I just got my Starter Set and apparently this is a newer version where pretty much even all your nitpicks are addressed: * the back of the box does *not* show a picture of the dice anymore - so we cannot complain that we didn't got the Q Workshop dice * the handouts and maps are now a *loose* collection of *single-sided* papers. Well done, Chaosium!
I came here to comment the exact same thing. Great to see them taking the feedback to heart. Now please excuse me while I go summon some unspeakable horrors.
@@timd4524 I suspect that Seth probably contributed a non-trivial amount to 7th edition sales. And it wouldn't surprise me if his reach and audience was a sizable minority of Chaosium's total reach/audience on social media.
Just opened the comments to say the same. I recently bought the (updated) Starter Set because our group wants to one-shot some CoC adventures. And I really like the one-sided handouts. Also, you can get them digitally.
I call them that as a pair, kinda like the Wonder Twins, but individually they were "The D-Ten" and "The Tens D-Ten... not that one The other one. The one with double digits. Yeah, that one. Roll that one, Todd," which was a mouthful.
Good news for those getting the starter set now is that the handouts are now one sided single sheets. I just got the starter set after about a 30 year break in playing. I recently saw the solo scenarios and decided to get back into CoC. Great videos Seth, even though I am commenting on one of your older ones.
Nice job getting mentioned in the booklet, man! You deserve it, your series hooked me hard and I can’t wait to start my first campaign with my friends.
I just wanted to say, thanks for all of the reviews. I personally don’t play CoC, but these reviews are entertaining on their own. However, it has made me think about being a keeper for my group of friends. Especially since I have a friend that knows the Cuthulu Mythos like the back of his hand And Jack is an amazing character. Watching some of your older reviews, they feel like they’re missing something without him. Which I feel just goes to show how much of an amazing persona he is. And congratulations on getting the shoutout. You deserve it.
Just as an update to anyone still considering this set...apparently, Chaosium is listening. I just received my set, and all of the handout materials are now unbound. They're still printed on the same high quality, glossy paper as the bound materials in the book, but they are now on loose pages, single sided, one handout per page. This will make it easier to make copies and/or distribute to players. Very nice adjustment on Chaosium's part.
The only issue with this starter set is that it should have been the first product they released after the KS not 2-3 years after the fact. The price point is excellent and will hopefully contribute to the growth of new players giving CoC a try. Great review Seth.
I would tend to agree with you, but it might not have been a good plan at the time depending on the projected sales. Given that were in the middle of a TTRPG boom the odds of these selling well is a lot higher than it was a few years ago. Hopefully whenever 8e comes around they release a starter set early on in its life cycle.
I liked rules in Starter Set. They are better composed then in Quick Start Rules and have more interesting options. However, one thing is still strange for me. Why did they forget to mention an Intimidate skill in the skill description chart? Since they stated about obvious skills like Drive Auto, I think such useful skill like Intimidate should be mentioned instead of Drive Auto.
I just got the Starter Kit today, I can confirm that the handouts are now printed on single sheets of paper, one on eage 1 sided page. They fixed that issue!
One thing I'd like to see brought back was the one page comic called *You Know You're Playing Call of Cthulhu If....* It was in one of the boxed rule sets in the back of the rules book. Keep in mind that purchasing the boxed set from Chaosium grants you the PDF. If you are a little clever, you can do a "PDF extraction" using cheap or even free PDF software, and then either: 1. Print the extracted PDF to your own home color printer. 2. If you don't have a printer, ship the file containing the extracted pages off to your local Kinko's/FedEx for printing to paper, but have them print the pages single-sided and you have each page on its own sheet and cutting them up is EASY.
Just to toot my own horn... re single Investigator games, my friend and I did a collection a few years back - Monophobia. You can grab it free (for 6th editiom) @ www.unboundbook.org
I recently ordered this starter set. Getting it was a rather more complicated affair. That story, while greatly amusing to me, would probably not be so entertaining to anybody else. The takeaway from it is that Chaosium's Customer Service rocks. I collect Starter Sets, Quickstarts, etc. I've had some good ones and I've had some bad ones. The Call of Cthulhu is one of the better ones. I agree with everything Seth said. The one standout is "Alone Against the Flames." As a story, it is serviceable. What makes it shine is the guided character creation. Even for an old gamer like me, it smoothed over getting a character up and running. For a brand new player, the target audience as it were, I consider that an invaluable resource. I would love to use the materials to kick off a full campaign. If the 7th Edition CoC core rulebook has the same kind of layout/presentation, I might even fully upgrade that too.
