You're a wonderful person, and you have made my morning. Thank you for providing me with a great laugh. Have a picture of my girlfriend. And have a nice day, sir!

Strangely, this is a CoC story that fits literally perfectly with the source material.

Man your guy must've been pretty goddamn unstable to begin with.

I'm trying very hard to not disturb the cat on my lap with my laughter, nor my girlfriend who is asleep.

My hand will require more than a hand, you know.

>hurr durr c wut i did thar

Anyways, how stable was he to begin with? What... What makes a dog walking on two feet so sanity-breaking?

So sanity breaking that he tries to CREMATE HIMSELF?

>>13050054
Maybe it's cause I've been awake for 63 hours or maybe it's the salvia I took but your post terrifies me, OP.

"He's trying to get into the cremating furnace, we gotta help him!"

"No, he can make it on his own!"

>What... What makes a dog walking on two feet so sanity-breaking?

>So sanity breaking that he tries to CREMATE HIMSELF?

TWO FEET... TWO FEET!

>>13050142
In the Cthulhu universe, sanity is a fragile thing.

>>13050160
Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I need to make a SAN check how do I mine for 4Chan roll function oh dear God.

>>13050142
>>13050116
Only trauma he had was from his time at the first world war.
That was story only though and it had no effect on actual stats.
I just rolled over 5 sanity ponts off my pool and from that I rolled the part that says short temporary insanity.
I got "Homicidal or suicidal mania".

Shitty luck, eh?
Pic related. Those guys were chasing my character in trenches when he had nightmares.
After the dog episode they were repalced by dogs walking upright wearing Pickelhaubes.

>>13050185
1d2

If it's two you go crazy.

If it's one you go crazy but less crazy.

How is that san breaking? Still funny story OP.

>OP gif

brb furnace

>>13050054

Jesus, what's the story on that dog?

A halfling Rogue tried impersonating a jeweller to steal money from his(the jeweller) account. Of course, he forgot that he was only 2-3 feet tall.

>>13050196
In the email field? Fuck it, I'm going to try and roll. GOD HAVE MERCY UPON ME, FOR DOG WILL NOT.

>>13050223
Damnit, the 1d2 was in the wrong field! Do I get a reroll?!

>>13050210
how does that get you killed?

>>13050204
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hNULmjid1g
>dog can reach higher than normal four legged dogs
superior dog will kill us all.

>>13050204
I DON'T KNOW BUT IT MAKES ME WANT TO JUMP INTO A FURNAAAAAAAACE

>>13050197
Looking at book the wrong way is SAN breaking in CoC

Just about everything can drive you insane if you fail your roll hard enough.

Hey guys what's goin' on in this thread?

>>13050223
Word dice before it.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY, I GET FIRST CREMATION!

>>13050247
Am I doin' it right?

>>13050197
Look at my gif.
Look how the dog just walks around with that stupid face signaling happiness.
Why is it happy? Because he realized that we are nothing but mammals that walk upright.
Just. Like. Him.
There is nothing stopping him from masquerading as a human.
Nor it is no longer shackled by fear. Fear that we, humans, are it's masters and thus control it's life.
What you see there is not a feat of dexterity.
It's a birth of revolution...

>>13050257
dice1d2

Third time's the charm?

rolled 10 = 10

>>13050277
nope

Fuck it, I failed the san check because I'm too much of a newfag to understand how to roll.

OPEN THE FURNACE. MAMA, I'M COMIN' HOME.

>>13050287
No pushing, there's plenty of gas for everyone.

>>13050261
THE HORROR THE ORROR

>>13050297
Alright, fine. I'll wait my friggin' turn. Now I'm going to see if I can roll a 1d2 properly, in death... The threshold of successfully being burned alive is 2. Here's hoping.

That's the weakest reason for a SAN check ever.

>>13050261

Brb, jumping into a furnace

>>13050330
space between the dice and the 1d2

rolled 2 = 2

>>13050342
SHAME FILLS MY BEING.

>>13050349
YES! SWEET, SWEET CONFLAGRATION! PURIFY ME OF MY NEWFAGGOTRY, AND TAKE ME OUT OF THIS CRUEL, DOG-DOOMED WORLD!

>This thread

>>13050261
>>13050332
IT WALKS IT WALKS
ON TWO TWO WALKS ON TWO AHAHAHAHAHAHA

ONE SIDE!! ONE SIDE!!!

>>13050373
I feel bad for that woman..whatever drove her mad must have been traumatising.

I need a way to incorporate this into a game.

At least it was only a short term insanity.

Just so we're all clear here...

A dog walking on two legs is sanity breaking, but a human walking on four isn't?

Guys... I'm not quite dead. And I still feel newfag-y.

Also, I accidentally a whole Hacker's Delight.

Oh, look, there it is. And there's me. Incinerated.

So how am I talking?

>>13050412
AAAAAH BIOSHOCK

>captcha: Courtneys that

courtneys that WHAT captcha?

>>13050412
Let's see...

You're in Rapture, so it must've been the Vita-Chamber.

Today's specialty: Ye Olde Fashion Way.

>>13050428
... You're telling me that I'm doomed to remain on this plane, no matter how many furnaces I throw myself into, or how many hazardous plasmids I ingest?

CURSED for ETERNITY, with the knowledge that the dogs are going to OVERTHROW THE NATURAL ORDER?

>>13050412
>Hacker Delight
Sunddenly I'm imagining System Shock + Bioshock.

>>13050451
You are now replacing every instance of 'dog' with 'dong' subconsiously.

>>13050466
FFFFFFFFFFFFF-

FREEEEUUUUDDDDDD

>>13050455

>>13050412
>Bioshock

oh god, i am so bad at this game
I've gotten to this place (not very far in) where you're walking in some water, it's pretty dark, and at the opposite wall you see a shadow doing stabby motions

so, here i calm down, think 'oh well, it might be creepy, but just keep your powers ready and it will all be fine'

then the lights are turned off

esc > quit game > never play it since
this was several months ago :(

rolled 6 = 6

am i doing SAN check right yet?

>>13050489
That guy runs away when you turn the corner, by the way. You fight him later, but you have grenade lawnchairs / rockets (one of the two). You're over thinking it, dude.

>>13050489
Oh god, I remember this part.

Guy just hid in the fridges there and will jump out when you're leaving the room.

I don't like playing games that makes me shit my pants, but I always managed to play Bioshock. Must be the powers that you can have.

rolled 1 = 1

>>13050501
SHIT, THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN AND I'M ON CRUISE CONTROL.

Please, God, roll a two! Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!

>>13050538

>>13050538
Goddamnit. I rezzed again, guys. I'm still a newfag, I'm still not incinerated and this time I came out of the vita-chamber ugly as sin.

What do?

>>13050588

>>13050501

FUCK FUCK FUCK WHERE'S MY GODDAMN SHOTGUN

Just play it cool they don't suspect anything Jim.

