User:Ywhateley

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I'm helping out with adding synopses and other details to Scenarios in the wiki.

In progress

Scenarios I'd like to contribute:

The Bride of Halloween Horror

Plan 09 From Halloween


On the Drawing Board

Someone else can feel free to do any of the following - just let me know so I don't start working on them at the same time :) Scenarios I could contribute to, but won't be able to do immediately:

Dead Leaves Fall and Other Halloween Horrors

Dreamlands: Role-Playing Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Cthulhu Dark Ages (2004)


Done

I've finished updating these scenario pages:

Halloween Horror (2005)

Halloween Horror 2

Halloween Horror Returns



I plan to blog some reviews for these, and add links for the reviews, but they could probably use some additional review links (YSDC has some great reviewers, I just haven't been able to concentrate on tracking their reviews down!)

It looks like many of the scenarios have "red links" for monsters, tomes, locations, cults, and organizations, some of which are unique to those scenarios (or their authors' other works). I may try to fill some of those red links, but feel free to add them yourself if you get to them first.

Additionally, I've done the following things that were originally outside my "Halloween Scenario" scope:

  • Lemon_Sails (I've finished this, it's free for further revision and review!)
  • new category for scenarios set in schools (location-based scenarios)
  • new category scenarios set in Japan (places)
  • I contacted the author of one of the scenarios to see about including "lost" background information on the Village of Sogailraugh; it should be OK to include a link to the website that is hosting the supplemental information, and provide a map key.
  • Created redirects for "Orne Library" and "Orne library" (they point to Miskatonic University (Location)).
  • Added, organized, and cited Miskatonic University staff and books in the Orne Library, making heavy changes to Miskatonic University (Location).
  • Created categories for Sthood (a Dreamlands deity).
  • Added illustrations for the Miskatonic University Library, Corbitt House ("The Haunting"), and lighthouse for "Terror at Erne Rock", plus additional illustrations and alternate floor plans for buildings that have appeared in the first couple Halloween Monographs (I "built" the houses in 3D using The Sims 3, and posed them for screenshots).
  • Created a page about Halloween, mainly to answer the question of why cultists would choose to perform spells and rituals on Halloween (which has quickly become a good question, considering the number of Halloween scenarios I've seen so far in documenting the Halloween Monographs!)
  • New Venue Category: Farms


Personal Thoughts

  • Wow, "Halloween At St. Odilio's" was long and complicated to document! The author of that 26-page scenario (Jason Williams) packed it full of "Shout Outs" to other works which sent me running to research and cross-reference them as much as possible; the result should be a huge number of "red links" in the scenario.
  • So far, it looks like scenarios by Oscar Rios tend to be among my favorite Halloween scenarios, and are normally among the most complete, better-planned, better-researched, better-detailed, and better-thought-out (read: more professional) scenarios in the Halloween monographs: expect maps and illustrations, formatted hand-outs, carefully researched details, most plot threads accounted for, three-dimensional characters, and evidence of play-testing. (Interestingly, Rios' name is also on one of my less favorite scenarios as a co-author - I guess they can't all be hits.)
  • I find I've got a soft spot for Dreamlands scenarios.
  • It occurs to me that there are WAY too many different home-made Mythos entities and deities and books and organizations and Arkham clones out there, and I thought I would be the LAST person to say that! Sturgeon's Law applies. In the original spirit of the shared universe, I think there's something to be said for re-using (or putting a new spin to) some of the existing content, especially the better-written content created by Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and the others in the Lovecraft circle, as well as some of the better-detailed and better-written NPCs, tomes, cults, towns, monsters, deities, investigator organizations, etc. created by decades of mythos writers, before half-baking some new ones.
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