Not to sound like a jerk, but it seems to me that most of this stuff is available through chaosium's website for free. Character sheets, alone against the flames, quick start rules... all free online. That being said, I'm glad they went with some of the older stuff. I've certainly been enjoying reading through a lot of the older stuff, and i'm very much looking forward to running some of the adventures.
Yeah, the sheets, Alone Against the Flames PDF, and Quickstart PDF are free. If you want the old version of Paper Chase you can score one on Drivethru RPG for $3.95. If you want Dead Man Stomp and Edge of Darkness, the 6th Edition rules in PDF will run you $17. $21 for the PDFs for those scenarios in the older editions, which brand new players can then convert themselves. Hence the whole part where I said it was worth the $10 for the PDF of the scenarios alone.
@@SSkorkowsky I certainly agree with that. I have a bunch of older scenarios I want to run and making sure all the necessary conversions are made is kind of a pain. And the upgrades to the artwork make them even better. Love the videos, keep up the great work! The GM toolkit series has been very helpful!
Just found your videos. Really good stuff. It's funny I was doing TTRPG back in the Basic/AD&D days and after college kind of drifted out of it. Recently I got my daughter into Catan as a gateway drug and brought up D&D and she was interested so we got the starter set and ran through that. She loves horror and I was surprised to see that Chaosium was still around and the local game shop had the Call of Cthulhu starter set (I had always wanted to play back in the day but just never did). It's a really good contrast. Not that the D&D starter set is bad, but they way CoC takes the future keeper through a solo scenario that is specifically designed to show character creation and game mechanics in a nice incremental way before even getting to the rules is really amazing and surprising that other RPG games haven't picked up on that.
Even better than buying direct from Chaosium. Get your FLGS to sign up with Bits & Mortar. I got mine to. Now I can support my local store with my Chaosium purchases AND get the free PDF. Everyone wins.
Just ran the Edge of Darkness last night for some players (my second scenario after Paper Chase). The whole inaccessible Vermiis Mysteriis is such a strange and problematic wall to have in a starter set scenario. It became a massive focus to my players that it broke immersion and derailed the story (they ended up punching the head librarian in the nose and got escorted out of the library). Weird problem for a new keeper, and a really bad learning moment for new players (the only time I've seen rolls be completely blocked even on success for no explicable reason). My recommendation would be to allow them to find the book, but the almost complete lack of Cthulhu Mythos knowledge means that even if they can read it, the whole thing sounds so unbelievable and gibberishy that they can't make heads or tails of it.
Got this for Christmas and broke it out last night. I have a set of green dice with the blue extra percentile dice. I played Alone Against the Flames using a pre-built character, but I probably should have used a blank one. I survived, but just barely. I'm going to try it again when I get the chance. Lots of fun and a good intro for the game. I'm also looking into getting the other solo campaigns, since I had that much fun with this one.
... I will admit, I prefer the dice that actually come in the box as opposed to the Cthulhu Q Workshop dice. Not as thematic, but easier to read. Soon. Soon I will get this starter set.
Nice. I personally don't have a problem with back-to-back handouts. I never cut the ones up from any of my books or supplements. I print them out from the PDFs. But if that's your only complaint ...
I have very fond memories of "Paper Chase" which remains, without a doubt, my most run scenario in some 34 years of playing CoC. In fact, it's my hook for players who know nothing about the game or investigative playing. Excellent series, cementing my resolve to upgrade to 7th edition.
The issue with the handouts never actually occurred to me until I saw it here - possibly coming from years of never ever cutting handouts out from books for fear of losing them. Glad you also agree that this is a top-notch bit of kit.
@13:16 Take heart. Chaosium took your recommendation seriously. I bought this set two weeks ago (Feb. 2020). The handouts now come loose as a stack of single-sided sheets.
Just to confirm what @pferdebert wrote: I bought the Starter set, then came to your excellent videos. Anyways, the handouts are all single sided. On decent paper too, so easy to autofeed into my copier to produce handouts and cut up if necessary. Good to know the scenarios are previous classics. Very helpful info. Congrats on the shoutout btw. I got one in a Star Wars book, which feels pretty cool.
Well what a session! We all had a blast, only my 2nd keeper ing. Everybody felt the weirdness, isolation and alieness. The players were roaring with laughter with the Latin chant. They smashed their pow rolls and resisted the bargains and threats of 'it'. That was untill 'it' went back into the amber in the pentagram, red Jake came out of hiding, bolted up the stairs and reached for the Amber... Disappearing from sight and opening a dimensional hole in the floor... Where we are treated to a vision of the pyramids... where the missing family of Ross corners have been taken to, agreeing to the devil's bargain gave their souls for 'riches' and we are treated to their screams... Just as the sessions ends one of the characters jumps in! Only in Cthulhu. Thanks seth, you're an inspiration! (wrote this all in A&E!)
