301:(Issue 17), Steve Faragher warned prospective referees to "Be prepared for quite a bit of work as you try to get your head around 200 pages of densely packed information. There are 45 clue handouts and the place of each in the overall jigsaw must be fully understood by the referee before granting the information to the players. There are nearly 100 major non-player characters whose motives must be fully understood. And there are about 25 mini-scenarios, each of which interlinks crucially with all the others. In trying to read and understand all of this information, you'll find yourself with the feeling that your head will burst open from the information overload." However, he lauded the campaign for its "sublime pacing", and complimented it for its non-linear storyline and superior organization. He concluded by giving the book a top score of 10 out of 10, saying, "This remains one of roleplaying's finest moments, the standard by which all other campaigns should be judged. Its intricacy and open-endedness ... make it a shining example of the dizzy heights to which roleplaying can and should aspire... If ever there was a campaign - for any roleplaying system - that could be described as a work of art, this is it. It's a piece of sustained imagination that is the equal of many classics of literature and cinema."
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ambitious commitment in both time and intensity from the Keeper and players alike." He also noted the lethality of the campaign, saying, "Players are expected to lose a handful of
Investigators along the way." But he concluded with a strong recommendation: "Buy this book — even if you don’t think you can keep a group of players together long enough to finish the campaign, even if you’re not particularly interested in
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rarely misses an opportunity to expound upon each and every one of the options open to the players at any given moment, providing specific advice on how the Keeper might react to all of them." However, Winninger did warn prospective players that "Full enjoyment of the campaign requires an unusually
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The book covers a campaign of sequential adventures that span the globe from New York, London, Cairo, and Kenya, to
Shanghai, and pits the investigators against a world-wide cult that is attempting to complete a ritual that will call Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos and Outer God, to destroy the
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