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Under A Winter's Snow
Under a Winter's Snow
The effects of the Great War and the 1918 Pandemic are still felt in the small town of Eisner, North Dakota, both metaphorically and literally.
A short, one-night Classic Era scenario for use with 7th edition Call of Cthulhu. This scenario may easily be transported to other locales known for cold and snowy winters, other time periods, or both, with minimal effort on the part of the Keeper.
Death & Disease in North Dakota
Sections 1-3: Introduction covers the backstory of the scenario and gives four methods of bringing investigators to the remote, snow-shrouded town of Einer, ND. It also details the core themes of the scenario, and provides suggestions on how to incporate them into the game.
Sections 4-6: Arriving in Town has the investigators arrive and begin investigating the mysterious illness that has afflicted the town's residents. These sections detail several locations and many of the residents of Eisner.
Sections 7-9: The Climax and Aftermath closes out the scenario, depending on the Investigators actions in the preceding sections.
The scenario is supported by 4 handouts, 1 map, and introduces 1 NPCs, 1 new Mythos creature, and 1 spell variant.
The effects of the Great War and the 1918 Pandemic are still felt in the small town of Eisner, North Dakota, both metaphorically and literally.
A short, one-night Classic Era scenario for use with 7th edition Call of Cthulhu. This scenario may easily be transported to other locales known for cold and snowy winters, other time periods, or both, with minimal effort on the part of the Keeper.
Death & Disease in North Dakota
Sections 1-3: Introduction covers the backstory of the scenario and gives four methods of bringing investigators to the remote, snow-shrouded town of Einer, ND. It also details the core themes of the scenario, and provides suggestions on how to incporate them into the game.
Sections 4-6: Arriving in Town has the investigators arrive and begin investigating the mysterious illness that has afflicted the town's residents. These sections detail several locations and many of the residents of Eisner.
Sections 7-9: The Climax and Aftermath closes out the scenario, depending on the Investigators actions in the preceding sections.
The scenario is supported by 4 handouts, 1 map, and introduces 1 NPCs, 1 new Mythos creature, and 1 spell variant.
20 pages, Paperback
Published February 20, 2020
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October 3, 2023
Stygian Fox is a prominent third party publisher for Call of Cthulhu. They have some excellent modules to their credit. This isn't one of them.
On a snowy night in North Dakota, the people of a small town begin taking ill. The develop a dry cough and sicken with remarkable quickness. Most die in a matter of days. The specter of the Spanish Flu has come again but the reality is much darker.
The module wants to lean in to the horrors of being sick. Your life and body being drained away by an unseen force that you are powerless to combat. There is a potential for powerful horror in this. And Stygian Fox has done it and better in Autophagia. Autophagia succeeds where UAWS fails by letting us see, viscerally, the effects of the disease. Autophagia is also much better written with much more though put into its execution. UAWS feels like a mess. There are lengthy descriptions of how a character must be played including an underlying motivation that looks like it would require an actual acting degree to really make use of. It also tells you how places and weather should be described but, like, just write some flavor text. It would take as much space as your description of how I should write it. The climax of the module is also confusing with multiple ways for it to play out but little idea of how that's actually supposed to come together.
It's just not a well done module, unfortunately.
On a snowy night in North Dakota, the people of a small town begin taking ill. The develop a dry cough and sicken with remarkable quickness. Most die in a matter of days. The specter of the Spanish Flu has come again but the reality is much darker.
The module wants to lean in to the horrors of being sick. Your life and body being drained away by an unseen force that you are powerless to combat. There is a potential for powerful horror in this. And Stygian Fox has done it and better in Autophagia. Autophagia succeeds where UAWS fails by letting us see, viscerally, the effects of the disease. Autophagia is also much better written with much more though put into its execution. UAWS feels like a mess. There are lengthy descriptions of how a character must be played including an underlying motivation that looks like it would require an actual acting degree to really make use of. It also tells you how places and weather should be described but, like, just write some flavor text. It would take as much space as your description of how I should write it. The climax of the module is also confusing with multiple ways for it to play out but little idea of how that's actually supposed to come together.
It's just not a well done module, unfortunately.
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