Tried to do something similar for a convention game, but ran into a large number of problems during testing. So now it sits on the back-burner of my "Ideas" shelf.
It doesn't seem like it would all that different from Clue, except for the names: "Professor Armitage did it in the MIskatonic U library with the Lamp of Alhazred."
After not playing this game for 30 odd years I decided to try it out again and after watching your review I bought the starter set. Yesterday my group and I started paper chase had a really good time. Thanks for the review and ps the hand outs are now on individual sheets .
Passed my credit rating roll. Totally picking up the pdf. What a bargain. I already own the keepers and pulp manuals and have run 1 game which went well. But because of the advice from the last video too will go back and check out alone those adventures. You are an inspiration, thanks seth.
I saw in the Comments that Wail of the Witch was another of the selected scenarios for your reprint/update idea. What are the other 3 that would have made up the 7?
I think they've only included the d12 to make the complete set of platonic shapes. :) Oh, and combined with an elastic band makes for a good projectile weapon against sleeping players.
@@SSkorkowsky that too, but we usually refer to it in the singular, like “can you pass the percentile die” or “do you have a percentile die?”, since we only really use them for percentile roles.
Congrats on living your dream!!! I liked the review and ordered a copy. I have never played Call of Cthulhu but I have read just about all of Lovecraft's stuff at least once and own a copy of the 7th ed. core book that I have been using as a game mechanic mine. Maybe I will actually try the game now! Thanks. :D
I just received my set today. Chaosium must have seen your review. My set came with blue dice and all the handouts are one sided ready to use. I'm so excited! I can't wait to play this game!! Thanks for the excellent review. 🐙😁
I love your channel, lose listening to you talk about all these different games, almost all of witch I've never played. Yesterday I was playing mansions of maddness at a friends house, and telling them how it was probably based on the call of Cthulhu games, so I asked them if any of them wanted to try out the game for real. They said yes, and now I'm about to run Alone Against the Flames for myself. (My first time playing Call.O.C.) The solo adventure from this kit. The starter set has been sitting on my shelf for about a year now unused since my online gaming group is normally 5e. But now I have an in person gaming group, I wanna try Call of Cthulhu on them. Now with D&D when I make a new character for a long running game, I like to pick out Dice for them, likewise I wanted to buy some dice for running Call.O.C. so t seemed like the perfect opportunity to buy your RPG Icons set. Or I guess... Jack's RPG Icons set. I'll tell ya how it goes :D
@@SSkorkowsky Well it felt like my heart was racing, edge of my seat, and almost burned to death. But I survived. A part of me wants to go back to figure out what the screeches were. I guess that is the cost of playing it safe.
Also, the Starter Box is less intimidating to the curious than the 7e core books. So that makes it a good way to introduce prospective players to the game without them immediately thinking they need to know everything out the big books. :)
Just bought PDFs for Starter as well as the 7th edition rulebook (keeper/investication) and keeper screen for good measure. ;-) Now, where do I go to buy friends to play with..... :-P
I'll be honest I got a big stupid grin when I saw that you were listed as a online resource (one of only TWO examples no less!) It's so cool to see good work recognized by the creators.
For what it counts, every source I've seen or heard calls the 2 digit D10 a "percentile". Dunno if it's the "true name" or anything, but that's the best I know. lol Depending on the price I can find it for, I might have to snag this just for the solo adventure and scenarios.
Great review as always Seth! Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, now I know what some of my next paycheck will go to. A "wee bit fraudy" for not having the same dices in the box as the ones they show on the box though... But not a deal breaker. They should also have made the handouts and maps on separate papers in the box (isnt that a big point with the box in the first place?). I always hate when they are printed in the books because either you have to ruin the book by cutting it out or bend it so you can copy it, and not everyone have the possibility to make copys, and if you can, the chance is it will be in black&white which is never as good as those in color. Its such a waste for the great work they do on them. I always loved that in the rpg boxes in the 1980-90s, they were always full with goodies like props, documents, maps etc. I would gladly pay a little more just to get that again. Hey, am I the only one that thought that it was Jack running for his dear life and screaming like a girl on the cover on "Introduction Book 2" the first time I saw it in the video? ;-) And congratulations on getting mentioned in the book Seth! Thats just awesome and well earned with all the great job and videos you have done. I also have that dream, and my name have also been mentioned in several rpg book over the years! (...among a couple of other hundred kickstarter backers, but hey, that still counts right?!). =P
I must say wonderful video to read along with 7e. Really easy system to follow. Now with that said you pretty much ruined CoCrpg . If I wanted to run the starter or any of the other adventures provided by the company, well thanks to you my group seen them. SO no surprises ever. What's that you say, the next section is for the Keeper stop tape if you are not. Lol who does we are all humans. Luckily I've been gaming since 1982 GMing since 1983 so I learned modules are just a blue print. I do tweek things to add an element of surprise. Just thought I'd say thank you very much.
