NecronomiCon Providence 2019. Part III Upcoming Releases

I do have some hot news from the Con in terms of upcoming games releases from Golden Goblin Games, and Chaosium. 

When  I was playing Cthulhu Invictus with Oscar Rios, he told us of an upcoming book for Invictus, based in Britannica, which will contain the adventure we played in (A Mortal Harvest), as well as at least one scenario by Stuart Boon.

I had games with both Mike Mason, and Lynne Hardy, and had noticed a certain Folk Horror theme to them both, so I asked mike after the game if there was any intention to release these scenarios, maybe along with Scritch Scratch, another scenario with deep folklore roots. His reply was that yes, something along those lines was in their thoughts, but that it wouldn't be British Folk Horror, and would of course contain scenarios based in North America too.

I also asked Mike Mason about upcoming material, some of which he was going to reveal at the Favourite Scenarios panel, but he forgot. What he said in the elevator afterwards was that there were plans to re-release Mansions of Madness and Lovecraft Country for 7th edition.  The fact he mentioned these ones specifically made me think they are near the top of the pile.

Mike also mentioned the release of the previous organised play campaign "A Time to Harvest" as a book. I ran through this campaign as Organised Play events, and am happy to see it finally coming to print, and would be very interested to see what changes have been made through feedback from all the play-testing it essentially got.

Lastly, Mike mentioned there are plans afoot to compile a book (or box set, it is as yet undecided) of short (i.e. 2hr) scenarios.


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