im trying really hard to figure out how "ten times five" can be misinterpeted to make you thing it comes out to 12.......

@sensen9900

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@ambrose788

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he looked at it upside down and thought the 5 was a 2

@davivignola5895

4 жыл бұрын

too much SAN loss?

@aaaa-eb6pi

4 жыл бұрын

@@ambrose788 And looked at the multiplication sign diagonally.

@Nightenstaff

4 жыл бұрын

What's equally amazing is all the other players that looked it and said, "Yep! Twelve!".

"Not what we thought it was..." Me: Oh they probably added and made it 15 "12" Me: *confused math noises*

@strangerakari2836

4 жыл бұрын

Probably 1d10+5.

@JainZar1

4 жыл бұрын

Sanity is the same score as Willpower at character creation, Mana is 1/5th... if they played 7th Edition.

@nohandlesplease

4 жыл бұрын

Obviously Ben accidentally used eldritch logic in his calculations.

@jayxhuit6000

4 жыл бұрын

Confused math noises xD

@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece

4 жыл бұрын

I assume he took 5 d10 and rolled horrifically low.

When 10 x 5 = 12 you know you've already lost all of your remaining sanity.

@ilovepudding7873

3 жыл бұрын

Or reached this profound enlightenment

@KingDugan

2 жыл бұрын

I'm just curious how they came up with 12.

@williamdolde1517

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingDugan I have a theory, Ben took 10(5) as 10 + (10/5). 10/5 =2. 10+2 = 12. Why would he do this? Idk

@AngryKettle

Жыл бұрын

@@KingDugan My guess is he rolled 5d10 and did very poorly.

@LodyDude

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Why is Call of C'thulu so good for one-shots you ask? Well you see: it usually only takes 1 shot to kill your character.

@stm7810

3 жыл бұрын

actually no, there's a lot of healing and first aid rules, armour with hit locations, and use of cover. you only die fast if you think slow.

@rikardosilva1754

3 жыл бұрын

@@stm7810 + it's actually two bullets

@kaldo_kaldo

3 жыл бұрын

@@stm7810 If you only have 8hp and you take 14 damage to an exposed part of your leg, what's the "think fast" way out of that?

@stm7810

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaldo_kaldo first, why are your legs exposed in combat? you should be behind cover, next, are you wearing anything to protect your legs like jeans or flac pants? next since it is your leg according to the rules there is a minute before you die of bleeding out and can quickly have the blood flow stopped, and you can even resort to magic. also, if you have 8HP that was some shit rolls.

@kaldo_kaldo

3 жыл бұрын

@@stm7810 You're blessed if all of your combat begins from cover. Never been ambushed?

‘Oh, he probably messed up and got 15’ >12

@arcaniumdragon2444

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@michaelmarksman743

4 жыл бұрын

Earmuffs Incognito I guess we know why he isn’t a biochemist anymore.

@yellowbeard1

4 жыл бұрын

I did not see that twist coming lol

@brammeke569

4 жыл бұрын

1D10+5 probably?

@TheRezro

4 жыл бұрын

@@brammeke569 You are correct! He didn't explain it as a joke, but he throw D10 dice and add five.

Q: On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad are you at math? Puffin Forest: "12"

@simonbanzhaf2352

4 жыл бұрын

I’m trying to work out how he even got that...10/5+10?

@qy1821

3 жыл бұрын

roll 5d10?

@gornfoo

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonbanzhaf2352 I'm thinking he read the 5 as a 2 (depending on handwriting 2 and 5 are just flipped). He THAN saw the sign of multiplication as a plus sign. Probably a sign he's dyslexic. I've made, similar mistakes...

@TheNephilimofEmpireCity

3 жыл бұрын

@@gornfoo we also don't know how tired he and his table were at that point as well, could've been pretty late with people checking out upstairs

@gornfoo

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNephilimofEmpireCity very true, thank you for that point.

2:00 Friendly reminder: this man has a biochemistry degree.

@coagulatedguy1421

3 жыл бұрын

Oh dear god

@shadenthal6276

3 жыл бұрын

There is no hope for us

@lowleypeasentmr.l8836

3 жыл бұрын

Wait *WHAT?*

@napoleoncomplex2712

2 жыл бұрын

As someone with a degree in Biochemistry and Pharmacology, this is not good for my inferiority complex.

@D00000T

2 жыл бұрын

his sanity is just non existent

"Some aspect of Evil" *Killer Queen behind the door*

@theman6422

4 жыл бұрын

Codename: Crisis Kira isn’t evil. He just wants his quiet life

@grubbytoetaker9579

4 жыл бұрын

@@theman6422 this is true but the way he goes about achieving this "quiet life" is evil

@Kenar.E

4 жыл бұрын

Who is she?

@zaishijunior9455

4 жыл бұрын

KILLER QUEEN BAKUDAN BITE ZA DUSTO

@SairinEarthsea

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kenar.E Stand from jjba part 4, has the ability to turn anything it touches into a bomb to be detonated at a later time. It looks like David Bowie fused with a cat.