New Subscriber here !! I am going to be playing in my first Call of Cthulhu game this upcoming July 6th ! Pretty excited about it , I picked up the starter set(just reading the introductory rules) and the Investigator's handbook.
No slam on the new art in the refreshed scenarios, but purely subjectively, I like the old black & white art...Especially the old image for 'Edge of Darkness' - it looks almost Art Deco, which rather fits the era of play.
See - that's the reason my SciFi-homebrew works ONLY on D12. You see, those poor dodecahedrons, the cutest of all the platonic solids, need some love too.
The Dr who named dice you speak of have a name of Greek origin . Deca-edres ( δέκα έδρες , theka ethres ) means ten sides . So it basically means ten sided dice .
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I just got my Starter Set and apparently this is a newer version where pretty much even all your nitpicks are addressed:
* the back of the box does *not* show a picture of the dice anymore - so we cannot complain that we didn't got the Q Workshop dice
* the handouts and maps are now a *loose* collection of *single-sided* papers.
Well done, Chaosium!
They seem to listen to Seth pretty well. Very glad I got the set with all the seperate handouts. And the Q dice are somewhat unreadable.
I came here to comment the exact same thing. Great to see them taking the feedback to heart. Now please excuse me while I go summon some unspeakable horrors.
@@timd4524 I suspect that Seth probably contributed a non-trivial amount to 7th edition sales. And it wouldn't surprise me if his reach and audience was a sizable minority of Chaosium's total reach/audience on social media.
Just opened the comments to say the same. I recently bought the (updated) Starter Set because our group wants to one-shot some CoC adventures. And I really like the one-sided handouts. Also, you can get them digitally.
Congrats on the shout out, Seth! Great review too.
you were the first one reviewing this box, thank you!
I call it the percentile dice
I call them that as a pair, kinda like the Wonder Twins, but individually they were "The D-Ten" and "The Tens D-Ten... not that one The other one. The one with double digits. Yeah, that one. Roll that one, Todd," which was a mouthful.
I believe wizards refers to the one with the 10-00 a d100
me too
@@SSkorkowsky - that was a hilarious.
Same here.
Good news for those getting the starter set now is that the handouts are now one sided single sheets. I just got the starter set after about a 30 year break in playing. I recently saw the solo scenarios and decided to get back into CoC. Great videos Seth, even though I am commenting on one of your older ones.
Man, I can't believe chaosium gave you a shoutout like that. Really speaks to the quality of your work.
boy sure wish White Wolf was treating the players as good as chaosium
True dat.
What's white Wolf been screwing up with?
Nice job getting mentioned in the booklet, man! You deserve it, your series hooked me hard and I can’t wait to start my first campaign with my friends.
I mean they have the right guy to point people too. You're why I play CoC
I just wanted to say, thanks for all of the reviews. I personally don’t play CoC, but these reviews are entertaining on their own. However, it has made me think about being a keeper for my group of friends. Especially since I have a friend that knows the Cuthulu Mythos like the back of his hand And Jack is an amazing character. Watching some of your older reviews, they feel like they’re missing something without him. Which I feel just goes to show how much of an amazing persona he is. And congratulations on getting the shoutout. You deserve it.
Hope they make something like this for cyberpunk 2020 at some point!
I’d buy that for a dollar
They are for cyberpunk red
Lets hope they make another shout out
Just as an update to anyone still considering this set...apparently, Chaosium is listening. I just received my set, and all of the handout materials are now unbound. They're still printed on the same high quality, glossy paper as the bound materials in the book, but they are now on loose pages, single sided, one handout per page. This will make it easier to make copies and/or distribute to players. Very nice adjustment on Chaosium's part.
Finally I can run Edge of Darkness without doing math
The only issue with this starter set is that it should have been the first product they released after the KS not 2-3 years after the fact. The price point is excellent and will hopefully contribute to the growth of new players giving CoC a try. Great review Seth.
