Friday, May 26, 2017
Prepping to run Call of Cthulhu for my local group tomorrow night.
Prepping to run Call of Cthulhu for my local group tomorrow night. Not only will it be my first time running the game, it will be my first time playing it any form as well! Using 3rd edition - I have the Games Workshop hardback - and running the Haunting (aka the Haunted House), which I gather is the Sample Dungeon (or Keep on the Borderlands) of CoC.
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3rd edition is awesome. it's what I started with years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe Haunting is good -- I changed up the ending slightly when I ran it many years ago, and it opened up into a fun little campaign...
ReplyDeleteGosh I've used that one so many times that I stopped bothering with the book somewhere along the way. There are a ton of simple ways to play up the house as malign--I like to put a hornet nest in a pantry closet behind some damaged wood siding on the exterior. The indistinct humming often puts players on edge and when they go poking around investigators get stung and end up with eyes swollen half-shut for the finale.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the tips, folks. Jarrett Perdue the wasps are a great idea.
ReplyDeleteHope you're first game doesn't end up with all the party blown to bits by their own dynamite. Dad's first game.
ReplyDeleteDynamite does seem to be extra-dangerous in Call of Cthulhu, for some reason...
ReplyDeletePart of the fun of using the Games Workshop 3rd edition hardback is the 1E DMG-like organization of the rules. The dynamite rules are surprisingly hard to locate. They may be in a later section of the book.
ReplyDeleteThe investigators defeated Corbitt. Only one casulty in the party of five; my wife's antiquarian fell down the stairs and then was stabbed to death by the dagger. And I used the wasps, thanks Jarrett Perdue!
ReplyDeleteJon Wilson I think that the ready availability of dynamite (hardware store) combined with the overconfidence that seems to leech right out of it and directly into PC brains makes it more deadly than many mythos monsters :)
ReplyDeleteCombine with a pump sprayer full of gasoline and a shotgun or two and you have a memorable TPK in the making (no creatures required).
For some mysterious, likely mythos-related reason, in games and campaigns I've run of CoC, dynamite draws a disproportionate amount of fumble rolls when it is handled.
ReplyDeleteIn one case, as a guy went to throw it at a dimensional shambler, it got snagged by the branch of a tree over his head and fell to his feet — and in making a Dex-check to possibly grab it and fling it away before it blew, he rolled another fumble.
Jon Wilson The only way that could be more beautiful is if the dimensional shambler turned out to just be a black bear, a vagrant in a shapeless coat, or some other red herring.
ReplyDeleteThe scene was pandemonium, and the characters had run in different directions to deal with different things, singly or in pairs. It was a helluva lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteNothing more fun than temporary insanity.
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