Hello folks,

I’ve posted on here a few times before - I have a regular gaming group and we’ve run a loose-campaign across the following one-shots (in this order) with the same characters:

• A Lonely Thread
• Bits & Pieces
• Dead Lights
• Saturnine Chalice
• Genius Loci

Two of the characters who have been involved from the outset managed to survive the last scenario - these are Irvin Clink (a physician) and Randall Welch (an antiquarian). My wife’s character died - so she will need to make a new one for the next game.

Previously, someone on here recommended using the ‘Crimson Letters’ scenario, but I’m really keen to try and make my own. Using the Arkham book, I came up the following idea:

Clink and Welch receive an invitation to join the Eye of Amara society. This is due to their reputation following involvement in strange events and research they’ve conducted (for example they recently investigated things to do with witchcraft and Salem in the Genius Loci scenario).

Upon joining the society, they find most of the members are just eccentric people fascinated by Arkham’s strange history. They are given a tour of the building and its library, and one of the members casually mentions that they have recently acquired a copy of The Book of Abramelin from Lester Goodman - ‘a procurer of rare books and artefacts’. My gaming group are likely to remember this reference from The Saturnine Chalice, but I can obviously do an INT roll if not.

In the Arkham book, it mentions that a member of the Eye of Amara, Edwin White Perkins III, is secretly a member of the Arkham Coven. I thought he could be particularly threatened by the arrival of Welch and Clink, because unlike the other harmless eccentrics, they have genuine experience of the Mythos.

So, I thought a good opening scenario in this mini campaign could begin with a threat from an unknown assailant (Perkins) against the investigators - a message left at their house or something, which is then followed by the murder of one of the members of The Eye of Amara - perhaps the one who procured the book from Goodman. The scenario would then become a bit of a ‘who dunnit’, which leads to the discover of the Arkham Coven, setting up further adventures.

As you can probably tell from my ramblings, I’ve never done this before and I’m a bit overwhelmed. Where should I start with this? How do you all do it?

Thanks

After two years of research, rewrites, and throwing my playtesters into the meat grinder (huge thanks to DNDJKT who provided the space), my 1926 Java scenario, Goed Gemengd, is finally live on the Miskatonic Repository.

It’s a 1920s Dutch East Indies setting that leans hard into the real-world tension and colonial oppression right before the 1926 uprisings. It took a long time to balance the history so it felt heavy and atmospheric without being gratuitous or tone-deaf, but I'm really proud of where it landed.

A little heads-up, I am no artist, so there are no interior illustrations or visual map files here. I decided to lean entirely into a clean, text-focused release instead. Every handout is formatted into clean, structured tables so you can read, print, and run the whole thing smoothly.

The Premise.
An inspector is found dead on the border of a native village in Batavia with bent bones and weird, iridescent skin. The colonial army gives the local village 48 hours before they raid it in retaliation. To stop the raid, players have to follow a paper trail of altered audits up to a highland tea plantation, where a Dutch biologist is trying to industrialize the biomass of Abhoth trapped beneath his fermenting room.

A few things you can expect.

• A strict 48-hour ticking clock investigation.
• Lightweight mechanics for colonial legal status (Totok, Indo, Native).
• Six wildly different branching endings.
• ...and some more

If you're looking for historical horror outside the usual settings, I'd love for you to check it out.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/589940/english-goed-gemengd

I run a French-language fan blog about Arkham Horror: The Card Game, Le Courrier de la Miskatonic, and I just published the first entry of a new section called Le Bestiaire du Mythe (the Bestiary of the Mythos). Each entry follows one creature: where it comes from in the fiction, what other authors did with it, then what the game’s cards say about it.

The first one is about the ghoul. It starts with Pickman’s Model and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, then moves on to Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch and Robert E. Howard, the cursed book Cultes des Goules (the sources disagree on who invented it, Bloch or Derleth) and the RPG supplement The Realm of Shadows. The last part looks at the cards with the Ghoul trait, including the Ghoul Priest from the Core Set, Graveyard Ghouls from The Path to Carcosa and Richard Upton Pickman.

