One of my players has been trying to get me into Twilight for years now (which is funny because I have been trying to get him into Traveller for an equal amount of time, given they were both GDW products), but the base Poland setting never grabbed me super hard. But this sounds way cooler imo.
I’m not bothered that much by having black characters on the cover, hence my disagreement on your earlier post.
If you think that's bad I suggest you look at some of the 'classic' digital mapmaking software such as Hexographer/Worldographer and Campaign Cartographer.
Excellent but revised edition is is 150 physical
Tried DungeonDraft?
It's not just the covers, it's the race swaps I'm already expecting like in the Arkham supplement's case. I own a physical copy of the Escape from Innsmouth campaign and there are 0 Black people in that accursed town. The only minorities are Europeans: Poles and Portuguese. The Hybrids running Innsmouth are the actual POCs because their seafaring ancestors had children with tainted Kanakas/Polynesians. They will most likely fall over themselves to balance this with a dozen good POCs.
I would like this but they're afraid of the South if you ask me. That's why they stick to New England/Lovecraft Country. It's safe. The Tatooine of CoC if you will. Harlem was tried but the retarded author ruined it with the bullshit that America was built by Blacks, Klansmen are everywhere, cops will practice their aim on you on sight, there is no reverse racism and Whites are only allowed to use his book if they follow his rules: no stereotypes, no blaccents and no period accurate talk AKA N bombs. Call me a dumbass but you can just feel that Black America has a ton of superstitions, delusions and cults often tied to existing Mythos deities you're not supposed to touch unless some sensitivity reader approves. Like the Afrocentrist Black Egyptian Pharaoh Nyarlathotep Avatar parallel which reaches all the way to Hollywood if you remember the Netflix documentary about Cleopatra.
I only buy decent quality hard covers with some some exceptions like Conspiracy X or All Flesh must be eaten
Considering the opposed business model: recurring payment, it would likely hover around 10 dollars, so you'd surpass the cost in only 7 months. I am simply happy I can pay once and call it a day.
I am of the mind that a Darkest Africa CoC campaign would be fun, iirc Masks hits it briefly.
I quite enjoy Dungeondraft. I've used it for dungeons from small to large. It really shines with a solid asset pack and a shadow pack. I think I saw someone made a mod and hex terrain asset pack but I've yet to try those out.
I tried MapTool a long time ago and appreciated what it was doing. Didn't stick with it but it's one of those things you can instantly tell will let you do what you need if you give it the time. I do really enjoy TokenTool which I think is from the same guys. Solid stuff.
At least the previous edition of CoC did have an adventure centered around the blues music scene and thus had parts in Harlem. It had a small blurb that said "Hey, we know this is the 1920's, racism is a thing, segregation is a thing, here's what Harlem culture was, "Nigger", "Blacks" is still a used word, but it's up to you and your table how you want to handle it." and that was the end of it.
I would like to see how they present the NPCs. If they go with the isolated town of Innsmouth having a family with the last name Mankambe, that’s some woke shit. If it’s like a passing journalist for a New York City African American paper, then it makes sense in context.
Going that route does require an understanding of these mystical traditions. Because they are real to many people and it does a disservice to just relegate all spiritual practices to being associated with the eldritch.
Kenya (I ran some scenarios here), the Congo and the Sudan have official or unofficial Miskatonic University Library Association supplements. The first two were the superior ones.