Game Geeks #34 Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium Inc.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Game Master Kurt Wiegel reviews and educates viewers on role playing games. In episode #34 Kurt reviews Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium Inc. chaosium.com/
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I ran a Delta Green game where the background music was the Twin Peaks soundtrack. Perfect, a fairly quiet background sound, with disturbing undertones throughout. Also the game was about a darkness corrupting a town, but where everything seemed normal at first.
Superb review, and like the few other reviews by yourself, very concise and energetic. Thanks !
Several years ago we played in a campaign where we were a film crew in the 1930s shooting a horror film. What a blast! The actors were getting eaten and the director tells the camera man "Keep rolling!". Great game.
My copy is coming in this April im so exited! I will have to review it myself on youtube if I like it that much.
Great review, can wait to see what you make of the new BRP book when it comes out.
Same hear I went from D&D to CoC and I have to say that there was no comparison. Call of CthulhuIs by far the better of the two and catapulted me into the whole horror RPG genera. Good to see it get the respect it deserves.
I played in a great Call of Cthulhu game years ago. Instead of normal investigators, we all played children living in an orphanage. Pretty cool game.
Yes, thank you. It was excellent. I want that book now.
Have you done an episode that covers the Chaosium system (Basic Roleplaying I think it's called)?
thanks for my birds when i was doing the "Color Out Of Space" the birds jumped on the ranches roof making some rustles one of my freinds jumped from his chair and turned around like "WTF WAS THAT!?!" we laughed so much but its a really good game i recommend buying it
Fell in love with 5th ed ... Found a used copy in a second hand bookshop
Than I never found again... Hmmmmm
Do try it, if you have played RPGs before this is a breath of fresh air, or horrific air if you want to look at it that way!
All you need is the Call of Cthulhu horror roleplaying sixth edition game book, it has everything you need to create your first few sessions. Once you have that i can reccomend Mansions Of Madness, chaosium inc.
It has some great scenarios in it and some fantastic thrills and chills to scare even the most hardened player! So have fun dude.
I picked up Call of Cthulhu the 6th edition a while ago, definitely something to pick up!
this is my favorite roleplaying game! even if it is my second one. 1st being d&d 4e. big mistake. although ive only gmed i really want to play a pc. being a gm is very fun as you know what that shadow around the corner is when the player doesnt
You should try out CthulhuTech! Its an awesome and interesting take on the HP Lovecraft stories and placing them in a futuristic and anime like setting! Yes all the original tropes are there such as the investigators along with the infamous sanity meter! Now mix that with your character becoming insane while piloting a gigantic Mecha would be a frightening thing for the other players to experience and attempt to deal with.
If somone is already familiar with the mythos then you build the suspense in other ways, honestly i played with people who were already very familiar with it but i still managed to have them gripping their seats. You can try long pauses before describing what they see or what happens, i find that banging the table to make them jump when they get attacked, is a good tool as well but dont overuse it.
is this the 6th edition, 5.5 or what? I do like this cover more than the blue with one the ship
What do you think of Delta Green?
where exactly can you buy it?
Hey, can you please do a review of Atomic-Age Cthulhu? Its a cool 1950s setting for Call Of Cthulhu that throws in an atomic element for the horror roleplaying game! :D
Hey, exactly HOW POWERFUL is magic in that game? I'm trying to figure out if my character idea would work. Simply put, he's a batshit insane cultist-ish person whose arms are trapped inside a straightjacket- he moves the armflaps to simulate how he would actually move them. He manipulates objects by levitating them with his mind, so long as they're within what WOULD be arms reach of him.
Would such an awesome character work out?
i always wanted to play this
The terror in this game comes only partially from the mythos, the other is the GM's ability to describe the scene, i find COC needs alot more description than you walk into a room, its dark.
Need to describe what they smell, what they feel, what the air is like etc. Also blood and gore descriptions are always good!
Get the 5th Edition rulebook, like 5.00 on ebay. Can't beat that.
What's cool about this game is that all occult phenomena can be linked to something horrible.For ideas watch the following Mythos feeling films: The Thing, Children of the Corn, Dagon, Rosemary's Baby,The Fog, City of the Living Dead,
ok you can buy it from amazon or chaosium's site.
Its based on the short stories by HP Lovecraft a horror writer in the 1920s.