>>13050606
SCREW STEALTH!
ATTACK!!!

rolled 1 = 1

>>13050501
SAN checking

rolled 1 = 1

>>13050606

>>13050821

I MUST AWAY

>Playing Marble Hornets themed game
>Investigators go to police archive out in the woods
>Find a file detailing "disappearances of children several years ago
>Mentions a 'Slender Man' that the party has previously seen (showed them some of the tapes)
>Hear branches tapping at the window
>Archive in a clearing
>SAN checks
>Two guys fail
>One bolts it straight out the door
>The other tries to eat the file in his hands, as that is clearly what the Slender Man is after

He developed a fondness for eating paper after that experience. The game was sweet as hell, though.

> DMing CoC 1880's, first time got a game going for ages.
> Player greets NPC warmly (called Mr Pierce) "Pierce my old fellow."
> Without missing a beat I respond "I'm sorry, I dont do that kind of thing anymore."
> Players break up laughing, game ends cause everyones laughing too much to play.
> Not got a game going since :(

Ah CoC.
It's not a matter of if you die or go crazy.
It's a matter of when.

rolled 1 = 1

>>13050507
>but you have grenade lawnchairs
wat..
but how does that...
I don't even...

Fuck it, rolling for san loss.

>>13050194
>World War 1 CoC game, christmas eve in the trenches
>PCs + a handful of NPC's are a group of Brits isolated from the main force
>suddenly, spot shapes shambling in no-man's land
>PC's investigate without notifying others
>by accident find out the NPC comrades are actually ghouls masquerading as soldiers, and the lieutenant is a sorcerer commanding them
>wat do
>in the end, PC's muster enough sanity and courage to play it bogart and hide their discoveries from the evil guys
>pretend to rest
>"lieutenant" and ghouls leave the trench in the middle of the night
>PC's stalk them out of morbid, damning curiosity
>find the bad guys shred a group of unsuspecting krauts enjoying the christmas truce in their trench
>observe them dig into an old ruin partially exposed by the trench and artillery fire craters
>almost get caught, still follow in
>horrible alien architecture, spatial anomalies, shambling horrors, et cetera, surprisingly small sanity losses
>follow into inner sanctum, find ghouls and warlock chanting around a strange, pulsating, meaty thing on the wall
>meatblob opens like a sphincter, revealing a portal thingy, warlock and ghouls disappear through it
>damned and curious PC's follow in through
>wind up in the same place with subtle changes, dig their way out of the half-buried trench
>field is empty
>find way to civilization
>find out it's year 1930
>adjust to new life, glad to be out of war
>suddenly, hounds of tindalos, hounds of tindalos everywhere
>regroup, rearm, restart investigations
>meet at a war memorial
>peruse list of fallen
>find own names
>look around
>surrounded by familiar-looking, pallid civilians
>sanity loss away
>welcome home (sanitarium)
>game over man, game over

Sauce on OP's gif:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSB9aBMayxU

>>13050054
At first I laughed.
Then, as I watch that more, it gets more and more disturbing.
It's like some kind of horrible dograptor or something.

>>13051072
Just imagine it jumping around, kicking off walls, and eventually lunging for your face.

but... if the dog has only two feet... then how did he scratch at the doo....

TWO FEET! TWO FEET!

>>13051106

>>13051072
that's the san loss setting in

TWO LEGS TWO LEGS TWO LEGS

>>13050501
SQUAD FUCKING BROKEN!

This is the best thread on /tg/ in weeks

None of my characters ever went insane over this sort of thing. In fact, one of them, a private eye type (Named Tracer Bullet) had the opposite happen
Our party consisted of my dad, playing a Jesuit with skills in ancient languages, occult lore, archaeology, etc, and also a decent shot with a pistol.
Friend playing former soldier from WWI and university man, protege and nephew of my dad's priest. Decent in a brawl.
Wife of the DM had a guy, librarian and researcher, connections with police archives, etc.
There was one other guy too, forget what his deal was.

And then there was my character, Tracer. Tracer was a walking arsenal in the days when you could mail order machine guns. Tracer *always* had some sort of explosive on him, carried a thompson or shotgun, rifle, pistol, nightstick, brass knuckles, etc. A cloud of steak knives possessed by a malevolent entity swarming the party? Tracer pulls them out of the air and slams them into the wooden staircase. Zombies? Everyone back up the stairs, Tracer and some dynamite will sort this out. Cultists? Tracer's already behind them.

Tracer also started with a pretty high sanity and a very high power. So naturally I decided to start risking SAN hits to learn spells and shit, with the professor's assistance.

So Tracer and the professor are reading books, which you may suspect is a bad idea in the CoC universe. As the professor slowly loses his mind...
Tracer became *more* sane. Because of the way the rolls can fall, you can lose tiny amounts of sanity and then recover more than that at the end of the game. Our justification for this was that all these horrific secrets about the nature of the universe were what Tracer already believed, and that learning about them from elsewhere merely confirmed his suspicions.

tl;dr Private eye in CoC gets more sane despite doing everything that makes you lose sanity

>>13051154
We are clearly not playing the same game sir

>>13051154
>playing CoC with dad
Haha, oh wow. Insanity really does run in the family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BylPr7pmSPg

NO FEET! NO FEET! NO FEET!

>>13051154
>tracer bullet
I SEE WHAT YOU FUCKING DID THERE!
nice reference

>>13051154
How did he die? Because clearly he didn't go crazy
Or was your Keeper one of the few that gave happy endings?

>>13051205
Haha I didn't catch that til you pointed it out

Well played Fanbro, well played.

>>13051208
>CoC
>happy ending

>>13051190
FUCK FUCK FUCK HUMANSHAPE SHOGGOTHS FUCK

>>13051154
Huh. Do tell me you aren't playing CoC D20?

>>13051071
... sigh. While I do appreciate people doing things out of the kindness of their hearts, it's a bit depressing to look at animals that exist only because humans take care of them. But I suppose the amusement and comfort of people is enough for the dog to live for.

rolled 76 = 76

>>13051071
WHAT ON-

SAN LOSS SAN LOSS SAN LOSS SAN LOSS

>captcha: colvele vishnu

NOT EVEN VISHNU CAN SAVE ME NOW

Tracer Bullet
stares into the eyes of the old ones and walks away saner.

>>13051223
OH GOD BIRD SHAPED SHOGGOTHS!
>your face when the one in the background is chanting in a language man was not meant to hear

>>13051232
Vishnu can't.
... but Colbert Vishnu can!

"It's just a forest, come on!"

So I haven't played much CoC, but one of the times I did play was with a NRA-fanboy type who is obsessed with guns

I tried to tell him he'd have difficulty carrying fire arms (namely the thompson he wanted) due to illegality, but he kept waving various legislation from the period around and saying it was perfectly legal.

I don't particularly intend to play with him again (he was bad at the whole horror mindset) but was does /tg/ know of this?

>>13051240
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!

>>13051254
... I wonder how many heart attack kills one would rack by posting a screamer gif on this thread.

>>13051251
Your mistake is in thinking there's more than one of them

That is one being, chanting horribly as it consumes its last meal

You are next, if the stares are any indication.

>>13051260
I checked to make sure it was a jpg first.
Enough san loss for one day, thank you so much.
That said, I wouldn't touch that forest with a flamethrower and a regiment of black opsmen.

