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So one thing led to another and I've been roped into running my first ever Call of Cthulhu campaign. Not what I thought I'd be doing this year, but I'm game, especially because I can use it at a pretext to explore 19th-century French history.
It'll be a mini campaign, only a handful of sessions for two players at a time. I have a pretty good idea of what I'm going to do, but this is still unfamiliar territory. I feel like I'm supposed to have dozens of carefully detailed locations, twice that many fully-described NPCs, 50+ clues and contingency plans for every possible player choice or mistake. I also feel I need to be thoroughly familiar with the mores of Belle Époque France and its institutions.
This seems like a pretty tall order. Does everyone else go through this?
How much prep is too much prep for CoC?
How do you prep scenarios?
What actually matters and what should I let slide?
It'll be a mini campaign, only a handful of sessions for two players at a time. I have a pretty good idea of what I'm going to do, but this is still unfamiliar territory. I feel like I'm supposed to have dozens of carefully detailed locations, twice that many fully-described NPCs, 50+ clues and contingency plans for every possible player choice or mistake. I also feel I need to be thoroughly familiar with the mores of Belle Époque France and its institutions.
This seems like a pretty tall order. Does everyone else go through this?
How much prep is too much prep for CoC?
How do you prep scenarios?
What actually matters and what should I let slide?