Call of Cthulhu: One in Darkness - RPG Review
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Review and Game Master tips for the classic Call of Cthulhu scenario, "One in Darkness." It's got the 4 Ms that players love: Mobsters, Murder, Magic, and Money.
You can buy the module here: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1...
I remember to have played that.
But it is long time ago.
20 years? 25 years ago? I can not remember exactly.
But I remember that it was me who, when we got one of those enchanted knives, took out a cutting board and placed the talisman at it, and then cut it to pieces!
I did understand from our GM that the senario did not take that into account, but he could not justify that the amulet should be more indestructibe than what it attracted.
Thus we indirectly managed to get rid of the monster.
Damn, that is clever. Great example of my mantra "You will never guess what the players will come up with." If my players had thought of that I'd have ended the curse on that player, but kept the monster running free. Definitely would have given the player who came up with that idea some sort of bonus to SAN or Inspiration as a reward for good thinking.
Thank you for making these. They are great quality reviews and also entertaining. Always look forward to seeing your videos that pop up in my notifications.
Thanks. I'm happy you're enjoy them.
💕 I simply love watching Seth's reviews.
The mechanics of the Death Mark remind me of the old 1950's film *The Night of the Demon* (a/k/a *The Curse of the Demon* ). I recommend watching it.
Read the original story "Casting the Runes" by M R James....very creepy!
I'm slowly catching up with all your video, especially the reviews. These videos are simply the best: simple, short, effective, funny and quite useful.
Great reviews, dude! Keep em coming :)
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As an avid and devout AD&D player you're really making me want to check out a lot of the other RPG games and systems out there especially Call of Cthulhu.Thank you for you great channel and videos.P.S. What the hell is Dweebles real name?🤨😂
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Nice. I have a copy of this book. I need to look more closely at the scenario. It sounds a little too complex for my players. They do love roleplaying though. I love the prop! Nicely done, as usual.
I just finished running this scenario with my CoC group and it turned out to be the best one so far. There were some great tidbits to our time with it but one stands out.
After one of the PCs had been sent the maker by Mav, the group decided to rest for the night together just in case the Black Demon showed up, which it did. They had an entirely too quiet session so far. Thankfully they had already visited Mav, made a deal with her, and had been given a knife. After getting one good hit on it, a player who discovered that guns don't work on it had an idea to throw a blanket over it to try and restrict its movements enough for the player with the knife (the one who was marked) to keep stabbing away. The demon actually failed two excellent rolls due to being hindered, got free once, only to be hindered again by the blanket while the marked player kept stabbing until it finally died.
After the demon's body vanished the marked player kept the torn up blanket as something of a lucky charm and became our group's de facto Linus van Pelt.
I see another review for a scenario from one of the classic early collections. Looking forward to seeing what you have to say about "The Pale God", the only one of them set in Lovecraft County.
After watching I was a bit surprised to not see any advice on how to deal with things the authors missed out, which I am going to take as a good sign.
I haven't run the Pale God yet. I LOVE the opening for it, but then after that it'll need some work.
If you are looking for props for "The Pale God", I posted a set of 1920s photographs, one of which is perfect for that scenario to my blog on the YSDC forum.
www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/480/entry-3124-a-small-collection-of-1920s-photographs-from-england/
Never heard of this one but I was sold with mobsters, murders & magic so I'll definitely check it out! Incidentally , don't you live in Texas? Everything ok?
We're fine here. I'm about 300 miles from the coast, so the most we've had is some light rain. But thanks for checking.
Seth Skorkowsky glad to hear you're all ok :)
Hoping to use this in a campaign I'm about to start running... Planning to run a few wee "one off" adventures tailored to each character to break up the overall arc so that the players won't necessarily know where the main story lies (e.g. Pickman's Student will be triggered by the Artist PC, Dead Man's Stomp will be triggered by the jazz musician, and the Westchester House will be linked to the fraudulent psychic)... This one I'm looking at adding an additional death, a seedy banker who laundered money for various gangs... The seedy banker being a friend of the banker character, still a work in progress, and hopefully will end better than last campaign when the party burned London to the ground when they decided to literally fight fire with fire, and summon Cthugga
The idea of this demon being a lesser form of Nyarlathotep gave me a great idea for incorporating this game idea into a campaign by using it as a springboard for a follow-up campaign. Picture this; The PCs go through a game, be it murder investigation or globe-trotting adventure that is tied to the plots and machinations of Nyarlathotep, ending with a climactic showdown in Thoth's Dagger, where the PCs destroy the evil presumably forever.