>>13051269
You'da died in Vietnam, boy.

rolled 2 = 2

I don't understand Cthulhu mythos.
For example:
How is it bad to say Hastur?
Allways when I said Hastur someone in my group said something like "that better be the last time you say that."
What's wrong with saying Hastur?

>>13051272
Shoulda waited longer

It's too obvious to post it right after someone says post one

>>13051272
>.gif
Nice try, faggot.

>>13051280
OH GOD NOOOOOO

>>13051280
google it

>>13051227
Nope, the Chaosium one

>>13051208
He got too sane. Eventually he just started carbombing cult leaders, barricading buildings and burning everyone inside, sneaking into a hospital and shooting everyone before they could be turned to zombies, etc. The Jesuits, who had hired him to work with the Father, had to pull him from their payroll, but by that point he was a homicidal maniac with the skills to get away with it. Unfortunately, he had some really big enemies. With that much power and with as many people as he pissed off, he was last seen slaughtering his way into a cultist hideout, grabbing an Elder Sign and some other shit, and getting the fuck out with half a dozen cults, a Hound of Tindalos, Something (we never found out what it was, but it was nasty) and corrupt Chicago PD (not possessed or cultists, Tracer had just irritated the wrong people) hot on his heels.

The priest retired from field work to do research and organize Jesuit efforts to fight this sort of thing, the researcher got killed by somebody, and soldier boy was crippled. Other guy ended up just saying "Fuck it" and driving off into the night with Tracer's car while he was attacking a cultist hideout and stopping a sacrifice/summoning. And somebody committed suicide before they got eaten or transformed.

>>13051255

If you're in America, yeah, most of that stuff's legal. Even the Tommy Gun. It's expensive, but legal. Carrying around an SMG will attract a lot of police attention though, cause they'll be very curious about why exactly you need it. Smaller, less obvious, guns, like handguns, are far more useful.

Just put him up against something which bullets have no effect on. CoC has no shortage of those. Or just have the Cultists armed with Tommy Guns after the first time he guns some down. Cults generally have money, and they also have more people than the investigators.

this is how you lose SAN irl

>>13051287
Modern day CoC setting.
What happens when you google He Who Should Not Be Named Unless You Want Your Head To Explode Into Meaty Chunks three times?

>>13051290
Well, at least it wasn't Old Man Henderson. Still, I think Tracer Bullet ranks in at at least 0.7 on the Henderson Scale of Plot Derailment.

>>13051301
Yeah that's what I'd do if I needed to deal with him again

It was just a one shot, though, and my first time GMing CoC (using that one scenario in the Handbook with the basement zombie). My players somehow managed to avoid the sound in the room above entirely, and instead managed to home in directly on where the zombie was.

>>13051305
>>13051305
>>13051305
>>13051305
>>13051305


FROGDAD

>>13051313
Nothing

He only gets pissed off because he doesn't like hearing the name being said in this realm

>>13051251
Owls should trigger san loss on sight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCgbYnNAbSM

>>13051251
>>13051240
OH GOOOODDDDDDD

I forgot to mention that the "With as much power" means that Tracer effectively stands out like a halogen light on a moonless night. No skills to hide it, so he figured he's just act as a Evil Zapper when things came close enough to poke him.

Plus the Professor enacted some ritual that may resurrect him without his knowledge. What even the prof. doesn't know is that it doesn't give him a new body or anything, merely ties his soul to the current one...

THOUGH I FALL, I WILL RISE AGAIN...in pieces.

>>13051305
Best. Dad. EVER!

I tend to hallucinate when I get tired.
add that to a slight overdose on sugar, playing KoDP all day and allready being less completely healthy, mentally speaking, guess what happens?
nothing much, just the usual. the curtains sing and a big, fuzzy, pink mountaincrab is nibbling lovingly on my elbow.
"wow, SAN loss" I said to myself

I am now going to use Tracer as a red herring for my group to follow for a bit. Hopefully they don't get too close, though, because they're investigators and not combat monsters...Tracer will destroy them.

>>13051331
True dat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCf-oiIbVnw

>>13051280
My final words in any pnp. Depending on the Dm it may or may not do something. It's summoned demons, made cultist run screaming in fear and had PCs trembling at the sound of rolling dice. But 90% it does nothing
Except one time.
I with with a group I had never played with before and we were doing well enough until the DM tossed a small army at us and a few nat 1s later we're facing a TPK. SO as I go down I say my final word and the whole table just turns toward me
And stares.
Turns out the DM is a big fan of CoC.
A die roll later and the King in Yellow shows up and he is very very unhappy.

Let's leave it at: There were no survivors

Owls? Evil? That can't be, everyone's fond of them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8el_P4yvfc

For those who know nothing of the game/fluff it has.

What exactly is this Hastur fellow?

I wonder if you guys know the CoC PC game made by Bethesda

Hastur?

>>13051389
Dark Corners? It was pretty good.

>>13051387
Hastur is either a tentacled blob on another planet who is Cthulhu's brother or an outer god/cosmic force of reality-warping entropy. Depends on who you ask.

>>13051305
If frogdad was my dad, things would be DIFFERENT around here.

the fuzzy pink mountaincrabs provide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastur

>>13051389
DCotE?

Was neat. At least during the fishman roof racing section. But beyond that, ehm... well, it coulda done with a lot more adventuring game elements. Amnesia fits the genre better.

>>13051387
Hastur is an Idea. A horrific idea that will do unspeakable things to you If you stumble upon it.

>>13051404
Indeed it is.
Video contains one mans descent into madness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loSzpvq73FY

>>13051387

A memetic mind-virus that infects people and spreads through the Yellow Sign or through words and sounds. Where Hastur rules, reality breaks down and entropy accelerates. And we perceive it as the King in Yellow and Carcosa, the beautifully dead dream-city.

Man, owl just creep me the fuck out. Maybe it's the forward facing eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r577ytYTZM

>>13051430
You meant this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRo0iT0qNw

>>13051416
I think Hastur is open to interpretation, but Hastur's status as more of an idea than an entity is what I find the most appealing.

I'll writefag a little to create a slipshod interpretation:

It's the kind of idea that, once one begins to explore it, it starts to grate at other ideas. The framework of normalcy decays in such measures that, whether it is the individual's perception or the actual surrounding that changes, the very world around the victim of the idea begins to corrode and corrupt to better resemble the warping of the view. This is what is often described as "Carcosa" by the few people who have explored Hastur, in some forms of different social media - oldest examples are in plays, operets, poetry and song, but more modern examples can be glimpsed in the now presumably lost original script of the highly popular video game series called Silent Hill, as well as several other "lost originals", from movie scripts to musical scores. Byproducts, watered down at the cost of the minds of intermediaries everywhere, appear in popular media regularily, perhaps acting as a gateway to the more widespread propagation of the idea of Hastur, and the unknowable decay it brings.

Meh. Started to get confused and trip over my own words at the end. Damn you, insomnia.

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What have I done?

