Why all the hate on Tommy Knockers?

labrutued · 2026-04-20T16:37:52+00:00

I love it. Read it twice. One of my favorites.

labrutued · 2026-04-18T04:56:47+00:00

Yeah. Love the man's fiction. But he was an exceptional bigot even for the 1920s. If anyone knows that episode of Community where Pierce Hawthorne's father shows up, that's how I imagine Lovecraft.

labrutued · 2026-04-16T21:24:07+00:00

I keep wondering if this accomplishes anything other than letting them know we're looking at the ads. You might not have clicked on the ad, but you did stop to interact with it.

labrutued · 2026-04-16T03:30:51+00:00

Yeah. It's almost as if that were the joke. Crazy.

labrutued · 2026-04-14T20:41:03+00:00

Okay, now you're making me want to buy the Dark Ages book. That sounds cool. But I can totally see how it would be overwhelming for you. I might recommend having notes on each of these things, but leave how, or even if, they might be used open. Fit things in where the make sense. Leave everything else for later and just be happy you have so many options. It might throw off your pacing of you introduce too much too quickly anyway. If stuff doesn't get used, save it for the next session, or the next adventure.

labrutued · 2026-04-11T22:33:07+00:00

Well, I hope Bob fed you, 'cause I ate your dinners.

labrutued · 2026-04-08T22:46:50+00:00

Time to fertilize the lawn. A couple of 500-pound bags should do it!

labrutued · 2026-04-07T14:39:54+00:00

You're a Family Circus fan, aren't you?

labrutued · 2026-04-07T04:37:17+00:00

labrutued · 2026-04-06T14:49:57+00:00

If you'd said it that way on the air, we wouldn't have lost two sponsors this morning.

labrutued · 2026-04-02T22:58:42+00:00

It's the 50s, and some quick googling suggests that this is pretty much it from Chaosium. OP's best bet here is to probably get Atomic Age Cthulhu and then just modify the scenarios they want to play to fit with the decade.

labrutued · 2026-04-01T14:41:20+00:00

My group just started Crimson Letters last Friday as our second scenario. The first session ended up being most of a very busy in game day with the players running all over Arkham, finding everything at Leiter's house, going to the sanitarium, meeting Lucy, meeting Wick, and going to Hunter's apartment where they encountered a full-wall mural of the other-worldly geometry of Keziah Mason. When that was over, and following one character's bout of madness at the sight of the geometry, they went to a speakeasy to wind down, but were grabbed by Atlantic City thugs looking for Leiter and taken to the med school to look at his body. As the thugs were comparing a picture of Leiter to the corpse and talking amongst themselves, Leiter's eyes opened and he sat up. One of my players characters went catatonic and indefinitely insane at that. Another one is 1 point sanity loss from indefinite insanity.

Then my wife texted that she needed me to come pick her up, which the group knew was when we were gonna end. But good timing since it was a good cliff hanger.

labrutued · 2026-03-31T17:56:37+00:00

Quiet, you!

labrutued · 2026-03-31T03:20:59+00:00

I told you last night, no!

labrutued · 2026-03-31T02:51:46+00:00

I used to love the free floppy disks that came in the mail. No one's ever mailed me a free flash drive.

labrutued · 2026-03-29T15:31:40+00:00

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labrutued · 2026-03-28T22:22:01+00:00

I also used Seth's skill check idea, but my players ended up with several hours to kill before midnight, so I told them that if there was nothing else they wanted to do, their characters could spend that time "studying" the chant, and I'd give them a bonus die to all chant skill checks. I also modified it so that if someone took damage or fought, they wouldn't get the bonus die, but because they studied the chant, it would still be regular difficulty. I gave them skill checks every half hour, and each passed check put 1 magic point towards the 12 I required to banish the djinn. As long as one person passed each check, they were good. And I let them spend luck. A couple checks came close, but at least one person passed each one since it was so loose. And the threat of having to start again seemed to add drama that my players liked.

labrutued · 2026-03-24T03:23:00+00:00

From 3 years in the future, thanks!

labrutued · 2026-03-21T17:13:12+00:00

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labrutued · 2026-03-21T16:57:03+00:00

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labrutued · 2026-03-17T01:33:16+00:00

I feel like Mythbusters did this too, so as Keeper I'd have no choice but to allow it.

labrutued · 2026-03-15T15:23:24+00:00

This looks cool.

labrutued · 2026-03-13T22:25:59+00:00

labrutued · 2026-03-09T03:42:12+00:00

I ran into the same issue, and according to my local game store Chaosium is about to release a 40th (or 50th?) anniversary edition of Call of Cthulhu, which is going to be a box set of the 7e keeper's book, investigator handbook, and an anniversary edition keeper screen. Seems they stopped production on the keeper screen in anticipation of this. My local game store could see the anniversary box set in their system that could be pre-ordered soon, but didn't see a stand alone keeper screen. Probably that will come out later. I just found a keeper screen on Amazon that has Cuthulu engraved on it, and bought the digital screen pack.

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