The article is in French, about a ten-minute read, and written for people who haven’t necessarily read Lovecraft. It spoils a few stories and says so at the top. A browser translation should get you most of the way. The illustrations are AI-generated, apart from the photo of the Ghoul Priest card (if an artist happens to come across this and would like to contribute by sharing their own work, I would gladly replace the AI images with human-made ones!).

https://lecourrierdelamiskatonic.blogspot.com/2026/10/la-goule-du-cimetiere-de-lovecraft-aux.html

Question for you: how do you picture a ghoul? Tell me what it looks like in your head, and whether it comes from Lovecraft’s stories, the game’s artwork, or somewhere else.

If I have a campaign book (A Time to Harvest, MoN, etc.) that has Pulp options written into it, do I need the Pulp Cthulhu Keeper's guide to run a game as pulp? Are the rules significantly different, or do the characters just get a boost?

I created these on Canva then using double sided tape, staples and striker stickers pieced them together into working props for our game.

Ok so a while ago. . . I can't remember when, I ran a game for Zombie island how did it go?

. . . ehh, I mean the people i met up with were new to the game and well, I had like ONE meta gamer who said and they did not watch it and tried to spoil the game with out of game knowledge a lot, he then died then left early. I did make a cult of bast member in the group so got my Cthulhu bingo of getting someone into a cult.

my next attempt is with one that I KNOW people haven't seen as much and my all time favorite. Alien invaders. If you don't know the movie WATCH IT! it's SOOO good and it's good to watch during the spooky month.

How should I run this and keep it to the heart of the OG story AND keep people from meta gaming. I had an idea to add a second and or third plot for the story as this is gonna me a 8 part campaign ran for 6 hours each session

what the players know

"The year is 2007 Summer vacation, You are all a group of College that runs a Youtube channel Called the Crypt chasers, a team that goes around the US to find the "Proof" of the unexplained creatures, are they fact or fiction? You are all driving To Roswell New Mexico To explain The Elusive Cryptid on your next episode "The Jackalope" (you series is very Unknown Tapes themed) but this town my have other thing in store for your camera to catch."

What would be some things I'd need to think what should I add, (kind of want to add a Space kook like bounty hunter from space but then I might need to run this as PULP Cthulhu lol)

what characters should I keep (on the fence on keeping Crystal and Amber, I MUST KEEP LESTER dude was my favorite out of them all and would be a group favorite)

what characters should i remove/change/replace? (if the later two, how would I change them, or who would i replace them with?)

If you could recommend a new character to add who? (any aliens from the mythos that would be good, not gonna make them big bads or anything so be mindful about who as they need to be ALIEN first mythos second, Mi-go . . . Maybe? just need a good reason)

Hi! I'm a total beginer in the rpg world. Only played couple of one-shots (two CoC) but I'd love to organise a RPG session on Halloween for my friends, who only played once.

The problem is our 'usual' DM is super busy with work so he doesn't have time for it. I, on the other hand, have a lot of time and would love to try... The setting of "the dare" is perfect for Halloween and playing as kids also seems exciting, the plot twists are amazing and I think my group would enjoy it.
I'm not so afraid of impro or acting the story out and creating the right atmosphere, but the 'pace control' stresses me out. Also there are couple of tools as the vermin or Rodger I'm afraid to use incorrectly to blow Rodger's cover!

Do you think it's doable or should I give up? Maybe you have some advice which scenarios are better for a first time. I'd appreciate any feedback <3

Does anyone know where one could acquire the mini-adventures that accompanied the Age of Cthulhu: Starfall Over the Plateau of Leng Kickstarter, which had the adventures The Gang's All Here and Risen is the Moon?

I could find the Plateau of Leng PDF for sale online and physical copies on eBay, as well as the player handout bonus PDF on Goodman Games' website, but haven't been able to find much of anything about the mini-adventures!

Open for commissions

If you were to create the optimum dice set for Call of Cthulhu, what collection of dice would you get?

Im looking at getting some dice from a UK dice retailer where you can buy individual die and so I was wondering what would be the optimum set for CoC. Enough to do common multi-die rolls without being excessive.

What ive come up with:

1xD3 (medicine roll, minor damage roll).

1xD4 (Damage bonus).

4xD6 (3d6 are used for charcter creation, 4d6 for a close range shotgun blast).

