Monday, April 12, 2010

Why Kids Are Sometimes A Good Idea



I've been running this Call of Cthulhu campaign for about a year now, extending the Keith Herber classic "Dark Carnival" (from the Chaosium publication "Curse of the Chthonians") to incorporate a saga of horror and venal goings-on involving the Wyatt family and the Corbitt family in a twisted conspiracy stretching back into the early 18th century, and it's been going well for the most part.

Last SaturdayI was looking to add Teh Awesum to my next session (which was due the next day) and I decided a nice bit of art with a given theme would do nicely, and I ordered said art from my extremely talented daughter, giving her just a few ideas and a motif that had to appear. She got right down to it and I, tired from all the management duties involved, went to bed early.

I had envisaged the art as being depicted on a monolith the players are looking for, but what she delivered up was so good I decided that it would be a wooden plaque hanging on a wall in a secret library.

It was a great hit with the players, and a great hit to the SAN scores of the PCs, driving one mad with the terrible insights it gave him into the chaos of the outer void etc etc etc.

A corespondent suggested I post it here, and I thought that was a great idea.

1D3/1D6 SAN loss for viewing the Gharne Panel.

In case you were wondering: Copyright on that image is held by the artist and all rights are reserved.