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SUNSPOT, N.M.

SUNSPOT, N.M. — At a small solar observatory tucked away in the woods of a national forest here, scientists and other personnel were commanded last week to leave at once. A week later, the facility remains vacant, and no one is willing to say why.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-solar-observatory-in-new-mexico-is-evacuated-for-a-week-and-the-fbi-is-investigating-no-one-will-say-why/2018/09/14/ea006a96-b78b-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

Hi there!

I’m keeper of my first motw campaign, and have no experience with rpgs what so ever. My current plan for the campaign is that it will be centrally located within a small county area (think Gravity Falls, or Buffy). As this will be my players first motw experience as well (though they all have some experiance with dnd) I want the first mystery to be a good tutorial lesson for them as well as a good way to see how their characters interact with one another, however, I’m worried I haven’t actually put in enough fighting to make it interesting, or havent put enough clues as to what is actually causing the monsters to appear. Do you guys have any advice?

I have a separate list of locations they can explore (this is on a separate file as I’m hoping to run multiple mysteries within the town)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LmKQ_Tmoa4MppDBxgGPufQp2lfKnrkeU/view?usp=drive_web

A new Mystery for the Road, involving dead friend, church guardians, rain, Maine and violent deaths.

Two pages for a concise mystery starter.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/251773/The-Guardians-of-SaintBernard

This is a great free 2018 RPG Day Call of Cthulhu module:

This is a great free 2018 RPG Day Call of Cthulhu module:

https://www.chaosium.com/content/FreePDFs/CoC/Adventures/CHA23157%20-%20Scritch%20Scratch.pdf

That would be easy to turn into a neat “weird phenomena” mystery for Monster of the Week with Michael’s new rules:

https://genericgames.co.nz/files/MotW_more_weirdness.pdf

Hello!

I’ve played once before, and was so excited that I found some friends who I could be Keeper for.

For context: It’s my first time being a Keeper of GM of any type. Out of the three hunters, 2 have never played an RPG before, and one has played DnD several times.

I know the book suggests choosing a classic monster for the first mystery, but I got excited about an idea and ran with it. It’s intended to be a one-shot, to see if we like the game before committing to a campaign. With that in mind, I was thinking of giving the hunters 3 luck each.

Would y’all mind taking a look and seeing what I could change/improve? I have about 48 hours to make changes. The thing I’m most unsure about is the 5-day timeframe; I don’t know if the rigid schedule is a good idea.

I’m also happy to accept any first-time-keeper tips/advice, including letting me know if this might be a little difficult to run for a first timer.

Thanks in advance!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ooDZccU5Dsdw7pv9XwsjECmS7cWg9VtEz0d7-pxN_uI/edit?usp=sharing

GRAmel has just published “It’s still Sparta!” – my crazy experimental mystery for MotW.

In this two-mysteries-in-one the players first become ancient Spartans and die heroically, “300”-style, to defend their homeland against immortal monsters, then take control of their regular hunters and face the monsters once more in our times. My players loved it, I’ve got a feeling you might as well 🙂

https://www.rpgnow.com/product/250707/Its-still-Sparta