>>13051480

> I think Hastur is open to interpretation, but Hastur's status as more of an idea than an entity is what I find the most appealing.
>I think Hastur
>I think Hastur
>I think Hastur

>>13051494

checking /rs for CoC
finds only d20.
is it any good?

What is call of Cthulhu?

>>13051570
Death and madness.
Next.

>>13051272
Fuck you you fucking fucker! It's too early in the morning for this shit!

>>13051542

I think I have the old one somewhere, if you interested in it

>>13051542
no

>>13050407

You tell me, Anon

> GM for a game of CoC 1920s
> FBI agents
> investigating reports of human trafficking
> open casket in train car suspected of containing drugged up slave
> minor extradimensional horror feasting on said slave
> roll SAN checks for my players
> mfw THEY ALL FAIL
> wat do?
> decide to opt for mass hallucination, don't even see the horror, nor interpret the body as being dead, just drugged
> can't understand why everyone is running away screaming as they carry the "unconscious" person down the street, nor why they keep slipping on thin pieces of unidentifiable meat that seem to come from nowhere
> reach police station, ask for an empty cell
> their fw they enter the cell and the cops lock the doors behind them

>>13051570
A roleplaying game of horror and madness, based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. The game takes it's name from his most famous story, "The Call of Cthulhu."

>>13051642
Out of the 6 editions which is best?

We should get our board's waifu up in here to show us some real SAN loss.

Now for something completely different... Someone winning at CoC.

>>13051542
Cthulhu works better on BRP. D20 has a bad habit of leading players into concentrating on levels, classes, powers, builds and the like. It's pretty much in the very mental framework of the game. Chaosium Cthulhu takes a little to get used to, especially with the high margin of failure often present in the checks, but it generally forces players to concentrate on the "why" of the game instead of "how".

Not that it really matters since they're going to die anyway.

>>13051696
Hastur ain't got shit

>>13051670
Beyond the first couple of editions, they're all pretty similar. Just some minor updates, really. It's not as big a jump as between editions of D&D, for example. The difference between CoC 3e and CoC 5.5e is about the same as the difference between AD&D 3 and AD&D 3.5.

>>13051696
>>13051705
This is what we know as a "Full Henderson" on the Henderson Scale of Plot Derailment.

It represents the total, complete and irredeemable situation where the player has taken the game and run off with it, rather like a bad dine-and-run customer.

>>13051305
I have never, EVER laughed so hard in my life. Oh god my sides.

someone just link me to the newest CoC thats not d20 please
:P

>>13051666
Nice.

>>13051696
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT
THANK YOU
ALL I HAVE IN RETURN IS... NOTHING.
I'LL GO PUT ON A CELICE BELT AS PUNISHMENT

>>13051620
>My brain!.. is made... of tiny... animals!

>>13051670

The fundamentals of the game haven't changed across all 6 editions. It's still roll under d%. All that's changed is the trappings.

That said, I'd just go for the 6th edition. It's the most up to date, and the best laid out I'd say, but any will do, and you can run pretty much any published scenario with it.

Also, if people are completely new to Lovecraft, I'd suggest you also look at Trail of Cthulhu. The system's not as good in my opinion, but the setting information, and the sections on the various gods and entities are far, far better than in Call of Cthulhu.

>>13051748
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=g2y3oje5

>>13051666
> same game, after they are exonerated/see psychologists/scrub pieces of intestine off their shoes
> hunting down whatever did that to the body
> trace it back to university lab, find mystical-looking books
> 2 out of 4 characters go insane
> I don't tell them, but start passing notes that there are subtle things wrong with other players... giving off weird smells, one guy keeps biting his finger, stuff like that
> pass notes to other players saying much the same
> they gradually realize that one pair of them has quite probably gone insane, but don't know which
> IT'S COMING FOR US, IT'S COMING FOR US!
> What? You're insane... there's nothing there--OH SHIT WHAT IF THERE IS AND I'M INSANE?

>>13051811
Beautiful.

mfw when hufsa

>>13051846
Hufsa is perfectly appropriate for a CoC thread.

Because Jesus fuck. Imagine meeting something like it on a dark forest road.

>>13051800
>image

Maaan, the Groke. I love that thing. I actually dropped it around my players, once. People who have punched out demons were scared shitless of the thing, because far as they knew it wasn't really malevolent, so they couldn't bring themselves to kill it, but they had no idea how else they could stop it from freezing them all to death from its very proximity.

The fact it had taken a bit of a liking to one of the PCs and wanted to hug him didn't help. Man, those were some very fun sessions.

>>13051863
I grew up with this shit man!
try walking home from a friends place late a winter night, trough dark woods!
FFFFFFFFscary!

>>13050054

Makes perfect sense to me.

Four feet good, two feet bad.

>>13052021
Four feet good... two feet better!

>>Read this topic

Teehee that's funneh.

>>later this day
>>My body feels weird
>>My mind feels weird
>>My tentacles feel weird

>>13051874
I pulled that once, but it was in D&D and no one got it because I'd grabbed it tvtropes scraping.

Still worked, though. Desperate looking dude sells them a bigass ruby and they carry it around for a good ten sessions...

>>13052571
D:

I cannot see that being a comfortable time. And how did the Magician factor in on all of it?

I'd think a dapper old guy in a tophat riding a space-faring panther would be either a creepy encounter, or then strike contemporary players as a mary sue DMPC.

>>13052719
>The Magician
Finnfag detected. He's called the Hobgoblin in english. True story

>>13052756
>Hobgoblin
wat
It's Trollkarlen in the original, clear as day, which is Swedish for magician.

>>13052848
Actually Trollkarlen would be The Wizard. The magician would be Magikern.

>>13052848
trollmann in norway
so yeah, same story. english translation sucks dire-ape balls

>>13052891
Trollkarlen would, literally, be "the Magic Man".

(Or possibly "the adult male troll", though that's clearly not what's intended.)

>>13052960
>>13052913
>>13052891
>>13052848
>>13052756
>>13052719
I ride a panther that flies faster than the light, your argument is invalid.

... just look at this shit and tell me this isn't Mythos material. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXXdiffXcuw

>>13052719
He didn't.
Just threw in the Groke as a side thing while they were on a trip.
Guy sells them the ruby, doesn't explain what it does, it gets jammed into a pack and forgotten (just as planned).
The trip runs into difficulties because it's strangely cold, I have people roll perception checks on occasion to see something maybe sneaking up on them, and conditions get colder and colder as they slog through the mountains.
Eventually, they get where they're going, and have to foment a rebellion while the city gets buried under snow, and the sightings become more frequent.
They eventually figured it out, mostly through metagaming when trying to sell loot for easy cash.
The subplot ends right before the last battle of the main plot starts, the character that manned up enough to go outside with the silhouette in the window to return the ruby gets a side bonus against cold effects, and the next day the players kill a bigass dragon half made of wondermetal and a shitton of demons.

>>13052960
And pappskalle would translate to literally paper head but thats not quite the sentiment I was going for.

pancakes gives +5 to diplomacy. this is fact.
funny that the panther-riding wizard apparantly was good (lawfu chaotic or neutral, we may never know)
When you have HUMONGOS COSMIC POWAH you tend to turn...well....kinda bad.
but wth was up with that puppet animation!? NEVER seen anything like that! is hufsa in any of those?