Then comes a generations-long gap. Jump to like the 60s, 70s or maybe even modern day. A quiet, quite pedestrian police procedural game suddenly takes a dark turn, when murders involving people that were previously mailed this triangular leather necklace start cropping up. The story ends with them fighting this lesser form of Nyarlathotep and while the players may at first not find it out, it's the beginning of foreshadowing the return of this eldritch king. Soon enough, they begin digging deeper, finding the chronicles, journals and tomes of their old investigators as more signs of this eldritch horror begin to emerge (Maybe use stories like Mister Corbitt, swapping Yog-Sothoth with Nyarlathotep) and pretty soon, they find themselves working with a secret agency hell bent on stopping this horrible scourge on humanity, ending with a climactic, finalie-fied version of "Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Me Away".
It could a cool idea for a long-running campaign spanning 2 time-periods. Maybe you could even stretch that out to 3 campaigns, using something like CoC Icarus or End Times, depending on whether the party succeeded or failed to stop Nyarlathotep the second time.
AlluMan96 this idea needs to be given some attention
I'm actually writing a campaign for 5 groups to play that takes place across 5 time periods from roman times to Vikings French revolution to israel modern day with delta green setting and western era. All trying to stop the same event across time and depending on how many victories or how many failures between groups they will succeed or fail
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That is a super neat idea. I like the idea of weaving smaller campaigns together rather than making one epic campaign. It gives the game more room to breathe, gives chances to refresh the players' enthusiasm and with big skips in time, gives you room to allow the ways the PCs are changing the world to more fully develop in front of their eyes. Generational shifts or completely changing time-eras are among some of my favorite ways of doing that.
Wait im confused who summoned the monster?
How long are your sessions usually Seth
Have you thought about capturing, editing, and posting on youtube some of your sessions?
My players and I discussed it, but we decided that since game days are our special time to just cut loose and be ourselves that a camera would probably take away from that, or cause one or more of us to start subconsciously performing for the camera. We might eventually do it for one of our 1-shot tries as a new game, but not for our normal sessions.
Hey, everyone! My players all have a Credit Rating of 09 (I made them start that low). Any suggestions on what I should move their Credit Rating up after they get the $40,000 reward? None of the examples for 7E work. Thanks!
Based on 7e asset chart, I’d say make them all Credit rating 49 and then have a “investigation fund” with any excess that they can use temporarily for travel expenses or equipment for a limited time
@@thegreenness5251 Thank you!
I this a Death Mark? Does anyone else want it or should I put it with the rest of my collection?
Hi Seth I'm a big fan of the videos you do :) I was wondering if you could help me with something I have just started to get into RPG gaming I have read lovecraft for a long time but never really got into call of Cthulhu until recently and have also fell heavily into cyberpunk 2020 as I didn't know an rpg that awesome was around the one thing I'm struggling with is with both games I don't know how to judge movement right I bought call of Cthulhu 7th edition and most of the cyberpunk books but when I have to use battle maps I don't know how to judge moving right or even not on the battle map distance and movement I struggle with would really appreciate any help the only experience I have with rpg gaming was some DnD when I was younger but mostly the TSR games like dragon quest where moving was easy was just you move 4 squares. so thanks for taking the time to read this and would love to see more on cyberpunk 2020 as there a lot of books id like to see your insight on thanks again :)
whats the black demon an offset of again?
It's a lesser avatar of Nyarlathotep.
+Seth Skorkowsky again thanks for answering my questions. i got really excited when i saw you replied. thanks for making this an awesome day! :D
Did I miss the part where the PCs actually find out about the black demon?
Never played coc but ive wanted to
7th Edition is great. But the new Pulp Cthulhu mod for it is even better. Highly recommend it.
Seth Skorkowsky ill have to look into it. My main issie is that not a lot of my friends are willing to play it so ill have to go out and find people relatively close by
If you can talk them into trying a 1-shot of it, here's the free Quickstart guide. It includes "The Haunting" scenario.
www.chaosium.com/content/FreePDFs/CoC/CHA23131%20Call%20of%20Cthulhu%207th%20Edition%20Quick-Start%20Rules.pdf
Seth Skorkowsky thanks! I appreciate that
Cover-up? Sounds like Delta Green!
The draw of lucre is a great motivator. Especially when players are used to not getting paid in the first place.
Wait is he all the extra characters?
3rd watch...where did my like go??
God I hated that guy!
Strange. He didn't hate you. Your Credit Rating wasn't high enough for him to care about you one way or the other. Just, please, don't handle the merchandise. That's for customers, not.... whatever it is you call yourself.