Greatest Call of Cthulhu Game
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ม.ค. 2021
- Don’t forget to subscribe if you like my rantings!
Learn more about my tabletop game company, Petersen Games. We publish RPG content and board games for hobbyists and casual players. petersengames.com/
Explore more TH-cam video content from me and my team: / @petersengames
Join the conversation!
Facebook / petersengames
Instagram #petersengames
Twitter / sandyofcthulhu
PG Twitter / petersengames
If you want to learn what we’re up to each week, then subscribe to my newsletter here: petersengames.com/newsletter-s...
You can always purchase games and books from my website: petersengames.com/ or my Amazon Store: www.amazon.com/s?marketplaceI...
Finally, many thanks to my patient production team for helping turn my somewhat bizarre imaginings into reality!
- Lincoln Petersen, Producer
- Edgar Munguia, Editor - บันเทิง
This is wonderful. Between Random Guy, the Personal Secretary's secret goal, and the off-the-rails escalation... just, wow.
It was astounding at th etime. We all talked about it for years after.
Maybe the real cosmic horror is the friends we made along the way.
Perhaps the random guy was an aspect of Nyarlathotep
.
I'd be interested in hearing the Coup story of Chaosium.
That was the best war story I've ever heard! I laughed so hard at the scene towards the end where the airplane pilot ran away! Pure gold!
Thanks for sharing that Sandy!
I only wonder what that scenario Greg intended to run was all about.
we never found out.
Fun video! Sometimes the players are the worst part of the adventure- but as long as everyone had fun
I have learned that Dungeon Masters as players will often make hell for you.
These coups sound interesting! any chance on a video on those?
Yeah, I hope we someday hear what that was about.
Was trying to figure out why Larry DiTillio's name seemed familiar although I didn't remember his RPG work. Looked on t'internet and... Bablyon 5!
Oh yeah, I've had games go like that...
Fantastic story. The 'Random Guy' photo looks like one of the cast of the Circus of Horrors that we saw several times (:
When you mentioned Ken Rolston I started muttering to myself "oh no" repeatedly, while giggling maniacally.
I once had the pleasure of playing in a game with you and Larry at a convention. it went very much like the game you described here except we ended up being killed by an invisible swinging ball/blade in an open field and our very first encounter. I haven't laughed so hard since. Afterwards we went across the street to Denny's and the waitress could not stop staring at Larry's t-shirt, which was understandable since it had three arm holes. I think this was in the '80s or early 90s. It was a pleasure meeting you in person as well as Larry who as you said was one of the funniest people I ever had the pleasure of meeting. it very much appreciated the fact that you guys are willing to play a game with someone you never met before and being so kind. to this day I wonder what the hell that invisible thing that killed us all was.
Hilarious story and some great slice of life of the early industry. You should write a memoir, seriously.
A lot of our Living Death (a Cthulu-esque D&D campaign) games ended this way. Dynamite, people drawing guns on each other, jumping out windows, doing far more damage to each other than the GM ever could
Love that types of games!! My best RPG games were as chaotic as this! Thats why I love playing Fiasco as a party rpg game.
Fantastic story. Loved hearing it.
These stories crack me up. Keep em coming Sandy!
I played a game GM'd by Ken Ralston and he gave all the players an autograph copy of Dr,
Drugs. Ken Ralston saved many people from the scourge of dope with this tome.
Sorry I'm so late to this party, thank you for sharing this story. 🙂 This sounds epic and hilarious.
Amazing narration, would love to hear more stories in the future!
Thank you for this; I love gaming war stories and this did not disappoint.
I am so going to steal a few ideas from this. Great story, thank you for sharing Sandy!
I've played in sessions like this. I'm pretty sure the common element between each one was alcohol. Lots of alcohol.
Nice job achieving this sober.
I promise I was not drunk. No one else seemed obviously drunk but I'm sure everyone else had a beer or two.
Brilliant. Who'd have thought !!!!
It’s hilarous! What a Great story - and the summing up conclusion is amazing 😂👌
That made my day.
What a great anecdote! Laughed a lot at how it got derailed...
I've experienced times when I prepped for days for an adventure and my players derailed it so hard... One instance, we were playing 3.5e Eberron I had just finished Half-Life 2, and wanted to do Ranvenholm-ish scenario... Created specific monsters that worked like headcrabs, made a map of the town, created a Cultist spellcaster monster that commanded the crabs, side-encounters with surivivors, and a lot of stuff (worked like 3 weeks for it) and the party got stuck in town because someone had stolen part of the conductor stones of the railway tracks, so they needed to cross the town, to get replacements from some deposit, get back to the train and ride it to their destination... When they saw the state of the town, they just ran out of town following the tracks and made a huge round-bout hike to avoid town and spent like 3 more weeks than planned to get were they were going (they got late and their objective was thwarted, but I got really mad that time losing all that work)...
Also, they had derailed the previous quest i had planned (that was about spying into the magic department of the University, because one of the characters was LG and was not okay on that... and since it was kind of the leader...
Man that party p#ssed me off... XD
I'm gonna be honest, I have a woefully incompetent grasp of the game's rules at best. I just pick some evil culty stuff, pick some cool monsters, and try to remember little-known unimportant rules like "turn order," "sanity checks," or whatever the heck "narrative pacing" is.
Somehow, it's going well and we're having fun, even with my pants-on-head handling of the game. I think we're just glad to have something simpler and different from D&D, and people seem to really like "use your brain and problem solving" over "roll a number." It makes them feel like they're a part of the story, and not piloting an 8th level warrior.
