I’m currently starting to plan two different projects for the Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying game. I have never run a classic era CoC game before, only Delta Green/Current era games. But I have started reading some adventure sourcebooks and have started writting down ideas for the campaigns.
The first project I have started is a “Horror on the Orient Express” campaign this is one that I have wanted to run for close to 8 years now. The current plan is to have the players (havent assembled a group yet) created characters and run two shorter scenarios to give the players and the characters a bit of experience. This is to get me some time to adapt to be the keeper and the players used to my playstyle, and giving the characters some mythos experience that will help in the”Horror on the Orient Express”. Even though I havent read the entire thing if the players are to naive when playing and not collecting enough clues along the way they are going to have a though time finishing the campaign.
The prelude scenarios will take place about 10 years prior to the”Horror on the Orient Express” and will give the players time to evolve their characters through experience.
The other project is running an mini campaign based around “Escape from Innsmouth” and maybe starting out with some adventures from “Before the fall”. This mini campaign is radically different from any other as this is a action centered adventure with lots of combat and suspense right from the start. Adding “Before the fall” adds some extra background and detective work to the action packed raid segments in the adventure.
My planning so far has most of the first two scenarios for “Horror on the Orient Express” mapped out. Need to get all the handouts in order, maybe create some new handouts using MS Publisher. Getting the right music for the scenarios, have gotten the nature sounds sorted now to get some mood music and combat soundtracks. Luckily I have an assortment of music left from when I game mastered last, many years ago, now to dig them up again from the basement.
