Night of the Boot Hill Bandits

Details

Pages: 19

Author(s): Jay Sprenkle

Artist(s): None

Setting: Wild West

Appears in: Night of the Kachina (Monograph).

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Summary

This Call of Cthulhu adventure is suitable for a single gaming session with beginning players. It's set in a tiny own, Elota New Mexico, in the year 1851. It attempts to strike an even balance between combat and investigation. his adventure was inspired by several television shows: "Wild Wild West" (the series, not the movie), "High Plains Drifter", "Purgatory", and "Brisco County Jr.". If you haven't seen them I highly recommend them.

Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only

Players should not read any further.

Synopsis

The Investigators are hired when the body of a prominent citizen of Elota mysteriously goes missing from the church. The body was actually stolen by a nest of Ghouls, but this is not the first such body they have taken. The ghouls' theft of previous corpses has been covered up by the town undertaker, who has struck a deal with them. But the arrival of the Investigators makes the opportunistic undertaker re-consider his position: perhaps he could point the Investigators towards the ghoul nest and high-tail it Back East.

References

Player Handouts: None

Locations: Elota is a small town in New Mexico, Dreamlands (potentially)

Creatures: Ghouls

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Comments

Includes a short section on historical information relevant to the scenario.

The presentation of this scenario is very sparse, incorporating a lot of whitespace and spreading out a few stat blocks over entire pages. Despite an overall page count of 19, is is probably more more comparable to an 8 page scenario.

Keeper Comments

Comments to Keepers about this scenario; Possibly how to run it successfully. Keep general DISCUSSION on the talk page.