He dealt with horrors unimaginable, creatures from beyond the ether of space that seeped down to our planet millions of years ago. The stars changed and now they sleep eternal. You play investigators that deal with the supernatural events that unfold around you connected with these creatures and ones for more terrible...
Yes!!!!!
Magic is incredibly powerful, you would have to talk it over with your keeper but magic in coc isnt just known, its learnt. You must follow sets of instructions laid down by other mythos users.
For instance if you wanted to learn the spell levitate, you would have to have either found it in a mythos grimoire, or have learnt it from somone who already knows it.. Which your cultist probably would have!
However all magic costs both magic points and sanity to cast, make sure you have a lot of power!
There's some 20's background, at least enough to play, it doesn't have to be so precise, just impressions of the era. Lovecraft's fiction wasn't exactly rife with 20's background flavor either. Scarce were references to prohibition, and less to jazz and flappers or the vernacular. But it has rules for modern era play if you don't wanna go that route.
Anyone have a link to his review of Trail Of Cthulhu please?
I still proudly own that first boxed set. :)
I remember one of my characters had the most mundane death in this game.... fell from a really high tree and broke his neck. Otherwise it was awesome.
@aksquash well remember that cthulu isnt the ONLY god in CoC theres more like Shub Nigurrath or Yog Sogoth.
Some tips i recommend if your the keeper:
1. When you describe a death describe it following the setting of the god in your mind:
Y'glonac: We find mr harborson on his bed with a frozen shriek and a pale face his shirt was ripped and there was a smell of decayed blood there are bite marks all over his body still dripping wet red blood...and on and on
Describing this will get moar attention
Call is awesome game: simple mechanics, railroady, the monsters will win and you will die or go insane. But that just leaves you to freely soak up the horror atmosphere, because since you are going to die anyway....why not enjoy the ride? Do youself a favour and read the Lovecraft mythos. It really adds another dimension to the game.
confirmed,this its like reading a good book,like a adventure of indiana jones.i think if the last indiana jones it was based in this game,probably it wold be mutch more interesting.
Fantastic game, ive just started running one, its fantastic i just love scaring the shit out of my players!
I think your character could work out, but working him in to the episodes might be difficult, your keeper would have to find a good way to work him in, you could be a master of levitate at your own strength, so you can pick up, throw, hold stuff equal to your investigators strength, he could have it so that you only spend magic points and not sanity to cast. It would be harsh if every time you wanted to pick stuff up you have to spend 1d6 pionts of sanity!
hmmm the mystery... yes. But that doesnt matter when you have the suspense nailed!
Plus you dont always have to do what the mythos says, there are pleanty of ways you can chop and change it, remember as the GM its your game and you dont always have to adhear to the mythos.
Id say the 5th edition ruleset is the best, although i havnt played any of the others :-b
Well, of course its' rail-roady. Let's face it, that's what Lovecraft's stories are about - about the fact that no matter what you do, where you hide or who you defeat, there isn't just much you can do to change your fate.
More games need to be simple like this, too many rules can really bog down a game, although in all honesty, I cannot fully judge this kinda thing because I haven't role played much at all since I was in my teens. And to be further honest, I never liked fantasy as much as I liked drama/adventure and science fiction role playing.
Call of Cthulhu makes killing your carecters in brutal ways soooo fun.
KULT and IN NOMINE VERITAS, please!
I had some of the most fun of my 20+ years of gaming with this game. Unfortunately the game system is not very good. Yes it's simple, but it doesn't play very well. I like rules lite games (like Savage Worlds) and that is not the problem with this game system; it's the arbitrary nature of the percentage system that is the real problem. If I was going to do a Cthulhu game again, I would use another system.
Ya he has now
Playing with special rules for Sanity, the best I've ever had was a gratuitous pistol to the mouth after having to put down a team mate in Delta Green.
If it required real life knowledge in Latin the game would probably be even harder than it already is.
Jeffry Willis Yeah, good luck getting that film past the 30's Censor Board. LOL. :P Unless you're gonna Black Market Snuff it.
You could do research on 1920 to learn more about how life was and you could steady the other eras to beter understand everything.
Just a thought.
yeah its like £30 here so $40 over there
Some people were graduating on 666.
@TheCaptainLulz roll 3d6 sanity damage
240p we meet again
....or what passes as a face
Sanity is overrated anyway.