As I've mentioned elsewhere, I got the rather wonderful Delta Green: Eyes Only for christmas. For those of you without the appropriate security clearance, Delta Green is a modern setting for Call of Cthulhu which draws heavily on conspiracy theory and urban lore and melds it seemlessly with the Cthulhu mythos. It's my favourite setting, ever. It is, in short, a work of art and remains John Tynes' finest work.

There’s a gaming event here in the UK called the Student Nationals. In essence, it’s a role-playing, war gaming and board games ‘competition’ that takes place over a weekend. The idea of competitively judging people for their role-playing seemed a bit odd to me, but as I’d been asked by friends who were organising it to run games over the weekend, I’d be in there and taking part anyway.

So, I end up running good old Call of Cthulhu. The slot you are given is six hours, so I came up with a game set in 1920 Constantinople: Turkish nationalists, British troops on the streets, hordes of émigrés fleeing the Bolsheviks in Russia, all that sort of thing. The game wasn’t very heavily structured, as I really wanted to see how it would progress with more input from the players, rather than being the standard, procedural CoC investigate routine.