I can’t really top the terror we felt in the AD&D game I mentioned the first time this question was asked but I have a slightly different contender.
The creeping horror that has been revealed when playing Eternal Lies for Trail of Cthulhu has been exquisite. There’s been this unfolding sense of how powerless and trivial the characters are when faced with the cosmic horror they are discovering. Yet they continue onwards, deeper into the conspiracy driven by the “if not us, then who” question and knowing it could cost them their relationships, their sanity and their lives. Rich has created a superb atmosphere, and Dr Mitch and I built the solid relationship between our characters when we started this as a duo. Nigel’s character who joined us in Mexico City has added a new note to the theme, a possibly more hopeful note.
This is not a game that is outright scary that often (although the possessed birds and conversation with a god perhaps delivered that) but there’s a deepening sense of doom and terror the characters are facing. Great stuff.
28 August 2023
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