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The Boarding House at Arkham Street
Publisher: Three Fourteen Games
by Stephen M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/26/2019 08:00:09

A fun little adventure, good for a one-shot. nicely self contained, with only a few NPCs and locations.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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The Boarding House at Arkham Street
Publisher: Three Fourteen Games
by Kevin H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/15/2015 23:46:49

Threw this into an ongoing D&D adventure and it worked very well.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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The Boarding House at Arkham Street
Publisher: Three Fourteen Games
by Cedric C. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 08/11/2010 01:10:20

SPOILERS - This beautiful 32-page adventure focuses less on traditional investigation than roleplaying the theatrical mood of a mythos story. Even if your players aren't up for that sort of scenario, the adventure can be easily adapted into a boarding house "home base" where your players eat and sleep while conducting another adventure. For this reason itself, I highly recommend it.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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The Boarding House at Arkham Street
Publisher: Three Fourteen Games
by Stu V. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 05/01/2010 00:57:48

I generally don't run pre-made scenarios, but after reading this (and considering running a Call of Cthulhu game) I'm planning on running this adventure. It's creepy and allows the players to have the latitude to truly explore the adventure with little railroading.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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The Boarding House at Arkham Street
Publisher: Three Fourteen Games
by Jim C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/12/2010 22:33:35

This is a creepy little scenario, written for (though it certainly doesn't require) a casual sort of pace over several sessions, with a copy of one of this publisher's maps as another reviewer mentioned. Although officially systemless, the suggested rules are most compatible with BRP (classic CoC). I don't know if I would go with the Alien reference, myself, but as the text makes clear, it's easily interchanged with something different.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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The Boarding House at Arkham Street
Publisher: Three Fourteen Games
by Jeffrey V. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/03/2010 17:25:36

I picked this one up to use with Call of Cthulhu. Basically it appears to take a floor plan devised by the same company as a generic game aid, and then build a generic "horror" scenario around it.

The scenario is a one-shot and is well devised, with interesting characters and even pregenerated Player characters to help out if you just want to run a quickie adventure. It's set in the mid-20's in New England (probably Boston -- though you could put it anywhere you like). The characters are provided via general description and easy enough to flesh out with the exact skills you wish to use from your particular game rules (remember, this is a GENERIC scenario). The mystery is intriguing, the NPCs are provided with plenty of detail to aid in GM roleplaying, and there are several red herrings you can use to distract or annoy your players or even as the seeds of additional adventure. The "bad guy" provides the players with a real dilemma and could easily escape and turn up again sometime. In fact, this whole scenario could serve as a "red herring" itself and be set within some other adventure your characters are having, leading in turn to yet other adventures. In short, I think it is extremely well done and very flexible in its possible uses. The scenario itself is somewhat linear and the timeline drives the action -- which is pretty common it seems, though a clever GM can tinker with it and give it a more flexible format fairly easily if he wants to take the time and effort.

The production quality is generally excellent, though some additional player handouts would have been nice. The document is marred by mis-spellings, improper adjective use ("his" when they really mean "hers") and incorrect grammar, especially in the latter half of the document, so I'd rate the actual production quality as low in that regard. However the pdf is the usual high quality we expect from DriveThru and is very crisp and legible. I'm rating this one a "five," despite it's flaws in terms of production/editorial attention to detail, but the price (currently FREE) makes it well worth taking the time to download! If it becomes a charged item, then I'd rate it a four overall due to the production/editorial issues.



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