Updates on my Carcosa campaign.

[doc]

Okay, after having run the game for about 3 months and change, here is where things stand:

There are currently six player characters living.
There are seven deceased player characters.
The current breakdown is this:

One third level sorcerer.
Three third level fighting men.
One second level fighting man.
One first level sorcerer.

Of the six survivors, one is dying from a disease that is destroying his brain, and another has a death sentence on her head from the Cult of Hastur.

Oh, and the third level sorcerer is planning to sacrifice the first level sorcerer as part of a ritual, but the first level character doesn't know it yet.

Oddly enough, I've been getting a lot of setting and story ideas from The Savage Sword of Conan, a black and white compilation of old Conan magazine reprints from the 70's. Somehow when I visualize Carcosa, I see it in black and white.

Doc

[Malcadon]

Aug 28, 2009 16:02:43 GMT -6 doc said:

Oddly enough, I've been getting a lot of setting and story ideas from The Savage Sword of Conan, a black and white compilation of old Conan magazine reprints from the 70's. Somehow when I visualize Carcosa, I see it in black and white.

I feel the same. Even with all the colourful images used in modern RPGs, I still line b&w line art a hundred times over!

I have been reading Conan Saga, and I find the art of (the late) Alfredo Alcala to be the best I had ever seen from the comics!



Dame thats awesome!!!

[crusssdaddy]

doc, more details please! Have you used any of the keyed encounters from the book? Have you gone off map? How are the players liking it compared to a more traditional campaign, especially with regard to the limited classes and weird dice mechanics?

[geoffrey]

Doc, interesting stuff!

I personally picture Carcosa in especially vivid colors, rather like 1970s psychedelic fantasy black light posters. Or Erol Otus's cover of the AD&D Deities & Demigods Cyclopedia. But black-and-white is very cool, too.

[Malcadon]

Aug 29, 2009 11:26:35 GMT -6 geoffrey said:

I personally picture Carcosa in especially vivid colors, rather like 1970s psychedelic fantasy black light posters. Or Erol Otus's cover of the AD&D Deities & Demigods Cyclopedia.

That kinda how I picture 1st ed Gamma World. Latter editions try to make things look Mad Max (gritty in a serious way), but I always like mix of stark B&W, with the psychedelic colors to highlight the strangeness of it all.

B&W mixed with loud colors would really highlight the harshness, along with all the strange, alien colors of Carcosa.