Fun and devious ideas.

[gridlore]

Call of Cthulhu is traditionally set in the 1920s. But I've been thinking of some alternate settings.

• Stellarum recta sunt - In the early 13th Century, the Order of Hemes sees a world slipping into madness. Mages emerge from Twilight as gibbering madmen. Astrologers are killing themselves by the dozen, and event the power of the Divine seems to be slipping. If the Christ is not returning... what is? This is an Ars Magica game with the gloves off. Covenants would find themselves besieged by powers from outside the known Realms, and forced to fight powers that transcend Divine and Diabolical. How can mere Mages face that that the Devil Himself hides from?


• The Stars Were Right - The Stars have shifted, and the horror has mostly ended. Now, the survivors venture forth to reclaim their world, and prepare for the next time. But the world has changed, and some of the Ancient Magics linger. This would be an epic post-apocalyptic/weird magic/horror game. It's your chance to toss all the weird you want into a game. Conan leading a brigade of sentient M4 Sherman tanks? Why not? GURPS or FUDGE would be best for this free-wheeling game


• "Ils ne passeront pas" - 1916, and many are saying that the end of the world has come. They're right. Above the killing fields of France, old powers are awakening, summoned by the sacrifice of millions. In the world's capitals, men formerly thought mad are enlisted to bind these powers to the cause of final victory. And the Old Gods laugh... This is a more traditional CoC game, but more like Delta Green during the Great War

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[nodrog]

I saw a story similar to that last:  The Nazis actually do conjure up the Asgard gods, and the Allies respond by bringing out the Olympians - and as the two teams wrestle and duke it out the armies of both sides find themselves irrelevant, merely pests underfoot, and all of human civilization threatened…  It was not a happy scene.