Mysteries of Montreal

Last year, there were no stores in town that signed up for Free RPG Day . The nearest being across the border in Burlington, so I wasn't too hopeful when I went on to the website to look this year.  Thankfully, there were 3 stores in town who had signed up, and one, Ménard Comics , which I had never heard of before, is just across the bridge from us. I went along on the day, with the intention of getting the Kids on Bikes adventure supplement, however, the store I went to had not recieved any copies of that book, and it's not like they ran out, as I was there 5 minutes after opening. I'm a little put out by that, as that is really the one thing I wanted from this year's line up, but I guess I'll have to wait and see if they release the PDF. The good news is that I did get to pick up Outbreak Undead , which does look a little dice heavy, but I think we'll give it a go. I also got the DCC quickstart guide with 2 adventures ( 1 level 0 adventure and a Lv...

We've been working our way through the Two-Headed Serpent campaign, and we're reaching the Iceland chapter. Unlike Masks or HotOE, there are a lot less handouts for this game, as is more fitting with the Pulp style I guess, as there is less investigation to an extent. That has not stopped me however, putting together a dossier of images for the Iceland chapter, which includes images of the Snæfellsjökull volcano. It doesn't take much to find some images online, and age them, but there are no images of the volcano erupting, because it's extinct. However, I did quickly put together these images with a little photoshop. Please feel free to use them for your own game, and let me know if larger images would be useful. There is also this view, which would fit what the players see as they fly in to the peninsula. Finally, I found an old map of Iceland, where all the monsters of the sea are congregated around the  Snæfellnes peninsula. ...

We completed the Horror on the Orient Express Campaign earlier this year, indeed I have already posted a link to the handouts I used for the Zagreb chapter here . But the end of the year is a good time to clear house and get things done that have been put on the back burner, so I'm returning to this subject to share some other handouts I made for that session. What I did not get round to posting at that time were the audio files I used for that chapter, to voice the stranger in the mists that guides the party round dream Zagreb. To remedy that, I have made available the audio files I used for that session in a Dropbox folder. There are two types of file, those that were taken straight from the chapter as written, and some that I made individually for the Investigators of my group. Zagreb Audio Files can be found here.   Please feel free to use them, but I would also like to know if you do, so drop me a comment to let me know. The inspiration for these files was taken (read...

From 1937, an advert for the Mount Royal Hotel. I don't need to write anything else, this is just the cover of a book of adventures right there!

One of my regrets with being in Providence last August for NecronomiCon , was not making it to see the inside of the Providence Athenaeum . We managed to see the outside of it, but I didn't make it in. On our way back up to Canada from a holiday in Cape Cod this year, however, we did manage to stop off for lunch in Providence, and I finally got to see the inside of the library. It was worth the wait. Of course the library is famous for it's connections to Lovecraft and Poe and Whitman , but I was happy to learn that it had also been frequented by Charlotte Perkins Gilman . There is also, of course, the Lovecraft bust. The list of patrons was of interest, combining local Lovecraftians like Neils Hobbs, as well as international names like Guillermo del Toro. Made me smile. The above images show off the well photographed main interior of the Library, and are pretty much as I expected it to be, however, there is a lot more to the building. Downstair...

I don't post about every Kickstarter I back, but I think this one needs a little signal boost. " John Silence is a complete rpg plus a shared-universe story/poetry anthology about psychic people of color saving the Earth from invisible monsters." The name comes from a set of stories by Algernon Blackwod, so those are something I'll have to look up and get my hands on. Go check it out, there's plenty time left to back, and it hasn't yet made it's goal.