Even if you look at a modern map of the area, you can see heavy woodland and infrequent habitation, west of the major city. The adventure suggests the road between Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts. It doesn’t much matter where they are, providing they’re out of the way, somewhere with poor roads and infrequent stopovers. The characters start out travelling in heavy weather to a rendezvous, which makes the adventure an ideal drop-in. It remains readable, but I had to focus a little harder on the dense text when going through the adventure.ĭead Light takes place in a rural backwater. Some of the text – especially when considering the motivations and actions of NPCs – drops in size from the standard flow of text. Having NPC illustrations makes it easy to allow the players to see who they’re talking to – just copy the images and cut them out for in-game reference. #CALL OF CTHULHU DEAD LIGHT FULL#Physically much of the book follows a two-column format, with three full page maps and a few scattered illustrations, mostly of the key Non-Player Characters. You can pick it up through Amazon, as well as more niche game-specific outlets. At 36-pages, it’s a slim booklet – but I’m impressed that Chaosium have made that option available. #CALL OF CTHULHU DEAD LIGHT PDF#As well as PDF – the version reviewed, you can pick the adventure up as a physical book. What does Dead Light have to offer – other than, presumably, poor chances of character advancement?ĭead Light is an adventure supplement for Call of Cthulhu, published by Chaosium, and written by Alan Bligh (along with a small team of contributors). On the other hand, the genre of Survival Horror seems most associated with our own modern era, rather than the 1920s. When I saw the tagline for Dead Light – “Surviving One Night Outside of Arkham” – it didn’t seem necessary to raise anyone’s hopes that this might be a walk in the park (unless that park happened to be hosting a Mi-Go Brain Jar Appreciators’ Festival). Investigators into the Mythos probably wouldn’t identify their career choice on an application for life insurance or medical cover. Survival horror in Cthulhu – the chances seem slim, right? I mean, without even saying the words ‘survival horror’, most people who play games based upon the entities of the Cthulhu Mythos probably don’t have anything like a 10 Year Plan or bother investing in a 5 Year Diary.
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