Although I'm mostly basing the D&D campaign that I'm running off of my old Cult of Undeath outline, it's sufficiently different in system and tone that I don't really want to call it the same thing, and I reserve the right to make changes—possibly even radical ones—on the fly. So, I came up with another name for it. I might yet change it, but I dunno. Maybe not.
I feel like the title itself is kind of a spoiler. But we'll see; and maybe it's not. I also feel like maybe it's too dramatic. But; it is also quite descriptive of Otto von Szell's actual goal of awakening Gol-Goroth, a Lovecraftian being of madness sequestered in the swamp, which serves as a slightly less dramatic setting than the bottom of the ocean. But otherwise, there's a lot that's deliberately echoing several Lovecraft stories in Eltdown; the Snake Cultists of Heqet and the raising of Gol-Goroth from where he lies slumbering deep in the swamp where mortals cannot go.
I can't help it. I just can't run 5e, or any other heroic fantasy system without dragging it through at least a superficial horror wringer. Sure, sure, the system won't really back me up on this one, but it's the best I can do.
UPDATE: After playing last night, I'm less of a fan than I was even before today. And yeah; 5.5 is even more grossly over-powered than 5e. The Weapon Mastery stuff is kind of insane. Sigh. Whatever. I can run this campaign. But I'm sure that I will be more and more unhappy with 5e by the time I'm done with it. I feel like every session as a GM I dislike it more. As a player, I feel like it's just a poor man's 3.5, with less options, and a few things that are streamlined but which have little actual effect in game. And I suspect that the update to 5.5 means that I'm "underplaying" my 5e character mechanically, since my group is totally just using D&D Beyond and use whatever rules the system spits out at them.
I also don't really love the name here, so I'll probably change it and make a new banner. The Dark Tapestry Returns? The Dark Tapestry Awakens? The Ancient Darkness Awakens? Something like that.
Sigh.
UPDATE II: So yeah; I'll update the tag, title and probably image over the weekend, but even so, since this is such a short post, here's some crap about Vivek Ramaswampy, the foreigner con-man who's pretending to be a conservative American.
A story of striving and achieving is not at all the same as a story of entitlement. Bizarre claim.
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