[r3v3n63]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

@r3v3n63

First, allow me to thank you for providing a link to your sculptures. You are extremely talented. The sheer number of creative people on this site never ceases to amaze.

Call of Cthulhu...I'd forgotten the name and appreciate the reminder. I played 3-4 games with a couple of D&D buddies that introduced it to me in the 90's. It was a logical progression; we went from D&D, to Dark Sun, to Ravenloft, and ended up at Cthulhu... The games I played were all enjoyable. I loved the idea of "sanity checks"...and being a pretty cynical and somewhat dour personality-type, I loved the 'doom and gloom' endings. In most real life perilous situations, the "protagonist" doesn't usually make it. I also got a hoot from the character classes: 'nurse,' 'reporter,' 'detective,' 'jock,' and so on...the pedestrian nature of who you played as immediately heightened the fear-factor. haha! Thanks for engaging me in this convo, it's brought up fond memories!

Thank you for the compliment, I'm an OK sculptor so at least it keeps the rent paid so far but there are tons far better then me.

The system I first started on was the Chaosium RPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_o...e-playing_game) and I remember the first time I was at a session the players were dropping off like flies, and with total glee! Everyone would be cackling at the horrid way their characters died and then they would whip-up a new one and jump back in. Afterwards the players would be congratulating each other on their glorious demise and who got it the worst.
So far none of my friends are interested in that style of game, they play RPG's to win at something and feel superior so all my Lovecraft stuff gathers dust. But Paizo will be releasing a horror themed expansion book for Pathfinder paizo.com - Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Horror Adventures (PFRPG) Hardcover that is supposed to introduce some of the CoC style playing with stuff like sanity points for characters. And Chaosium is still producing the original CoC system and just had a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund their 7th edition. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...on/description