Scooby Cthulhu
Jump to navigation Jump to searchA group of college students travels the USA, visiting family and unearthing eldritch horrors.
Setting
It's the summer of '73. A group of college friends hit the road in a brand new 1973 GMC motorhome. Each week, they visit another relative, unearthing eldritch horrors along the way.
The game uses the rules from Trail Of Cthulhu.
Characters
A group of students (some graduated, some still pursuing their degrees) from Miskatonic University.
- Connie Hardwood
- Archeologist bookworm on a PhD track.
- Hamasaki Hideyori (浜崎 秀頼)
- Deceptively average Japanese chemistry student starting his Doctorate.
- Devon "DJ" Mills
- Journalist of the Rolling Stone/Hunter S. Thompson school of "gonzo journalism".
- Winthrop J. "Dusty" Usher VI
- Bored rich playboy seeking distraction and entertainment.
- Dakota
- Connie's dog. Half German Shepherd, half Siberian husky.
Mysteries
- The Hommas Leaf Mystery
- Connie Hardwood's antiquarian mentor Hommas Leaf is missing. Where has he gone?
- The Whimsy Park Mystery
- DJ suggests a side trip to visit his old friend Lemmy Hedemin, who owns an amusement park in Ohio.
- The Moss Man Mystery
- Dusty decides to visit his boarding school chum, Lord "Punchy" Partfine, who lives in New Orleans.
- The Revival Meeting Mystery
- The Miskatonic gang investigates deaths that seem to follow an evangelist's "revival" meetings.
- The Saint Margaret's Mystery
- The Miskatonic gang stops at a rural hospital to get patched up, but something isn't quite right.
- The Mothman Mystery
- The Miskatonic gang investigates a missing person while waiting for their motorhome to be repaired.
- The Mystery Of The Mutilated Pedestrian
- The gang encounters a mutilated pedestrian in San Francisco. Who committed this foul deed?
- The Mystery Of The Missing Heir
- The infant heir of the Famish family fortune has been kidnapped! Is Hideyori's aunt responsible?
- The Mystery Of The Dead Light
- The Miskatonic gang encounters a young woman on the road during the storm of the century.
- The Mystery Of The Bigfoot Murders
- Something is haunting the forest around Connie uncle's mansion. Who -- or what -- is it?
Useful Links
- GUMSHOE 101 For Players
- Trail Of Cthulhu
- Trail Of Cthulhu resources
- Google Hangout
- Google Spreadsheet character sheet
- Secure Dice
- The simplest possible guide to writing Mediawiki
- Pelgrane Press Free Downloads
- Pelgrane Press More Free Downloads
- 1970s Fashion on Pinterest
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