"If you get hit by a bullet you could die" Ben 2019

@TheRezro

4 жыл бұрын

That is ironically counter-intuitive in RPG ;D

@TheArklyte

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder how can't they just use FACTIONS as characters? Detective has an agency, that can send a replacement if their prime character is injured or dead. Soldier can have a "reinforcement" sent in from the base. And so on.

@misslizz198

4 жыл бұрын

People die when they are killed!

@JainZar1

4 жыл бұрын

There is a really good spin-off system for Cthulhu, called Delta Green. It's Cold War to modern day and the players are all part of an organization, similar to the CIA, that go around and try to disrupt Cults and so on.

@brandonvelde5774

4 жыл бұрын

@@JainZar1 So basically the Global Occult Coalition.

“I wanted to run a 30s Nazi heavy Indiana Jones type adventure!” That’s why Pulp Cthulhu was invented.

@MovieGremlins

4 жыл бұрын

Hope he sees this comment

@MindOfGenius

4 жыл бұрын

I have NO intention of playing Call of Cthulhu. ...buuuut I DO kinda wanna do an Indianna Jones setting of Pulp Cthulhu. Pulp Cthulhu should have the tagline of "Serious, AND Also Fun!".

@timjones5953

4 жыл бұрын

@@MindOfGenius what's so unfun about normal cthulhu? Sure, you're weak, but that's the whole point. Cant have an underdog story without some good old struggling against terrible odds. Anyways, I think some of the things talked about in this video were 6th edition stuff, I'd check out 7th edition it's pretty much universally agreed to be better.

@dragoneye6229

4 жыл бұрын

@@timjones5953 Everything. To answer your question. You have exemplary world building but are telling your players that they will never be part of it. It's not anti heroic, it's anti fun. Anti heroic would be GURPS WW2. A single Luger shot nearly killed one of my PC's, however they very much can impact the setting. The very idea that no matter what you do you lose or it's overall worthless makes it so there is no point in even bothering. I imagine the game sells to people who like clickers.

@MindOfGenius

4 жыл бұрын

@@timjones5953 6th Edition seemed (never really jumped into it, obviously) less "underdog story" and more " 'why would anyone care?' like an old drunk chucking empty beer bottles in a park as other people are trying to clean it up." In Cthulhu, you're going to lose. Eventually, somehow. In Pulp Cthulhu, you'll at least get off a shot or two before your eventual demise.

The Story that he reads from, "The Horror in the Clay" is the first 'chapter' of Lovecraft's most popular short story "The Call of Cthulhu"

@chrisberg3648

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, this was really bugging me because that is my favorite opening from any of his stories and I'm sitting here thinking, "have I been wrong about which short story that was this whole time?" lol

@princesstinklepanties2720

2 жыл бұрын

I preferred the shunned house

Puffin chose to shy away from knowledge to avoid going mad thats why he freed his mind from basic arithmetics. Lest he wakes an unfathomable horror upon the world from the miss use of the cursed art of multiplication

@ikebirchum6591

8 ай бұрын

You say that as a joke, but unironically, there's a Lovecraft story called Dreams in the Witch House where a guy learns witchcraft, as in literal, Satan-communing, baby-sacrificing witchcraft, by being good at geometry

@Aureonw

2 ай бұрын

@@ikebirchum6591 I fear what one mathematician would know after studying fictionary numbers and formulas then, immortality?, a calculus to summon a elder god?, a universal constant that proves that the gods are real and they hate us?, type of shit.

Exercise: attach these events to their respective RPG: 1: "Rock falls, everyone dies" 2: "Book falls, everyone is mad"

@kaldo_kaldo

3 жыл бұрын

Ben failed elementary math, everyone is mad

"10 x 5 = 12" See, this is what happens when you don't have the constitution for math.

@nebs6888

4 жыл бұрын

Or intelligence

@imjustryley2197

4 жыл бұрын

He probably thought it was a d10 + 5

@nebs6888

4 жыл бұрын

@@imjustryley2197 why... Why'd he think it was plus and not into. There are multiple divisions and multiplication required. How'd they mess that up.

@Methren1

4 жыл бұрын

Yay, OSP :D

@nirvanajew1

4 жыл бұрын

Just as Hippopotamus Lovecraft would have intended

"Here's an excerpt from a short story by H.P. Lovecraft." Just make sure it's not the one with the cat.

@stantrien8106

4 жыл бұрын

His dad named the cat.

@aceofspades9503

4 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed that short story and based a one shot CoC game on it. But yeah....the unfortunately named cat means that I can't bring that story up in polite casual conversation.

