Sunday, March 26, 2023

OD&D Whitebox VS Cthulhu

The Blackmoor Cycle

The Order ran a great one shot that turned into five sessions with six OCD club members. This short mini-campaign was run using the Anomalous Subsurface Environment module and The Land of One Thousand Towers. This AMAZING old-school dungeon and setting module describes the dinosaur- and wizard-infested future of the Earth. It was a ton of fun. Every page of this module drips inspiration.

The PC's explored a massive mist shrouded tower out at sea atop of which sat a domed city. Their was an epic sea battle with a monstrous eldritch Octopus that descended from the blackened clouds into the sea to attack their ship. They found a teleportation portal into the city after solving a puzzle and found themselves far, far in the future. A nuclear bomb was detonated, and the city along with its Elder Gods destroyed. It was then that the PC's realized that this was not the first time they had been to the Yellow City. In fact the bones from all their previous deaths, is what the very city itself had been built from. They survived the devastation through magical means, only to realize that they would never leave what remained of the ruined city. They were trapped in a time loop and in a far future or past, would become they very Eldritch Gods which they had destroyed, only for the cycle to repeat. Tower-City-Destruction.

Because of all the firearms and explosives in the Anomalous Subsurface Environment and The Land of One Thousand Towers we needed to institute some firearm's rules but overall we had a blast and I would love to explore this module more in the future. It would be a great tie-in to a longer Blackmoor Campaign.





1 comment:

  1. Have you heard of Eldritch Tales: Lovecraftian White Box Role-Playing? It's White Box modified with suitable classes, firearms, sanity, the whole works. You might take a look at it and see what you like and what you can steal from it.

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