"Jack's Hip Flask" (new item for Pulp Cthulhu scenarios) - If its contents are consumed right after failing a Sanity roll, the Sanity loss is the minimum that's possible.

@JuanGarcia-vl7wy

5 жыл бұрын

I'm so gonna use this in my next campaign

"Exploring and sporting expedition, under experienced guidance, leaving England June to explore rivers central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Percy Fawcett, abundant game, big and small; exceptional fishing; room two more guns; highest references expected and given." that was a real advert in the London Times, one of the men who applied was Peter Flemming, brother of Ian, his book Brazilian Adventure (1933) covers this, he also travelled from Moscow to Peking in 1934, One's Company, then from Peking to India in 1935, Travels in Tartary, all 3 are excellent sources & a good read

A spreadsheet of redshirts that are likely to die, can’t name a more Keeper thing than that lmao

"Troodon" is pronounced with three vowels -- "troh-oh-don". It's a real species of dromaeosaurids (raptors and the like), thought to have the largest brain to body size ratio and thus the highest intelligence among all the dinosaurs.

@viceroy___

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. As a non-English native I appreciate it when people point this stuff out.

Wanna screw with your players' heads? Before the T-Rex reveal, have the "Scientist recreation of T-Rex Roar" on standby. As your players are walking along, seeing the weird dinos, occasionally play that sound (requires some precise volume control, so if you have a laptop in your keeper area, feel free to manipulate the volume) to show distance. And let your players know that they don't *just* hear that sound: they *feel* that sound. Then occasionally play it again, this time a little louder. Just ratchet that paranoia up to 11. Then do the big fight with Mr. Bad News himself. Worth the torment

@BR4IN1N4J4R

2 жыл бұрын

For those unaware, T-Rex didn't roar. It was a ultra-low sound that wasn't an "open mouth vocalization," so think less roar and more bass feedback from concert speakers

@danielgoldberg5357

2 жыл бұрын

@@BR4IN1N4J4R I watched an episode of a science TV show where they simulated what they thought this sounded like, and it's super-creepy. More like the low clicking sound the Predator makes in those movies.

@BR4IN1N4J4R

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielgoldberg5357 this is more the sound I was talking because it's a special brand of unnerving, especially through decent speakers: kzread.info/dash/bejne/haSDwdGvYsy9qaw.html

@danielgoldberg5357

2 жыл бұрын

@@BR4IN1N4J4R Terrifying.

As a beginning keeper, I really enjoy your Call Of Cthulhu reviews. Looking forward to more!

@SSkorkowsky

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

I really love your channel. I found it a couple months ago, and it's great. I love the swaps between you and your "characters" all of which I find hilarious and insightful. Thank you for all the help and advice. I appreciate you.

@SSkorkowsky

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Happy to hear you're enjoying it.

"T'was Beauty that slew the Beast..." King Kong 1933(& the Peter Jackson remake) See, Jack's not the only Classic Movie fan....:D

I am currently running this for my players as a intro into my HEX CoC homebrew and this helped so much. You sir have definitely helped shape me into the Keeper I am and because of that I now have an amazing group of Players/Friends that i have been playing with on roll20 for a year now. Thank you Seth and may the Elder Gods see fit to gift you many boons.

@SSkorkowsky

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to be of help.

Loved the review, and as a result I just purchased this adventure. Your channel is fun, insightful, and you provide great advice for GMs in regards to actually running the adventures. Keep up the great work!

@SSkorkowsky

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Have fun with the adventure. It's a fun one.

@cademartori13

6 жыл бұрын

Seth Skorkowsky i

Love your reviews, it's like listening to a pulp- styled comic book 👍

This sounds like a great adventure to adapt to Hollow Earth Expeditions.

Ngl that depiction of Carcosa is one of the best I have ever seen

Love the Firefly reference

That's a statement you don't often hear people say, "Tasty puke."

I always retype premade adventures and print them out. It allows me to compact the adventure, make changes to the adventure, either to tailor or to fix problems I noticed, and it almost guarantees that players will not guess what the adventure is until I run it.

This module sounds really cool! Thanks for the in-depth review.

Love your reviews. I have finally begun running some Call of Cthulhu, and find your tips on adventures very helpful. I’m running Age of Cthulhu using 7e. Recently, I ran “A Dream of Japan”, and would love to hear your thoughts on the adventure.

I'd give it a Like just for the "Innsmouth gold" meme. And the pregen illustrations were by McDevit!

Jack gets +5 San check for that Firefly Ref

Cool review. I haven't played rpg's in a long time, I wish guys like you lived near me so I could get into it again.