It wasn't my game, but it still bears mention. Adam Scott Glancy, co-creator of Delta Green, told this story a couple of times.

A team of investigators is hunting an extradimensional parasite that lives in the human body. A cult is serving as earthly hosts, and one of the cultists just got killed. The team goes into the morgue to kill the damn thing, only to find... they don't have any surgical skills.

"No problem," says Player 2. "I have mechanical skills. I'll just wire up these jumper cables to the autopsy table, flip the switch, and zap the motherfucker."

"...okay," says the Keeper. "Roll science (to realize that this is a tremendously bad idea)."

Player fails his roll. Cables go on. Switch gets flipped. There's an electrical crack, the sound of a screaming animal, and something bursts out of the cadaver's ribcage.

Then the lights short out.

As Glancy screams "GUNS DOWN GUNS DOWN NOBODY FIRE", the Keeper turns to Player #3 and says:

"You feel it against your leg. Roll SAN."

Critical fail. Player 3 opens fire, and everybody else follows suit.

When the gunfire ceases, half the players are dead, the rest are incapacitated, and Glancy is beating an alien parasite to death against the floor with his bare hands.

Awesome.

/x/ here where am i ?
can you close the curtains please i think there is a CIA man trying to take me to a FEMA camp because my succubus leaked emails about alium slendormen to the internet. He did this while i was lucid dreaming about ded bort having sex with zelda wearing a majoras mask on a ouiji board while trying to summon baba vanga so she could work in uvb-71 because cuthuhlu was tired from astral projection all the time.
Tin foil hat overload............

>>13053200
Ayup. Consider yourself warned though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8RqiV_l-2s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDEu-hzElDE

>>13053379
REAL men never sleep!
....ever

whyyyy would the groke need teh monees?

I never liked this stuff about CoC. I mean it is reasonable to freak out upon seeing evidence of malicious body stealing bipedal dogs but completely losing your grip on reality and tossing yourself into a furnace? Come on. It isn't that mind shattering of a revelation.

>>13053456

well, if you are half insane already then yes. It's not big deal.

>>13053552
Guys, I think he broke.

>>13051272

FUCK YOU

>>13053645


... what?

Guys I think the board failed it's SAN check.

CoC Moomin game?

I'm in.

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

>>13051254

I know I'm late, but I've seen this before and I really want to know what's supposed to be creepy about it. Where is the brick-shitting, /tg?

>>13053654
I think it's just a creepy forest, is all.

... I think someone's craving for attention.

+2D10 Insanity

>>13053695

Stop

>>13053456

His reaction was an extreme one, but that's what happens when you roll really badly on a SAN roll. That was probably the worst possible SAN loss he could have gotten from that situation.

95% of people wouldn't have reacted that badly.

Ah, someone's attempting to spam 4Chan to death. Again.

>>13053752
BRB, pissing in an ocean of piss

>report submitted, closing window in 5 seconds.

Does CoC follow the lovecraft series or does it follow Delreth's abominations, or both, because I can imagine the san loss from anything involving one Doctor Herbert West.

uhm, what the hell are you doing?

CoCk bump

So yeah, does CoC follow more closely to Lovecraft or that guy who came after him?

And any Reanimator references?

>>13053781

It follows EVERYTHING: Lovecraft, Derleth, Campbell, Bloch... Generally, it veers towards the Lovecraft side of things though. There is no Call of Cthulhu canon, you take what you want from whatever source you want, and make your own interpretations of what's actually going on. The Malleus Monstorum, for instance, features just about every Mythos-y horror conceived, from Kthanid to The Thing to Xenomorphs to Dagon. You take what you want and you leave the rest.

Trail of Cthulhu, I think, does this best, since in its section on Gods and Titans, the only stats provided are for the sanity loss they inflict, and it doesn't just give one explanation of what they are. It provides a variety of explanations for what each particular entity is and why.

Plus, the thing about eldritch abominations from beyond time and space is that the players don't need to know the Truth, and if they find a book that tells them that Hastur is Cthulhu's brother and they fight or something, and they believe it, then they can go ahead and try summoning Carcosa in Rl'yeh and see what happens.

>>13053881
Ah good, I was hoping for a not really sure about what is the truth or not style, sounds pretty kick ass, might have to find a book and play it with my buds, well after Paranoia.

>>13053831

And yes, there's Herbert West references. The main rulebook has him statted out. And there's at least one published scenario I can think of that follows on from the events of Reanimator. Generally, there aren't any published scenarios which interfere with Lovecraft stories, but if you wanted to have the players save West from that damnably silent horde, there's no stopping you.

And Delta Green, which is a very, very good modern day setting for CoC, has the Karotechia, remnants of the Nazi occult program who used West's research to create "Resuscitated Casualties" to fight on the Eastern Front.

If you're the DM of a Call of Cthulhu, please, whatever you do, avoid taking the Dark Heresy approach to secrets the players were not meant to know.

>>13053970
...what's the DH approach?

Fuck, i'm going to regret this curiosity.

CHATTUR'GHA! XEL'LOTATH! ULYAOTH!

>>13053970

Which is?

>>13054031
Oh, Eternal Darkness. You will never get a sequel.

>>13054050
I'm curious if anyone has tried the "lots of one-shots tying together overarching plot" with CoC?
Considering a campaign that takes humanity from prehistoric Conan-CoC to Crusades-CoC to CoC-Classic to Dead Space CoC to Transhumans vs. Great Old Ones.

>>13054147

Make it so that there's a ritual that has to be cast at lots of points in space-time. Once one ritual's stopped, the rest don't count, but the investigators have no way of knowing that.

I always thought statting Cthulhu and the other 'deities' of the setting a little silly. I mean, whaddya going to use them for? An experimental Cthulhu vs. Mazinger pro-wrestling bout?

>>13054031
>>13054034
The gamemaster should always have a clear idea of what's going on behind the scenes, even if he is never, ever going to let the players know what it is.

the Dark Heresy material put out by FFG likes to take the "Ain't gotta explain shit" approach, and give you loads of information about cults like the Temple Tendency or info on things like the Tyrant Star, and then never explain what's actually going on behind it. Even if they offered a number of different concrete explanations and then the GM could choose one, it'd be ok. But instead the books blab on and on about the Temple Tendency, but never really say "This is what it is, these are the goals the members have, and here's what they plan to do." The last two aren't essential but the first part is. As it is, their background and actions don't really make sense. And the Tyrant Star; there's not really a reason behind it. It may be linked to Haarlock, but that's about it. And if the explanation is "It's Chaos, ain't gotta explain shit" then that's fine, but there's no point in going on and on about it.

>>13054147
I don't know how well that would work, given that CoC characters generally get a Bad End. Uncovering clues spread across generations could be difficult, unless it's a huge reveal in one of the final games of the campaign.

That said, Dead Space CoC sounds fucking awesome.

>>13054188
>An experimental Cthulhu vs. Mazinger pro-wrestling bout?

