Last night the Game Testers group finished up the Call of Cthulhu: Quick Start Rules (7th Edition). CoC is known for being a ruthless mystery game where player characters suffer fates sometimes worse than death. 7th Edition smoothed out gameplay and at first glance gave the players some new ways to stay alive but functionally these new mechanics have just as much of a chance to dig your grave deeper.
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The Haunting / The Haunted House is the classic CaC introduction adventure. The characters find themselves investigating the mystery of a supposedly haunted house set in the 1920’s. The house of course does appear to be haunted and the “ghost” is awfully aggressive at defending its secrets.
The players to an early attempt stab at the basement which ended with one character demonstrating CaC’s infamous nature of retiring character sheets mid game. The other characters escaped the basement and decided they’d best find a replacement companion as well as do some additional research outside of the house.
The Game Testers ended the adventure with burning the house to the ground with their comrades body inside, a character in prison for his murder, and the other characters trying to live their lives like non of it happened.
