It's designed for novice Keepers and players - though there's plenty here to enjoy for more experienced players and Keepers, too. It comes with four pre-generated investigators and should take around an hour to play. Advice is also given on adapting the game for 2—6 investigators, as well as how to expand the scenario for longer sessions. The Call of Cthulhu Quick-Start Rules guide you through the process of creating investigators, as well as an overview of the game, and contains character sheets and "The Haunting", a ready to play adventure. Download a PDF copy here: Call of Cthulhu 7 - Quick-Start. Home Free Stuff Cthulhu Adventures Cthulhu Adventures What is a roleplaying game without adventures? Alone Against the Flames - Solo Adventure. Want a printed copy? Order Alone Against the Flames here! Paula rolls two ten-sided dice. I rolled 34, under my Library Use skill of What did I find?

GARRIE KEEPER: Cool. You search over the shelves and come across a book called "Local Legends and Ghosts. JOE: So have me and Arnold found anything? Shall we make rolls? GARRIE KEEPER: Well, just as you arrive at the mysteries section you see a strange-looking man in a trench coat. He appears to be examining an old book. He suddenly notices you and quickly disappears down the end of the stack. Did I recognize him from the bar we visited last night? JOE: Yes! Off we go! Paula, are you heading to the check- out desk? PAULA: Yes I want the librarian to issue me the book. GARRIE KEEPER: Fine. Arnold and Joe, you run round the back of the shelves and the man is waiting for you.

I hold up and look at the man. JOE: Can I make a Psychology roll to see if I under- stand his intent? GARRIE KEEPER: Yes, make the roll. JOE: I made it; I rolled under half my Psychology skill. GARRIE KEEPER: Well he looks like he wants to say something to you. He gestures with the book for you to come closer. GARRIE KEEPER: Cut to Paula. PAULA: Fine. I go to look for Joe and Arnold. GARRIE KEEPER: Not really. You do see Paula's inves- tigator go off in the direction they went. GARRIE KEEPER: Right, Joe. As you edge closer to the man you begin to notice a fishy smell. Make an Intimidate roll. JOE: I failed it. Can I push the roll? GARRIE KEEPER: Sure you can. Of course, if you fail the pushed roll something bad is going to happen… JOE: Heck, I did fail the pushed roll! Oh no… ARNOLD: I told you to be careful! GARRIE KEEPER: You stare into his eyes and threaten him, when suddenly he throws his head violently forward, head-butting you.

You reel back and blood begins to pour from your nose. He throws the book up into air and runs. Mark off two hit points damage. Paula and Cathy, you arrive at this moment. Arnold what are you doing? Do they catch up to the strange, fishy smelling man? What was in the book that he was holding? What this Game Covers Likewise are there dread survivals of things older and more potent than man; things that have blasphemously straggled down through the aeons to ages never meant for them; monstrous entities that have lain sleeping endlessly in incredible crypts and remote caverns, outside the laws of reason and causation, and ready to be waked by such blasphem- ers as shall know their dark forbidden signs and furtive passwords.

To Lovecraft the s were modern-day and so this book uses both the Classic Era and our own Modern-Day as period settings. Many supplements and published scenarios exist for different eras, including Gaslight Victorian, and the Dark Ages. The Cthulhu Mythos transcends all time and space, and the un- fathomable machinations of the mysterious Old Ones could spill into any conceivable setting or historical period. What You Need to Play Call of Cthulhu When you are ready to begin playing Call of Cthulhu, you only need a few things to start: G The Call of Cthulhu Rulebook—only needed by the Keeper. G Roleplaying dice. G Paper. G Pencils and an eraser. G Two or more people to game with—one person must play the role of Keeper.