Thanks for making a cool game and not bowdlerizing Lovecraft like WotC did with D&D. Also when I told a friend that you worked on 7th Edition he was like "WAIT YOU MEAN THE DOOM GUY?!" That was funny. I wish you many long and happy years.
This is the best one shot I've ever heard....total derailment immediately 🤣
Hey we're playing Shadows of Yogsothoth now, almost done!!!!!
Almost on our way to the final confrontation in Cairo.
Would love a video on your thoughts on bloodborne. If ya haven’t played it yet, play it! If it’s not your cup of tea, an evaluation on the lore. Or not. All good. Your videos are great.
What a bunch of characters you all are!
Its kinda sad this video only has 5k views but you know your a good channel when you have no dislikes
Man, I wish Ken would write a book on his time on Morrowind.
I still personally believe that SoY has the most potential as a scenario. I plan to run it in a modern day setting.
Good to know that the games of the Old Masters are as gonzo as the rest of us.
I'd love to GM for you, because you know the ins and outs of the game, and for that reason you could help me improve my style of playing for Call of Cthulhu. You might not agree with my interpretation of the Mythos, but that isn't a real problem
you'll have to beard me at some convention.
Fair enough. It would definitely be an honour, but the whole virus thing needs to blow over, then I need to get enough money to actually go to to America for a conversation...
10.14 - A RANDOM PET APPEARS!
Way to engage with the scenario, players! 😉
Was this session the secret inspiration for the game "Fiasco?" Story wise this seemed much like a Coen Brothers film but even better IMO!
Omg, what an amazing career Ken had, say hi to hi for me please!
wish I could play in that group
You know how to tell when a Pen&Paper game was great? When you talk about it as if it all happened for real. 😀😀
I woke up in the middle of this video and I thought that story you're telling happened in real life and I believed you.
Hey Sandy, was there every a particular reason you guys came up with for why all of the various Mythos races and gods in Shadows of Yog-Sothoth are working so hard to raise Cthulhu?
It's probably my only real quibble with the campaign is that aspect and I'm planning on running my players through it as a sort of "farewell" for the campaign we've run for nearly a year now.
The only reason I've been able to come up with is when Cthulhu rises all hell will break loose as the sort of "masquerade" several of the Elder Gods have been doing to conceal those under their sway (shub-niggurath for example in Thing at the Doorstep with the
"pits of Shoggoths", the town of Innsmouth with its deep sea city) largely from other groups/cults moreso than anything.
We see in Whisperer in Darkness (although it may be a lie of the Fungi from Yuggoth) that these cults clearly come into conflict normally so why would some of them work together toward this singular goal, or at the very least why would all of these alien RACES work together or at least all these human cults be working toward the same goal?
The goals of the gods can be unknowable but the goals of the cults themselves? That's something we should know if we're running it.
It was the very first campaign we ever did for Call of Cthulhu so we had to start somwehre.
So in summary, Greg Stafford wrote an adventure, then players happened and the scenario was never heard of again.
Talk about the sun witch horror hybrids and the lost city lizard men
sun witch?
Mr.petersen can you give some insight on the second map of episode 3 of doom?LIke why the whole level a hand ?Was it design choice or is there some lore in there?
well obviously it was a design choice. i think it grew from the other level I did which was heart, lungs, and guts in the layout. More body parts semed cool.
A out of context question. Do you think that the crawling chaos in cthulhu wars could use a buff? Yes hes super mobile yes he has ways to generate power but 1 bad turn (losing nyarlathotep or being immobile for some time aka spending a lot of power on spellbooks) and hes out of the game. What do you think?
absolutely not if we go by how fun he is to play and his win ratio (which is high). Heck, he's Graywizardgaming's favorite GOO.
On the topic of great Cthulhu RPG's, any chance of a video or thoughts on Delta Green?
Absolutely not.
@@SandyofCthulhu Why?
Ken Ralston is your friend.
Please, make some more Age of Empires videos!!!
When did Ken have time to light the dynamite though?
with his cigar?
I paid for my copy of "Bad Medicine". 😅 I wasn't aware "Superworld" was a flop. Speaking of that era of Chaosium, I wish a PDF of "Ringworld" was available, but I imagine the license wouldn't be worth it for a reprint.
I loved Superworld and played it for years.
@@SandyofCthulhu All the BRP classics are golden.
Hey sandy, I'm wanting to go into game design and you're a huge inspiration to me. Could you give me some advice on creating my murder mystery/rpg game called "the slicers of Durham cathedral" about a Deep one splinter who attack suddenly around Durham cathedral in England (my local cathedral). The players operate as a group of modern MI5 investigators who are tasked with finding the cause of and stopping a series seemingly "inexplicable" ongoing murders.
A comments section doesn't really seem like the best way of getting it done. My first idea for you is give the players each backgrounds that give them important reasons to keep their intentions secret from each other. Example: one is a Deep One spawn; another is an agent of the Yellow Sign who wants to stop the Deep Ones, but is still evil; yet another is a rogue government agent who is trying to make contact. etc.
@@SandyofCthulhu that's awesome, thank you sandy.
xD
This guy has to play Bloodborne if he hasn't already...
So... is there any mythos involved in this adventure!? Well... there was supposed to be but why ruin the fun with something tangential to the plot and theme of the game, right?
exactly.
*Bad medicine for Dr. Drugs is a absolutely terrible name .*
*Zero parts of it says it is a Game thar was about super heros .*