Hi! I just wanted to let you know how every project is going on:
1. I already started editing the layout design for the second edition of Fear of the Dark, I Hope It doesn't take too long, but It's a more than 260 Pages file: the ruleset, 8 scenarios and one campaign...
The rules Will suffer some changes (the AI Will be easier to use) and some things Will be clearly explained. The layout design Will be slightly modified as well.
Apart from that, the Game Will be written without gramatical mistakes or typos.
As you know I'm not an english native speaker, but several members from the Fear of the Dark Facebook group have taken their time to help me and correct the text so that It is properly written.
The Game Will be published in two separate books: one with the rules and four scenarios and a second book with four scenarios and the campaign.
Everything Will be uploaded to wargamevault and Will be free for all those Who already had bought Fear of the Dark.
2. New scenarios for Fear of the Dark... well... I have a lot of ideas, but two of them are really appealing: one dealing with a fishy town similar to Innsmouth and another one dealing with an expedition in the sands of egypt.
I have developed all the possible "paths" in the first one and just need to write it down. I´ll be playing this one this week or the next one, as soon as I have all the terrain ready.
Remember: keep your deep ones ready...
(and as an addition this scenario will include a skirmish battle between US soldiers and hoards of monsters, as a preview of the following project ↓ )
3. The ww2 (and weird ww2) rules are working properly. After a lot of playtesting most rules have been changed once and again, but it seems that I have reached a point where they are stable and work as I want. Nevertheless I may make some changes as I keep playtesting the rules.
With the rules almost finished it just would need a lot of scenarios, and as they are quite simple to write (not as Fear of the Dark ones) I hope I can write a few and have the ruleset finished in the next few months.
After that it would need a long photography session and some time of edition to make the layout.
This project is going to take more time than I expected, as I´m trying to do my best and dont want to make mistakes or leave aside important aspects of the game, but this game is something I really want to do, and I want all of you to play and enjoy it.
And this is it...
Of course I dont know how long will it take me to do each of these projects as I, the same like you, also have a real life that needs time (job, kids, social life, everyday problems...)
I hope I have time and go step by step to finish all of them as soon as possible.
A new thrilling campaign is available for free for Fear of the Dark.
Jerry tugged several times on the axe handle unable to get it
to release from where it was stuck, after trying in vain to
pull the blade of the axe out he decided to rest his foot on
the poor man´s back.
Pushing hard with his foot and pulling energetically on the
axe handle, he managed to force the blade out of the back,
exposing a large wound from which blood was flowing.
Looking down at the stranger's immobile body, he tilted his
head to one side and crouched beside him.
Bringing his lips close to his victim's ear Jerry asked him in
a low voice:
"Do you still hear the violins playing?"
Sons of the New Moon is a campaign that will take your investigators to their limits: a writer is missing while he was making a research for a new book, a horror novel about a long time disappeared esoteric cult. everything seems like he has discovered something... something wicked.
Will they dicover the writer´s whereabout?
Will they make it alive?
Will they find what happened with the Sons of the New Moon?
This is the introduction for this campaign, to get it for free just log in yourwargamevaultprofile and look in the Fear of the Dark folder, you may download and enjoy it.
Quizás muchos hayais visto que el juego Fear of the Dark ha desaparecido en castellano.
Tanto el archivo para su compra en Wargamevault como la versión de demostración gratuíta.
Todo tiene una explicación...
Hace poco se llegó al acuerdo con la compañía editorial Shadowlands para su edición de modo profesional tanto en formato físico como digital.
Shadowlands es una editorial seria y con mucha fuerza especializada en los juegos de rol de ambientación de terror, y quien haya visto algunos de sus trabajos no podrá mas que concluir que se trata de la mejor editorial que se podría encargar de lanzar este proyecto de modo profesional.
Así que durante unos meses Fear of the Dark no estará disponible en castellano, pero en breve podreis disfrutar de una versión realmente profesional que seguro que no os va a dejar indiferentes.
