While I was on a business trip earlier this week, I enjoyed playing through Alone Against the Flames, a free solo adventure that teaches you how to play Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. This surprisingly robust adventure does a good job introducing newbies to the current (I assume) edition of the RPG rules, allowing you to create your character piecemeal over the first phase of the adventure. By the time you reach the (spoiler alert!) fiery conclusion, you're pretty well versed in skill checks, combat, and other basic facets of the game. I don't think I'd invest in the full game, but the experience of running around the cultist-infested streets of a sleepy New England town did give me a hankering to dust off Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu...
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