A Time to Harvest Archives - Vintage RPG https://www.vintagerpg.com/tag/a-time-to-harvest/ The Art & History of Tabletop RPGs Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:02:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.vintagerpg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-Icon-1-90x90.jpg A Time to Harvest Archives - Vintage RPG https://www.vintagerpg.com/tag/a-time-to-harvest/ 32 32 A Time to Harvest (2022) https://www.vintagerpg.com/2023/10/a-time-to-harvest-2022/ https://www.vintagerpg.com/2023/10/a-time-to-harvest-2022/#respond Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:01:00 +0000 https://www.vintagerpg.com/2023/10/i-was-extremely-excited-about-a-time-to-harvest/ A nice relaxing trip to rural Vermont…

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]]> I was extremely excited about A Time to Harvest (2022) because of what it is not. Practically every Call of Cthulhu campaign of note has one thing in common: international travel. While I love a good globe-trotting, I was keen to experience “Death and discovery in the Vermont Hills.”

Players take the role of Miskatonic University students (or, I guess, faculty) who take part in a dual purpose expedition to Vermont: one team is researching local folklore, the other performing a geological survey. Cthulhu Mythos hijinks abound, but I don’t really want to get into details, considering how recent the book’s publication and how much the plot turns on a certain amount of mystery.

That said, I’m down for outré horror in quaint New England towns. There is a fun jaunt to Quebec as well, and some other surprising locales. It’s also a very agile production. It supports the GM well — a novice should have no problem with this, and a veteran has lots of room to improvise and expand on the material. It also scales nicely from classic CoC to Pulp, which is harder to pull off than I think most folks realize. In terms of construction, there is a nice variety in the scenarios and plenty of twists. The art is very nice throughout as well, though I can’t show you the best bits because spoilers. Ugh.

Bottom line: it is very good, has quite a few surprises and returns the game to a cozy sort of local horror I’ve been hungry for (y’all know how much I love those Lovecraft Country books).

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]]> https://www.vintagerpg.com/2023/10/a-time-to-harvest-2022/feed/ 0 A Time to Harvest https://www.vintagerpg.com/2023/03/a-time-to-harvest/ https://www.vintagerpg.com/2023/03/a-time-to-harvest/#respond Mon, 20 Mar 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.vintagerpg.com/?p=8997 Maybe don’t go collecting rocks and folklore in the hills of Vermont?

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]]> This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out A Time to Harvest, a recently released campaign for Call of Cthulhu where players take the role of Miskatonic University students on an ill-advised field trip to Vermont. We talk in vague terms about why it is a cool campaign, then after a clear “beyond this point is spoilers” warning we get into some of the nitty gritty. A future classic of the system, I think!

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