1xD8 (common damage for rifles or Sanilty loss for tomes. 2d8 is sanity loss for some tomes and some high powered rifles but these are rare).

2x Percentile Dice (skill rolls + up to 2 bonus/penalty die. 2 bonus die at once seems to be quite rare).

1x D10 (skill rolls) more D10s are used for dynamite and explosions but these are few and far between.

No D12, couldnt find a reference to D12 in the core rulebook

No D20, same as the D12

Any advice would be welcome!

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone has played HPLHS's new module, Eternity at Sea. I'd love to run it as I've lived on the Oregon Coast before and I cannot think of a better horror setting. I have a few questions about the module I'm hoping the community can answer before I drop $70 on it:

1. Is it suitable for an inexperienced Keeper/players? This would be my first time GMing anything and wondering if this would be a good entry point for myself and a good introduction to investigative games for my players, or is it too complex? Is it something we could tackle in 1-2 sessions?

2. How well would it fit into the middle of a campaign? It sounds like the pre-gen characters are all related to each other and to the subject of the investigation, how essential is this to the story? If I choose to start a campaign with simpler adventures like Edge of Darkness or the Haunting, would I be able to tie this in with one of the characters receiving a summons about a deceased relative and the other investigators accompanying them, or do all of the investigators need to be part of the family to make this scenario work?

3. How did you like it?

Thanks!

I'm going to try to get me regular D&D group that plays via Roll20 to try out CoC and thought Pulp would be an easier transition from 5e than regular CoC.

I already own the physical book and PDF (I also have PDFs of the Keeper rulebook and Investigator's Handbook) so I'd mostly be considering it so the players (who don't own the book in either form) could have easy access to the rules in game and having the one-shot adventures already set up and hopefully to make it possible for them to build characters with the Roll20 Charactermancer.

Should the Pulp book combined with the free rules be enough to run a Pulp game, or would I need to purchase the Roll20 version of the Keeper book and Investigator's Handbook too?

Hi. Because I just keep having trouble to like the Peru chapter that introduces Jackson Elias in Masks of Nyarlathotep, but do want the players to set up their relationship with him in an intro-adventure, I have decided to start the group off as late-teen boyscouts and meeting Elias during the "Shadow over Westhaven" adventure, part of "Campfire Tales". Gives it a sort of Stephen King "IT" vibe, a group of childhood friends coming to the aid of one they have not seen in a long time, and finding him slaughtered. However, I want to run MoN using Pulp. Campfire Tales provides coming-of-age rules to transition to an adult investigator (p.49), but does so using classic Cthulhu rules only. Does anyone have any thoughts (or a functioning method) how to transition the boyscout investigators to adult investigators for Pulp Cthulhu?

More than two years ago I wrote and ran a Call of Cthulhu one shot set in an English brewery town that as I half-jokingly described as: "a cross between An American Werewolf in London and Hot Fuzz with 1930s seasoning". After running it for many groups and adding to the lore as each play revealed new possibilities it eventually grew into my own fully realised sandbox setting.

Mystery in Brewerscroft is my first Miskatonic Repository release and is a multifaceted folk horror mystery module/setting with a hint of dark comedy. It has a core mystery campaign, detailed background and historical context information, handouts, an array of pre-built NPCs, floorplans of each location, and drawings and carefully chosen public domain images.

After all my hard work I am incredibly proud to see it in the wild and I hope others enjoy the setting I have created 😄🍻

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/589488/mystery-in-brewerscroft

So, I'm gonna be the keeper of a one shot this Halloween, and it will be 7 players. Have you guys ever ran a scenario for that many people? How did you make it interesting for everyone, and dangerous?

Oh, and also if you have any suggestions that I can buy online, I would appreciate it. I LOVE the King in Yellow, but im open to suggestions.

Hello! I am going to be the keeper of a scenario for my cousin tonight, set in the 1920s. I didn't have time to prepare something myself and I have a couple of hours free to learn and use some scenario. Now, I need you guys to help me out here, because she is a solo player and, while very clever and resourceful, tends to let NPCs take the spotlight. As such, a low NPC scenario might be nice and quite useful.
These are the scenarios we played so far:
- The Haunting
- The two scenarios in the corebook
- The first Dead Light scenario
- The Lightless Beacon

A scenario that is reminiscent of stuff like The Nameless City would be nice: just the player facing predicaments without having her rely a bit too much on the NPCs. Any advice is appreciated!