¿Que pasará con aquellos que ya adquirieron el juego a través de Wargamevault?
Aún no hay nada asentado, pero se planteó darles algún tipo de beneficio a los que ya habían comprado el juego si adquirían el libro una vez sea publicado por Shadowlands.
Aunque ese beneficio aún está por decidirse en firme, tened por seguro que aquellos que confiaron en este proyecto desde el principio no van a caer en el olvido, gracias a vosotros es posible este juego y tanto a la editorial como a mi nos parece algo digno de premiar.
Aún nos quedan unos meses para poder ver Fear of the Dark editado de manera profesional, pero os puedo asegurar que la espera habrá merecido la pena...
Mientras tanto permaneced juntos...
No os separeis...
Y sobre todo, temed a la oscuridad...
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Many of you may have noticed that the game Fear of the Dark has disappeared in Spanish.
Both the file in Wargamevault and the free demo version.
Everything has an explanation...
Recently an agreement was reached with the Shadowlands publishing company for its professional edition in both physical and digital format.
Shadowlands is a serious and strong publishing company specialized in horror role-playing games, and anyone who has seen anyof their work can only conclude that this is the best publisher that could be responsible for launching this project in a professional way.
So for a few months Fear of the Dark will not be available in Spanish, but soon you will be able to enjoy a really professional version that will surprise you.
What will happen to those who already purchased the game through Wargamevault?
Nothing is set in stone yet, but it has been considered to give some kind of benefit to those who have already bought the game if they purchase the book once it is published by Shadowlands.
Although that benefit is yet to be decided, be sure that those who trusted in this project from the very beginning are not going to be forgotten, thanks to you this game is possible and both the publishing company and I think it's something worth rewarding.
We still have a few months to see Fear of the Dark edited in a professional way, but be sure that the wait will be worth it...
2020 was a complicated year, and 2021 has been quite hard, but I want to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year...
2022 is going to be better, my Friends!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
(I found this picture on the internet long time ago, so I can't acknowledge the author, but for me is the best way to wish a merry Christmas for my wargamers friends)
Many times people say that they don't find proper miniatures to play Fear of the Dark, but sometimes the answer is easier than we think.
Okumarts games makes high quality paper miniatures with many different characters and ranges (pulp investigators, innsmouth denizens, gangsters...) that fit perfect the Fear of the Dark setting.
This is the link to their website, with links to their different online stores, their patreon, information on all the different ranges they have made and new projects:
And these are a few pictures that show what this paper miniatures may offer to Fear of the Dark players...
It seems that you are running out of excuses to play Fear of the Dark...
And these are some of the ranges they made at Okumarts games, but there are A LOT so I encourage you to visit their website to enjoy watching what they offer:
A new blog where not only Fear of the Dark has a place, but also Frontline Heroes (and all the games that may come in a future). It was very difficult to maintain two blogs at the same time, so I decided to merge all the existing posts in this blog into a new blog.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience this may cause, but it was a necessary improvement.
I hope that we will continue to give life to the wargaming hobby and be able to help as much as possible.
That feeling when you turn off the light and seat in the couch waiting for the film to begin is something I love...
We love to be scared by horror films, to suffer with the characters as they walk towards death... We like fear itself.
There are a lot of horror movies inspired in H.P. Lovecraft´s works, some of them not clearly, other are obviously based on them. Lovecraft works didn´t go unnoticed to film directors and producers, and many of them have been adaptated or were the basis for films.
Today I want to make a list of the movies I believe that are based on his works or that they deserve to be seen as a Fear of the Dark player or a Call of Cthulhu GM.
The films are not in any particular order, I just offer a selection of films that you may like (related to mythos in one or other way).
So, make sure the doors are locked, turn off the light and sit in the couch...
THE MIST (2007)
David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realize that there are “things” lurking in the mist…deadly, horrifying things…creatures not of this world.
