We had a fun cthulhu game last night. Because of the number of players I abandoned my previous idea of some mysterious occult group and instead went with something larger, a TV crew for a new show on the Discovery channel called ‘Paranormal Pursuits’ (think ‘Sightings’). We had our talking head, the camera and sound guys, the driver, the producer/lawyer and the producer/researcher. It proved to be a suprisingly effective group. They wound up taking out the big bad, but destroyed a house and made some homeless squatters more homeless, but at least alive.

I like the TV team idea for a modern Call of Cthulhu game, obviously Delta Green hit it first, but I’d want to head in a different, slightly less grim direction if I ran it as a campaign. (But only slightly less grim) It didn’t hurt that the sound and camer guys actually worked for a TV station IRL and had a pretty keen grasp on the gear they would have and how things would work.

Next game night is Pirates!, possibly HorrorClix and maybe a board game or two (there was some Kill Doctor Lucky talk, that game is fun on a bun).