tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400571024447629447.post1890563416984610713..comments2023-04-03T16:05:04.136+01:00Comments on Total Party Kill: Mythos Generations / Purist Trail of Cthulhu campaign settingNookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09763322232220124449noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400571024447629447.post-63922636699578378252011-11-29T07:52:01.761+00:002011-11-29T07:52:01.761+00:00Yeah, like that.
I really enjoyed running Trail.....Yeah, like that.<br /><br />I really enjoyed running Trail... You get to legitimately go OTT with the lurid descriptive language.<br />I'm going to give this idea a go, I think...Nookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09763322232220124449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400571024447629447.post-63502755938024514162011-11-28T09:34:47.697+00:002011-11-28T09:34:47.697+00:00"it makes sense to me to have a replacement c..."it makes sense to me to have a replacement character lined up, one with access to their unfortunate relatives notes, possessions and demented ravings."<br /><br />I played an online chat-based roleplay game (using the MUD/MUX-style framework) based around Lovecraft which was unusual in that, while most games frowned on you having too many alternate characters and generally forbade them from interacting, this one actually encouraged having at least one alt very closely related to your main character. Then, when they inevitably horribly die, the next one can just inherit their meticulously-kept notebooks and slip right into the adventure...<br /><br />That was a fun game, the refs had a definite sense of humour. Though the IC stuff was all deadly serious, the OOC material was well aware of how daft it all was. When you logged in there was a tally of how many characters had died; then someone was removed from the game in such a way that they weren't dead, but they still wanted to honour it on the login page. This, of course, encouraged the storytellers to get creative. Before long there was a big scrolling list of written-out characters. "120 dead, 32 insane, 16 seduced to the service of the Elder Gods, 6 trapped in ancient Mongolia, 1 thinks he's a Mongol..."Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04291848981078094405noreply@blogger.com