I would tend to agree with you, but it might not have been a good plan at the time depending on the projected sales. Given that were in the middle of a TTRPG boom the odds of these selling well is a lot higher than it was a few years ago. Hopefully whenever 8e comes around they release a starter set early on in its life cycle.
Please don't show that creepy caterpillar anymore. I missed my sanity roll again!
Agreed, had to look twice (hard to believe the first time)
Both times a SAN check
You have an incredible channel. Love your videos, they're informative. Keep up the great work.
I liked rules in Starter Set. They are better composed then in Quick Start Rules and have more interesting options. However, one thing is still strange for me. Why did they forget to mention an Intimidate skill in the skill description chart? Since they stated about obvious skills like Drive Auto, I think such useful skill like Intimidate should be mentioned instead of Drive Auto.
@@UrsuxRex Indeed. Since I'm new Keeper, I didn't face such questions. Yet)
I just got the Starter Kit today, I can confirm that the handouts are now printed on single sheets of paper, one on eage 1 sided page. They fixed that issue!
Play Savage Worlds, Seth, then you'll pray to be able to roll the d12
the dice, I call that color "dirty dishwater gray". I love everything in the starter set, but those are the ugliest dice I've ever seen. lol
One thing I'd like to see brought back was the one page comic called *You Know You're Playing Call of Cthulhu If....* It was in one of the boxed rule sets in the back of the rules book.
Keep in mind that purchasing the boxed set from Chaosium grants you the PDF. If you are a little clever, you can do a "PDF extraction" using cheap or even free PDF software, and then either:
1. Print the extracted PDF to your own home color printer.
2. If you don't have a printer, ship the file containing the extracted pages off to your local Kinko's/FedEx for printing to paper, but have them print the pages single-sided and you have each page on its own sheet and cutting them up is EASY.
Just to toot my own horn... re single Investigator games, my friend and I did a collection a few years back - Monophobia. You can grab it free (for 6th editiom) @ www.unboundbook.org
I am here because of D&D 1.1 ogl and VTT leaks.... its time to switch :D
I recently ordered this starter set. Getting it was a rather more complicated affair. That story, while greatly amusing to me, would probably not be so entertaining to anybody else. The takeaway from it is that Chaosium's Customer Service rocks.
I collect Starter Sets, Quickstarts, etc. I've had some good ones and I've had some bad ones. The Call of Cthulhu is one of the better ones. I agree with everything Seth said.
The one standout is "Alone Against the Flames." As a story, it is serviceable. What makes it shine is the guided character creation. Even for an old gamer like me, it smoothed over getting a character up and running. For a brand new player, the target audience as it were, I consider that an invaluable resource.
I would love to use the materials to kick off a full campaign. If the 7th Edition CoC core rulebook has the same kind of layout/presentation, I might even fully upgrade that too.
Hold the hell up! You wrote a published scenario?! My players are gonna love this, you were a valuable resource for all of us
Seth's middle name is 2d6.
*edit: CONGRATS on the book shoutout!
Not to sound like a jerk, but it seems to me that most of this stuff is available through chaosium's website for free.
Character sheets, alone against the flames, quick start rules... all free online.
That being said, I'm glad they went with some of the older stuff. I've certainly been enjoying reading through a lot of the older stuff, and i'm very much looking forward to running some of the adventures.
Yeah, the sheets, Alone Against the Flames PDF, and Quickstart PDF are free. If you want the old version of Paper Chase you can score one on Drivethru RPG for $3.95. If you want Dead Man Stomp and Edge of Darkness, the 6th Edition rules in PDF will run you $17. $21 for the PDFs for those scenarios in the older editions, which brand new players can then convert themselves. Hence the whole part where I said it was worth the $10 for the PDF of the scenarios alone.
@@SSkorkowsky I certainly agree with that. I have a bunch of older scenarios I want to run and making sure all the necessary conversions are made is kind of a pain. And the upgrades to the artwork make them even better.
Love the videos, keep up the great work! The GM toolkit series has been very helpful!
"Hey, it's the Paper Chase guy." heh That's great about the shout out there. Congrats, man. 👏
Just found your videos. Really good stuff. It's funny I was doing TTRPG back in the Basic/AD&D days and after college kind of drifted out of it. Recently I got my daughter into Catan as a gateway drug and brought up D&D and she was interested so we got the starter set and ran through that. She loves horror and I was surprised to see that Chaosium was still around and the local game shop had the Call of Cthulhu starter set (I had always wanted to play back in the day but just never did). It's a really good contrast. Not that the D&D starter set is bad, but they way CoC takes the future keeper through a solo scenario that is specifically designed to show character creation and game mechanics in a nice incremental way before even getting to the rules is really amazing and surprising that other RPG games haven't picked up on that.
