I’ve got a plot idea that I’m working on that I’d like some help fleshing out. What would you suggest as potential consequences of a person being resurrected beyond standard zombie shenanigans? Sanity loss at the least certainly, but how much? What other effects do you think might occur?
Hi, im new into the call of cthulu world and roleplaying. Really loving the system and have just runned one session in foundry.
So now im gonna run another one shot the Hauting but doing a swedish version of it, because using the swedish call of cathulu ruleset.
So i want to share the things i made with Foundry compedium with Scenes and Characters. And a pdf with some small things, and i get helped of AI to do potraits and stuffs like that ( i know this a a sensitive topic but i having some dyslectic problem and not an artist 😃 )
There is a site DrivetrhoughPRG and i cant upload things, and was thinking of uploading and make a simple 1$ pricetag just for fun. (Change my mind, dont take any penny for it. just upload it maybe)
Is this okey, anyone have experience with sharing campings that is based on another adventure, and using AI and so on.
Want to ask before i do something stupid.. haha
Changed my mind, dont take any penny for it.
/thanks
I know some of the basics:
But are there more? What other "always available" investigation options existed in the 1920s?
Resources you might use to pick up the first strand so to speak?
Intending to run Scritch Scratch. I like the English folklore and the >!Green Man!< stuff. However I am still somewhat puzzled. I realize this is a sandbox and part of the fun is seeing what players do with it. But I have a few questions / objections. The answer to a lot of them probably is „just make something up, then“ and I will. But would like to know how other keepers ran this scenario.
Cleaning job: The Council wants >!to use Gurteen’s hospitalisation to get rid of the dangling rats!<. But they don’t tell that to the cleaners. Instead they say claim the clean-up is being done so the house can be renovated before the old man gets home. Why not tell the cleaners >!that the house is fine that it is about the stuff in the back? !<And would a contractor really turn a property upside down without the owner’s consent? Seems very unlikely. Also, it’s reasonable to assume that once things get weird, the investigators might want to get back to their client. Who are they exactly? Where do they reside?
Muscoby: How much of a ghost town is it? The pub and school are closed. But how many houses still occupied? What kind of people live there?
Appleford: The bigger village 20 miles away. Why should the players even think about going there? Their cleaning job is in Muscoby. >!The plaque on the closed pub is a hint, but it’s veery subtle.!< It is puzzling that a lot of the information the players can obtain (from the >!museum, the librarian, the pub owner, the rat catcher!<) isn’t even in the place where they are being sent. Usually sandbox adventures put all the clues and tools needed in the sandbox. Not this one.
Film crew: What exactly is the job of the film crew? Are they doing some kind of home improvement show? Or are they out for a supernatural angle?
I have been running a campaign for my wife, my buddy and my buddy’s wife for a little while, but my wife and I recently moved to a new country for work, so we can no longer meet in person. We’re all keen to continue playing, and so I’m interested in how you handle remote games.
I’ve run both D&D and Call for Cthulhu using Roll20 in the past - but because I don’t use maps for CoC, but do try to cultivate a good (and spooky) atmosphere for roll play and like to provide a lot of handouts - I’m not sure it’ll be the best option. Also, since my wife and I will be in the same room, and our friends will be in the same room, I’m not sure traditional online TTRPG tools will be ideal. However, since I’ll want access to my keeper notes etc., and to be able to easily share handouts, I don’t think just using FaceTime/Zoom would work either.
Looking forward to hear how other keepers handle remote players, especially if they’re in a similar situation to me!
So I've never used pulp rules. However, ive heard this campaign goes extremely well with them. I want to give my players the best experience, but also don't want to lose the atmosphere of everything being extremely deadly. Any advice?
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The common view of Call of Cthulhu games is that they always end with every character either dead or insane. However, in all the years I've been playing and Keeping (Keepering?), I've only actually had a genuine TPK a handful of times, and a number of those have been more like pyrrhic victories than outright failures.
I'm curious what everyone's preferred outcome is for a CoC scenario?
Outright success, with the Investigators victorious and the eldritch threat defeated.
A perceived success, where the Investigators think they have beaten the threat, but the players know they haven't.
Pyrrhic victory, where the Investigators sacrifice their lives or sanity to defeat the threat.
Abject failure, reinforcing the concept that there is no triumph in the face of cosmic horror.
I realise that the answer might well be "depends on the scenario", or "a mix of all four".
(Here is an audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIWrJ-j-QjQ . It was written as scenario seed for a Lovecraftian RPG).
Modern works drawing on Greek mythology usually make Hades (completely wrong) or Kronos (a little more) the Big Bad, but they forget about Zeus’s greatest enemy – Typhon. After defeating the titans and then the gigants, the Olympian gods had to face the main boss on the way to dominating the world – Typhon. Here is an example of its description: It was larger than the largest mountains, its head touched the stars. When he stretched out his hands, one reached the eastern ends of the world and the other reached the western ends. Instead of fingers, he had a hundred dragon heads. From the waist down he had a tangle of vipers (yay, tentacles!) and wings at his shoulders. His eyes were shooting out flames. In other versions of the myth, Typhon was a flying, hundred-headed dragon. In any case – appearance and stature worthy of the Great Old One. Typhon attacked Olympus, and all the gods except Zeus fled in panic. The supreme god took up the fight… and lost it. Only in the second duel did he manage to defeat Typhon, but not kill him – he only imprisoned him, hitting him with a mountain which is known as Etna. And volcanic activity is the result of Typhon’s anger, trying to break free.
