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King of Chicago
[1-56882-020-8]
$5.95
Publisher: Chaosium
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by Jeffrey V. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 11/27/2010 13:55:08

King of Chicago is actually two adventures in one, both crime related. The first is set in Gangland Chicago and the second is set in the French city of Marseilles. In addition to the basic scenarios, there are two articles of interest, included to lend depth to the Keeper's understanding of underlying events. The first is a discussion of Prohibition and how it fostered black marketeering and organized crime, and the second is a discussion of the same aspects of international weapons smuggling. Both are well written and provide an excellent overview of their subjects. The two adventures themselves are complex and well written, and have the added advantage of providing at least some information on the two cities they are set in; which are otherwise not addressed in any guidebooks. Speaking of which, I hope that some day Chaosium reproduces the Cairo and London Guidebooks, and nice additions would include Chicago and Marseilles too! At any rate, I don't want to go into too much detail on the adventures, other than to note that there are plenty of opportunities for research, and, somewhat more unusually in CoC adventures, a much increased likelihood of gunplay and fisticuffs, courtesy of the organized crime elements in each story. In classic CoC, this makes both adventures deadly indeed, though if your campaign is more "pulpish" than most, it should simply increase the excitement. In each case, the eldritch horror behind the criminal elements is difficult though not impossible to defeat, and the rewards for doing so are commensurate. Overall, these are two excellent scenarios, and alas, very difficult to find for CoC players that didn't buy them back in the day -- at least until now. Thanks, RPGNow, for bringing them back to the light of day!



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