Call of Cthulhu- which version should I buy?

[KaosDevice]

And eventually, in some dark eon, Delta Green will get printed in dual-stat format. Eventually.

Wish for your people man, wish for their freedom of lies. But wish for a D20 Delta Green game...

might as well poke out your eyes...

 

[Kesh]

Well, they're still saying "real soon now" and the book's already dual-stat. From what I've read, it's just a matter of affording the print run.

 

[Henry]

Wish for your people man, wish for their freedom of lies. But wish for a D20 Delta Green game...

might as well poke out your eyes...

The good news is that the most mechanically crunchy part of Delta Green, the Gun rules, was converted by and large by Monte in the CoC d20 core book. Most of Delta Green is setting and flavor, so it's not as pressing to convert to d20.

That said, I just last week gave away my Delta Green to a fellow gamer, because I'll NEVER see myself running it... it's good, no contest, but it's just TOO MUCH onion-layer conspiracy for me to run it comfortably.

 

[Kanegrundar]

IMO, D20 CoC is better. I like Chaosium's game, even though I've only ran it a couple of times. Don't let the level system fool you, your characters will have to fight tooth and nail for their lives and their minds. Most characters IMC only last until levels 3 or 4 before going horribly insane. The highest was level 7, and that was by the grace of the Old Ones alone.

Kane

 

[Wraith Form]

Buy both.


The d20 version will be out of print & a rare gem.

The BRP version is fast & easy to use & has lots of support.

There. Now, wasn't that easy?

 

[Committed Hero]

Also, D20COC is, as I understand it, dead in the water. They procuded the Core Book and Nocturnum (which is a reasonable module, but nowhere near as good as any of the COC classics

Plus the Arkham, Kingsport, and Dunwich city books, and a couple free adventures here and there on the net (Brown Jenkin Lives and Infest). Eos is supposed to anounce at Gen Con the date of the dual stat Delta Green book will be released - that should heat things up. For a taste of DG there was a d20 module in a Polyhedron of a few years back.

 

[KaosDevice]

That said, I just last week gave away my Delta Green to a fellow gamer, because I'll NEVER see myself running it... it's good, no contest, but it's just TOO MUCH onion-layer conspiracy for me to run it comfortably.

I ran a Delta Green game for well over a year and it was a blast. But I didn't run any of the mods from the book. I just did my own thang.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

The BRP rules aren't too hard to scale over to d20, since they use similar attributes and percentile systems fold into d20 fairly easy-- so don't worry too much about source material. It won't take you long to convert, even if it isn't dual-statted.

You know, I really want to tell you go out and get the BRP version, but if your players are more comfortable with d20 (as most of us are, since it's simple and widespread), you're probably better off doing it that way.

edit: Removed erroneous information.

 

[DnDChick]

Punitive MDT already exists in CofCd20. Your MDT in that game is 10 ... no matter what level you are, if you take more than 10 hp in a single blow you might well die. Most 1st and 2nd level characters won't even have 10 hp to start with, so that only comes into play towards the mid-levels.

And if you run D20 Modern with the Call of Cthulhu d20 Sanity rules, you don't really even need to *convert* any of the NPCs in the BRP modules. D20 Modern and the D20 Menace Manual have many, many stock NPCs written up at 2nd, 4th, and 10th level. At most, all you'd have to do is substitute a few skills or feats to customize one of those generic NPCs to be whatever you needed it to be.

And, of course, D20 Modern is meant for a more cinematic style, but this can easily be addressed by using the rules for Ordinaries for PCs instead of just NPCs. Ordinaries have no talent trees, no bonus feats, and no action points.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

Punitive MDT already exists in CofCd20.

Now I simply feel foolish. It's been some time since I've looked at Call of Cthulhu-- gave my copy to my cousin, who enjoys horror more than I do.

Thank you for catching that before someone may have been misled.