To celebrate the fact that Lovecraftesque is now a physical product you can hold in your hands, and since Halloween is coming up, we’re running a competition to design a scenario for the game. You don’t need to have read the game, you just need some creepy ideas and a little time.
Lovecraftesque scenarios are short – like, a couple of pages – and their role is to provide inspirational material linked by a common location and theme. They provide ingredients someone could use to make an eldritch horror tale, but the players choose which ingredients to use, they add ideas of their own, and build a story for themselves. You can find a bunch of examples from the kickstarter here.
You have until 11:59pm (UTC-11) on Monday the 7th November to submit your scenario(s) by commenting here with a link or emailling us at lovecraftesque at vapourspace dot net. Each person can submit up to three entries for consideration. The winner, chosen from among the entries by us, will receive a copy of Lovecraftesque softcover and cards for themselves or a friend (which we will ship to you wherever you are), and the runners-up will receive the PDF of the game (again, you can give to a friend instead).
We recommend that you follow these guidelines; we’ll accept variations but the scenario must be an inspirational set of ingredients, not a pre-cooked story or situation.
You retain your copyright over your entry/entries but unless you tell us not to we’ll publish your work on the Black Armada website for free download. We won’t use it any other way without your permission. We reserve the right not to publish anything which we deem distasteful or in breach of someone else’s intellectual property.
Dead Ashes Burn Again: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G0fQtllok1HPs4AGcpZ69PEujhe6OK9FpT4DXCMcaa8/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks Tom – received.
There should be four scenarios in this bundle: http://www.departmentv.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/RGL_Lovecraftesque_Scenarios.zip
_Absinthe Waves_, _The Heart Line_ and _Under a Grey Sun_ are around 600 words.
_Porridge_ is something I wrote at the last minute and more than the allowed 3 entries anyway, but I had the idea so including the rough draft here
A Moment of Your Time:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qK41nA64qp4Wq9WcbEbLUBr0LcRdZv5WXT0FHgdFEC8/edit?usp=sharing
Hope I’m not too late!
Thanks, Ralph and Codie. And no – not too late.