@tearay1073

4 жыл бұрын

@@aceofspades9503 just refer to the little guy as "a cute little problematic kitty"

@marcar9marcar972

4 жыл бұрын

TheLithp exactly. We don’t want to give the furries anything to go off of

@tearay1073

4 жыл бұрын

@@marcar9marcar972 my dude, furries as the last thing to worry about this

My favorite CoC experience is when my friend went insane for 9 days in the middle of combat, he didn't survive the first round. I unloaded a burst shot from my Thomson, rolled poorly, and shot my friend 17 times in the head. Great game, 10/10.

@antoinelachapelle3405

Жыл бұрын

A "burst" of almost the entire magazine ? Lmao

Puffin Forest: ''Humanity can't win in Call of Cthulhu'' Me: "You have clearly never heard of Old man Henderson."

@MrRobot-0

4 жыл бұрын

Herr sctzelnatzi

@orioncooper1705

4 жыл бұрын

Where ya be keeping me wee lil' men, ya damned culty!

@ClokworkGremlin

4 жыл бұрын

Figured out what the nasties are weak against. Point blank annihilation.

@tzaphkielconficturus7136

4 жыл бұрын

Just a friendly reminder that "Mind Transfer is a spell, it's a permenant mind swap, and it doesn't require a human target. Your GM might make you lose sanity, in your new body, but sanity is for people who aren't Shoggoth wizards.

@alexanderchippel

4 жыл бұрын

That was Trail of Cthulhu and the whole thing was fake.

OoOOoOoooooooOooh hello there! I have found this book under close to a burning pile of books. The book surely says that it will bring great daaaaanger, it is called Necronomicon and from what I've read so far it wants to bring the evi... Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

@itsmeromanos

4 жыл бұрын

Theeeere we go again xD

@Miner49er201

4 жыл бұрын

I waaaaaarned you.

@sentientbiscuit1415

4 жыл бұрын

Are you gonna go through every video puffin made and just comment like that

@redknight759

4 жыл бұрын

Not you again

@johnnysizemore5797

4 жыл бұрын

Welp, i can sleep a little easier now, knowing that Abserd in now on Cthulhu's side. He'll NEVER get out now!...:D

"I told you, DON'T READ THE BOOKS!" "IT WAS A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO BOISE!" *"DON'T. READ. THE. BOOKS!"*

Puffin forest: the idea that the world works on logical, understandable principles is a lie we tell ourselves Also puffin forest: 10×5 = 12

@benjaminoechsli1941

2 күн бұрын

He was following his own advice, staying in the safety of ignorance. Sadly, he learned, continuing on the path to enlightenment and doom.

"Guns are very deadly". You should have said something about the holy grail of god killing. SHOTGUNS

@gabriel300010

4 жыл бұрын

And molotov cocktails

@barrybend7189

4 жыл бұрын

Ford pintos and a complete WW2 arsenal.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

Only to people.

@barrybend7189

4 жыл бұрын

@@dubuyajay9964 look up the KZread videos about Herr Snitzlenazi. Yes this is the weirdest yet most epic CoC game.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

@@barrybend7189 What about Old Man Jenkins?

3:10 SHES A KILLER QUEEEENN- *explosion noise*

@MrPF

4 жыл бұрын

gunpowder, gelatine

@kingpengu5027

4 жыл бұрын

Killer Queen has already touched the doorknob...

@rhymenby

4 жыл бұрын

DAIZAN NO BAKUDAN! BITES ZA DUSTO!

@kingconniebonnie2178

4 жыл бұрын

JAPAN: killer queen America: DEADLY QUEEN

@thatpedanticcommenter5847

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, god damn it! I just wanted to live a quiet life BUT YOU GOT YOUR JOJO ALL UP IN MY CTHULHU, DAMN IT! *bites the dust*

3:04 Are we just going to ignore the fact that Killer Queen is in that closet? Although I probably wouldn't touch the door handle... *Killer Queen has already touched the door handle*

@Lord_Seraph

3 жыл бұрын

Jojo is everywhere and i somehow haven't lost my fucking mind even though i love it.

@peerbocusijaz3079

3 жыл бұрын

Just finished all of Jojo and seeing Killer Queen here was such a fun easter egg!

@minicraft9972

3 жыл бұрын

Jojo

"our battles are futile because they are immortal and we are not" Oldman Henderson "Am i a joke to you?"

@sidneyrobinson18

8 ай бұрын

I've seen his name twice now, is he a character in the game or Lovecraftian mythos?

@foxtrot-gamesandwit4475

7 ай бұрын

...yes

Ben: *reading The Horror In The Clay* Red: See, this is what happens when you don't have the constitution for math.

@Larissawesome

4 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏

@ClokworkGremlin

4 жыл бұрын

HOW LOW DOES YOUR CON SCORE HAVE TO BE TO PREVENT YOU FROM MATH!?

@Klyskada

4 жыл бұрын

@@ClokworkGremlin your thinking of int not con though i understand the comment.(if your comment was meant to be a joke, my bad, it flew over my head.)

@ClokworkGremlin

4 жыл бұрын

@jallday foster: check what OP said.

@misterman2017

3 жыл бұрын

Did nobody get this joke

"The Horror in the Clay" otherwise known as the first part of Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu." Yep.