You know your quoted on the official Chaosium web site along with Bud from Buds RPG review
Yeah, I saw that. Living the dream! ;)
Even better than buying direct from Chaosium. Get your FLGS to sign up with Bits & Mortar. I got mine to. Now I can support my local store with my Chaosium purchases AND get the free PDF. Everyone wins.
I vaguely recall some creatures causing 1d12 SAN loss? Maybe not in 7th ed.
Or maybe it's just a false memory.
That’s going back, but does ring a bell
Out of curiosity Seth what are the seven adventures (or rather the other four) that made your list?
Just ran the Edge of Darkness last night for some players (my second scenario after Paper Chase). The whole inaccessible Vermiis Mysteriis is such a strange and problematic wall to have in a starter set scenario. It became a massive focus to my players that it broke immersion and derailed the story (they ended up punching the head librarian in the nose and got escorted out of the library). Weird problem for a new keeper, and a really bad learning moment for new players (the only time I've seen rolls be completely blocked even on success for no explicable reason). My recommendation would be to allow them to find the book, but the almost complete lack of Cthulhu Mythos knowledge means that even if they can read it, the whole thing sounds so unbelievable and gibberishy that they can't make heads or tails of it.
Any chance you're going to tell us what the other 4 modules you thought where the best are?
FWIW the earlier editions of the game certainly did use d12s, albeit rarely.
Got this for Christmas and broke it out last night. I have a set of green dice with the blue extra percentile dice.
I played Alone Against the Flames using a pre-built character, but I probably should have used a blank one. I survived, but just barely.
I'm going to try it again when I get the chance. Lots of fun and a good intro for the game.
I'm also looking into getting the other solo campaigns, since I had that much fun with this one.
Congrats on getting the shout out man, that’s awesome.
Whats that? Single player campaigns? Dont need friends? I'm interested...
... I will admit, I prefer the dice that actually come in the box as opposed to the Cthulhu Q Workshop dice. Not as thematic, but easier to read.
Soon. Soon I will get this starter set.
SETH! Congrats on the shoutout man! So cool, and you totally deserve it! Love your work.
Nice. I personally don't have a problem with back-to-back handouts. I never cut the ones up from any of my books or supplements. I print them out from the PDFs. But if that's your only complaint ...
I have very fond memories of "Paper Chase" which remains, without a doubt, my most run scenario in some 34 years of playing CoC. In fact, it's my hook for players who know nothing about the game or investigative playing. Excellent series, cementing my resolve to upgrade to 7th edition.
I appreciate the new art, but I kind of like the original art more, especially in the case of Paper Chase.
Oh man, not fitting on the shelf is a big deal. I think I'd rather not get the dice but have the box fit a standard book size.
Try 2nd ed Nobilis...
Wow, it must be amazing to see your own name printed in a product! :D
This is why i always come here for tips and tricks 🤩
I use the d12 for Colt .45 damage in lieu of the 1d10 +2. A .45 should be able to make a graze.
The issue with the handouts never actually occurred to me until I saw it here - possibly coming from years of never ever cutting handouts out from books for fear of losing them. Glad you also agree that this is a top-notch bit of kit.
@13:16 Take heart. Chaosium took your recommendation seriously. I bought this set two weeks ago (Feb. 2020). The handouts now come loose as a stack of single-sided sheets.
Just to confirm what @pferdebert wrote: I bought the Starter set, then came to your excellent videos. Anyways, the handouts are all single sided. On decent paper too, so easy to autofeed into my copier to produce handouts and cut up if necessary. Good to know the scenarios are previous classics. Very helpful info. Congrats on the shoutout btw. I got one in a Star Wars book, which feels pretty cool.
Congrats on being recognized. It is a nice but well earned gesture. Love the clip by the way.
The starter set PDF is now $0.99 on Drive Thru RPG
So I bought the pdf based on your recommendation, and am running the edge of darkness this weekend. Time to get spooky!
Hope you have as much fun with it as we did.
