Congratulations on finishing this epic campaign, I'm excited to hear that you thought my tips were useful. Great idea to have your group report back and use NYC as an HQ!

Thank you, that sounds amazing!

I knew I wasn't the only one!

Thank you for the support! I hope you're having fun with the campaign so far.

Thank you! I set out to make the videos I would have wanted when planning the campaign. It's such a huge undertaking, but so worth it. So anything to get more people to be able to experience the story is a win! Thanks for watching.

Thanks so much! 😊

Oh! I have a great idea of where this could fit. In England, the side track adventure is called the Chelsea Serpent. There is a character that is creating some pretty weird art. There is a chance that players could get sucked into one of the paintings hidden in the attic closet. You can always adjust to make sure all your players are sucked into the painting (and the past) and inside they have to solve the mystery your adventure to get out. I think that would be a ton of fun.

Nice! That's fun!

Hallo! So exciting you will be starting the campaign!

Glad you found it helpful, thank you for watching!

Thank you! I'm glad to hear that this advice could be used for other campaigns as well.

That's great that you're getting back into the hobby and so glad you find the advice useful! And yes...it is a beast!

It is meat grinder. Expect to lose PCs along the way so have back ups ready.

Nice, good luck with your first session!

That's a great idea!

Peru is posting soon!

Oh yay! Thank you. I just posted Peru: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7mThZZmsdWzmWQ.html

@@XPLovecat I saw it today on my feed! :D stoked for more chapters. I know it must be a lot of work, but you have a captive audience!

So glad it was helpful, thank you for watching!

Nice, best of luck with your campaign! Enjoy the madness!

That's great to hear! When (not if) I run this campaign again at some point in my life I will have to check it out.

@@XPLovecat I actually ran it when the compilation book first came out. Not the complete masks in her with the tip the one before that. Almost had a total party kill in the Chelsea right at the beginning. So we decided to put it off until the characters were beefed up a little bit. I've run it all the way through once I think. We got a good ways into it a couple of years ago and got distracted into something else and never came back to it. But now all of the players have some well-established characters at the very happy with in terms of skill levels and personality and motivations and such, not to mention some. Cthulhu Mythos knowledge and experience. And.. I'm running it as a pulp campaign LOL we had our first 100% luck Point casualty a couple of weeks ago when a night got snatch somebody out of a cab. Of course he was leaning out of the cab practically sitting outside the window trying to see what was flying around up there LOL the recklessness of the curious

@@XPLovecat I actually found it on eBay for a little bit less.

@@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum Oh my this sounds amazing.

Nice! Glad to hear you liked it.

Having ran both i would say masks but just a suggestion

@@zachmckinney2497 Why do you like Masks before Horror? (I think I just made the Title to my next campaign.)

@@colinflanigan9153 some are tiny reasons, like rhe lack of color in the book. The main reason it is requires a lot more effort compared to Masks. It has many more side track screanios so lot more do I keep this in or not. You pretty much need to run it as pulp for how deadly it is. The opening hook is not at strong compared to masks. I think it just needs a full retool for 7e to adjust classic and pulp for it. Its not a bad book just needs a good once over. Also my Tuesday group I was running it for is awful at taking notes but that is on them. I will run it again in the future just have other things in queue before I get that far. Also might run masks again for how much fun I had.

Yay! That's super exciting. I have not run Orient yet, but it is definitely on my list as well.

Oh interesting! Honestly if your group enjoys the combat/action more than investigation, I think giving Pulp Call of Cthulhu a shot might work. It would save you the work of adapting, and I think there is plenty of room to mix up the campaign to fit your group. If you do decide to stay within D&D, the sidetrack adventures will be gold for you.

@@XPLovecat The funny thing is I think most of them would absolutely love Pulp Cthulhu and clearly dig the investigating they've done so far, but are just unwilling to leave their D&D comfort zone. While it wouldn't have been my first choice, adapting it so far hasn't been too bad. I'm comfortable enough with both systems that the mechanics have been pretty easy to wing. The hard part has been porting story content written for 1920s Earth to the D&D Eberron setting. But it's also been a fun thought experiment and a good way to become familiar with the module. The content in both sources are too rich to just say "Peru is here on this map and Jackson is a dwarf now". I'm having to learn what makes MoN characters and places special, find appropriate D&D analogues, then consider the impact of that D&D stuff back onto the source material and deal with that butterfly effect too. Like, a quick "Speak with Dead" or "Revivify" spell could have huge implications for this plot. It's been fun to think about. And videos about the campaign are good food for thought, so I'll definitely be watching anything else you might have coming to fuel my inspiration!

I’m also running masks as a dnd campaign, but I’m converting the whole campaign into my dnd 1920s fantasy setting. While I have not run the whole complete campaign, my players that have played it do enjoy it.

Yes! Great tip, stains do a great job of making handouts look more authentic.

No PC made it the entire way through the campaign. The long-hauler was a combat oriented Great War Vet that lasted 5 locations (out of 7). The PC was starting to go crazy and his stats had taken some hits due to an unfortunate spell in China. So although technically the character was still playable after 5, my player decided he wanted to play a different investigator for the last 2 locations.

Great question! The screenshot you see in the video are my actual notes from when I ran the campaign so I kept it as bullet points. This was the stuff that I found the most important to remember. I would use OneNote during play as the main source to make sure I was on the right track and if I needed more details, I went to the books. I have a setting section that details important aspects like weather, travel, and gun laws. The important locations are all the possible spots players would go to and the most important things to happen at those locations, and then NPCs which is also a bullet point list with who the NPCs were and why they were important to the story/what clues they each would lead the players too. In session notes are things I need to write down quickly during play as to not forget (and how each session ended). And the reminders section is anything random that I didn't feel like fit into the other categories like extra spells, details about the investigators my players were using, etc. I hope this helps!

@@XPLovecat Thanks a lot! Sorry for the late reply didn't have notifications turned on ^^ I also used your "template" to create my masks notes. For NPCs i basically just summarized the information in the Dramatis Personae section of each chapter and also added a photo of the NPC to quickly notice them. How exactly did your NPC notes look? Would help my process a lot if you could show me a screenshot of a given chapter ^^. I always tend to overprep so anything that can reduce the workload is appreciated! Did you use the book at all? Like reading sections from it during play and so on. I don't think my `minimal` onenote notes will be enough to run the session so I will probably still use the book to know what to say during play, especially in scenes where a lot is happening. Thanks for the help!

Regular Call of Cthulhu. I think if you have a group who prefers more action and having fun talents, it could easily be converted to Pulp. But in general the tone of the campaign felt like a closer fit to regular.

Write your own shit dawg. You can do eet

@@THECOSMONAUT100 Already have, centered around Cyaegha 😏

Hi Josh! Great question. I'm editing Peru as we speak and will be posting this week. From there, I'm aiming to post 1 video per month on Masks until the series is complete. I hope your group is enjoying the campaign so far!

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Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely check it out!