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Halloween night. A haunted house. Will you live to see the morning? The Old Barnaker House. Every kid has heard about i. English Pages 70 Year DOWNLOAD FILE. The horrors lurking in the modern world are often a synthesis of the mundane and the monstrous. For example, the concept. The Dark Forest This Modern Era scenario for 7th edition Call of Cthulhu is suitable for two to six players, is investi. You are not alone! A complete guide plus adventures for San Francisco of the s. Also covers the greater San Francisco Bay Area, from th. Are you ready to step beyond reality and explore the prof. The Cthulhu Alphabet is a prolifically illustrated tabletop RPG supplement published in hardcover book format. The Cthu. Long before ivy grew on the walls of Miskatonic University or the Deep Ones first came to Innsmouth, centuries before th. Sammons Call of Kid-thulhu rules by Bret Kramer Cover by Ian MacLean Illustrations and Kid Investigator Portraits by Ian MacLean and Katie von Csefalvay Maps by Richard Le Duc and Clint Cronk Book design and layout by Badger McInnes Handouts and character sheets by Dean Engelhardt Proofreading by Keith Mageau and Chitin Proctor Call of Cthulhu 7th edition updating assistance and advice provided by the inimitable Charles Gerard and Christopher Smith Adair.

Thanks As ever, this would not be possible without the support and love of my wife Maria and my three children whom I would never allow anywhere near the Barnaker House. I would like to thank Adam Alexander, Charles Gerard, Chris Huth, Badger MacInnes, Sean Murphy, Christopher Smith Adair, Dave Sokolowski, and Jeff Vandine for their advice and feedback before, during, and at the conclusion of this project. Likewise, I am much obliged for the Weird Works collective weirdworks. org for their support. There would be no book without the generous backing of our legion of Kickstarter supporters. Many thanks to all give or take of them. Finally I want to express my bottomless gratitude to Kevin Ross for so generously allowing me to tinker with his evil little creation.

I am sorry this took so goddamn long. The Dare © Sentinel Hill Press, with the exception of the Kid-Thulhu rules, which are © Chaosium Inc. All rights reserved. This supplement is best used with the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition roleplaying game, available separately. Produced under license from Chaosium Inc. com Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium Inc. Used with permission. Call of Cthulhu © — Chaosium Inc. Note: This book bears a terrible curse. Even now she is on her way with a large jar of mustard. Table of Contents I Double-Dog Dare Ya This caused me to drop my half-full sack of candy, losing most of it. I have not forgotten and I have not forgiven. And all that from a simple little tournament adventure that until now has only appeared in a fairly obscure licensee-produced book published over 20 years ago. fun, frightening, and more than a little back-stabby. I have no recollection of where the idea came from to make the player-characters kids, but from my sparse original notes yes, I still have them it looks like that was the idea from the get-go.

Looking back, I reckon the main inspirations at the time were the aforementioned Argento films. The portrait in the basement is definitely a riff on the submerged painting in the early scenes of Inferno, albeit less cryptically and nonsensically placed. I wrote a handful of them, and over the years people like Scott Aniolowski, J. Todd Kingrea, John Tynes, Fred Behrendt, Mike Szymanski, and others ran or wrote Call of Cthulhu tournament games at GenCon. It was an absolute blast running these things, as players really got into their characters and played the adventures to the hilt. I also brought a lot of my own childhood and interests to The Dare. Kyle Robards is largely based on myself, save for the thing about being the smartest kid in class.

The VHS logo on the cover of this edition of The Dare is an amusing detail. But I know something like The Sandlot, sort of a non-horror all-baseball version of IT with kid and adult sections of the story , was another inspiration. Just enough details were included for the Keeper to be able to run the adventure as quickly and efficiently as possible. Tournament rounds were 4 hours long, and that included initial set up and voting for the winners of the round. I wrote it so that most Keepers could read it quickly and invent their own details on the fly, or expand on the basics of what was there. I can easily imagine it happening in the s, but running it for the modern day seems pretty inconceivable to me: the kids would be nose-deep in their phones, oblivious while rat-things and worse run all around them.