I would pay to see that truth be told.

>>13054244
Because hey, you weren't really doing anything with your sanity anyways?

>>13054261
for something that awesome I would worship things which should not be and lose myself in madness, just to see Mazinger get Cthulhu in a Sharpshooter

>>13054210
They should have done it like they did it in Creatures Anathema with the Cruorian War Beast and the Skin Taker

I mean, it's not like a GM couldn't come up with something completely alternative, should he not like the options listed.

I'm still trying to figure out what the hell the Tyrant star is going to be in my campaign.

>>13054226
Well, I might use different systems for different sessions - GURPS fantasy when the party's a bunch of heroes hired by king Gilgamesh to hunt down the Phoenix (actually a horrible, causality-breaking flame-monster from beyond time), and CoC when they're 20th-century archaeologists unknowingly hired by the Cult Argent to find Gil's tomb.

>>13054188

That's why I prefer Trail's approach of the only stats they have being the sanity loss. Call of Cthulhu stats for the Great Old Ones is a holdover from the early days that's just never gone away. Back in them days, everything had to have stats. Admittedly, the stats are such that practically nothing investigators have can hurt them, but it's still silly.

>>13054147

>Transhuman CoC
>Eclipse Phase

Fixed. The TITANs went mad because they advanced enough to hear Cthulhu's dreams. The Factors are the next stage of the Mi-Go's Grey Deception. Firewall is what happens when Delta Green and PISCES and MAJESTIC get their shit together and decide to start working together.

>>13054210

I think I might disagree. Sure, it helps when you're dealing with things that can be related to: human cultists, ghouls, Deep Ones, even the Mi-Go. The Cult of Transcendence do what they do because their leaders were driven mad after the failures of the Alta Vendita and they turned to Nyarlathotep to help them away from their humanity. That helps.

With the most powerful entities, you don't need to know exactly what is going on behind the scenes. All you need to know is what happens when humans interact with them.

>>13054401
Like I said, if your explanation is "It's an ineffable being from beyond the stars that makes the human mind curl up and die" that's fine, but even then there will be some method to the madness. And you as the GM need to have an idea of what that is, even if the players never figure it out. If you don't then your heroes will have nothing to do. Like the Tyrant Star in Dark Heresy: there's nothing really behind it, there's nothing the players can do about it, it's not clear what it does if anything, there's no way to even save people from it. So the heroes will go find other things to do and if the Tyrant Star shows up, well, cross your fingers and hope the Emperor you survive.

It's like a hurricane. There's no way to have a plot based around a hurricane. You can have your plot be "A hurricane comes through and the players have to survive" but they aren't engaging the storm itself; they're trying to survive flooding, deal with looters, whatever.

Am I making sense?

>>13054210
I'm with you on that one. There's a lot of stuff in nWoD sometimes that makes me all "hurrrrr" because they don't explain what I need to know. And fucking planets in Rogue Trader that sound awesome and have nothing in-depth. Like Rain. Or, for Deathwatch- some elements of Watch Fortress Erioch. DH was by far the worst though ;_;

On a side note- which Call of Cthulhu game is it /tg/ plays, pen-and-paper wise? I'm too disturbed by what i've heard about Cthulhu-Tech to think that's the CoC of choice.

>playing a ranger
>animal companion is a badass dire bear named Wojtek
>Fighting this magic dude
>Dude kills Wojtek
>Ranger goes apeshit
>DM's laughing so hard he declares all my rolls to be vorpal and natty 20s
>cut a swath through the mooks nonstop until I reach the magic dude
>stop for a second for the cleric to heal me
>vorpal and natty 20s go away, get shit pushed in by magic dude

>>13054707
Chaosium is my system of choice for Cthulhu themed shenanigans. CT isn't CoC, it's it's own system and background.

>>13050160
So? Two feet... Meh

>>13054767
See, I feel like I haven't read enough of the Lovecraft Mythos to do the whole UNSPEAKABLE HORROR thing right. Also, I'm looking for something with a pretty simple system that also explains what I need to know to do horror right. As of late, i've moved away from D&D a lot, towards stuff like WH40kRPGs and nWoD- it's a lot easier to focus on the roleplay when there's not a billion kinds of rolls you have to make.

That said, I feel pretty accomplished that both my all-Guardsmen version of Dark Heresy and a session of nWoD as mortals were so tense that someone knocking on the door/stepping out of another room in the house scared the pants off of my players one night.

What kinds of things can you do with the Chaosium system?

>>13054683

I get the feeling we agree.

A GM needs to know what a given force or entity does, and how it will respond. It helps to know what said force or entity is, but it's not necessary.

I guess the reason that Dark Heresy doesn't really go into detail on the Tyrant Star is because it's meant to be a flexible, mysterious threat that any given GM can fit into any given game. If that's its purpose, it doesn't need a canon definition.

Say, for example, you have no idea what fire is. You could still come up with a decent adventure based around the players surviving a forest fire if you know roughly how fire will respond to a given situation.

Certain things are just plot devices and threats, and they're better left flexible.

I think.

OP here.
Why won't my thread die?
Curse those upright walking dogs!

> Me(Dwarf/Fighter) and Friend (Human/Paladin) fighting a guy after both being weakened from fighting gobos.
> I get KOed, Paladin KOs him.
> Group That-Guy/Rouge laughs at me for getting KOed (After fighting 6 goblins and a guy on my level).
(Later, at the very beginning of another encounter.)
> The bandits shoots a T-G/R, hit. Take *rolling* 10dmg, 8 after DR. That's half your HP, roll constitution to see if you pass out.
> *Rolling*, 11.
> You've passed out.
> I just smiled at him from across the table.

>>13054839

The big thing about BRP (the system Chaosium uses) is that it's incredibly simple. Nearly everything is based off of d% roll under skills. That way it fades into the background and you never really need to look at your sheets or the rulebook beyond checking a skill and rolling some dice. Of course, there's more in-depth rules, but they can be easily ignored if you don't like 'em. And it's really easy to modify and fiddle with. BRP is also an incredibly good generic system on its own, Runequest is based off of it too.

Really, I don't think you need to have read much Lovecraft to run a good Cthulhu game, though it certainly helps, and Lovecraft is worth a read. The Cthulhu Mythos has expanded with lots of other authors writing Mythos-y stuff, and pretty much any horror media you can imagine can be fit into the Cthulhu Mythos, since it's so flexible. You may not have read Lovecraft, but you've probably seen Alien, which is a textbook "purist" Cthulhu game. Or Aliens, which is a textbook pulp Cthulhu game. Or The Thing. Or some of Stephen King's stuff. Or Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Or...

Check out the Trail of Cthulhu rulebook, which is on /rs/, for a decent summary of the various entities (better than CoC's I feel). Read a few published scenarios for Cthulhu. As long as you run a good, creepy investigative game (and it sounds like you're good at that) running Cthulhu won't be a massive step out of what you're familiar with.

>>13054849

It did die. We brought it back, but we did it wrong. We brought back only Ye Liveliest Awfulness. So we killed it again. And this time we brought it back right.

