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Once Upon A Time

Posted by Steve Darlington on Monday, March 1st, 2010

When people ask me what my favorite game is, I don’t have to think very hard. For me, a good game is like a photo album: full of memories. When you look at it, you remember all the people you enjoyed it with, and all those wonderful times you had. Plenty of good games do [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Horror’

Trail of Cthulhu

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Trail of Cthulhu is a role playing game of Lovecraftian Horror by Kenneth Hite and published by Pelgrane Press, based on the classic Call of Cthulhu role-playing game by Chaosium. Players take the role of investigators, hunting down hidden truths and Elder Gods in the world of H.P. Lovecraft, while slowly going insane or dying [...]

Terrors From Beyond

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Terrors From Beyond is Chaosium, Inc.’s latest anthology of scenarios for Call of Cthulhu. It brings together six adventures set primarily in the 1920s, but with one in 1930 – hence the 1920s and 1930s tag on the cover. What sets this collection apart from others is that each scenario is a one-shot, a scenario [...]

Arkham Horror

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Arkham Horror is one of Fantasy Flight Games’ “big box” games, and it has a big price to match. But the big box comes with big contents and big return. There are hundreds of cards, sixteen different heroes, eight different villains and a gigantic board – all illustrated in full color. Naturally, Arkham Horror draws [...]

Lovecraftian Tales from the Table

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

What if you played through two of the hobby’s most highly regarded campaigns? What if those two campaigns were for Call of Cthulhu, the classic RPG of Lovecraftian investigative horror? And what if you recorded every single session of those two campaigns being played through? Well, this exactly what has been done with Lovecraftian Tales [...]