History Awesome / CallOfCthulhu

* The famous Innsmouth Raid is detailed and expanded on from the short description in Lovecraft's works. Instead of a police action, it's more like a small-scale war of the United States government against the Innsmouth populace as well as the Deep One city nearby. The player characters even have the opportunity to ''kill'' Dagon and even if they don't, they ''will'' torpedo the Deep One's city into oblivion. This is one of the rare instances of where, cannonically, the humans got the better of the Mythos.

* So imagine this: your group of 5 is suspicious of a local resident for the disappearance of his girlfriend, whom he claims not to know anything about. One takes him out to clear his mind, while the other 4 search the house. While searching, they see a clear path in the back of the house leading into the thick woods, and start following the trail. Half a mile in, a scuffling is heard about 30 yards away, and 2 go off to investigate. One of the members who stayed behind remembers that they left clues at the house, so she leaves to clean up, leaving one all alone... The two who went off to investigate hear a gunshot, and run back to where they were to find both their friends missing, and a pool of blood along with a gun where they should be. They decide to keep venturing into the woods, and find a clearing with rune stones. After staying for hours with no events occurring, dusk falls, and one decides he will not stay in the forest at night, while the other stays to see what happens. The one who leaves runs the whole way, while the other hides up in a tree, and eventually succumbs to sleep, never to wake up again. True horror movie fashion. [[spoiler: What happened was, the man was possessed and had a ghoul guarding the woods. The ghoul does not fight groups of 4 or more, so he threw a huge rock to split them up, and was fortunate that one investigator started backtracking. When attacking the first investigator, he was sloppy and got shot in the shoulder, but still took the character down. Then he ran back towards the house and dispatched the other one. He tracked the other two, and was unable to keep up with the investigator who ran all the way back to town, but waited until the other investigator fell asleep to gnaw on his stupid head. From a GM perspective, it couldn't have gone any better.]]

** For the record, Old Man Henderson actually managed [[spoiler: to kill [[EldritchAbomination Hastur]] permanently in his DyingMomentOfAwesome.]]

* ''The Haunting'' is a game virtually every ''Call of Cthulhu'' Investigator has experienced. There's a house for sale [[spoiler: with a horrifying undead wizard who feeds with a magic knife]]--you need to deal with it.

* ''Armoured Angels'' is about a British archeological expedition in Iraq accidentally [[spoiler:opening a portal to Yuggoth, causing the Mi-Go to overrun the dig site]]. So, the British army sends in a mechanised infantry battalion with some Rolls Royce armoured battle cars, and guess what the Investigators wind up doing...