The prologue chapter continues as the investigators depart from Lima in a race to the Peruvian Highlands.

I got invited to join a campaign of Masks of Nyarlathotep, one of the most well-known Call of Cthulhu campaigns. I’ll be keeping a campaign journal in this series of posts.

I’ve been running D&D 5th Edition for a little while now and I’ve begun to form some opinions about the monster design in this edition of the game. At a high level, individual enemies don’t feel very organic to me. Let’s talk about why that is, and what we can do about it.

I’m not a fan of the common tongue in D&D. The fact that most settings have a language that everybody just speaks seems really off to me. I thought about this while reading what Sam wrote at Caput Caprae:

One of the major differences between traditional D&D and my science fantasy homebrew setting is the nature of divine magic. A big part of this is the relationship between mortals and the gods. In settings such as the Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk, divine magic comes from the gods themselves. That isn’t the case in Sinath Lonn.