OSSR: Call of Cthulhu (5.6)

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:54 pm

Action Girls, haven't seen that in years.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:04 pm

...huh?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:39 pm

One of the references Frank and I made; "Action Girls" was a series of abysmally bad low-budget softcore action flicks, one of which borrowed off of Lovecraft's "Herbert West--Re-Animator."

Blicero · Post by **Blicero** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 8:57 pm

I have a rambling question/observation that I guess could go here. Some years ago, I read through some version of the Haunting or the Haunted House or something. The main thing that sticks with me was how little player skill was needed to solve the mystery. In that there were a lot of prompts of the form "Roll your Libraries skill to figure out that going to the library would be a good place to look for clues." Not all of them were that obvious, but there were a lot of them. The OSSR doesn't mention this sort of thing. Did other CoC adventures and actual games frequently play like this? Or was it just in this version of the Haunting because it was supposed to be a tutorial?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:11 pm

Depends on Mister Cavern; the Haunting is definitely a training wheels adventure, but in my experience the Keeper doesn't normally prompt the players as to what rolls they need to make, except possibly during combat.

kzt · Post by **kzt** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:20 pm

The way I've played CoC, outside of actual written adventures, the keeper starts the adventure going with some mystery, then decided from player input what is really going on. Which means that the one time he threw out something that totally baffled us at the start it went downhill pretty fast.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:09 pm

Have I mentioned that this is my favorite OSSR on this forum? Because it is.

DrPraetor · Post by **DrPraetor** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 7:14 pm

How did you not include this? You have failed at memes!

also, Frank you forgot to mention our teenage attempt to play Call of Cthulhu using the Rifts rules (which actually exists as a game, Beyond the Supernatural, but of course we weren't going to buy that)? You may have repressed that part because we had to brick you off in a slice of the basement. It was the only way to stop the screaming.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:04 am

I did finally break down and take a look at 7th edition, and I'm still trying to digest the changes. They're not the tear-down-and-rebuild that the game sort of needed, but at the same time they make the game less compatible with previous editions for very weird reasons. For example, they have decided that most attributes need to be multiplied by five, so that they're easier to compare to skills? I'm adding a question mark there because I seriously have no idea under what circumstances you would give a flying fuck about that. But it makes all the statlines look huge compared to the last edition, and it gets wiggier for attributes like Education or something. It's really weird. But none of the essential crap we've talked about has changed.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:07 am

Ancient History wrote:I did finally break down and take a look at 7th edition, and I'm still trying to digest the changes. They're not the tear-down-and-rebuild that the game sort of needed, but at the same time they make the game less compatible with previous editions for very weird reasons. For example, they have decided that most attributes need to be multiplied by five, so that they're easier to compare to skills? I'm adding a question mark there because I seriously have no idea under what circumstances you would give a flying fuck about that. But it makes all the statlines look huge compared to the last edition, and it gets wiggier for attributes like Education or something. It's really weird. But none of the essential crap we've talked about has changed.

When it comes to CoC rpgs, I really only have one question: can I play Randolf Carter? And I'm assuming that the answer is still "No, only NPCs can be sorcerers".

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Mon May 04, 2015 3:12 am

Know what's annoying? Trying to come up with sufficient words to articulate the idea that CoC's experience system isn't the most realistic they've ever seen.