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This is a place for dumping stuff you come across that just cries out to be used in a game setting, campaign, module, one-shot, character or storyline. Hopefully somebody will do something cool with it and we'll read about it later under Actual Plays.
* UNNECESSARY NOTE: It goes without saying (so I'm saying it): You shouldn't put your cherished babies or betrotheds here. More like that weird cousin you once met who you kinda wish you got to know better.
Weird Noises
webtech - Mon, 05/27/2019 - 19:14Every one of these five weird noises is begging to be used in a game somewhere:
This local legend in New
nickwedig - Thu, 05/30/2019 - 06:31This local legend in New Jersey always seemed to me a great seed for a Call of Cthulhu/Trail of Cthulhu/Cthulhu Dark/Lovecraftesque/etc. game.
So the diggers found something while digging for cursed pirate gold (from Blackbeard, who was rumored to dabble in black magic). The PCs might be investigators hired by Miss Steward to get her treasure back... or they could be the crooked diggers discovering the ghost pirates and curses and worse after digging it up. either way, instant horror scenario waiting to happen.
Looking for a way to mix some
Tod - Sun, 06/16/2019 - 15:35Looking for a way to mix some ancient middle-eastern horror into your modern-day rock-n-roll setting? Here's one...
"Omar RodrÃguez-López, the musical mastermind and producer behind The Mars Volta, and vocalist/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala spent many evenings on the band’s tour bus while on the road with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the fall of 2006 deeply engrossed in their new favorite pastime: playing this antique game called "The Soothsayer," a talking board in the style of a modern Ouija board.
“The messages started coming through and I kept looking at Omar like, ‘Are you pushing this thing, or am I pushing this thing?’ I just kept writing down everything that it said because it was 10 times more creative than anything I think I could have come up with,†admitted Bixler-Zavala. “The fact that I was writing everything down is what challenged the spirits that we contacted and alerted them that we had the power of unmasking their anonymity.â€
The tale escalates quickly into a maelstrom of dark energies, ancient honor killings, demonic spirits, and a curse that affected the entire recording of the album "The Bedlam in Goliath," until the board was finally taken away from Cedric and buried in an undisclosed location by Omar.
http://marqueemag.com/2008/01/mars-volta-encounters-demons-and-spirits-d...
About 50 words are first
nickwedig - Wed, 06/19/2019 - 13:49About 50 words are first recorded in English as appearing in a book that definitely existed, but that no one can find a copy of.
This feels a bit like a successfully suppressed Mythos tome. One theory about The Meanderings of Memory is that it was banned and shunned because it was pornographic. But it also reminds me of how The King in Yellow was said to be outlawed by world governments.
Other details, like the pseudonymous nature of the author or the obscure Latin epigraph that is repeatedly quoted as the only identification of the book, could make for good plot hooks or weird mysterious details for any investigative or horror game. Having a pseudonymous author means that you could identify any appropriate historical person or NPC as the true author, as well.
Holy Crap!
Tod - Fri, 01/03/2020 - 14:49There's this town in Maine that could serve as the setting for multiple campaigns of modern or historical paranormal adventures...
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/maine/creepy-paranormal-town-me/
Gotta wonder about those Red Paint People. And the lost head of Sarah Ware? Holy Crap!