God’s Tears by Keith Craig is a role playing game supplement published by Chaosium Inc. through the Miskatonic Repository Community Content Programme for use with Call of Cthulhu, the horror role playing game based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. This is a modern day scenario.
The supplement is available as a 14 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, one the front matter and one the Table of Contents.
Scenario Introduction explains the adventure takes place in Omaha in the fall of 2023 but could be moved to any city with wineries near it. The investigators are dragged in when a friend tries some are wine that prolongs life with a mutational side-effect; they need to find out how to undo the mutation.
Keeper Information explains how the cultists of a Great Old One prolong their life through a wine made from its tears. The cult is based in Australia, but one member moved to the US and set up a new winery and branch of the cult. Another member gave a bottle of the wine away to a woman he wanted to spend many years with; she, in turn, gave it to another.
Clues explains that at the end of each scene various clues are listed and how obvious they are.
Profiles for NPCs lists the major NPCs in the scenario.
Following this is the scenario. The investigators attend a friend’s birthday party and may try some of the wine he was given before a cultist steals the rest of the bottle. The wine may have an effect on them and they will need to research it, the cultists and the vineyard, eventually making their way there to find the book with a spell to undo the wine’s effects.
Appendix has new spells, a new Mythos tome, stats for NPCs and the Great Old One’s avatar, a couple of handouts and a map of the cave at the vineyard.
God’s Tears in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough sections that they would have been useful. The Table of Contents covers the various sections. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. Bar the cover and map, there are no illustrations. Presentation is adequate.
Though this is set in the modern day and Omaha, as stated it should be easy enough to shift the location to anywhere there could be a vineyard, and even the modern day element could be removed with a few tweaks. The adventure does have some major dangers; though an avatar is not as dangerous as an actual Great Old One, it is still dangerous. God’s Tears is a decent little scenario and it can be found by clicking here.
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