@TheSadCthulhu

4 жыл бұрын

Fred Challenger Scrolled all the way through to see if someone had addressed this yet. Proud that I showed such restraint, disappointed that it took 10 minutes longer than just repeating your comment. C’est la vie.

@LordOmnipraetor

4 жыл бұрын

The Horror in Clay is the first chapter in the short story The Call of Cthulhu. The next chapter is The Tale of Inspector Legrasse, and the third is The Madness from the Sea.

@skylerstokman2869

4 жыл бұрын

@@LordOmnipraetor Yeah that confused me. As he was reading it out, I thought, "That's Call of Cthulhu." Then he said it's something else, so I came straight to comments to see if anyone was going to say something. I now remember that what I read was the full book, with all those as the chapters.

As GM (or keeper in this case) there is little more hilarious than watching your typical D&D players try and play CoC like D&D and get totally wrecked by it.

@iregretthis8351

8 ай бұрын

Im running a Call of Cathulu one shot for Halloween this year, my group normaly plays D&D. I just had a player tell me how excited they are to play a front line tank, this will be fun

@zombielepra1726

2 ай бұрын

@@iregretthis8351Just had a similar thing happen with the 1-3 shot scenario I started yesterday, one of the players went in thinking they were gonna be a god of combat, first round of the combat encounter which he started and brought on himself by provoking a bootlegger had him stabbed and bleeding on the floor with 4 hit points left cause he failed his dodge roll badly, his character had to be rushed to hospital, everyone took combat a lot more seriously after that 😂

@Johnston212

Ай бұрын

I'm actually going to drive myself insane and run my first anything and run a CoC campaign

Just in case you didnt know. Theres an alternative set of rules for more combat based campaigns called "Pulp Cthulhu" that is also made by Chaosium. It would allow for that Indiana Jones style game you want

"One day, humanity's going to fail." Old Man Henderson says otherwise.

@joshm5473

4 жыл бұрын

I need to reread that damn story. The madman himself.

@dhufflepuff348

4 жыл бұрын

There's also Herr Schnitzelnazi who saved humanity and made sure they wouldn't come back.

@kyoryucrimson5548

4 жыл бұрын

Old man Henderson.... The hero we need again.

@starshade7826

4 жыл бұрын

Old Man Henderson was mad already.

@Recluse336

4 жыл бұрын

Nope. I agree. Humanity is doomed.

I, too, think of Killer Queen as an Eldritch god from another planet

@theman6422

4 жыл бұрын

He just comes up to earth with a space ship that looks like sheer heart attack

@silmeerman9471

4 жыл бұрын

CTHULU QUEEN, DAISAN NO BAKUDAN, BITES ZA DUETO

@ms_rifle_spiral

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, H. P. Lovecraft's famous pantheon of unimaginable gods. The Great Cthulu, Dagon, Shub-Niggurath, Yoggsothoth, and Killer Queen

@arnesramadani4199

4 жыл бұрын

Kira queen jas already touched that door

@argonburnspink1441

4 жыл бұрын

BITEZ ZA DUSTO

4:20 *"aw, it looks like a derp-eyed cat with a weird moustache- OH nope, that's a skull... ok... great"*

I ran a short COC campaign which was based on "The Dreams in the Witch House", "The Crack'd and Crook'd House", and "The Whisperer in Darkness". All four PCs survived, although three of the PCs' were brains in jars on their way to Yuggoth. It was the first COC campaign I'd ever run. I hope to do another someday.

@h1sworld891

10 ай бұрын

Do one based off the work of that guy who made the facade and the MEGALOMORTHA

puffin in dnd: happy go lucky super nice puffin in call of Cthulhu: super dark and realistic

@submarineinthesky8946

4 жыл бұрын

It's so off-putting that he still keeps the cheery voice

@TwoTonTaft

4 жыл бұрын

@@submarineinthesky8946 thats just how he talks all the time lol

Cthulhu: my form is infinite, the universe doesn't run on rules Humanity: so things can happen with no reason? Cthulhu: yes puny mortal, your~ Humanity: so you leaving us alone or us beating you for no reason is possible? Cthulhu: ...........

@raptorjesues1445

4 жыл бұрын

*humanity gets slimed*

@auroralaruam

4 жыл бұрын

Cthulhu: You puny mortals will never understand... I am omnipresent throughout darkest recesses of your pathetic animal minds. I am not controlled by your pitiful four dimensional existence. I am God, the great Cthulhu of Ryleh... No mere mortal such as you shall ever reach my level of power! Old Man Henderson: *Kicks down door with a superpowered shotgun in hand* Found ye you overgrown octopus! Gimme back me wee men ye sad excuse fer sushi! Cthulhu: Well shit. I had to open my mouth didn't I?

@ApocryphalDude

4 жыл бұрын

Big C goes back to nap from the migraine.

