The Esoteric Order of Roleplayers

[Call of Cthulhu] Crack'd and Crook'd Manse (Again!)

There's an old holiday tradition, not oft practiced in these debased times, of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve.

Now it's a few days after that date, but - as the Esoteric Order takes this weekend off for the winter holidays (and to roll their skill checks and make their aging rolls) - we wanted to present you, the listener, with a treat in the vein of that august Christmas Eve activity.

Esoteric Order members David S. and Scott co-host a biweekly midnight radio show at our local college radio station, and every once in a while they turn their microphones over to doing a real-time live-play of an RPG scenario. This past Thanksgiving Eve, they invited some friends of the Order to join them in a play-through of "Crack'd and Crook'd Manse", a scenario the Order has tackled once before.

So please enjoy this holiday treat; the usual Great Pendragon Campaign posts will resume next week.



Featuring:

David S.
Joseph
Russell
Stephen

With Scott White as the Keeper of Arcane Lore.

[Pendragon] The Great Pendragon Campaign: Year 523 - In Search of Merlin

Merlin's back! Or his he? A search for the old wizard leads our heroes down many unexpected paths.



Featuring:

Renae
Jen
Jade
Dave S.
And…Edie the Dog

The campaign's wiki can be found here.

[Pendragon] The Great Pendragon Campaign: Year 522 - Four of Your Finest Kittens

The Order of Dragonslayers is again on the trail of a foul wyrm, this one dwelling far to the north near the village of Lambton. But are they prepared to pay the price to defeat it?



Featuring:

Renae
Jen
Jade
Dave S.
And…Edie the Dog

The campaign's wiki can be found here.

[Pendragon] The Great Pendragon Campaign: Year 521 - For the Love of Morgan

After years of plotting behind the scenes, Morgan le Fay makes her move--and one of the player-knights is right at the center of her deadly plans...



Featuring:

Renae
Jen
Dave S.
And…Edie the Dog

The campaign's wiki can be found here.

[Pendragon] The Great Pendragon Campaign: Year 520 - Wyrmsbane

Following on from their adventures in the Penines last year, Archade and his companions elect to pursue the so-called Dolorous Wyrm of the Forest of Dean. Meeting at Sir Edern's manor in Gloucester, they plunge off on the hunt, bound for death or glory...



Featuring:

Jade
Renae
Jen
Dave S.
And…Edie the Dog

The campaign's wiki can be found here.

[Pendragon] The Great Pendragon Campaign: Year 519 - Into the Dragon's Den

Following the events of Badon Hill, Count Cynrain returns to Salisbury to honor the final request of his oldest friend. This simple mission leads to a far stranger quest, however.



Featuring:

Jade
Renae
Jen
Dave S.
And…Edie the Dog

The campaign's wiki can be found here.

[Pendragon] Great Pendragon Campaign - An Adversarial Interlude

Due to a combination of illness, travel, and bad weather, we were forced to cancel our planned session for this week. Instead, we bring you our resident adversary as she sits down to create a new character to torment the players with, and to discuss future adversarial plans. Obviously, if you're a player in this campaign, light spoilers abound. All you other listeners, please enjoy!

We will (weather and health permitting) be back to our regular schedule next week!

[Cthulhu-a-thon '14] Episode Three: Progeny's Nightmare - World of Darkness: Innocents

It's been a long-standing tradition among certain of the more august members of the Esoteric Order to do up a big horror gaming extravaganza around Halloween every year. Since time immemorial, this event has been referred to as the "Call-of-Cthulhu-a-thon"...even if no actual CoC is run that day.

Last year, we did one big six-hour scenario. This year we decided to go for the "rock festival" approach and offer several smaller scenarios over the course of a day and let folks filter in and out as the mood struck them.

The third and final scenario, run by David S., is a homebrew for World of Darkness: Innocents based on a nightmare he had recently.

Fair warning: the fact that this came at the end of a long day of tense horror gaming and near-constant junk food snacking, along with all of us getting into the characters of playing 12-year-olds, made for some pretty punchy gameplay. Still and all, lots of creeptastic fun was to be had. Enjoy!



*Featuring*

Scott
David L.
Des
Jade
Brendan

[Cthulhu-a-thon '14] Episode Two: "Digging Up a Dead God" - Achtung Cthulhu

It's been a long-standing tradition among certain of the more august members of the Esoteric Order to do up a big horror gaming extravaganza around Halloween every year. Since time immemorial, this event has been referred to as the "Call-of-Cthulhu-a-thon"...even if no actual CoC is run that day.

Last year, we did one big six-hour scenario. This year we decided to go for the "rock festival" approach and offer several smaller scenarios over the course of a day and let folks filter in and out as the mood struck them.

The second scenario, run by David L. and originally written for Call of Cthulhu, was run using the Achtung Cthulhu rules and features a fun little romp in which all the PCs are Nazis... Enjoy!



*Featuring*

Renae
Scott
David S.
Des
Jade
Brendan

[Cthulhu-a-thon '14] Episode One: "The Millionaire's Special" - Trail of Cthulhu

It's been a long-standing tradition among certain of the more august members of the Esoteric Order to do up a big horror gaming extravaganza around Halloween every year. Since time immemorial, this event has been referred to as the "Call-of-Cthulhu-a-thon"...even if no actual CoC is run that day.

Last year, we did one big six-hour scenario. This year we decided to go for the "rock festival" approach and offer several smaller scenarios over the course of a day and let folks filter in and out as the mood struck them.

The first scenario is for Trail of Cthulhu, and was run by Jen in her debut as a Gamemaster for the group. Enjoy!



*Featuring*

David L.
David S.
Des
Jade
Brendan