i plan on running this tomorrow, it seems like a cool adventure, but was hoping to get some tips for it before then, I think i will be able to cut some stuff as suggested to make it better.
Excellent review - makes me want to run it again! I like the idea of the crown helping the PCs convince the priests & helping them get home. BTW: Dunwich is a real town in England. The history in the scenario pretty closely mirrors its real history, though with presumably fictional additions. There's also an interesting debate about how to pronounce Dunwich - with the British town pronounced something like Dun'ich (sort of like Greenwich) and with Lovecraft being a bit of a England snob, favoring British spelling, there's an argument that he likely would have pronounced his fictional US town that same way.
Haha, you know right after I posted the video it occurred to me I should have looked up the history of Dunwich to see if it matched! That’s really cool… and I love that there’s still a pronunciation debate.
How does this module deal with the difference in languages between Victorian English and whatever Old or Middle English the Dunwich people (presumably) speak? Or is it just handwaved away? Also, I appreciated your clever ending.
Handwaved and “Red Octobered” - the book mentions the PCs first hear Middle English but as the NPCs keep talking it transforms into modern English for them.
i plan on running this tomorrow, it seems like a cool adventure, but was hoping to get some tips for it before then, I think i will be able to cut some stuff as suggested to make it better.
Excellent review - makes me want to run it again! I like the idea of the crown helping the PCs convince the priests & helping them get home.
BTW: Dunwich is a real town in England. The history in the scenario pretty closely mirrors its real history, though with presumably fictional additions. There's also an interesting debate about how to pronounce Dunwich - with the British town pronounced something like Dun'ich (sort of like Greenwich) and with Lovecraft being a bit of a England snob, favoring British spelling, there's an argument that he likely would have pronounced his fictional US town that same way.
Haha, you know right after I posted the video it occurred to me I should have looked up the history of Dunwich to see if it matched! That’s really cool… and I love that there’s still a pronunciation debate.
How does this module deal with the difference in languages between Victorian English and whatever Old or Middle English the Dunwich people (presumably) speak? Or is it just handwaved away?
Also, I appreciated your clever ending.
Handwaved and “Red Octobered” - the book mentions the PCs first hear Middle English but as the NPCs keep talking it transforms into modern English for them.