>>13054956
So, BRP is exactly like the WH40kRPG system, then? Cause that's fucking -awesome-. I admit it, i'm spoiled on d10 and d% systems now, no lie- but I enjoy getting dice rolls out of the way and just roleplaying.

Also, i'm reading a review of Trail of Cthulhu, and...i'm a bit freaked out, as it mentions CoC having a "Temporary Insanity" meter or something- which is something I houseruled into my nWoD game. The PCs have a Sanity meter, similar to the Morality meter, but they also have temporary "Insanity Points." If the points reach 10, they have lose a level of Sanity and possibly gain a degeneration. Insanity Points go away at 1/day, and if a PC decides to like...focus on removing those, they could with a few rolls and some RP explaination.

From what i'm reading, I think I'd actually like to run a more "purist" style game- no "happy endings" and all that. As for things i've read, well, I read the entire Dark Tower series, so I'd probably pull a lot of inspiration from their description of "todash space," which is the space between dimensions. Scary, incomprehensible beings and all that.

Any other books I should get?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnDKlnLsXOs&feature=related

Fear Mortals.

>>13050145

>Maybe it's cause I've been awake for 63 hours or maybe it's the salvia I took but youae'phagepaihga pighapighaigphapegaihgpaihagihpaghipgaehjkhywe512897532'sfgbteoatvf


fix'd that for ya

Lieutenant in a street gang. two others with me. We need money and weapons quick, so we decide to burgle.

Party includes a lunatic with a fire extinguisher who calls himself "Sphinx" and a twitchy Mexican named Jesus (HAYSOOS) with a Mac10. I'm an eloquent fucker with a knife.

We pick a low income area outside the metropolitan area (because no security alarms) and sneak in through a window. The house occupants are watching tv, two of them. We rush them down, and I stab one in the eye while Sphinx beats the other one to death and Jesus opens up on him with the Mac10 like a moron. Luckily the guy I stabbed is still alive so we interrogate him to find his valuables. We get maybe a couple jewels, heirlooms and his wallet. We also decide to take his TV. Satisfied, we knock him out and walk outside with the stuff to our car, when suddenly four squad cars pull up and officers pile out and take aim at us. Sphinx charges at them like the madman he is and they open fire, but he doesn't die somehow. Jesus is carrying the TV and panics, the tv takes the bullets and, despite being the only one among us with a gun, runs back inside with the busted TV. I grab fire extinguisher guy off an officer and pull him back inside just as the SWAT van rolls in. To be continued-

>>13055163
I decide to try and use the still living homeowner as a hostage, and just as I turn around, I see him wake up and freak out. Sphinx bellows NO WITNESSES and before I can react, cracks the man's skull open.

Holding on to hope, I yell to the police that we're cutting off body parts of the hostage until they let us go. So I cut off the dead guy's hand, toss it out and have Jesus fake a scream. This seems to work at least, as the lights and sirens fade from view from the windows.

Suspicious, I tell Sphinx to go first out the front door. He is promptly sniped by the SWAT team, who obviously have not left.

Deciding we're pretty much out of options, Me and Jesus (still carrying the TV) start pushing a refrigerator as mobile cover as we try to get to the car.

We get shot in the head from at least five directions, according to the GM.

Best burglary ever.

>>13055163
>>13055175
Lovely gang you got there.

>>13055194
>>"Okay, let's use this guy as a hostage t-"
"I hit him with my fire extinguisher."
>>"OH GOD DAMMI-"
"He's dead."
>>"FFFFFFFFFFF- YOU IDIOTS. YOU IDIOOOOTS."

>>13055163
>>13055175
An excellent description of the mindset and level of intelligence of an average criminal.

I fear for your fellow players.

>>13055322
Sphinx and Jesus WERE the other players.

They come...

I was GMing RT a year or two back and we had this armsman who was basically a glorified redshirt become totally badass out of absolutely nowhere during a fight with filthy Eldar witches. She had a naval shotcannon and some enforcer carapace, and ended up killing as many Warlocks as the actual party thanks to some good rolls. The party ended up giving her the name of "Kalta 'Crimson' Redshirt" and she became a recurring NPC. Oddly enough, every time she gets brought along as part of their armsman complement during a excursion, she ends up being the only Armsman to actually return to the ship.

>>13055058

To be fair, the distinction between "pulp" and "purist" games is a very, very thin line. Don't force your players to lose every time, or they'll lose interest in fighting. The thing about Cthulhu is that you can have small victories, but in the end, it doesn't change the fact that humanity's doomed, it just delays the inevitable. Don't get sucked into the ALL DEATH ALL INSANITY ALL DEFEAT preconception. They don't all have to die. They don't all have to go insane. They don't have to lose every battle. Because in the end it doesn't matter. We're all dead.

Trail of Cthulhu has the Stability/Sanity divide. Call of Cthulhu just has Sanity. I've yet to decide which system I prefer.

As for other books? As you like nWoD, then I'd definitely recommend getting Second Sight and reading the chapter on Things That Should Not Be. It's the best material for Cthulhu that isn't actually labelled Cthulhu I've read. Great inspiration. Most of the published material for Call and Trail are scenarios, or books full of inspiration, there's not really any books with lots of extra rules in them. Malleus Monstorum is basically Cthulhu's Monster Manual, it contains pretty much everything you could ever want to put your players up against and then more. Plus it has brilliant artwork. Both Keeper's Companions for CoC are good sources of extra inspiration. Rough Magicks for Trail of Cthulhu expands nicely on magic.

Beyond that, you're pretty much into scenarios. The big campaigns for Call of Cthulhu are brilliant, though probably quite overwhelming. Especially look at Tatters of the King, Masks of Nyarlathotep and Horror on the Orient Express. Mansions of Madness is a good set of scenarios. Hell, Call of Cthulhu's rulebook has a decent set of scenarios (just ignore The Madman, it's pretty rubbish).

>>13055466

Actually, goddamn, how could I forget?

If the possibility of running a modern day game of Call of Cthulhu is at all appealing, get Delta Green, and its sequels: Countdown, Eyes Only and Targets of Opportunity. I wasn't sure about modern Cthulhu, until I read DG. It updates the Mythos wonderfully, provides a framework for investigators to operate in and ties together the Mythos and all manner of modern conspiracy theory to make a delicious setting. Even if you dislike the conspiracy aspect of it, most of the antagonists would make excellent material for a "normal" modern day Cthulhu game.

rolled 1 = 1

>>13055370

...I, I gotta go check something.

>>13055466
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't TPK all the time, if at all- but there'd definitely be that fear of "fuck, this is srs business." I do actually have Second Sight- I haven't read much of it, since everyone in my nWoD is playing vanilla mortals.

But, yeah- thanks a bunch! :D I got a good bit of downloading to do.

DH, a few sessions ago.

The acolytes are floating around a slummy, zero-gravity section of the Misericord when they happen to be overtaken by a trio of creepy, laughing voidborn children playing tag with each other through the coridoors.

The guy playing the guardsman (in power armour and with a heavy bolter) immediately says "I shoot them." To this day, I still don't know why but I suspect the player to be a little retarded.

