Trail of Cthulhu

I think, as you've mentioned, it really comes down to what game you're playing.

And I feel sometimes it's just not fighting... against it like some games with investigation mechanics I don't know Trail of Cthulhu or whatever other game you have it's always like this is such a huge disconnect and always been and always will be when you have mechanics of you know investigating things or you have like riddles puzzles and stuff like that.

And, you know, you have a player who's like, okay, I know the answer, but does my character knows the answer.

Um, and that's like, that's the whole other thing for our panel, I guess.

You may need to go up a mountain, a literal mountain, but he's the one who knows what's up there and knows you avoid the metaphorical things that you'll meet along the way.

So there's a any number of Trail of Cthulhu scenarios that you can draw from the life of René Dumas.

And even if your campaign is in America, he's in America in 1932, prime trail era.

So he can guest star as this weird guy with tuberculosis and in touch with vampires.

For Trail of

Cthulhu, that is an actual mythos term you could use in the bookhounds of London supplement for Trail of Cthulhu or for Call of Cthulhu.

You could have that as a questing thing for the bookhounds.

There's lots of different options you could do with that book.

Yeah, absolutely you do.

Should have brought it in.

And it's for Trail of Cthulhu.

It's the big Trail of Cthulhu campaign, Eternal Lies.

And I eventually started buying some of the board games.

And then with my kids, I was the dungeon master for Trail of Cthulhu game, which is a role-playing game.

I want to

see the Thomas Ligotti role-playing game.

That's not at the Uffizi as it transpires.

So, yeah, that's Knights Black Agents, Trail of Cthulhu, Lovecraft mentions a 12th century Florentine monk named Bartolomeo Corsi, who was possessed by the Ithians.

And in the very old folk, the cryptic towns of Etruria, which is to say Tuscany, hold elder secrets.

So, again, you can be based in Florence and going out.

Um, and I think the fact that like you are not your like typical story heroes in like, in any sort of Cthulhu based TTRPG.

Um, my old podcast used to run Trail of Cthulhu, which same basic, you know, same setting, just different rules for running it.

Um, you're probably gonna be broken people, if not at the beginning of the story, definitely by the end of things.

Um, and it's, it's pretty interesting taking a look at things from that perspective.

Sorry, you, you went really quiet for a second.

Um, so as far as, like, running a long-form game, because, like, in my previous, uh, podcast wh- when I was still with Daniel's Dread Tales, we did a, uh, a- a campaign, uh, for...

It was, again, Trail of Cthulhu, but we did a Mythos campaign, and I think it lasted us, like, year and a half, two years, something like that.

Um, and really the only way I think to properly run a longterm Mythos campaign is to break it up into acts.

So just browsing that is fun.

And then a lot of the advice that we might give for running Delta Green is often transferred or transferable from advice for other horror games, be that Trail of Cthulhu, my own baby, Call of Cthulhu, the granddaddy of us all, other lesser horror games, which don't need to concern us.

So my own GURPS horror for the GURPS system, you can ignore the GURPS in it because it began as nightmares of mine for the Iron Crown system, and I certainly ignored the Iron Crown system when I wrote that.

And that is my summa on the topic of running horror, but also the back part of Fall of Delta Green and the back part of Night's Black Agents, my game of burn spies hunting vampires, should provide a little bit of sort of a generic scenario structure for the investigation of sort of the...

And so I might run Shiver for a specific type of horror.

I might run Trail of Cthulhu for specific, Cthulhu Dark for something else.

And then I'll grab Liminal Horror for that.

And it's generally I start with the