@helloinsertnamehere5472

4 жыл бұрын

We are like insects to the gods in call of also sex are killed more humans than large animals

@Nyghtking

4 жыл бұрын

Cthulhu: Mortal, the universeis random, I exist beyond the realm of your false time, your existence is meaningless! Humanity: uh-huh, and? Cthulhu:...your death is inevitable and your existence means nothing is the universe! Humanity: ...and? we kind of figured all of this out a long time ago...

You’ve mentioned you’ve played Vampire: The Masquerade before. Is there a possibility you’ll make a video on that game as well?

@youngbloodbanana3376

Жыл бұрын

I Don't think he would

3:07 “Killer Queen has already touched your mental health”

@pluggothesluggo5509

3 жыл бұрын

*JOOOSUKEEEE*

*3:02* Killer Queen has already touched that doorknob, which is why it's gone

3:02 One of those monsters just wants to live a normal, quiet life.

@bobbytonson5890

3 жыл бұрын

My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone

3:12 That idea of chaos and and man's helplessness is what I love about reading ancient epics, because they are full of characters exploring and wrestling with how we ought to live in that grim world. They call the destined destruction of all Fate, which is above even the god's themselves.

We ran a Delta Green game once (different system, same Lovecraftian world). I had one "backup" character who never even got to be in the player group. She went insane just studying things behind the scenes. She had such paranoia she thought her dad was a monster. When she finally left her apartment, she thought an alley rat was some hideous creature come to kill her. She became a future assignment for the remaining group all before she even met them. Fun times.

Mysterious colors, unlike any seen on Earth!

@dhufflepuff348

4 жыл бұрын

Always nice to see another OSP fan in the comment section.

@raptorjesues1445

4 жыл бұрын

always nice to see another OSP fan

@323starlight

4 жыл бұрын

Always nice to find an OSP fan.

@magiv4205

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, a person of culture.

@stretopovermind9680

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, a gathering of OSP viewers? Here, have a like, everyone =)

90% of the comments: “how do you get 12 out of 10x5?”

@submarineinthesky8946

4 жыл бұрын

Me: I don't believe you Also me: Scrolls down to literally the next comment and yeah ok it's a 5x10=12 thingy

@battyrae1398

4 жыл бұрын

We need answers!

@railbaron1

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds he was doing 10+(10/5)

@MoonIitStroll

4 жыл бұрын

He probably rolled 5 d10 and got 12.

@Boss-_

4 жыл бұрын

@@MoonIitStroll That's the only explanation I could ever categorize under "plausible". I seriously don't see any way to get that result with just those two numbers and that one operation, no matter how much you misread

"hers a random story from HP lovecraft" **reads the beginning of the freaking Call of Cthulhu**

Thank you for being one of the first and definitely the best at explaining not only HOW CoC works, but what it IS as a system of mythology. And thank you for not assuming we have all read the books. I have seen "In the Mouth of Madness" and Reanimator and that is about it.

I laughed so hard at 12. I don't know why. ... wait is my sanity compromised?!

@CathrineMacNiel

4 жыл бұрын

only if you accept Taliesin Jaffe as your god you can truly be free.

3:05 "She's a killer, Killer Queen!"

@ricemuchin

4 жыл бұрын

@flame the fox Guaranteed to blow your mind

@bilalozkul8826

4 жыл бұрын

Ora

@theman6422

4 жыл бұрын

Oguz Ozkul dora The explorer

@ricemuchin

4 жыл бұрын

@@bilalozkul8826 Muda

@lauravturner

4 жыл бұрын

Dynamite is everything.

The faces were like “Oh god” “Don’t let it be real” “ *BRUH* ”

Killer queen has already touched the door knob

You know "Achtung Cthulhu!"? It's a set of supplements for CoC to play in a mythos influenced WW2. Including special rules for more pulpy games.

@jakoblent4694

4 жыл бұрын

meaning hitler could try to summon cthulhu and you get a chane at killing him to prevetn this and death of all humanity

You know, I'm getting my education as a math teacher for kids, and... well your math skills intrigue me

Please recite more Lovecraft, it was genuinely terrifying hearing you read that excerpt. Fwooh, chills down my vertebrae

You: *throws d20* DM: Killer queen has already touched that die roll D20: *1*

This is one of my favorite RPG settings. CoC has the biggest immersion potential because you don't play a lvl 20 powergamed d&d 3.5 character that literally can kill a Terrasque in turn one (never losing an initiative too). We have one of the best dms out there. She tailors the CoC adventures to play in our timeline and we play as ourselves. This is "insanely" funny if you catch my drift. We had a lot of "that's crazy, but I really think we would do that" moments. We in our group went to school together and we are still friends almost 20 years down the road. We have changed, obviously. But the "play-yourself" setting brings out a lot of memories as well. I can only recommend it.