Our psyker (and default party leader) uses Compel in a hasty effort to stop him.

The good news? He pulls it off so the guardsman decides not to obliterate three innocent children. The bad news? He rolls a psychic phenomena.

Everyone frenzies for a round.

>>13055525
Delta green is fucking amazing. I love everything about that setting, goddamn I even like the short story books that they put out about the setting. Ever read one of them?

I picked this one up at a used bookstore that was closing down for a dollar.

>>13055778

Are you kidding man? I fucking love them. Only one I'm missing is Alien Intelligence. Dark Theatres is pretty awesome, I don't think I disliked any of the stories in it. I especially liked Suicide Watch, since it ends on a somewhat happy note, whilst maintaining that Cosmic Horror.

I'm actually currently playing a character in a Hunter: The Vigil game who's basically Chris Lanois (except he decided to commit suicide by monster instead of shotgun).

I'm pretty sure they're putting together a new set of short stories, and a novel that furthers the DG/MAJESTIC conflict. I can't remember where I read it now though.

>>13051742
>A couple of shittily drawn Animu characters that all look the same to me doing shit I don't understand nor do I care to understand

NOPE.sku

I am now even more interested in play CoC...
but i fear for my sanity... already i am alittle unstable according to a few of my friends... but i know i am fine.

>>13055925
I actually just got done re-reading Suicide Watch. Is there any DG story that is better than it? Because if so, I need to read it.

>>13056060
Do you? Make a SAN check.

>mfw this thread

Yes, most assuredly...

>>13056123

I dunno man, Once More From The Top is pretty cool. Who'd have thought of using White Phosphorous grenades against a Shoggoth? And Russian Dolls is deliciously cruel. And Rules of Engagement has Stephen Alzis being a magnificent bastard, and the somewhat nice ending that Targets of Opportunity just tears apart. And The Corn King has Reggie Fairfield being his own badass self. And Denied to the Enemy has that delicious Yithian plot and dat twist.

>I know. I built it.
>my face when

I reckon they're all pretty good.

>>13056218
I thought that Russian Dolls was pretty bad. It was like a shittier version of I Have No Mouth And Must Scream or whatever the title of that short story is. No characterization, horrible dialog, etc.

I haven't read Rules of Engagement, Targets of Opportunity, or Denied to the Enemy. =/

>>13056315

I liked it. It wasn't the best story, but it was the ideal set-up for a one-off CoC session.

Can't help with sharing the two novels with you, but I can give you Targets of Opportunity. Fuck yeah.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L89WGSJ0

>>13056510
Then I can't help but repay the favor.

Curse of the Yellow Sign, Act 1 and Act 2. I just bought Act 3, when I get it I'll post it on /tg/. They're one-off CoC sessions.

I'll start uploading it now.

Curse of the Yellow Sign Act 1/2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H6CV8I6C

>>13056870
>>13056770

Ta muchly. I did have them already, but I await Act 3 with bated breath. Apparently it's not nearly as good as Act 1 though.

>>13056997
I sure hope I didn't waste my money, because Act 2 was pretty shitty IMO. Not enough Cthultu, too much SCREAMING AT YOUR PLAYERS TO MAKE THEM SCARED BOO!

>>13057024

Fucking John "Spend half the scenario hinting at how things went in the playtest and giving advice that only works if you're John Wick, don't give any guidance as to how the scenario might go and then ignore constructive criticism" Wick.

I'd be fine with ignoring it if Act I hadn't showed such promise. And Houses of the Blooded is awesome.

>>13057070
Act 1 was fucking great, aside from all the shit he forgot to put in. Like all the shit that has to do with the guy that knows everyone's secrets.

>>13055778
>>13055925
>>13056123
>>13056218
Guys, guys, you HAVE the DG fiction? I'm so jelly. I've tried hunting for a torrent or download of them to no avail, and scoured second-hand book resources online for them (for a reasonable price) and have been met with similar failure.

I haven't laughed this hard in a while... thank you /tg/

stay classy

>playing CoC
>age is 1847, place is bavaria
>party has just met up in a small lodge, everybody goes to bed but one player
>Lodge suddenly raided by a bunch of german bandits
>Character gets shot in the shoulder by fucking blunderbuss and is effectively out of combat
>Irish bareknuckles boxer PC beats the shit out of one of the germans who broke in the top floor
>German jumps out of window, boxer follows
>Seeing that the irishman had made the jump without any real injury, german shouts to one of his allies 'Jesus christ, he's a monster!' while trying to get on horse
>Irishman yells back in broken german "I AM MONSTER, I EAT YOU"
>Punches horse in the fucking face, causing it to rear up and throw the rider off
>Bandit surrenders out of pure shock

Later on he punched him to sleep. I love that irishman.

I found this really awesome.

Probably going to pick up everything Delta Green I can find soon enough, along with Trial.

>>13057247

If you're willing to pay shipping to wherever it is you live, this is where I got mine from. Unfortunately, it seems they're all out of Dark Theatres.

http://www.innsmouthhouse.com/product_info.php?cPath=3&products_id=262
http://www.innsmouthhouse.com/product_info.php?cPath=3&products_id=261

bumpin.

>Open traveler's guide to Boise
>SAN check

so this happened today,,,or yesterday...i dunno, its 7am and i havn't slept.

>playing coc with usual group.
>taking alot of san checks, particularly for books which one moron just HAS to read every one we find.
>call a break when pizza shows up.
>start talking about how this is probably the most san checks i've ever taken in a single session and we aren't even half through yet.
>go outside for a smoke.
>come back in as we're starting again.
>open my book to get my char sheet out (i'd used it as a bookmark sort of.)
>20 sticky notes with the words "take a san check" on them inside the book.
>gm sitting there with gigantic troll face.
>mate next to me hands me a dice.

>>13066563

Wait, what were the post-it-note SAN checks for?

>>13067337

erotic rp for Call of Cthulu

>>13067337

Reading a book that contains that which man was not meant to know.

>>13066563
Holy crap, that is the most hilarious thing I've heard about CoC since Old Man Henderson (which was also posted in this topic)

Yeah, I'm toasting in this epic bread.

>>13067349

The Booty Call of Cthulhu?
Pickman's Model?
Mountains of Madness?

>>13067361

But I thought all the sanity rolls before the break were for the books? What happened during the break that led to the new SAN checks?

option 3 always means sweaty gay man sex.
don't ask

>>13067407
Nothing; the guy just put the note in the guy's book just to troll him for having opened it.

I mean, he probably should've known better than to open a book while playing CoC.

>>13067438

Oh. Hurr.

Sorry for ruining the joke by getting it explained.

holy fuck this thread is still alive from yesterday?

this is really hitting my mental sanity

DM sends shadow assasins to attack us. We fail horribly and they start to make their getaway by wrapping themselves in their own shadows. Player playing Chaos Mage turns their shadows INTO STEEL. They try to take our shadows and make another getaway but when they try it the Chaos Mage once again turns the shadows to steel but this time when the shadows are encasing the assasins.

>>13067472

Threads are not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may get bumped