Between their phones and the modern mania of sharing all aspects of life on the internet, it seems to me The Dare would lose much of the sense of isolation and helplessness that drives it. On the other hand, I find the idea of running kid Howard Lovecraft and his friends in the Barnaker house in the s irresistible. I laughed and told him the original was a very accurate depiction of the house I grew up in, down to the closets and attics and assorted quirks. It occurs when the kids finally come face-to-eyeless-face with the horrible witch Evelyn Barnaker. She may or may not be glamored to appear like their grandmothers. So when she stands up and well, Mike Szymanski of Triad Entertainments must have thought that what happened next was a step too far for what had been up to that point a PG or PG rated scenario, so he cut it.

I think it holds up pretty well these days. So why does a work like this strike such a chord with us as adults? Now you and your fellow kid heroes become the ultimate underdogs: the weak facing the supernatural unknown. Lovecraft Though she lives and her consciousness never rests, she acts mostly through her verminous servants. Most of all she hungers, especially for the tender flesh of children. The kid investigators will spend most of the beginning of the scenario exploring the old dark house, meeting her lesser servant-creatures and so forth. Roger does what he can to keep her victims preoccupied in exploring the house until his mistress can trap them with arcane magic. The odds are, however, not in their favor. Introduction W elcome to The Dare, a one-nighter, tournament-style scenario.

In it, players take on the roles of children who are forced to spend Halloween night in a supposedly haunted house. His mistress is an eyeless, deathless witch, lurking in a warren of dank earthen tunnels beneath the house. From these lightless chambers, the thing that was once Evelyn Barnaker among many names sends out her servants: rats and rat-like things, bats and bat-like things, and her terrible cat familiar Rastis. Roger is a temporary servitor created to gather enough victims to her for an important ritual to sustain her undeath. Within her chamber the grub-like, ancient, nightmare grandmother-thing seethes, birthing monstrous rat- and bat-like things, and resting quietly as the creatures of the dank and dark wriggle and scurry over her motionless body.

PG vs. This is especially true when it comes to horror games, wherein much of the enjoyment of the game comes from provoking an emotional response, primarily fear. In The Dare, the players take the role of children and considering our design goal to make this scenario accessible to new players, it is possible that actual children might make up some part of your players. The PG option minimizes harmful violence, gore, and death, focusing more on menace and anxiety rather than carnage. The R 3 The Dare options tend to be more visceral, with gore and a greater emphasis on injury and fatality. We do not feel that one version of the scenario is better than the other—The Haunting is an unsettling film, probably more so than many schlocky blood-soaked R-Rated B movies. In making these suggestions, we have had to make certain assumptions about what is disturbing to some players.

As the Keeper, it is ultimately up to you to recognize what horrors are entertaining your players and which are not well received. If they wish, the kid investigators can explore the backyard before attempting to gain access to the house. Do not make this any more difficult than necessary. Once the kid investigators start looking around and discover the rats, they may want to leave. Use the phrase every time they think about hightailing it out of there. After about an hour of exploration in the house, Roger should disappear, preferably while the group is on the upper floor.

From this point on he will be trying to split the group, or ambush them one at a time. He will create diversions, close doors, even lead them outside or make them think they are helping him pull off a practical joke; whatever it takes to isolate an intended victim. If the kid investigators kill Roger prematurely, or if they decide to escape the house before the real fun begins, you have two options. If you are far enough along in the scenario, you can simply let them escape, leaving the mystery of the Barnaker house unsolved. The only way out will then be the tunnel under the front porch. By all means, do not assume that every time the text states there is a creature present in a room that they will all attack or fight to the death.

Use the creatures to frighten the kid investigators, only attacking when dramatically appropriate. Unnatural things should fight for one or two rounds and then flee. SAN checks should be called for the first two times the kid investigators encounter each type of creature. Reward ingenuity; a firecracker is a simple and safe way to clear a room of rats, and perhaps their unnatural counterparts as well. Clever uses of food to distract the critters, or using tactics from comics or monster magazines could also be used to overcome such obstacles.

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