Another campaign on the event horizon

I've waited for this parcel for a long time. But my waiting is over. My Arkham Advertiser from 1928 is at last in my hands. Dean Engelhardt made such a wonderful handout and built around it so many adventures that it will be a nice base for an Arkham-based campaign. For now, it will wait a bit, for the right time, but I will run it sometime in the future. You should check Cthulhu Reborn definitely! There are great scenarios there and other, sometimes free stuff!

Here is the sourcebook.

Here is the handout itself.

Spice must flow for the second time!

I'm a long-time fan of the Dune books series. For almost 25 years. Almost 10 years ago I've run a trilogy of scenarios, using Chaosium's BRP system in the world created by Frank Herbert. It was a fun game. This year my friends bought me a complete set of books published in Poland to date. I think that they are giving me not so gently hints about what they expect that I will run for them in the near future. Well... I'm going to learn the new system and then... The spice must flow!

Rulebook

GM set

GM Screen with a map of Arrakis.

Heroes of Rura-Tonga (7)

It seems that I'm back with preparing for the Heroes of Rura-Tonga campaign. After the delightful Armoured Angels scenario, we are taking the life of my wife's character three years into the future, to the year 1938, when joint forces of the Intelligence agencies of the USA, England, and Australia are sending him into Rura-Tonga, near the Japanese Mandat territory. But even the journey cannot be just a simple cruise or flight for this gentleman. I'm using heavy-pulpiefied Robinson Gruesome from the Monophobia scenario book. If You never  I've got a map and even choose another great enemy. For this heavily experienced PC, I'm thinking about Star Spawn of Cthulhu as the main bad guy. We will see!

Below is a map of the house in which Mike will be living during his tenure on Rura-Tonga. I've taken it from one of the old solo scenarios from the Indiana Jones Adventures book. 

Long awaited letter

My dear Friend sends me a letter. We have been exchanging correspondence for 20 years now. So we have a lot of pages written already. With each letter, we are sending something extra. So this time I've received a book by Howard Wandrei. Another one for my list of shame...

Now I'm in desperate need of free time to write him my answer. But before that, I must write another letter to my other dear friend and correspondent. Busy time for me between eleven and midnight for the next couple of weeks. 

Library Update (23)

So I'm alive... Sort of... The last couple of months were very hard in so many instances that I even do not want to write here. But we're still here. 

Since my last update, I've acquired or received a couple of books.No time to read them all for now, but I'm slowly wading thru my list o shame.

The Ancient Track will be a major reading for Lovecraft poetry in the future. 

Robert E. Howard's stories are always entertaining so I hope this book will be fun too.

The great unknown for me, but one of the editors is known to me from other works, we will see.

Polish edition of Trial of Cthulhu. Read it already. Typical Derleth. 

Something interesting for the end. Thick book, but it will be quick reading.

Library Update (22)

My first post in a long tie will be short. The kids are taking care of most of my free time and day got only 24 hours so with them and the work it is hard to find some time for my interests. But it will change in the future, I know that this is only temporary. So for now I'm happy with what I got. 

My little corner of the Earth is hot right now, so with Cryo Chamber's The Nyarlathotep as a soundtrack, I delve into this book. It was a fantastic journey into the mouth of madness as it should be. I found the city, but my mind doesn't take it so well.  So I become mad. Good ending for this little story. Next time I will be more prepared.

As a 14 book this year I'm rereading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. What a book, what a story! I'm reading it for the third? fourth time now? After Burning Chrome from William Gibson. So I'm definitely in Cyberpunk aesthetics right now (with this little exception above). This particular book I bought more than two decades ago. It is one of my personal favorites in the cyberpunk genre. 

Library Update (21)

So, for a long time now I didn't update my library status. As You may predict it only changes when something new is in my greedy tentacles. For a couple of weeks since my last update, I added some times to my list of Shame. But also I've reread one book.

A new addition to my list is Choose Cthulhu 4 based on The Nameless City story by H.P.Lovecraft. Didn't have a chance to play in it. But hopefully, It will change soon. Maybe with Cryo Chamber's Nyarlathotep in the background.

The second item is Rudyard Kipling's book from Polish publisher C&T. I like other, not horror books by him, so hope that this will be another of these little pearls in my collection.

Currently, during reading Downward Spire Lonely Hill, I made a little break to read City of the Singing Flame by Clark Ashton Smith. This is only one book translated into Polish by this author. Also, this is my second or third time reading it, but I find many new details in those stories. Here it is, as a curiosity, this book from 1991 has a Doc Savage cover by Lang. Why? Don't know. It was a strange time in the publishing industry in my country. Maybe this is the answer.