Survival depends on everybody in the store pulling together…but is that possible, given human nature? As reason crumbles in the face of fear and panic, David begins to wonder what terrifies him more: the monsters in the mist—or the ones “inside” the store, the human kind, the people that until now had been his friends and neighbors?
RE-ANIMATOR (1985)
A medical student and his girlfriend become involved in a bizarre experiment into reanimating the dead conducted by the student's incorrigible housemate in this campy sendup of an H.P. Lovecraft story. The emphasis is on humour but once the dead walk, there is gore aplenty.
THE THING (1982)
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a norwegian helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast, from unknown origin, can assume the shape of its victims.
THE CALL OF CTHULHU (2005)
The Call of Cthulhu is a silent movie adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman and distributed by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. It is the first film adaptation of the famous Lovecraft story, and uses Mythoscope, a blend of vintage and modern filming techniques intended to produce the look of a 1920s-era film.
The film adheres very closely to Lovecraft's story, but there are a few changes. The sailors aboard the Emma first encounter the Alert abandoned at sea, rather than crewed by Cthulhu cultists as in the original story. Additionally, the film depicts the narrator present at the time of his great-uncle's death, who dies peacefully in his sleep, rather than being summoned upon the mysterious death of his great-uncle, who was presumably killed by Cthulhu cultists in the original short story. The narrator (Matt Foyer) notes as well that Inspector Legrasse, who had directed the raid on cultists in backwoods Louisiana, had died before the narrator's investigation began.
DAGON (2001)
A couple is traveling on a yacht off the coast of Spain, when a sudden storm smashes their boat on a reef. They swim to the nearest town looking for help. The decrepit fishing village of Imboca at first seems to be deserted. The strange inhabitants offer little help to the stranded couple. By nightfall they find themselves pursued by the entire town… but a town of what?
THE ENDLESS (2017)
As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began. Soon they realize that the cult was more than right on their beliefs.
THE RESURRECTED (1992)
Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer, and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials. When the detective and wife find a diary of the husband's ancestor from 1771, and reports of gruesome murders in the area begin to surface, they begin to suspect that some very unnatural experiments are being conducted in the old house.
THE VOID (2016)
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.
FROM BEYOND (1986)
Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time. When Dr. Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into the psycho ward due to his stories. Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment.
CLOVERFIELD (2008)
A group of friends gather in downtown Manhattan to hold a surprise party for Rob Hawkins who is departing to take up a vice presidency in Japan. Hud is given the job of recording everything on a camcorder. But as gossip spreads around the room that Rob and Beth McIntyre were sleeping together, there suddenly comes news that a tanker has overturned in the harbour.
As they rush onto the roof to see, there is a massive explosion. Out on the street, the head of the Statue of Liberty comes crashing past and then a vast monster is seen smashing buildings aside. Rob and a handful of others try to survive amidst the mass devastation as the military cordon the area off, evacuate people and try to fight back against the monster. Rob takes the others on a dangerous journey across town to rescue Beth from where she is trapped injured inside her apartment building.
COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (2019)
A town is struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic. A really good adaptation of the original story.
Nicolas Cage and an H.P. Lovecraft story... what else do you need?
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994)
When horror novelist Sutter Cane goes missing, insurance investigator John Trent scrutinizes the claim made by his publisher, Jackson Harglow, and endeavors to retrieve a yet-to-be-released manuscript and ascertain the writer's whereabouts, discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
This film is an excepcional Lovecratian story (I have to confess that I turned this film into a Call of Cthulhu RPG scenario that I played to friends and It was an awesome scenario... And we watched the film after the game)
This is It... Did you enjoy?
You may think that many mythos related films were not listed, well you may leave a comment with your chosen films that weren't listed or anything you want to add.
Next film I'm going to see is The Ring 3D edition... They say that images seem to come out of the screen...
