Omaha
– back in the 1800s it was known as the “Gateway to the West” as
settlers pushed ever westward into Native American territory. Violence
and corruption waxed and waned throughout the city's long history,
feeding an unseen darkness... Millennial cults rose and faded away; Y2K
and 2012 came and went... All the while, the Great Old Ones, the Outer
Gods, and their manifold servitors waited and watched... Now
the shadows grow long across the land; the days grow shorter and soon
darkness will fall unless a brave few place their faith, their sanity,
their very lives on the line. Will you step forward and brave the
shadows? Shadows
of the Heartland is a modern Call of Cthulhu campaign based in Omaha
which I'm going to be running online on a monthly basis via Roll20 starting at 7 pm this Saturday night (8/9/2014). The
PCs are student and faculty members of the underfunded and
little-respected UNO Paranormal Research Department as well as other
unsuspecting members of society swept up in the investigations. I plan
to start the campaign in August and we'll be using the 5th and 5.6
editions of the game; players should have at least two characters as the
game will be somewhat of a troupe-style game (as well as being
dangerous, if not lethal to characters' mental and physical well-being).
If you have access to Delta Green, the 1990s Handbook (or Cthulhu Now),
and the monographs "Mystic Alliances" and "The Parapsychologist's
Handbook", all the better.