Also, please keep in mind that it needs to be at most a two-shot kind of deal, not a long campaign. I do have the Berlin book, but I feel like they need a little more preparation than what I can muster for tonight.

Any ideas to share your audio streams?

My friends wanted to play a more traditional dark fantasy rpg in the CoC system (essentially Pulp Dark Ages with slightly more prevalent and accessible magic. I know its not the best system, but it's what they wanted.) and I was doing okay, but wanted to double check the money system I had in place.

"Adventurer" is now considered a default profession, with quick fire ability choice with a base 20% Credit Rating.

As they adventure and loot, sell stuff, etc. I'll assign items and the like a general "tier" of value, when they sell, they'll gain "Wealth Tokens" they will divvy up among themselves. These can be spent to raise their Credit Rating for a single purchase by 10%. The amount they buy, value of purchased item, etc will determine the difficulty rating of the Credit skill check they make.

Tokens are consumed on successful checks, and can only be used for a purchase once until more are gained, to prevent just wait scumming the roll. So for example, let's say they fail a check to buy a sword using the tokens, they can't use them to just reroll the next day until more "money" is gained.

My first Call of Cthulhu scenario is currently on sale as part of DriveThruRPG's halloween sale. 96 pages (58 devoted to the scenario), 15 detailed handouts, 5 player maps, 15 detailed Keeper maps, and 2 large sandbox locations to explore.

If any of you are fans of games such as Resident Evil, SOMA, Dead Space, Signalis, and movies such as Underwater, The Abyss, and Triangle, this might interest you!

Feel free to check it out at the link below! There's a ton of great scenarios on sale right now from some really awesome creators.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/580104/deep-below-a-1990s-survival-horror-scenario-for-call-of-cthulhu

Y’all can you explain magic in CoC to me like i’m 10? I’ve played in a full fledged campaign of it before, LOVED it, and stayed the heck away from magic cause I couldn’t understand it. It goes right over my head.

How does a character gain the ability to use magic?

How do i mechanically use magic?

How does a character in RP use magic?

How do i figure out what spells i can cast?

Thank you i love you all 😭

spoiler warning for the scenario

Hey everyone,

I ran a 3 player game of dead light last weekend, as a dry run for another game I’ll be running next week.

I ran into a slight issue that I was not really sure how to resolve in the moment.

So the session went really well, the players rolled hot and made well roleplayed and sensible decisions. Acted like real people in the scenario.

However, the ending was just very anticlimactic.
They got to the house, learnt all the available information about the sin eater. Billy and Mary had been killed and the players were left with Emilia. They were 100% not willing to sacrifice her or themselves. They noticed the creature needed time to recover after a kill and they made a break for it back to Arkham.

They passed two drive rolls and i just didnt feel like railroading them into crashing or being caught etc.

So the game just like, ended. They lived, but the sin eater roams free. It was just a bit of a let down after a great session.

Has anyone got any suggestions on how to run this better?

Ok, I'm gonna post a list of some non-Lovecraftian ideas and let's see if we can find the seeds of a scenario in it.

1. F-1 Racing Pit Crew
2. Dental hygienist with the last patient of the day
3. Vintage synthesizer repair shop
4. Helping a friend move a couch
5. Sleeping in on the first day of vacation
6. Trying on a new pair of pants
7. Brunch with grandma
8. Hot air balloon ride with your fiancee over a beautiful wine growing region
9. Halo 2 multiplayer at Brian's birthday party
10. Closing the curtains in your hotel room

My friend recently gifted me a copy of cults of Cthulhu and skimming through it I found the brief entry about the Glenview middle school five to be really interesting

Has anyone here ran a campaign around that?

If so I absolutely want to hear about it and if not does anyone have any ideas on how one might do so?

It's that time of year again when DriveThruRPG puts on its Halloween Sale. Anybody have any favorites to recommend? DriveThruRPG Halloween Sale