This post is actually a more detailed response to a question on Reddit about prepping for a Call of Cthulhu scenario. Unfortunately, the comment limitations forced me to post an abbreviated response, so this is the more detailed...

Have even a passing interest in investigative roleplaying or the Mythos?Drop by the base113 Subreddit to comment, ask questions, or just check out how you might apply some of the ideas discussed to your own games. Works-in-progress and notes are...

Work continues, and as usual, I've been bouncing back and forth between different parts of the project. The goal is still primarily to play with my family, but I always try to write as though someone else is...

A fundamental tenet of cosmic horror is that the true nature of reality is incomprehensible to the human mind and that being faced with evidence of this reality damages the psyche. What humans perceive as the real world is...

When I played the Peru Prologue with my family, we used some character sheets I had already developed for OTF. They worked great, but I've had a few ideas since then - some purely thematic and some more...

The Authorship Spectrum Before I get into what changes I'm making to Fate Core's rules as written, I think it's important to look at how I apply those rules to get the style of game I'm going for. The...

Why Fate? Chances are that if you're reading this (and especially if you've read any of my previous posts), you are probably asking at least one of three questions: What's Fate? I don't like Fate, why are you using it...

As I've mentioned elsewhere, in the past couple of years I have played two Call of Cthulhu scenarios with my family. The first game, The Haunting, did not go as well as I wanted. The second game, the Peru...

In Part 2 I looked at some of the big name mythos roleplaying games out there and briefly discussed a few reasons I'm not just playing them. Of course, those are not the only mythos RPGs available - it's...

Choosing a System - Part 2 This series of posts discusses some of the existing games set in the Cthulhu Mythos that are currently popular and why I'm not just playing one of these games. In Part 1, I looked at...