From publisher blurb:
“we thought of such things as the grotesquely weathered stones ... the faintly symmetrical wind-carved rocks of the Arizona desert”
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“Thunder God's Curse” is a gritty investigative scenario of Cthulhu Mythos horror, set in 1936 Arizona. It can be played with access to just the open-source Cthulhu Eternal Jazz Age SRD, which (for convenience) we have bundled with the scenario. The adventure also comes with digital versions of all props and maps, to make it easier to run on a VTT of your preference.
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About The Scenario:
The American West is peppered with legends of gold mines whose location has been lost by circumstance and misfortune, and with treasure-hunters willing to risk life and limb in search of these lost mines. Of these, perhaps the most famous is the “Lost Dutchman’s Mine” alleged to be located in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains, sixty miles east of Phoenix. Many have hunted in vain for prospector Jacob Waltz’s hidden source of gold, which he pulled from for many years before dying in 1891, and many have lost their lives trying to find this fabulous cache of gold. But now, a broken skull and an un-mailed letter from a retired orthodontist (and amateur adventurer) named Henry Russo hint that the Dutchman’s Mine may have finally been found … and guarded by someone (or something) willing to kill to protect its secrets.
Hired to find the missing "explorer" Russo, the Protagonists must travel to Tortilla Flat, a tiny town surrounded by the open vastness of desert and sky. It might be the 1930s, but out here life hasn't changed all that much since the fabled days of the American West ... and some might say that it hasn't changed all that much since more ancient and primal times, neither.
So saddle up, make sure you've got plenty of water ... because this Cthulhu investigation is looking mighty parched. And it's just possible that there might be more than just gold hiding up in them-there-hills ...
This is the second in our "Beyond the Miskatonic" line of self-contained scenarios which feature authentic Lovecraftian tales of horror set well beyond the traditional locales visited by Mythos fiction. While it is quite feasible to run this scenario with a traditional group of scholarly Lovecraftian investigators, the unique setting also lends itself to Protagonists from very different backgrounds.