This also means that the VAST amount of twisted rites to bind, enslave and banish Great Old Ones and similar entities has absolutely no place here. On the plus-side, this means we won't have to contend with the sucky, sucky classes or the asinine, extremely random HP rules that contributed nothing to the experience. This has a couple of drawbacks, but also some benefits. Okay, first of all, these hexcrawls employ AD&D rules, NOT the rules posited in LotFP's hardcover. Well, obviously, I got them asap.Īs per the writing of this review, there only are saddle-stitched print versions of these modules, which means that I won't be commenting on electronic features.Īll of the Carcosa-hexcrawls in the series share a couple of peculiarities, which I'll sum up right now (in case this is the first review you happen to find) after that, I'll go into the details of the respective hexcrawl. Well, after a friendly hint by one of my patreons, I started searching the interwebs and found on the author's lulu-page not one, but four different hexcrawls (of a planned series of 8) depicting the lands of Carcosa. Okay, so I'm gonna slightly alter my format for this series: As many of my readers out there, I was duly impressed by Geoffrey McKinney's Carcosa-book it left me wanting more more depth, more weirdness.

In the margins appear the increasingly fervid scrawls of the anonymous compiler.This hex-crawl clocks in at 32 pages, minus one page overview of relations with other hexcrawls in the series and a paragraph of editorial, leaving us with roughly 31 pages of content. Details of everyday life, including currency, communications, and essential phrases Rites of death, from funeral fees to the notorious, bone-stacked catacombs Operations of the justice system, from the city's police to its prisons Sources of knowledge, from museums to institutes of technology Neighborhoods and attractions, with useful maps Hangouts and nightspots, from everyday beaneries to ghoulish cabarets Art student life, from hazing rituals to fabulous bacchanals at the Moulin Rouge Yoked together from existing travelogues, newspapers, and the disquieting ephemera of the occult tradition, it laid out a skewed portrait of a haunted city:

A guide for himself, and for those who would come after him. Having read it, head reeling from absinthe, bedeviled by unseen adversaries, he realized that the alien world it described, Carcosa, had sunk its traces throughout the City of Lights.Īs he explored Paris in search of its decadent influence, he created a scrapbook. The City Guide That Shatters Reality#Īt the end of the 19th century, an American art student went to Paris, read a play, and lost his grip on reality.

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