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Doors to Darkness
 
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Doors to Darkness
Publisher: Chaosium
by Philip G. O. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/15/2022 09:54:29

This product is not suitable for beginning Keepers.

Cover and interior art are impressive and fitting. The five scenarios have nice but not surprising plots. Their storylines have several weak spots, where players and keeper could struggle to keep the story going (which should have been avoided when writing for beginning keepers). Suggestions to engage the players with the plot include railroading and punishing the characters for not following the intended path.

None of the scenarios make use of an intelligent and captivating hook for the pre-generated characters, which have thin backgrounds and are missing entries. More fleshed-out pre-gens could have helped new players get into their roles.

The scenarios are made up of detailed and long texts. Keepers need to work through them to get the relevant information. New Keepers profit from concise summaries and a clear structure of information.

The accessibility of the material is low. On some of the handouts, font, font size and contrast make reading a challenge. The content of the handouts is not provided in the text. Furthermore, none of the pdfs of this product could be used with adobe screen reader or NVDA.

The topic of safety and consent when playing horror games is not mentioned. New Keepers need to be aware that the content of the scenario can have an impact on players and Keeper. The possibility of installing safety measures needs to be addressed. Opposed to this, the Keepers introduction goes as far as to suggest a possible harming of the players.

Find out what scares your players (or their investigators) and make use of those fears if possible (p. 12).

This is under no circumstances ever acceptable advice!



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