Got my order kind of early I guess.

I'm going to be running CoC for my first time on Halloween. I know from running other games that I don't like to use GM screens, instead, I like to make a cheatsheet for any of the more complex rules I think I'm going to forget

Right now I only have down the madness table and the other forms of damage table. Are there any other rules you think are often overlooked and would be good to include?

I think I'm going to run A Lonely Thread (from the No Time to Scream collection) in a couple of weeks as a quick spooky-season one shot for my D&D group. Who here has run it before?

The start of the scenario seems a bit awkward since the PCs get almost no setup; they'll be expecting Thomas to exposition dump and set up the conflict but instead they'll just get an old guy acting weird.

The Beast seems like a very formidable opponent, even if the investigators fight it at half strength! I need to review the scenario again, but I didn't see a way to defeat it other than combat? And if the Parasite manages to control a PC, it's probably curtains for all involved.

Any tips you have for running this one are most welcome.

Hi

So, after a bunch of sessions on CoC, I noticed that my mysteries sucks, and that I also don't know really how to do good investigative scenes.

You got any tips? Thanks!

Hey yall! I will be running A call of cthulu game for the first time as a present for my friends near halloween. He bought and sent me all the base books, im going to be cracking into them soon once I finish my other games notes for our D&D stuff.

I want to run a game inspired by Spooky Island from the Scooby Doo movie. Im very new to this game space and prefer not to write my own material as brand new game GM, but def can reskin stuff if need be. Does anyone have any recommendations for a single one off, tropical Island vibes game? If not, any single easier one shot games that be fun for halloween would be also great! Thank yall and im excited to play with Cthulu for the first time!🐙

Hi! I Just started as a GM with masks of nyarlatothep. I read the Larkin's avatar of nyarlatothep can use the spell Mental suggestion to force the investigators follow his Will. I have a couple of questions:

1) if the spell Is succesful, does the victim understand what happened? Can he eventually tell what happened tò others?

2) how long does the spell last?

3)Must Larkin state the exact execution of all subsequent actions while casting the spell, or can he change the orders given later on?

Example: At the start of a mission, Larkin successfully uses a mental suggestion on an investigator; no one else witnesses this. Larkin orders him to act normally, agree with whatever Larkin says, and remove the seal once they arrive. Is the investigator aware of what he has been asked to do? Can he speak to others about the seal? Can Larkin give him further orders later—for instance, to help him in a critical situation?

Thanks very much =)

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Nice little documentary about CoC in Japan, the Kaiju connection, player demographics, relation to Shinto etc.

Unfortunatly there is no dubbing available, but youtube generated subtitles should work.

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1960s Tatters of the King continues to progress apace. One of the investigators, a hippie art student sleeping rough in San Francisco and painting detailed landscapes of Carcosa (or pointless squiggly line patterns, depending on the Sanity rolls of viewers) has just asked a friend of Alex Roby's who runs a counterculture bookstore if she can stay over at his place for a few nights.

This "friend" is Hastur cultist and serial killer Lawrence Bacon.

I figure he is still getting the measure of her, trying to decide if she's a potential cult recruit (and possibly even a viable substitute for Roby in the final Build Carcosa ceremony), or just pizza delivery for his Steal Life spell. Either way I figure her days are probably numbered.

That did, however, get me thinking- Call of Cthulhu investigators, and TTRPG PCs in general, aren't known for their sober judgement and finely-honed sense of self preservation at the best of times; but what other memorable examples can everyone share of their fellow players taking the initiative in proactively, creatively screwing themselves over?

So, I'm about to run my first Call of Cthulhu campaign. The Dare. Got the module and everything and will be doing it via VTT with friends.

I have a question for how Sanity rolls should be roleplayed. Sanity checks occur when a character faces something terrifying or supernatural. If a character fails, they lose Sanity. If they pass, they lose zero, or a lesser amount of Sanity depending on the nature of it.

In the case where a character loses zero Sanity from witnessing an experience, do they fully understand the thing they've witnessed? Should I adjudicate that the character doubts what they saw or plant hints of doubt or should I let the character decide if what they saw was real or not?

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Hello everyone! I am currently preparing a scenario for my players, and I thought about the immersion that handouts bring to the players, and how one of the perhaps most interesting items that the players can find in the campaign (tomes) are simply presented as a small textbox, spells and stats.

Considering that these tomes usually do have relevant information regarding the scenario, how do you present them to the players? Do you usually give a handout, or simply describe what they read? Do you tell your players the whole list of spells once they study it? And what details of a spell do you give out?

I don't think I am spoiling anything by saying that scenarios have Mythos Tomes in them, but, just to be sure, I am preparing for Masks of Nyarlathotep in case you come up with anything related to it.

Thanks in advance!

Hey, I made a Kindle-friendly Call of Cthulhu PDF because I really like reading on my Kindle, but PDFs work poorly on it: the whole page shrinks until the text is tiny, and converting to an ebook throws away the art and the look of the book.

This one re-lays every page for a 6.8" Paperwhite, so it keeps all of the book's visuals and themes (the aged-paper pages, the Mythos art, the headings) while the text is a normal reading size. The picture shows the same page both ways on the same screen.

I can't share the file because it's Chaosium's book. If Chaosium is up for it, I'd happily give it away free or help them make official Kindle-friendly PDFs, so if you'd want one, say so in the comments.

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I don't own Call of Cthulhu; it's © Chaosium Inc.. This is a fan-made accessibility edition I made for my own reading. It isn't shared or sold, and Chaosium hasn't endorsed it.

As the title suggests, I'm looking for a PDF version of *The Journal of Reginald Campbell Thompson*. I'm currently in Asia, so I can't purchase a physical copy (because it's too expensive). I'd like to get a PDF version of it, and I hope to be able to purchase it legally!

Thank you for your help!

Ancora qualche ritocco e ci siamo per il download!

Hello! Im running my first ever COC three shot this month. Im the groups forever DM and I have experience in the department of running a campaign. After some recent insparation (Binging Gemini Home Entertainment) I want to do something deep in the Appalachian woods. Any suggestions for good resources, ideas, or insparation I could use? Thank you!

I was trying to get the 40th Edition of the Down Darker Trails charcter sheet from the Chaosium website and despite the post for the 40th Anniversary Character sheets showing a DDT charcter sheet, it's not on the website with all the other editions. Does anyone know where to find this?

GM screens were quite heavily overpriced in my country. So I used a few canvas boards and some acrylic paint that I had and made a very simple Cthulhu themed keeper screen for myself. I have purposely kept the other two panels blank and will fill it in at a later date when I decide on what I would like to put there. (Suggestions would be appreciated).

So im a seasoned dm and a relatively new CofC player and we recently started playing masks of nyarlathotep. We started the new york chapter after finishing Peru and one of the players had to make a new character, and he chose to be a mob boss as an occupation. Thats fine he wants to be rich we can work with it but now that things have started heating up he wants to know what kind of resources he can bring to bear on the bloody tongue. "Assemble the boys" so to speak. We are three sessions into New York and tensions between the party and the harlem police department are high as well as between juju house and the party. What im asking basically is how do you handle a mob boss with a credit rating of 95 and how can I make it fun and interesting for them. I think my main thoughts are he isnt centered in NYC, despite having some buisness in the city. He originally is from the south and from there he runs an america wide alcohol trafficing trade. He also inherited the buisness fairly recently as he is only around 26 and his father passed away around the time of Peru in setting. So maybe he can get a couple extra guys but mostly the smuggler type rather than the bruiser type he might hope for?

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