Cthulhu Darling

Guess who arrived at my house today?

It's a gorgeous little Cthulhu! He is the creation of Cthulhu Chick Ruth and you can see more at her Etsy and discover the adventures these little creatures go on at her website.

I personally love the photo adventures of her Cthulhus on the website. People that hang out with me know that I always have either a Domo, tiny black sheep, or an action figure (usually Power Girl) with me on most adventures. Inspired my Ruth's photos I decided to document what Cthulhu and I did earlier today.

Our travels took us to the vegetarian coffee shop for lunch. Cthulhu was disappointed to find the meal consisted of vegetables.



To see more including me balancing him on my head check out my Flickr.

Free RPG Day

Last Saturday was Free RPG day which my local shop Castle P graciously hosted. I noticed some new faces in the store when I went in, including several women, one of whom bought some Pathfinder merchandise. Wow, that makes me sound like a spy.

Here's what Mr. Geek and I picked up:

There are two modules, one for Pathfinder and one for Cthulhu. The Heirs to Olympia is an introduction to the game with a very detailed game session included. Finally, D∞ is a gaming magazine that included a free zombie mini-game to cut-out and articles on various gaming issues. I like the hope embedded in the name of the magazine, but I can't imagine an actual D∞ die. Would it be anything like the Infinite Improbability Drive? I know one thing, you'd never be done with your roll...

Contest Winner!

THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR ENTERING!

It added a little excitement to my night to determine the winner of Chronic Geek's first ever contest. The whole process was pretty fun actually. So, I am definitely doing a contest again, very soon. Depending on what cool items I find in my adventures I may do contest once a month with occasional bonus contests. I already have a bonus contest idea that I may announce in the next week or so.

So, without further ado I recorded the determining of the winner and share it here with you now. I'll be e-mail the winner to get a shipping address.

Cthulhu Dice Contest

Here's one of my cats playing with Cthulhu Dice.



I have an extra Cthulhu Dice package and have decided to give it away!

To enter simply leave a comment here about either Cthulhu or dice. Yes, creative, I know. I'll choose the winner using MATH and SCIENCE! (Random number generator!) I'll announce the winner on Thursday, so you have until Thursday at noon to enter.

Yay!

Call of Cthulhu

Last night I played some Call of Cthulhu with some of my regular gaming buddies.

It's a very different game than what I normally play. Set in 1927 rural Massachusetts, my character Teddy Jacobs was a drifter hired to do some photography for a big paper in Boston. I arrived after a night of driving to an inn where a reporter, psychiatrist, and parapsychologist were staying. Let me tell you, from the hungover reporter to the bickering between the two "psychs" ol' Teddy was ready to get back in his/her (in disguise and indeterminate) 1925 Dodge Roadster (wish it was a Packard Phaeton) and turn that camera equipment back around to Boston.

However, Teddy stayed and had some fun encounters with a very superstitious priest of some kind. Quickly taking the man's picture after being told by him that cameras could steal a piece of the soul...

I enjoyed it a lot. It's a game with a different pace and a heavy RP factor, where you must take notes and pay attention to clues. If you liked playing detective when you were a kid (GUILTY as charged) then you will enjoy this game. Your character has percentage based skills and when you try to do something you roll a percentage skill check. I like that, but it makes it a bit tense at times. The other different part is if you want to enjoy the game you really should try to tune out what the other character's are doing when you go solo. There is a lot of solo investigation that shows the true skill of your Gamekeeper (the DM in this system). Luckily, Evil Celt, our regular DM is a true god. He can have you talking to a little girl, an old man, and everything in between and make it believable.

So, at the end of the night what happened? Well Teddy got some of the photos taken around town developed and they were all very off. It was a bright, sunny day outside with a well-kempt town as the subject, but there was distortion wherever the camera picked up people. That priest that Teddy so mischievously disobeyed, photographed and ran from, came out with a horribly blurred face...

Next time we game Teddy will put on a suit and escort the reporter, Maureena to a club to meet one of the big whig bankers. Things may not go well. Meanwhile, on the edge of town, the true threat, the haunted, cursed or maybe just diseased (but don't we know better if the Cthulhu mythos is involved) Blackfield Farm waits.