Well i Like this game too much. So much that I decided to work on a tool to create an atmosphere during the game. This tool is an Excel sheet that allows the keeper to launch mp3 files. I put all the sheets visible if somebody wants to play with it. Final version should have only one sheet visible, the others will be hidden.

You can play: History, Prologue, Clues, Objective, events, any type of attack, Traumas, and Mythos. So when the Keeper is going to reveal any of this cards, instead of reading it, he can play a mp3 file. He chooses the card and press the sound button. This will run the Media Player with the mp3 file.

The hard side is to create the mp3 files. In this set you have the "Blood ties" case and a pair of other things. The mp3 files are in spanish as it is my mother tongue, but you can create your own mp3 files for the perfect atmosphere.

Free MP3 files have been mixed for this purpose.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZGRPXMCU

I expect you will enjoy ...

well this sounds interesting but it is in spanish... and it did not work on a mac.

I am sorry it does not work on a Mac. I did it on Windows Operating System. Can you open the Excel file? When you press the sound botton, does not it do anything? In this case maybe the problem is with the path of the Media Player. This is one of the 9 texts of the macross to run the Media Player with the MP3 files (one for each button). Replace de bold text with the path you have in your computer at each macro. It should work.

Sub Sonidos()

Dim nombre As String
Dim ruta As String
Dim ejecutar As String

ruta = ActiveWorkbook.Path

ejecutar = """" & ruta & "" & Cells(13, 9) & ".mp3" & """"

lanch = Shell("C:Program Files (x86)Windows Media Playerwmplayer.exe" _
& " " & ejecutar, vbNormalNoFocus)

End Sub

Now I understand what you say. I issued the file on Excel 2010 and the other day I tried open it on Excel 2007 and I got astonished to discover that all expandable menus were removed ??? I think there are compatibility problems between Excel 2010 and 2007. Do not worry I will try to fix it with other computer with Excel 2007 installed. But untill then I upload a new version of the main file for Excel 2010.

www.megaupload.com/ Excel 2010 (Spanish)

New features:

When you press on a monster deck (abomination, beast or humanoid) it will choose a random card for investigator based on the selected weapon class, and a random card for monster based on the selected type of attack. The information of the cards is displayed on a empty card at the top right corner. This allows to remove these 3 decks and have more space on the table and to avoid cards sequences for players (I have played so much that I know all the cards, so if I attack now ...)

Erros and missing information:

Monsters decks were rechecked to chase erratas - fixed

A few card names were incorrect - fixed

Beast cards were missing - fixed

Mythos area did not work - fixed

Long time without saying anything. At the end I found a computer with Excel 2007 and reissue the menus. This Excel file should work for everyone. Please enjoy it

www.megaupload.com/ Excel 2007 (Spanish)

Audio mp3 files of the first version work with it. I will try to create more mp3 files.