This is a recording of Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu panel held at GenCon 2016 on August 12.

 

 

 

 

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In this week’s episode, the whole gang is on tap to cover the last of the characteristics. LUCK be a lady? Don’t mind if I EDU! Is there and APP for that? This episode was recorded on July 25th, 2016.

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* Necronomicon 2017 has been announced! Dates: August 17-20.

* Legendary TV has been working on an anthology series based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, including “The Call of Cthulhu”, “The Dunwich Horror”, and others.

* Stranger Things – the Netflix series everyone is talking about, is a thing! Keepers Jon and Murph approve. Keeper Jon says: “Stephen Spielberg meets H. P. Lovecraft (though many say “meets Stephen King”) Best Lovecraftian story on television… ever.”

* Mansions of Madness – 2nd Edition – is out from Fantasy Flight Games. Now the game is run by an app, there is no “Keeper” player, and it is a fully co-op game. Blah… Where’s the fun without a Keeper?

* Viewscream 2nd ed. From Rafael Chandler has been delivered.

* Jon’s Lost Expedition has been released to backers in PDF format!

* Puppetland – the proto-indie game by John Scott Tynes of that combines Mr. Rogers with House of 1000 Corpses – is now publicly available in PDF form. Hardcover is printing.

* Lovecraft Film Festival is slated to get underway in Providence this Aug. 19 to 21.

* Check out these musings from the desk of the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council regarding the HPL statue in Providence…

More information >>

Card Catalog

From Graham: Pulp Magazines Project, described as an open database of Pulp Magazines devoted to those that carried only fictional works.

Feedback:

Bill from Niagara Falls, Ontario calls to talk about splitting parties (send NPCs to do the boring bits).

Canageek of the Suppressed Transmissi...

In this episode, the whole crew is back to discuss why you should DEX the halls, why POW corrupts and why SIZ matters. We can’t wait to stop making puns about characteristics.

This episode was recorded on July 11th, 2016.

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* The Section 46 Field Manual from Cubicle 7 is now available to backers of the Cold War Cthulhu Kickstarter. It’ll be available for general sale “in a few weeks.” This is basically a player’s manual for the espionage plus Mythos setting, which takes place in the madcap 1970s during a lot of upheaval in the global intelligence community. Section 46 is the fictional department within the British SIS used as cover for fighting the Mythos. Officially, it is a department for coordinating intelligence with other allied governments.

* Czech out the Section 46 post on YSDC

Or just go to the Cold War Cthulhu Kickstarter page

* You put politics in my Mythos! Check out Chaosium’s Cthulhu for President RPG. We are so curious.

* Part 4 of A Time To Harvest comes out this week (7/15)

* Cassilda’s Song was named as finalist for the World Fantasy Awards

Golden Goblin Spotlight:

We are happy to share that the Heroes of Red Hook KS has reached its funding goal with a couple weeks to spare. Oscar posted an update that details what the stretch goals will entail, and the order they’ll be found in.

Listener Feedback

We have a voicemail left by what sounds like it could be “Vitterman?” “Ritterven?” “Slenderman?”

“Hey, this is *Blah Blah* calling from a classroom way out west. Just wanted to say the Oscar interview was awesome and your guys’s recommendation when the Kickstarter went live is the reason I jumped in and I’m glad I did after listening to the interview so – Go Pods!”

And another voicemail from Keeper George, with a question on how we would handle a situation in a published scenario.

A scenario says to split the party. One will be more active than the other. Advice?

Topics

SIZ

Advice from Keeper Jon: Don’t run, you’ll only die winded.

In 7E it matters more than ever: affects Hit Points and Damage Bonus, plus Build and Movement Rate.

POW

Watch out for eyes appearing on your hands.

DEX

It’s the One Stat to Rule Them All.

For Episode 104, we have guest Oscar Rios!  We take this opportunity to discuss his new Kickstarter project, Heroes of Red Hook, and some things that are yet to be announced. This episode was recorded on June 27th, 2016.

