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Call of Cthulhu d20!
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barsoomcore
Unattainable Ideal
One of the best role-playing books ever published, if you ask me. The adventure design section alone is worth the cover price.
Hell, the cover is worth the cover price.
Hell, the cover is worth the cover price.
jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Emirikol said:
I agree with that for the most part, though I do think that the d20 mechanics lend themselves to other kinds of horror much better than the BRP mechanics do. While there were some early attempts to introduce "monster hunting" into BRP CoC it just didn't work well. d20 CoC can handle both Lovecraftian horror and monster hunting (e.g., the Supernatural television series), action horror (e.g., John Carpenter's Vampire Hunters), etc, etc, etc. All things that, IME, BRP doesn't handle very well without lots of house rules.
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
barsoomcore said:
Seconded. It has the kind of information about adventure design and setting story-based xp awards that ideally (IMO) should have been in the DMG. Maybe Monte hadn't thought it up at that point though
.for those who haven't seen it, it illustrates the difference between a railroad adventure (where the PCs have lots of opportunity to lose the 'one track' and more of a network adventure (where the PCs can follow up one or more clues to lead to the finale, and the more clues they are able to follow up the better things are likely to go). It also suggests setting 'story award sections' - since who in CoC is going to get much (lasting) experience from fighting a CoC nasty? Right. For each 'story award' it suggests matching together a suitable pair of words, giving things like "Find the diary", "Survive meeting the zombies", "rescue the journalist" or whatever. The real thing has much better examples than this, of course.
It was such a neat idea that I used the concept in D&D for a while, enabling PCs to focus on the adventure and not what they were killing this week.
Cheers
HeapThaumaturgist
First Post
It's one of the few RPG books on the "If I could only keep ___, it would be ___." list.
CoCd20, Grim Tales, and the original Dark*Matter book.
That's pretty much my Big Three. Everything I own beyond those is really gravy. I can do anything I ever wanted to do with RPGs right there.
Which probably speaks to how odd I am.
When we played Blood and Vigilance one-shots, my character's super power was just CoCd20 spells with the ability damage/drain taken out and Sanity turned into Nonlethal Damage (with some extra damage to replace the ability damage).
When I ran a BnV-based Pulp Heroes game, one of the guys at the table, his character was just the Advanced Training background ... with CoC spells done up the same way.
Which ... was just awesome, really.
I've gotten a ton of use out of all of that book, front to back.
--fje
CoCd20, Grim Tales, and the original Dark*Matter book.
That's pretty much my Big Three. Everything I own beyond those is really gravy. I can do anything I ever wanted to do with RPGs right there.
Which probably speaks to how odd I am.
When we played Blood and Vigilance one-shots, my character's super power was just CoCd20 spells with the ability damage/drain taken out and Sanity turned into Nonlethal Damage (with some extra damage to replace the ability damage).
When I ran a BnV-based Pulp Heroes game, one of the guys at the table, his character was just the Advanced Training background ... with CoC spells done up the same way.
Which ... was just awesome, really.
I've gotten a ton of use out of all of that book, front to back.
--fje
BLACKDIRGE
Adventurer
I found a brand new copy at Gen Con for 40.00. I couldn't believe it. The damn things are going for as high as 100.00 on Ebay.
Needless to say, I am now running a d20 Cthulhu game.
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Needless to say, I am now running a d20 Cthulhu game.
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