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Beyond the Mountains of Madness: An Epic Campaign & Sourcebook

(Call of Cthulhu RPG)

Charles Engan (Editor),

Jan Engan

4.29 · Rating details · 68 ratings · 5 reviews

Beyond the Mountains of Madness continues the story begun in H.P. Lovecraft's novel "At the Mountains of Madness". It is the tale of the Starkweather-Moore Expedition of 1933 which bravely - and foolishly - seeks to finish what the Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition began three years before. ~ The massive book consists of the following: * The adventure itself, in s ...more

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Published August 1st 1999 by Chaosium (first published February 1999)

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Nov 08, 2020 Ramón Nogueras Pérez rated it really liked it

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Una campaña monumental, ambiciosa, con un nivel de atención al detalle y la documentación como pocas, si alguna vez, he visto. Los autores no sólo crean una tremenda aventura, sino que además enhebran magistralmente el relato de Lovecraft con el relato de Poe "Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym", continuando ambos y recogiendo cada detalle y cada alusión.

No le doy cinco estrellas porque su único defecto es la extrema lentitud del escenario en su comienzo. El ritmo es glacial - no es un chiste fácil ...more

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Nov 06, 2018 John rated it liked it

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BtMoM is impressive, but hard to love. It offers the most Lovecraftian experience I've seen, but this comes with many drawbacks. The pace is slow and the plot is very rigid. Little the players do matters until the climax of the story. That said, the climax paid for the months we spent building up to it.

Fundamentally, this shouldn't be your first Call of Cthulhu campaign. Also, you need a group of people willing to roleplay arctic explorers for session after session. There's a little combat and t ...more

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Sep 05, 2011 Psychophant rated it liked it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Although I have owned this huge book for years, I had read only parts of it, never trying to see the whole picture and, as a game, trying a solo adventure to check how the parts fit.

It is based in what I think is Lovecraft's best work, At the Mountains of Madness, presented as the events surrounding a follow up expedition to the ill fated Lake expedition. It also relies a lot on Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, that inspired Lovecraft.

The attention to detail, the fidelity t Although I have owned this huge book for years, I had read only parts of it, never trying to see the whole picture and, as a game, trying a solo adventure to check how the parts fit.

It is based in what I think is Lovecraft's best work, At the Mountains of Madness, presented as the events surrounding a follow up expedition to the ill fated Lake expedition. It also relies a lot on Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, that inspired Lovecraft.

The attention to detail, the fidelity to the source works, and the amount of data on every aspect of taking an expedition to Antractica and surviving (or dying) there is impressive. The writing is one of the best I have seen in a game supplement. There are lots of hand-outs and details to make the adventure come alive. They even dare to complete (and include the four "missing" full chapters) the Narrative as "Deep Background". Both the Narrative and At the Mountains are used as texts the players can get to know what to expect.

With so many good points, why does it get only three stars? Because to really work it requires that the players do not read (or have not read before) the inspirational book before the appointed time, which I find ludicrous if you are playing a Lovecraft Roleplaying Game. And because it fails as an adventure. Besides some minor intrigue, lots of foreshadowing, and the difficult business of survival in the Ice, it can play in only one real way, so it goes beyond railroading. Yes, that may magnify the pathos in a short story, but if you are planning to spend 80-150 hours of your life getting involved in this, being so predictable is terrible. Also, if players have read At the Mountains (and mine have) it may become ridiculous when they get ready for the First Antarctic War (and this is an adventure where excessive firepower can make things actually easier, and that is also a possibility). I disagree also with the way the adventure flows, from foreboding, action, more foreboding, horror, and then a long denouement that should have been shorter.

I loved it for the setting, but it fails for a game. ...more

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