Category: Reviews
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The Pale Lady: Fear and Fairytales
Deep in the woods lives a witch called the Pale Lady. She’s not really a witch, though, that’s just what folk say. She’s a faerie queen. Every spring, her man-beasts emerge to abduct the sons of the people. None of them have ever been seen again. Until now.
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Fairyland: Cthulhu Dark just got Darker
In the isolated Scottish village of Cullingstone, a young girl disappears every three years. Soon after, the girls return; emotionless, analytical, and supremely intelligent. Fairyland is a Cthulhu Dark scenario, set in 1890s rural Scotland, and written by Scott Dorward.
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William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion
William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion is a historical Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1890s Ballarat, a mining town in Australia. The local mining magnate has been losing sleep due to a series of break-ins and an unsettling encounter with something inhuman. This scenario is a lively and well put-together one-shot that practically runs itself.
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Cults of Cthulhu: Humanising Cosmic Horror.
Cults of Cthulhu has everything a Keeper needs to use cults in a Call of Cthulhu game. It includes 5 fully realised Cthulhu cults, a method of creating your own, and a thorough background in the history and lore of the Cthulhu Cult.
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Heinrich’s Guide to Carcosa: Love and Death in the Hyades.
Heinrich’s Guide to Carcosa is a solo campaign set in Carcosa, the mysterious city ruled by The King in Yellow. Intended for use with Call of Cthulhu 7th edition rules, it can also be run one-on-one with a Keeper and player.
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Nameless Horrors
Nameless Horrors is a shoulder-launched missile, not in the sense that it’s deadly (although it is), but in its capacity to blow your players’ minds
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The Yellow Book of Brechewold
If Harry Potter did shrooms with Professor Dumbledore, this is what Hogwarts would probably look like.
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All Dogs go to Hell
A short, pay-what-you want adventure for Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
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The Art of Hygge
This one-shot will leave the investigators with more questions than answers, and could serve as an ideal springboard for further investigations of an antagonist with some serious plot potential.
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Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess: review.
A short adventure for Lamentations of the Flame princess that’s blends campy humour and high-grade horror.
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Trophy Dark: Treasure, Glory, and Betrayal.
Trophy Dark is an award-winning fantasy game that creates haunting horror stories set in a hostile world.
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The Mayhemic Missile Method: Controlled Chaos.
216 versions of the magic missile spell, sure to inject chaos, horror and, yes, hilarity to the table. The Mayhemic Missile Method is a resource for Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess Core Rulebook: Weird fantasy horror roleplaying.
The core rules for Lamentations of the Flame Princess; an old-school DnD game for grown-ups.
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Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors
Not a game resource so much as a coffee-table book, but a surprisingly funny one.
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Cthulhu Dark
Cthulhu Dark is a rules-light narrative storytelling game geared toward Lovecraftian Horror. In addition to the incredibly simple rules, the rulebook contains excellent advice for writing and moderating horror scenarios.