Typhon equaled the lord of heaven not only in strength, but in fertility. His wife was Echidna, about whom Hesiod wrote: „She also gave birth to another creature, invincible, huge, unlike neither men nor immortal gods, in a hollow cave – the divine violent Echidna, half a sharp-eyed young girl, with beautiful cheeks, half a huge snake, a great and powerful, spotted, cruel – in the depths of the holy land. This pair spawned many, if not most, of the monsters found in Greek mythology. Their offspring were very diverse and strange, as befits the spawn of enemies of the divine order, including:
– Ladon, the hundred-headed dragon who never slept and guarded the apples that gave immortality,
– Cerberus – we all know the dog guarding the gates of hell… but not all of us know that, according to some accounts, it had not three heads, but as many as 50, it was also covered with scales, and it had a snake for a tail… so what does this have to do with a dog?
– Scylla – this lady inherited the most from the human, beautiful part of Echidna… at least initially, but eventually, as a result of various perturbations, she turned from a beautiful nymph to something like her siblings, becoming a six-headed sea beast, so hideous, according to Homer, that even the gods could not stand sight of her – she dwelt in a cave, from where she opened her mouth to devour the crews of ships,
– Gorgons – I mean, those ladies with snake hair, not monstrous bulls. Medusa was one of them – the story that Athena turned her priestess into a monster as punishment for being raped by Poseidon is an invention of later poets,
– Lernaean Hydra – a multi-headed monster with many reptilian or human heads. In place of each severed head, two others grew, and in addition, the main head was completely immortal – therefore, after chopping off the mortal heads, Heracles had to burn the stumps and bury the immortal, still hissing head underground. Hydra’s breath was poisonous,
– various other creatures, such as the Sphinx, the dog Ortus, the Nemean Lion or the Chimera.
Each of these descendants has the potential to be portrayed as an Eldritch abomination in its own right. To be precise – according to some accounts, the father of these creatures (and Echidna herself) wasn’t Typhon, but a monstrous, ancient (older than Poseidon) sea god, Phorcys.
How to use Typhon? Well, Typhon clearly has the potential to be a Great Old One, imprisoned by… Nodens? Some other Elder God? Weak gods of humanity? Maybe his cult is trying to free him from Etna? What if he succeeds? What might distinguish Typhon from many other Great Old Ones? I would recommend focusing on his monster progenitor aspect – if he manages to reunite with Echidna, they will immediately start spawning various blasphemous beasts in series.
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Saw this set of scenarios recently on line and wondered is anyone had any experience in paying them. Asking because they look interesting, but the books cost a bit.
My players are all fairly new to CoC and most of them are new to TTRPGs. First couple of sessions seem to have gone well so far, but for future scenarios I'm wondering what signs you seasoned keepers look out for to track player enjoyment and engagement beyond the obvious phone usage, causing undue chaos etc.
I'm looking for a quick oneshot scenario set in medieval times
I was searching on YogWiki but the Dark Ages scenarios page is rather incomplete and even tho I found some interesting positions I would still like to ask here for your help with finding one
I've been meaning to get into CoC for a while, and snagged a copy of the 50th Anniversary set so I'd have the basic Investigator and Keeper books. In addition to this I also got Pulp Cthulhu (Just seemed like fun) and Horrors on the Orient Express (it was on sale at my local FLGS).
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NOTE: I'm aware that I may be jumping into the deep end, without even a group to play this with yet, but I'm just excited.
I’m planning to run a CoC campaign coming from dming d&d and from what I understand campaigns work very differently. I’ve had a brief look and I’ve seen most people recommend running an adventure or two instead of a full blown campaign and I think that would work significantly better for my table as we don’t have loads of times for our games. But I have a few questions. Are adventurers like this typically linked (contributing to a greater plot)? How do you transition between adventurers? Am I right in thinking all of this or have I been lied to or miss understood something? All contributes welcome. Thanks!
We've been playing almost weekly for 21 months. 4 players. 6 character deaths. 2 characters converted by the Dark Brotherhood. 1 permanent insanity.
At this pace, I expect to finish China around Halloween.
Getting melancholy about it. This story has been such an involved part of my life for so long. What should I run next?
The only other CoC modules I've run were the old Innsmouth mini-campaign, and a couple of the classic older edition one shots. Also ran Curse of Strahd and Storm King's Thunder in D&D. I get to take a long break to prepare my next thing while one of the players takes over to run a Delta Green campaign.
Since I would like to write a scenario for Call of Cthulhu, I am looking for the best official or community-made adventures in terms of layout, organization, and presentation.
Which scenarios are the most effective at helping the Keeper prep and run the game smoothly? I'm particularly interested in books that use great structural formatting, visual aids, timelines, or modular node designs to make investigation tracking easier behind the screen.
Amateur, unofficial, or 3rd-party adventures are absolutely fine too
Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
To anyone who has seen the movie The Borderlands or Final Prayer (its American title)
This movie just seemed like it would make such a good Call of Cthulhu scenario. I also found the film to be quite good, and scary!
You've got your basic roleplaying hook, a miracle or mysterious event occurs at a remote church and the Vatican has sent you the PC's to investigate the claim to debunk or prove its authenticity. Insert scares.
Haha, I was wondering if anyone here has seen the film, what they think about it and what they may add or remove from it to make a scenario.
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I like to make mythos themed pretzels whenever I start a new scenario with my players.
So I’m in the early planning stage for a campaign I want to run in the near future where the BBEG is a seemingly ordinary man but he inexplicably has supernatural power that everybody has to do whatever he tells them to, even at their own expense, and when the players encounter him they will find out that they are somehow resistant to his effects as they have the ability to resist by making a Sanity check. Here’s what I’m thinking: if he tells them what to do, they make a sanity roll, and if they FAIL, they don’t lose any sanity but they have to do whatever he says, but if they SUCCEED they can choose to disobey at the cost of some sanity points. Is that good idea or should I change it up?