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 There and back again - Reflections on a Grogmeet Disclaimer – I am terrible with names, and with discord resulting in everyone having two names, one of which is made up, i just get confused even more.   So, I have pretty much omitted names or pseudonyms from this review.   If you were there you know who you are! Feel free to add detail and comment on the games if you were involved. Or, if I talked to you during the event or in the bar on the Friday night and I owe you a drink remember to remind me next year! (I was having to do family duties on the Saturday night, so next year I’ll arrange things better so I can get fully ‘immersed’ in the bar room discussions).   Anyway, onto the review of Grogmee(a)t 2021………… Well that was fun.   My first Grogmeat is over and I am already looking forward to the next one.   Lockdown was a right pain but for me it did result in two key changes to my TTRPG life, Discovery of the Grognard files and joining the very welc...

 Murder Shack – A Keepers perspective  (SPOILERS SPOILERS AND MORE SPOILERS!) It has been a long time since my last post.  Various reasons all of them mundane and boring.  However, I have managed to play a lot of games and ‘Handled’ my first Delta Green scenario, ‘Last Things Last’.  I also missed the deadline on the ‘writing your first scenario’ course, but it will get done eventually.    So back to the point of this post – i had played The Murder Shack (see previous blog post) but wanted to also run it as Keeper as well.  So below is how that went and some feedback to consider for future Keepers. System: Call of Cthulhu 7th ed Scenario: The Murder Shack Played on: RPG Nook Discord server and Roll20 Keeper: Me! Players: Scrooge - Aaron Napper (The Carpenter) Verben - Joanne Cherfas (The Nurse) Fat Earther - Don Speerlake (The Journalist) Seraf/Attila - Christine Kerpas (The Film Maker) The Murder Shack is a pretty straight forward scenario wr...

 Blackwater Creek - the endgame (contains spoilers) System:  Call of Cthulhu Scenario –  Blackwater Creek Played on:  RPG Nook  Discord server / VTT  Roll20 For preparation information and first session see earlier blog entries. We opened the next session with the investigators stuck on a road.  Its 9pm at night they are surrounded by the bodies and gun smoke of their shoot out with the farmers (some may say murderous rampage). Safe to say the first session had taken an unexpectedly severe turn.  My planned roughing up of the investigators to give them the impression that this place was generally unwelcoming had turned into a shoot out that had left one of the investigators (Nathan) with a few less SAN points while killing the three farmers (including a crit at short range with a 12g shotgun) – two heads blown off and one gutted by gun fire.  Nelson was covered in head matter and brains as he had been standing close to one of the farmers that...

Play report – Blackwater Creek SPOILERS  Session 1 – approximately just over 3hrs of play Description of events, some notes and insights SPOILERS! System: Call of Cthulhu Scenario – Blackwater Creek Played on: RPG Nook Discord server / VTT Roll20 For preparation information refer to blog entry published on 11th June. Scene 1 – Meeting with Prof McTavish The investigators all were present at 11am for the meeting with McTavish in his office in the Archaeology Dept. at Miskatonic University.  After the investigators had all introduced themselves, McTavish gave them the overview from the scenario and asked them to find and bring back Prof. Henry Roades and his wife Abigail. The investigator Prof Wolforth was being played as a dour curmudgeon who clearly felt superior to all those around him, and was resentful on how his academic career had turned out.  From my point of view as the Keeper it was a joy to have him appointed as the official leader of the expedition, considerin...

Preparation for running Blackwater Creek - SPOILERS If you go down to the creek today you're in for a big surprise, if you go down to the creek today you'll never believe your eyes..... System: Call of Cthulhu 7th ed Scenario: Blackwater Creek Played on: RPG Nook discord server and Roll20 Players and Investigators : Player: Verben / Investigator: Mr.  Johan Dennis Hans Heisenberg / Bio:  A student who spends too much time with the whisky bottle thinking about socialist theory. Player: Scrooge / Investigator: Mr. Nathan Samuel Kay / Bio: A student in thrall to academia and forging his own furrow in the new field of ‘Forensics’. Player: Zpectatorf / Investigator: Mr. Nelson Germander / Bio: A mature private investigator who is not adverse to bending the law if it gets the job done and gives him money towards his pension. Player: 4AcrossIsEmu / Investigator: Prof. Watson Wolforth / Bio: An old Professor with disdain for students and others in general.  Grey is his favourite...

 A play report on Murder Shack!  SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! And once again SPOILERS!! System: Cthulhu 7 th ed Scenario : Murder Shack Played on: Good Friends of Jackson Elias discord server and Roll20 Keeper: Diesel680 Players and investigators names: Stef1885 – The Carpenter Sarah D – The Film maker ColonicAnimal – The Journalist GailC – The Nurse If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says 15 miles to the Murder Shack Murder Shack, yeah, yeah I'm headin' down the Des Moines highway Lookin' for the murder getaway Headed for the murder getaway I got me a car, it's got a freaky woman in it And we're headin' on down to the Murder Shack! I promise that will be the only reference to the B52s Love Shack record….but its to much of an opportunity not to mention it – as I am sure everyone does that plays this Scott Dorward scenario.   I am sure Kate Pierson and co will be happy to know their song of love and happiness is bein...