FYI, Roll20 is a website that hosts a bunch of tabletop role-playing games that are played online (a ka virtual tabletop). Roll20 is notable because it provides a set of tools (e.g., online dice roller, text chat, dynamic character sheets, automated shared maps with character and enemy tokens, triggered sound effects, etc.)
The Roll20 interface also includes integrated voice chat and video chat, but, frankly, their implementation is pretty pants, and in every game I've played on Roll20 (including Roll20Con 2017 and 2018), we used Discord instead for voice chat.
Compared to last year, Roll20Con 2018 was poorly managed (after an initial notification a few months ago, Roll20Con didn't follow up with potential GMs until a few weeks ago. Consequently, there were far fewer games. Nevertheless, I did manage to get into some interesting games, most notably "Forget Me Not".
"Forget Me Not" is a one-shot modern scenario for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition from the 'The Things We Leave Behind' anthology published by Stygian Press. This book is labelled "mature content" and boy is that an understatement!
Without getting into any spoilers, let's just say that "Forget Me Not" is really dark, even by Call of Cthulhu standards. It was interesting to play but it's also helpful to remember that, with scenarios like these, gameplay is more about the journey than the destination.
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