[simon]

Just wondering, for those who are up for playing Ctrhulhu this year, what would their era of choice be? Any any other criteria/opinions/questions?

[paz]

My first preference if playing Cthulhu would be for a modern day 'everyman heroes' game, possibly because that's what I'm most familiar with. Of the ones listed, I'd go for Yellow Dawn.

[simon]

Have ammended the list and voted for you...  

[simon]

Quick update on the game I've got ready to play, as based around the above categories:

• 1890s - I have the Golden dawn sourcebook, which has the characters being respectible folk in a 'secret society' and includes brushes with various literary and historical figures. If the PCs survive they could make it to...

• 1920s: I really want to run the 'Tatters of the King' campaign, which requires just one of the characters to be a psychiatrist familiar with the law to get the ball running.

• Modern day: I've got both 'Delta Green' books and a bunch of other modern day bits and pieces. I'd like to run 'Nightfloors', but I think some people may have already played it, but I've got a good haunted house scenario from the net for Delta Green agents. Alternatively, I've got a bunch of straight 'everyman stumbles across evidence of the mythos' style stories that can be run. We've had one 'modern day' scenario already, featuring escaped American lunatics that killed a bunch of people and burnt down a house. Those were the players. I'd like to link to that somehow, even if it's just a passing reference.

• Dark futures: I've got one friend who has worked on a zombie-laden future landscape which is slowly building itself up again, and another who has created a dark bleak world teetering on the edge. The first has already had a game run (see elsewhere on this forum under 'Yellow Dawn') which can be built up on - the latter is still being realised but will require 'playtesters' sometime in the future.

• Dreamlands: I've got a long fantasy jaunt through the wilds of the Dreamlands, featuring everyone's favourite villian Nyarlathotep. It could be played in any era theoretically with a bit of tweaking, since the majority of it takes place in the surreal other world beyond our own, being an exotic and untamed fantasy world full of wonder and terror.

And a village of cats, if you like cats...

Think that covers all the bases, anyhow.

[paz]