Speaking of #ttrpg #penandpaper campaigns: #MasksOfNyarlathotep has a prologue chapter that takes place a couple of years before the start of the campaign proper. It is highly recommended to play this chapter, but it raises the question of how to bridge the gap. A time jump is one solution, playing other modules another. I chose the latter and followed the Peru chapter with the #callofcthulhu module “Genius Loci” from the anthology “Doors To Darkness”. As we played, one player remembered…
that they had played the module before (I had given my players a list of modules I wanted to run initially, but it hadn’t rung a bell). I heavily converted the scenario to accomodate for that, but it proved unnecessary in the end. Another player had an episode of Murder Hobo and shot a key NPC resulting in incarceration of the group at the Locus… After the required time passed, they were rescued by another PC in a very dramatic session including a zombie plague and friendly fire, finally…
…allowing us to get back on track to start MoN at the proper date.
I highly recommend the “Doors To Darkness” anthology, check it out!