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The War of the Worlds campaign

By Tyler Gotch · added 31 Mar 2021

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"War has come to Earth! Insidious Martian invaders have landed in Grovers Mill, New Jersey, and have begun a campaign to wrest control of the Earth from humanity! But what is the true reason behind this invasion?"

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Kos · 2021-03-31

Hi. Thanks for sharing, an impressive piece of work! Cards could use a little proofreading, consider this as my way of saying thanks: 1b: set-aside vs Set aside agenda 1b: placing -> then place (act 2b, same) agenda 2a: works the streets -> roams the streets Prologue: " His" -> ", his" (but hiding from whom?) East end should be spelled East End (see https://duckduckgo.com/?q=East+end+of+london&ia=places) p3: setup: " , " -> ", " " . " -> ". " Set the Jack .. aside -> Set aside the Jack... p5: Resoulution 1 -> Resolution 1 He has -> Jack the Ripper has Resoulution 2 -> Resolution 2 to the stomach -> to your stomach (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sick-to-your-stomach) decided it was -> decided it would be Resoulution 3 -> Resolution 3 to be one of .. merely -> (doesn't feel natural, but no suggestions). concerned -> on the line Interlude I: the Ripper's -> The Ripper's he developed -> unclear what he refers to, first I thought Sir, but later it was more likely Jack was the he. -> the suspect developed in the next few -> within dismisses you -> that's exiting -> dismisses your objections. Queens -> of the Queen -> Queen's With that -> With that, (oxford comma but looks better) the truth -> truth (if you want truth to be victorious) will appear -> will remain gives -> gave p6 Sat in -> who sat in? it's not clear. -> prepend with the name. , He (ah. you mean this:) Sitting in Frank Abberline's office at Scotland Yard, you watch as Frank opens a bottle of Malt. He pours you a glass and -> Pouring you a glass, he do such -> commit such .The -> . The A Bloody -> A bloody ."Nasty -> . "Nasty work that -> work, that he also seemed scared -> ? who's he here? -> omit 'he' .Despite -> . Despite find out" Inspector -> find out!". Inspector safe once -> safer once (not all crime has been abandoned) work you -> work, you go creating -> go at creating was his -> was that his == Cards: Hound of the Baskervilles: cannot -> (conventional term) -> are unable to Blackmail letter: a bit unclear. the killer seems to be the reader, not the writer of the letter? then: for silence -> for keeping silent array -> awry more permanent action -> make the silence more permanent? restrain the -> restrain his A Dagger -> A dagger murder or -> murder, or unidentified liquid: Your not -> You're not if its poison -> it is -> if it's poison lower cost than it is worth -> lower rate than normal Jack the Ripper card: deals either -> who decides?

  • the term flat is used throughout the story, not sure if that term is not post-ww2, and perhaps instead replace with apartment?

Charles Ackland: several dots missing at the end. Remember needs a dot Francis: have a vast medical knowledge and skill-set -> have a vast knowledge in medicine and skill set your planning on speaking to -> you are -> you're planning to question Remember needs a dot George: impassioned -> ? -> dispassionate (however from what follows, maybe better:) -> passionate Its the -> it is -> It's the James: your doing -> you are -> you're doing

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Gary Walker · 2021-04-01

Thanks, I'll print this off and look into corrections over the weekend. 👍

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Gary Walker · 2021-04-02

Hi Kos, I've gone through 90% of the corrections so far. Could you send me an email to garywalker1975@gmail.com please? I would like to get in touch with you regarding the scenario. Thanks.

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The Beard · 2021-04-06

I think this feedback is meant for A Scandal in Whitechapel, not War of the Worlds.

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Steinar · 2021-03-31

How do I go about to print this?

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Captain · 2021-04-09

Hi, will a PDF (printable) version come at some point ? I heard a lot of good things about this campaign ! ;)

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Triton · 2021-08-17

NO SPOILER Hi, we played this with my GF and had ended a bit skeptical. It was very nice work don't get me wrong but some of it felt not so great : 1- The "fan-made" feeling : Obviously it is fan-made, but sometimes you feel it more and some rules or ennemies have too few impact on the game (some rules on ennemies never occured at all in 3 scenarios), the difficulty that we found a bit too easy (we play on standard and skipped to difficult during the campaign and yet it was a bit easy for us (maybe it's just luck though for this point) 2- In the middle of two things : It didn't feel very Lovecraftian as we never felt the "scariness" feeling of the Arkham Horror (actually it's quite the opposite, the campaign let you feel like a true "american movie hero" and that's exactly what we actually didn't like I think). But yet we didn't feel like it was a full a war of the worlds thing (though it was much more AWOTW than AH and that's what we signed for obviously). 3- The ending : Too weird for us, felt out of nowhere and that's why I'm probably a bit salty, otherwise I would have had a neutral-good experience I think... BUT, on a good note :

  • As I said, we still felt the original source of AWOTW (the book not the movie) !
  • If you want a good story where you can be the true heroes of the world and the flavour text complimenting you for your achievements, then it's all good. We kinda enjoyed it at the end when we finally stop caring about the "horror" and went full "'merica !!!" :)

I hope I'm not too rough, I don't want to discourage anyone to play it, it was pretty good if you except some rules (but hey, it's free). Just be aware of the experience you're looking for and just have fun ! Consider playing in "Difficult" maybe for one time ;) And to the author(s), thank you for all this work, I hope I can be helpful and do not discourage you to create anything even better in the future ;)

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Alex Shields · 2021-11-29

I built octgn specific files for this campaign. You can find them here.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1foFkaXCRZ4pM2FO5M0Pdcw64fBKhkl5M?usp=sharing

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Alex Shields · 2023-08-25

I moved all of my AHTCG stuff for OCTGN here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DMfKmqRlJYbno1mSjLBiAzu14mb_dzzX?usp=drive_link

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