Cthulhu 45 Adventure table/scenario?

[Prof.Witchheimer]

I'm thinking about a Cthulhu 45 Adventure table/scenario. Not sure about the possible design/story. There are too much variations:

- easiest - Jungle/moor, a cthulhu-like statue, some cultists vs. some police guys (like in the "Call if Cthulhu" story) - nice but not really innovative
- an isle, sand, rocks, moss and caves, some Bob Murch tramp sailors vs. some deep ones - quite nice, i think
- a cthulhu temple (the whole table) with the Monolith statues and wall "frescos" - a scientist expedition and maybe the appearance of the bigger Old Ones - quite nice too
- Rlye, the sunken city with Cthulhu himself - very cool but no idea about the city design...

what do you think about? Comments/suggestions are welcome

[mahon]

start with a jungle setting:

an expedition finds/steals/gets from natives some kind of an obscure statuette.

then an urban scenario:

a collector/cultist attempts to steal the idol from the expedition/owner/museum

then a wilderness/woods adventure:

the cultist and some others conduct a ritual with the idol and police tries to interrupt it

(to be continued...)

[Gundamentalist 5.56]

what do you think about? Comments/suggestions are welcome

I think you've been reading HPL The Call of Cthulhu too much  ::

There's lots of good stuff to plunder in old Call of Cthulhu RPG scenarios.

For instance the Armoured Angels scenario in Fearless Passages scenario book which has the players in Rolls-Royce armoured cars up against mi-go and automated gun positions operated by brains in braincases. This all happens at a zigguarat in Iraq.

And then there is the raid on Innsmouth. There is a fabulous scenario based on this event in the Escape from Innsmouth sourcebook, which is broken over several locations like the town, the Marsh refinery, the deep one colony off the coast etc. Get the second edition version as this has an extra scene in it. This would make a fabulous linked set of scenarios. I once thought about doing it as a convention game but the figures - 1920s-era marines - weren't available - but they are now.

[Driscoles]

I would vote for a story take place in Insmouth.
One Hero investigator comes to Insmouth
A few bad guys as encounter, cultists, deep ones maybe clues for the storyline and weapons as encounter too. He can meet friends who help him in the different parts.
As boards I would use two boards.
Town Board easy to modify into harbour board and a sewers board.
Björn

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Innsmouth would be nice. The only difficulty were to get/make all the buildings and it looks a bit too ordinary. I thought of having some exotic places. Btw, also the underwater scenarion (like yours DoorDice one) would be great, with the HLBS U-boat.

[Hammers]

How about a scenarioat Miscatonic U rather than a generic museum?

And how about a asylum scenario?

Check this out for inspiration:

http://www.darkpassage.com/gate.htm

[mahon]

Innsmouth would be lovely but to make it different from most other urban games one would have to create a few very special buildings. Great idea and the story is full of excellent ideas for scenarios - investigations, pursuits, escapes, fights - even if not mentioned, can be easily imagined....

At the mountains of madness - mother of all Arctic pulp adventures

The Dunwich Horror - yummy

And many of the older CoC scenarios would make great pulp adventures... Not as scary as RPGs but pretty nice for a low-budget movie style

[Driscoles]

Hi Prof.
I dont think that Insmouth is such a big project. Remember you play on a small gaming table. Some houses are maybe ruins, or you playing in backstreets or the harbour...Once the houses are finnished you can use them for Crime Story games too. But anyway... Iam sure you`ll find a setting.
Cheers
Björn

[WitchfinderGeneral]

Innsmouth would be nice. The only difficulty were to get/make all the buildings and it looks a bit too ordinary. I thought of having some exotic places.

Everybody has exotic places. All games are placed either somewhere in the jungle, at the southpole or on another planet.
But real horror can only be found in small New England towns.
Just think about how frightening it is to work for weeks only on houses and nothing else! ;-)

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Just think about how frightening it is to work for weeks only on houses and nothing else! ;-)

oh, my god! madness!  

[Westfalia Chris]

I think you've been reading HPL The Call of Cthulhu too much  ::

Heretic! There is no such thing as too much Lovecraft! ::

Sanity is overrated. Ho-hum. Says the man who had his group battle SA goons and undead henchmen in an abandoned abattoir in 1923´s Munich.

On the Innsmouth thing, you could always re-use the buildings for some "more mundane" New England Games. Whaling or such. Or drug-running. Or insane right whales plotting mankind´s demise using illicit booze.

[Zafarelli]

Just think about how frightening it is to work for weeks only on houses and nothing else! ;-)

oh, my god! madness!  

Now, now. I have been doing buildings almost exclusively for over two years, and I feel completely and utterly sane. You hear me? Sane! SANE! AAahahhaahahahahahhaaa!

Ahem. I'd love to see a Rlye table, but if I recall the description right, I seriously doubt that it is possible at all. Another vote for Innsmouth here.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Lovecraft describes R'lyeh as an strange and unimaginable place with alien architectur builded of many odd corners and shapes. Would like to know what H.P. did have in mind. Cubic? A wild mix of all sorts of geometrical forms? Or rather something like a gigantic living polyp always changing his shape?

[Hammers]

Think Gaudí on bad acid going architectural on Barcelona's ass.

[mahon]

Would like to know what H.P. did have in mind

if there had been such a thing, he would have described it. therewasn't so it was only blasphemous, heretical, polyphemous, cyclopean, unnamable, unspeakable, eldritch, etc. ::