For the record: I actually know that this CERN human sacrifice video thing is, indeed, a fake. But if it wasn’t a fake, this is the way to do what the Esoterrorists RPG calls a veil-out:
Occult ritual caught on camera at CERN? And nobody believes it? How very @DeltaGreenRPG – https://t.co/XuUiAeel9B /cc @S_Cogswell @shaneivey
— Uncaring Cosmos (@UncaringCosmos) August 18, 2016
Continue reading Fake human sacrifice at CERN, or sophisticated coverup? …OK, it’s the latter.
OK, real quick: The Esoterrorists is Pelgrane Press’s and Robin Laws’ relentlessly excellent investigative horror-conspiracy RPG (noteworthy in that the conspiracy running counter-occult actions is neither sociopathic, nor stupid); and Worldbreaker is an upcoming sourcebook for running a globe-trotting, full-bore stop-the-Apocalypse campaign. Apparently it’s almost ready for the printers. Which means that it should hopefully drop before the end of the year.
Pelgrane Press likes to do these mega-campaign books, and I have a bunch of them: Eternal Lies for Trail of Cthulhu springs to mind, and of course The Dracula Dossier for Night’s Black Agents. I like ’em: they’re typically stuffed to the gills with useful or interesting stuff, and even if you don’t use one as a campaign frame you can still mine the book for ideas. So you’re going to pay out some cash for this one – I’m assuming a fifty buck price tag – but they’re not going to stint on the portions. Worth the price, in other words.
Currently for twenty bucks you get the PDFs for the Esoterrorists occult horror investigation game, a bunch of adventures, some suitable music for your campaigns, and – this is what got my wallet out – first look at a new campaign that Robin Laws is working on. Good stuff all around, and at a nicely reasonable price, too. Check it, as they say, out.
You can write an entire adventure around this:
#Esoterrorists! RT @BoingBoing: Taylor Swift tops chart with accidental release of 8 seconds of white noise http://t.co/aYFghh7EUB
— ESOTERIC FLAIR (@teenmethuselah) October 22, 2014
…and note that I’m not making any jokes about Taylor Swift in particular, here. I figure that the kids can have their music in peace and quiet without the old farts sneering at them. God knows that that being done to me ticked me off, when I was their age…
Moe Lane
PS: I assume that all of you know what The Esoterrorists is.
“Disturbing” is the word to use. Putting this one under the fold: Continue reading Your #esoterrorists* plot seed of the day. (Warning: a bit horrific)
The Esoterrorists is, of course, Robin Laws’ investigation-centric* roleplaying game of horror, monsters, and the global conspiracy to stop both. The second edition expands on the first with regard to some game mechanics and a seriously expanded description of the campaign setting; I’ve been looking forward to the print version for some time. Not least because it’s very pretty.
God knows when I’m going to play it, though.
Moe Lane
*GUMSHOE, to be precise. Robin Laws likes to think a lot about roleplaying games, in a non-pretentious way; he also wanted to work out a game system where clues and mysteries got the same attention that most games dedicate to combat. And this was the result.
…when a piece does not gel.
Ach, well. Lemme change the subject: I feel like throwing some money at roleplaying game publisher Pelgrane Press. So… Esoterrorists, or Trail of Cthulhu? The first is ‘occult counter-ops trying to keep a lid on Magicians Behaving Badly;’ the second is Pulp-era Cthulhu Mythos adventuring. I have rather more of the latter than the former, if that helps.
Although I should probably come up with something more squamous than “plethora.”
Anyway: I think that I’ve previously mentioned Trail of Cthulhu
Good gaming stuff, in other words – and Steve Jackson Games is selling supplements for both Trail of Cthulhu and The Esoterrorists as part of their PDF publishing service. Significant savings over the dead-tree version, instantly accessible, good stuff with which to get your geek on – a nice deal all around. Check them out