@SvarogAristaeusAllen

4 жыл бұрын

As someone else put it, "Didn't take long for this to devolve into 'your brand of fun is stupid!'". DND can be just as immersive if you've got a halfway decent DM at the helm (and aren't playing a garbo edition)

@subterreanhighrise

4 жыл бұрын

@@SvarogAristaeusAllen As someone else put it, "Didn't take long for somebody to misread something negative into that comment". We've played 5 sessions of CoC rpg and maybe 100 D&D ones. We've invested more time into houserules for 3.5 than WotC invested into 3.5. We loved it and it was immersive. But try playing yourself in a low fantasy setting where everything is normal until everything goes to shit and you go crazy. It's a different story. That's all I'm saying. I can assure you that there are many "brands of fun" out there. All of which are great, if they fit your taste.

@kevinsullivan3448

4 жыл бұрын

What? D20 doesn't work for any setting other than high fantasy? Lies! (that is does work for anything other than high fantasy)

@SvenTviking

4 жыл бұрын

Have you seen “The laundry files” RPG which comes from “The laundry” novels by Charles Stross, which are basically Cthulu Mythos but more Ian Fleming, Len Deighton or Tom Clancy secret service type stories?

@commandercaptain4664

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevinsullivan3448 d20 Modern does everything D&D does not (and in some ways, better).

"Eventually we will fail." Tell that too old man Henderson m8.

@xzcxfrgh

4 жыл бұрын

I mean he did technically fall, but he took a shit-ton more with him.

@asteroid1460

4 жыл бұрын

@@xzcxfrgh nah, he successfully takes out the yellow king in the end. all in a day's work I guess.

@MrLegendofBob

4 жыл бұрын

And Hans too

@asteroid1460

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrLegendofBob ya him too

@mrcorner1216

4 жыл бұрын

He did only delay the inevitable as well. With stuff like Azatoth around, there is no real hope.

"the world will one day fall" but not today. today, old man henderson kills a god.

I really hope you can do more of these. This is one of my favorite mythos and enjoyed this one a lot

1:50 "This is what happens when you don't have constitution for math"

@alexross1816

4 жыл бұрын

I get that reference!

@simonbanzhaf2352

4 жыл бұрын

Alex Ross Same!

@TheSpencermacdougall

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he was just blinded by colours unlike any seen on Earth!?

@gargoyles9999

3 жыл бұрын

Spencer MacDougall JUST MOVE

killer queen has already touched the timestamp 3:03

@sinnerthesinful552

4 жыл бұрын

JOSUKEEEEEE!!!

@bilalozkul8826

4 жыл бұрын

4

3:03 the man tries to shut the door but killer queen has already touched the door nob

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. My first TTRPG will be starting soon and having this quick glimpse was very helpful. Time to make my character sheet and hope for the best! Great video btw

3:03 killer queen has already touched that door

Puffin:sees *10x5 and comes up with 12* Puffin: yea that sounds about right I may not be a mathematician, but I'm fairly certain theres no possible way to combine 10 and 5 and get 12 Edit: I mean combine 10 and 5 only, without any other numbers

@thestalost8486

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe a very poor roll of 5d10?

@kaplahworm

4 жыл бұрын

divide 10 by 2, get 5, add to the other 5, add the dividing number 2 MATTTHHHHHHHHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSorrySSSSSSSSSSSS

@RoseAltro

4 жыл бұрын

Or in other words, "My risk was calculated, but MAN am I bad at math!"

@UBN6

4 жыл бұрын

i would work if you where to redefine "*" as a*b=a+(a/b) then 10*5=10+(10/5)=12

@schwarzerritter5724

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe they rolled 10 5-sided dice and got really unlucky? You have to applaud their conviction to not start playing before they find 5-sided dice.

You have a strikingly attractive personality/voice/way of telling a story That keeps me coming back its almost...abserd🤣👍

You know, I wonder if Lovecraft would appreciate the sheer popularity and variety of his works in the modern world.

@sidneyrobinson18

8 ай бұрын

He'd probably hate that people with darker skin than his were reading it tbh 😂

3:07 Killer queen has already touched the doorknob I didnt know you were a jojos fan

@SairinEarthsea

4 жыл бұрын

He now has higher intellect and took the first napkin.

3:03 Killer Queen has already touched that doorknob

@napstab100k

4 жыл бұрын

*BOOM*

@finn7497

4 жыл бұрын

JOSUKE!!!!!!?

"Eventually we're going to lose" Old Man Henderson has entered the chat.

OMG I love lore explained videos and this hit my nerdy spot just right!

And elsewhere a Sword say "I waaaarned youuuu"

I really wanna hear how you thought 10x5=12? Then again HP Lovecraft had such a "poor constitution for math" that he might agree with that

@cnlbenmc

4 жыл бұрын

How does someone mess that equation up so badly!?

@jackielinde7568

4 жыл бұрын

I see someone is a fan of Overly Sarcastic Productions: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqGY3NKtktzRqqw.html

@ZidaneWarner

4 жыл бұрын

Damn it you beat me to it

@TheRezro

4 жыл бұрын

@@cnlbenmc D10+5 Something else?