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Did Google Earth Accidentally Photograph The Kraken Or Even Cthulhu?

Howard Lovecraft and The Frozen Kingdom coming to Blu-ray

Lynne Hardy to write new Call of Cthulhu campaign ‘Children of Fear’

Miss your copy of The Derelict?

Chaosium didn’t participate in Free RPG day to create a collectable or scarce scenario only available to a small subset of our fans (we did it to show our support for bricks & mortar game stores all over the world!). But we appreciate that some people went to a FLGS on the day, only to find all the copies of Sandy Petersen’s ‘The Derelict’ had been snapped up. And many of you simply aren’t in an area with a participating local game store.

So, if you really want a copy of Sandy and Mike’s ‘The Derelict’, this is what we can do:

Everyone here in the Cult of Chaos got a free PDF download of ‘The Derelict’ on July 1st.

If you also want the physical version, it is now available via Lulu.com at cost price – $2.99 + postage.

Weird Detective – This is a five issue limited series. It is published by Dark Horse Comics; it’s written by Fred Van Lente and illustrated by Guiu Vilanova. I have the first issue, and it is freaking amazing. It is very well steeped in the Cthulhu Mythos! I want to talk more about it, but I don’t want to spoil anything. Trust me when I say that it doesn’t just lightly brush up against the Cthulhu Mythos… no, this series fully embraces it in a most fantastic way. It is Call of Cthulhu the role-playing game meets Law & Order.

Chthonian Highways –  This role-playing game is currently free to download from Drive-Thru RPG. I just downloaded this, and I’ve begun reading it. This is also freaking awesome! This game is Mad Max: The Road Warrior meets Call of Cthulhu! The players are all part of a road warrior gang with a small fleet of souped-up and armored-up cars as you brave the wastelands between pockets of civilizations in a post-apocalyptic world. The mechanics seem easy to learn and fun to play. I am already planning on starting a game of Chthonian Highways with some of my co-worker gamers. The company, Ironspine, is calling this an alpha playtest, so go download this free game… learn it… run it… and give ’em some feedback. I anticipate them getting a lot of positive responses.

MUP News-

As the weekly thing kinda blew up on the launch pad, I think that bi-weekly is the best way to continue on with 105 forward.

 

Topics 

The Heroes of Red Hook Kickstarter.

In the talk about the origins of the Heroes of Red Hook,

This week, Keepers Dan, Jon and Chad INTerrogate and INTerpret our INTuitions about a certain INTeresting characteristic. Plus, like a wrecking ball through a tenement wall, we’re also continuing our look at lesser used skills and what they can bring to the game. This episode was recorded on June 13th, 2016.

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* Check out this trailer for Cyanide’s official Call of Cthulhu video game!

* Anouncing the successful end to the Kickstarter for Age of Cthulhu 9: The Lost Expedition – Funded at more than $15,000, which means lots of stretch goals were met.

(Incidentally, Jon mentions a doppelganger plot in one of his scenarios that makes us ponder the timey-wimey mysteries of Jimmy Fallon and Nicholas Cage.)

Feedback

Jason King in Milwaukee sends an uplifting note about MU’s role in bringing him back to the gaming table. Messages like this give us feels.

Topics 

Character Creation: Intelligence

This week, we’re covering the Intelligence characteristic – what it means, its various roles in the game and what happens when you fail an INT check. 

Forgotten Skills: Operate Heavy Machinery

Moving ahead with our series on lesser-used skills in Call of Cthulhu, we talk about the infamous Operate Heavy Machinery skill. Is it too broad? Does it come up in the game?

And a call to listeners: do you have any horrific industrial accident stories to share? Let’s add to the folklore of pain and dismemberment, shall we?

Along the way, we mention this 1982 article from Sandy Peterson that mentions the Operate Heavy Machinery skill and how it shows a bias toward academic-minded players in Call of Cthulhu. (The rest of the article is a great read, too.)

 

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