@@SSkorkowsky thanks! I'll report back 👍
Well what a session! We all had a blast, only my 2nd keeper ing. Everybody felt the weirdness, isolation and alieness. The players were roaring with laughter with the Latin chant. They smashed their pow rolls and resisted the bargains and threats of 'it'. That was untill 'it' went back into the amber in the pentagram, red Jake came out of hiding, bolted up the stairs and reached for the Amber... Disappearing from sight and opening a dimensional hole in the floor... Where we are treated to a vision of the pyramids... where the missing family of Ross corners have been taken to, agreeing to the devil's bargain gave their souls for 'riches' and we are treated to their screams... Just as the sessions ends one of the characters jumps in! Only in Cthulhu. Thanks seth, you're an inspiration! (wrote this all in A&E!)
That sounds awesome. Glad you all had fun with it. Edge of Darkness is a simple game, but I love the hell out of it.
Can we get that full list of six older adventures?
Has anyone done a Call of Cthulhu themed Clue/Cluedo board game yet?
Cool shout out, would have liked to see the look on your face when you saw it lol
Tried to do something similar for a convention game, but ran into a large number of problems during testing. So now it sits on the back-burner of my "Ideas" shelf.
What kind of issues?
I enjoy troubleshooting
It doesn't seem like it would all that different from Clue, except for the names: "Professor Armitage did it in the MIskatonic U library with the Lamp of Alhazred."
Nope, that’s lacking,
I imagined more
Tony I don't know what exactly do you want but there is a nice game out there named Mansions of Madness. Maybe check it out.
A well-deserved shout-out. Hear hear! 8)>
Wow Seth, congratulations on the recognition by Chaosium! That must be very satisfying. :)
Congrats on getting your name in the book, Seth! Can't wait for your scenario in the Kickstarter too!
After not playing this game for 30 odd years I decided to try it out again and after watching your review I bought the starter set.
Yesterday my group and I started paper chase had a really good time.
Thanks for the review and ps the hand outs are now on individual sheets .
The idea of playing an RPG by myself sounds really fun, is there anything else like that for call of Cthulhu?
They released a second and larger solitaire adventure called Alone Against the Dark. I picked it up, but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
Sweet, I’m having a hard time imagining talking my friends into playing this but Ive decided I’m getting the starter.
Passed my credit rating roll. Totally picking up the pdf. What a bargain. I already own the keepers and pulp manuals and have run 1 game which went well. But because of the advice from the last video too will go back and check out alone those adventures. You are an inspiration, thanks seth.
I think I've been suckered into watching an unboxing video...
Congratulations, you deserve it, I wanted to jump to CoC and you were the first option to learn.
Awesome luck. Just finished watching your last vid and this one popped up.
I saw in the Comments that Wail of the Witch was another of the selected scenarios for your reprint/update idea. What are the other 3 that would have made up the 7?
Congrats on the name drop Seth, you seriously deserve it!
I think they've only included the d12 to make the complete set of platonic shapes. :) Oh, and combined with an elastic band makes for a good projectile weapon against sleeping players.
Nice can't believe that you got a mention in the book
I've always preferred copying handouts anyway, then I don't have to worry about players damaging them.
always heard the 10’s dice being called percentile dice.
We always called the two dice together as percentile.
@@SSkorkowsky that too, but we usually refer to it in the singular, like “can you pass the percentile die” or “do you have a percentile die?”, since we only really use them for percentile roles.
Kinda think they watched Seth's vid and sent it to old Chaosium
Wow I'm 5 years older than you, man I feel old.
Congrats on living your dream!!! I liked the review and ordered a copy. I have never played Call of Cthulhu but I have read just about all of Lovecraft's stuff at least once and own a copy of the 7th ed. core book that I have been using as a game mechanic mine. Maybe I will actually try the game now! Thanks. :D
I just received my set today. Chaosium must have seen your review. My set came with blue dice and all the handouts are one sided ready to use. I'm so excited! I can't wait to play this game!! Thanks for the excellent review. 🐙😁
I love your channel, lose listening to you talk about all these different games, almost all of witch I've never played. Yesterday I was playing mansions of maddness at a friends house, and telling them how it was probably based on the call of Cthulhu games, so I asked them if any of them wanted to try out the game for real. They said yes, and now I'm about to run Alone Against the Flames for myself. (My first time playing Call.O.C.) The solo adventure from this kit. The starter set has been sitting on my shelf for about a year now unused since my online gaming group is normally 5e. But now I have an in person gaming group, I wanna try Call of Cthulhu on them.
Now with D&D when I make a new character for a long running game, I like to pick out Dice for them, likewise I wanted to buy some dice for running Call.O.C. so t seemed like the perfect opportunity to buy your RPG Icons set. Or I guess... Jack's RPG Icons set. I'll tell ya how it goes :D
Hope you have a blast with Call of Cthulhu as much as we have.