Played my first Call of Cthulu game the other day. Played a crazy 97-year old grandma cult leader who was the only one who survived. It was amazing.

1:24 so the solution is there is an artifact that is making a magical barrier preventing technology in the area, including cars and guns, from working, so it becomes a race using ingenuity.

I'm curious about how you did get 10 * 5 = 12

@anthonybarrera9352

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@rickw9291

4 жыл бұрын

Lugui maybe 10/5 + 10

@KeyMasterX

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like they were using common core math right there.

@bloodred255

4 жыл бұрын

sounds like the topic for another video.

@kilodelta1495

4 жыл бұрын

10+2

3:06 I see killer Queen! So does that mean puffin has watched Jojo?

4:00 the horror in the clay is the first part of The Call Of Chtulhu

I love your cthulu videos ! Pls keep them coming

3:06 Killer Queen! I really like JoJo, and I'm happy that Ben drew it in his lovely style!

@Spartan-yq4qp

4 жыл бұрын

David Bowie and his Cat know no bounds

@ramendude4062

4 жыл бұрын

@@Spartan-yq4qp *first and second cat

@thesymbiotenation.4552

4 жыл бұрын

@@Spartan-yq4qp Killer Queen has already touched the tentacles...

Ben, buddy, I'm gonna need you to explain that next-level math, there.

@obsidianthurisaz5106

4 жыл бұрын

Probably 5d10 and horrible rolls.

thank you so much this was perfect to share with my players also omg your reading voice is so difference lol

When I played this game my DM had what I considered a very fair (though totally non canon) setup: While he did sanity checks ALOT and set the thresholds rather high to succeed whenever "dark cosmic truths" were on the table, he offered *THREE* methods to restore sanity, all reasonable IMO. First was rest. While you healed hp at 2 every week, you healed sanity at one point every two weeks, simply by keeping your mind unstressed and free of the horrors of the Beyond. Second, you could take Laudenum or Heroin to either lower lower sanity score or temporary raise your dice pool for sanity checks (the trade off being every use ran the risk of drug addiction and all those nasty penalties if you didn't maintain the habit). Finally, in his version the Abramhamic God was very real, it was simply one deity out of the many cosmic beings out there. It created humanity, protected them from the WORST of things, and eternally aided them whenever it could. Knowing this *COULD* give a spiritually tuned and intelligent character really good sanity and sanity saving scores. However it was equally likely in those cases that your character would learn their "almighty god" was just one of many hostile ones (and not even *remotely* the most powerful) and mentally shatter at the revelation (LOTS of strategic dice rolls were involved in gaining this boon). So there you are: three means to improve sanity. One borderline impractical but present, the other two completely risk/reward based.

2:19 *pauses* I just want to know how you got 12 out of that. like...you could make an entire video on how you logic'd that and I would be really intrigued cus I can't for the life of me figure out how you get 12

@alexisguillen8400

4 жыл бұрын

The theories seem to be that he looked at the 5 upside down and the x diagonally. I mean it could happen if he's swimming in notes or somehow playing DnD in a hamster wheel.

3:03 I guess he really did blow your mind

Love your videos. Would love to see more Call of Cthulhu themed ones! Or even other games like dark heresy or BESM.

3:07 Me: Sees Killer Queen Me: iS tHaT a JoJo ReFeReNcE

@commandercaptain4664

4 жыл бұрын

You thought it was Fat Bottomed Girls, BUT IT WAS I, KILLER QUEEN!

@SairinEarthsea

4 жыл бұрын

It's all coming together.

3:03 Killer Queen has already touched that door.

@andrewmcnally5013

4 жыл бұрын

Deadly Queen has no weakness.

@DemoAppleMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Hayato

@hubertpham940

4 жыл бұрын

Switch on!

@aytoshii

4 жыл бұрын

Ernesto Ignacio Gomez Belloso is this a JoJo reference?

@vatrynfanelia2272

4 жыл бұрын

@@aytoshii BITES ZE DUSTO!!

So, do you ever encounter an obelisk that you REALLY shouldn't push over?

"Why don't I run a Call of Cthulhu game, but Indiana Jones themed!" Bro, that's what the Pulp Cthulhu rule set is for, my man. They've literally gotcha, dude.

@clesjikoandromas2061

4 жыл бұрын

Or achtung Cthulhu!

Your art has improved puffin

Ben: 10 x 5 = 12 Me: Ben Roll For Insanity Check!

Cthulhu actually isn't a god. He's a priest. The actual gods are much scarier than he is

@DRangerRed

4 жыл бұрын

Dear lord

@blakeking1125

4 жыл бұрын

@@DRangerRed also praying would be a very bad idea in lovecraft land. Anything that hears you is something you don't want paying attention to you.

@boredcryptek5513

4 жыл бұрын

@@blakeking1125 Really ignorance is bliss. The dark gods that are out there could care less about us and we more or less want to keep it that way. Because they can be pretty bad if we don't.

