There are many many introductory adventures that have been written for Call of Cthulhu in the time since I (and probably 75% of all CoC players globally) first played through The Haunting. There probably a few of them that are better. Probably a bunch of them that are not. But I’ll admit it, I chose to run The Haunting for Jess, Andy, and Natasha this week because that’s the adventure that was run for me the first time. I have fond memories, and naturally I want my friends to have fond memories.
But, reading through it, the adventure shows its vintage. I’m sure I’ll get no argument when I say that gaming has evolved since I started into the hobby. And so have gamers. We expect more these days. Maybe just because it was good enough in 1984 is no guarantee that it will be good enough in 2009.
We’ll see though. It is still, in my opinion, the best intro scenario of which I’m aware. And lets face it: I want my friends to have fond memories like I do.
Talk to me: anyone else had any thoughts along these lines (and please, lets talk about some other games here; if I stick too long on a topic exclusive to CoC I might become one of those people I alluded to in an earlier post. And I’ll not have that.
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