@@SSkorkowsky Well it felt like my heart was racing, edge of my seat, and almost burned to death. But I survived. A part of me wants to go back to figure out what the screeches were. I guess that is the cost of playing it safe.
I'm sold! Getting ready to place my order,
I just noticed your background library image is from The House on The Rock.
I've never been happier for someone who didn't even know I exist haha I'm all choked up for you, Seth. Congratulations on the shoutout man!
I honestly like the old art better at 11:45
Also, the Starter Box is less intimidating to the curious than the 7e core books. So that makes it a good way to introduce prospective players to the game without them immediately thinking they need to know everything out the big books. :)
Just bought PDFs for Starter as well as the 7th edition rulebook (keeper/investication) and keeper screen for good measure. ;-) Now, where do I go to buy friends to play with..... :-P
I'll be honest I got a big stupid grin when I saw that you were listed as a online resource (one of only TWO examples no less!)
It's so cool to see good work recognized by the creators.
For what it counts, every source I've seen or heard calls the 2 digit D10 a "percentile". Dunno if it's the "true name" or anything, but that's the best I know. lol
Depending on the price I can find it for, I might have to snag this just for the solo adventure and scenarios.
Would love to know the list of seven that you did with Pookie!
Sounds like an idea for a video
"Noodly Appendage" 😲😁😂🤣
That's what she said...
All hail Flying Spaghetti Monster!
AWESOME AWARD granted! Great review, and congratulations on getting a mention, you DO deserve it.
Great review as always Seth!
Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, now I know what some of my next paycheck will go to. A "wee bit fraudy" for not having the same dices in the box as the ones they show on the box though... But not a deal breaker.
They should also have made the handouts and maps on separate papers in the box (isnt that a big point with the box in the first place?). I always hate when they are printed in the books because either you have to ruin the book by cutting it out or bend it so you can copy it, and not everyone have the possibility to make copys, and if you can, the chance is it will be in black&white which is never as good as those in color. Its such a waste for the great work they do on them.
I always loved that in the rpg boxes in the 1980-90s, they were always full with goodies like props, documents, maps etc. I would gladly pay a little more just to get that again.
Hey, am I the only one that thought that it was Jack running for his dear life and screaming like a girl on the cover on "Introduction Book 2" the first time I saw it in the video? ;-)
And congratulations on getting mentioned in the book Seth! Thats just awesome and well earned with all the great job and videos you have done.
I also have that dream, and my name have also been mentioned in several rpg book over the years! (...among a couple of other hundred kickstarter backers, but hey, that still counts right?!). =P
Picked this up over the weekend and noticed the shoutout. Pretty rad!
It would be awesome if Jack the NPC was a potential premade character
Does that mean that you are now able to roll for an increase to your Mythos skill? (Not mentioning the insanity is intentional.)
Just picked it up. I love the solo adventure; I’ve played it thrice with different outcomes- well written and highly entertaining!
just got this package on Amazon,
the dice are green and 1 blue
the handouts are individual sheets now.
I remember that illustration from Paper Chase! I loved it. However, the modern one is more subtle.
Congrats on the shoutout
I have used a d12 exactly one time in my experience
I must say wonderful video to read along with 7e. Really easy system to follow. Now with that said you pretty much ruined CoCrpg . If I wanted to run the starter or any of the other adventures provided by the company, well thanks to you my group seen them. SO no surprises ever. What's that you say, the next section is for the Keeper stop tape if you are not. Lol who does we are all humans. Luckily I've been gaming since 1982 GMing since 1983 so I learned modules are just a blue print. I do tweek things to add an element of surprise. Just thought I'd say thank you very much.
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I am going to be playing in my first Call of Cthulhu game this upcoming July 6th ! Pretty excited about it , I picked up the starter set(just reading the introductory rules) and the Investigator's handbook.
Welcome to Call of Cthulhu! Hope you all have a blast on the 6th.
No slam on the new art in the refreshed scenarios, but purely subjectively, I like the old black & white art...Especially the old image for 'Edge of Darkness' - it looks almost Art Deco, which rather fits the era of play.
Wow... so the original American version of the book is hard cover... I wish they made Japanese version, which I own, a hard cover...
See - that's the reason my SciFi-homebrew works ONLY on D12. You see, those poor dodecahedrons, the cutest of all the platonic solids, need some love too.
The Dr who named dice you speak of have a name of Greek origin . Deca-edres ( δέκα έδρες , theka ethres ) means ten sides . So it basically means ten sided dice .