D. Obviously, something goes horribly wrong when the drill starts breaking through the earth’s crust and mayhem ensues. So, I posited the concept of an abandoned oil platform in the North Sea, which had been repurposed for a nuclear-powered super-drill as a scientific experiment. The thought of being trapped on an oil platform during a catastrophe seemed exciting for a plot. For example, I designed the MOHOLE scenario in Petersen’s Abominations about the time of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Then I design the storyline so it leads to that scene, or away from it.
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Second, I work visually, so I think of a cool scene from a book or a movie or whatever and try to incorporate that into the scenario at some point. Nothing destroys the feel of terror more than finding out the monster just wants to return to its home in outer space, or be laid to rest, or whatever. That’s another reason to use my pre-made investigators!Ĭould you share a few tips and tricks on how you go about writing scenarios, and what makes a good scenario?įirst, the opponent must be malign. Also, they’re super-deadly, because everyone seems to want to get killed by Sandy Petersen in an adventure. Because they’re intended to run at conventions, these scenarios all include pre-made investigators (though they can be run with your own), have pretty weird settings (on an iceberg, inner-city gang strife, etc.) and are all intended to be run in a single evening. This way no one ever gets a repeat adventure. I will write one up, then use it for several conventions in a row, then write another, and so forth. Whenever I’m a guest of honor, the convention asks me to run a Call of Cthulhu scenario. Sandy: Every year I attend several conventions.
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You recently released Petersen’s Abomination, a book full of scenarios aimed at convention play. But if you want a game in which the emphasis is far more cerebral, and more dangerous, and in which the enemies pose an existential threat – there is only Call of Cthulhu. If you want a game in which you have the same old steroid-pumped champions confronting the baddies, every other RPG can provide this.
The big confrontation is likely to be something along the lines of dropping a keg of gunpowder into a well.īUT – here’s the deal. Your rewards are not treasure but saving the planet. Instead of your heroes getting better over time, they tend to get worse, to accumulate curses and madness. Instead of killing a constant stream of enemies for experience, the very weakest opponent you can face is a cultist, who is just as smart and well-armed as the heroes, and probably better-organized and more numerous.
Instead of your heroes being superior to average people, they ARE average people. In your opinion, what makes COC so different from the other role-playing games? It’s Creator, Sandy Petersen, got his start in the game industry at Chaosium in 1980, and recently was interviewed regarding the creation of this RPG masterpiece. CALL OF CTHULHU is Chaosium’s classic roleplaying game of Lovecraftian horror in which ordinary people are confronted by the terrifying and alien forces of the Cthulhu Mythos.
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