@theprinceofawesomeness

4 жыл бұрын

god damn it. you beat me to it

@619ver1

4 жыл бұрын

Not quite to be honest. C'thulu much like his bretheren are for all intents and purposes gods. He is just the high priest of an even Bigger, scarier god called Azzatoth.

Hey puffin! I've really been enjoying the story vids you make. I'm a recently "new" player to the DnD and Call of Cthulu games as of the last year, and your stories about being a GM had inspired me to try my hand at working on a first time homebrew! There's a really awesome Handbook and Monster Manual almost identical to DnD's 5th edition, but specially tailored for the Warcraft universe if you ever feel like adding some extra spice to PCs. I'm still in the midst of working on a Master Plot and building some different encounters for the party, but it's a cool read all together! Anyways... loving the videos, and always hoping to see more hilarious antics that you (or your party) is up to! Cheers!

you can get your mental health back if you don't reach a certain threshold it isn't that your fight is futile either, its just *really* really difficult

2:19 I would love to hear how you all came to that conclusion, I thought you were going to say 10 X 5 = 15 NOT 12, HOW DID YOU COME TO THAT CONCLUSION

@MrTohawk

4 жыл бұрын

10 is 2 in base 2

@superspeedish

4 жыл бұрын

Think the X was a + and the 5 a 2. Thats the only thing my brain can come up with. That or alcohol was plentiful/sleep non-existent

@silver6002

4 жыл бұрын

{(10/5) x 5 } + (10/5) Quack

@onatkalkan4907

4 жыл бұрын

Quack Quack

@firstlastname5332

4 жыл бұрын

Easy, 10 x (your current age) - (today's date) * 5 and divide by purple = 12

I've been running a CoC campaign with a group of friends over Discord and we honestly Like the game system ourselves. and I'm glad I had learned about it from your channel back when you made the first CoC video I think. Thanks Puffin

I stared playing this two days ago, and I love it. Always loved Lovecraft and his horror and now I can play in it

Me and my friends had a pretty lengthy campaign of CoC, where we started in Chicago and basically had a mystery we followed all around the north east US ending in Maine. Each session was a new location, kind of like one shots which fit into the larger story, kinda like avatar in a way. We went to Chicago, Boston, New York, Portland, cape cod (where another friend joined the game halfway through as a lighthouse keeping widower) all sorts of places. It was fun as hell. As for paper thin characters, I think we were able to pull off some good ones. The lighthouse keeper who mourns her husband and keeps away from the sea in her boarded up house, the newly graduated doctor who killed a patient after slipping into madness, a boxer who suffered from PTSD from wwi, a grizzled investigator and a flapper type girl who was always drunk and never quite there in the head. Fending off demonic sirens, tracking down missing children and my favorite, assassinating a god damn president elect because he was a cult leader. That took two whole sessions, it was cool af

years back My Brother, a friend and I played CoC, as we played teen armature ghost hunters, it was the rare time I actually didn't die in the session, as I played a meat head dude who was hell bend on "Punching a Ghost"

@mikeyryu232

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a Jojo's Bizzare Adventure Reference your guy, but hey that sounds pretty cool!

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

Chad Ghost Puncher Pasta?

@josephcompton5602

4 жыл бұрын

@@dubuyajay9964 well my character's name was Todd, but more or less, yes.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephcompton5602 I'm assuming you read it then?

@josephcompton5602

4 жыл бұрын

@@dubuyajay9964 oh I didn't know that was an actual thing, I just assumed it was what my play session boiled down to Chad + Creepy Pasta

The more I learn of H.P. Lovecraft as a person, the more I see how he _really_ let his personal failings influence his works. After having "too frail of a constitution" for math (i.e. the basis of scientific education), he then makes a universe, where science is basically a straight pathway to humanity's destruction.

@nooneinparticular5256

4 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine once said this about him: "Half of his work makes me say, 'this poor child needs a hug,' the other half makes me say, 'this dude needs a punch in the face.'"

@zigzaghyena3633

4 жыл бұрын

The fact that he was perpetually anxiety riddled mess with a crippling fear of the unknown was definitely a factor, the unknown in this case be such things as : working class people, air conditioning units, people whose skin was darker than his, any religion or system of faith, and Einsteins theory of relativity.

@noellepoquiz3189

4 жыл бұрын

There's also the racism. Don't forget the racism.

@mercerholt8299

4 жыл бұрын

Also don't forget his overly controlling phsychologiclly manipulative mother.

@Luigicat11

4 жыл бұрын

@@nooneinparticular5256 Reminds me of someone in the modern day.

The way I describe secarios in call of cthulhu to my players when they ask why it feels like their story had so little impact is thus "You are not stopping it, you delay it. In the Mythos Cthulhu is basically a giant octopoid alarm clock and you have pressed the snooze button. You may only be delaying it, but that delay allows humanity more days to enjoy their lives"

1:42 All I could think was “Old Man Henderson”