I love your videos and am super interested in learning and playing Call of Cthulhu, sadly I dont have any players in the new place I live at

Jack never disappoints.

Do you use minitures with this game? Love this channel I have been bingeing. It makes me wanna play some RP.

@SSkorkowsky

6 жыл бұрын

Personally, I use miniatures, though many Call of Cthulhu players don't. Glad you're enjoying it.

Hi, thank you for making these review. Really helping me out man! Is it posible to link or share the sheet for Cheng and the Porters?

@SSkorkowsky

7 жыл бұрын

No problem. drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfJM9t2i6siODVHZEJKZ3ZPT0E/view?usp=sharing

@TheJoystickJunky

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hey, the Field Museum! Been there many times for real!

for a fun time, i'd go ahead and use the animals from peter jackson's king kong. there's a compendium for them floating around on the internet, if you wanna use that for a reference book

Finally got around to watching this one. I hope one day you get around to the other 'Elder Things & Dinosaurs' scenario, 'Gate from the Past' which is I think this scenarios spiritual ancestor.

Yeah that's the double edge sword. Don't put the monster on the cover to avoid spoiling but risk not selling copies, or put the monster on the cover spoiling it but selling a lot of copies.

Is this compatible with Masks of Nyarlathotep or the old Yog Sototh Campaign since both have Asian locales?

Love it .

Instructions unclear, played Jurassic park theme with a melodica and players cant stop laughing.

I love any adventure that is "a hoot".

Anyone know how many players this can comfortably accommodate? (minimum and maximum?) I see 5 pre-gens; 6 players too many?

I'm actually very curious what happened between this video and now, cause when I clicked the link to get a physical copy, ALL the Age of Cthulhu books have been de-listed from their website as well as all the PDFs on DrivethruRPG's site. I found a copy on Amazon and one-click ordered that crap to make sure I got it (one copy left warning on their page), but I can't help but wonder if their was a rights issue or something, cause this seems like a super short time for this kind of arrangement to run out.

@SSkorkowsky

4 жыл бұрын

From what I understand, Goodman games had a licensing agreement to release the Cthulhu stuff, and when the agreement came up, they chose not to renew it and focus on their other stuff instead. Bummer, too, since I liked several of the Age of Cthulhu adventures.

@ArcNeoMasato

4 жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky I'm glad I found a copy of this one at least. I snagged the Pulp Cthulhu book to go along with it too, cause if I'm gonna do Cthuluian dinos, my players are for sure gonna want to have some full combat. lol

You do seem to enjoy CoC. I was wondering have you every used any other system to run CoC? Savage Worlds, d20, or Gumshoe?

@SSkorkowsky

6 жыл бұрын

None of those, but I did use the Interlock system (Cyberpunk 2020) to run a CoC campaign once.

@jackleg2007

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should have some episodes comparing the other systems vs BRP. There are about 6 or so. Also forgot to mention FATE for Achtung! Cthulhu. Of course when you have time!

Nice review. Goodman games generally seem to have quite a few plot holes. Nicely done cleaning it up. I love that they use the Elder Things, which seem to see very little use in Call of Cthulhu overall. I might need to look into getting a PDF of this one. Thanks for sharing.

@SSkorkowsky

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah the dinosaurs and Elder Things were what sold me on it. I hadn't even noticed some of the issues like the timeline during my pre-game readings, but once we started playing the players picked up on them right away. Most plot hols like that are easy to plug if you know about them prior to the game

@JonHook

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I take total responsibility for the timeline goof. I can't recall it exactly, but I was trying to weigh reasonable time differences in 1920/30s for communication and travel. Clearly, I dropped the ball at one point that neither my editor or I noticed. I do hope you eventually pick up the PDF and give it a shot. And another big thanks to Seth for a fantasticly produced and well thought out review.

@nicholashurst780

6 жыл бұрын

I mean in At The Mountains of Madness the Elder Things are either living miles under the Antarctic ground (so extra miles under counting the ice) or very possibly extinct, eaten by their own shoggoths... So I can see why they may not immidietely jump out to writers as the Eldritch monsters to use

Love Jack Seth your cool to

Perfect chance to send the PCs to the Hyborian Age.

@oz_jones

Жыл бұрын

Crom laughs at your Idiot God

Check out Phillip Jose Farmer Dungepn series if you want to make a campaign. Novel of group looking for a lost expedition and finds a series of interconnected world but they are unable go back thru the original gate.

Hi Seth! I need your help ones again. English is not my first language and I´m not great at reading cursive. I can´t read the letter from Dr. Norris, Handout F. Could you please help me if you have the time?

@SSkorkowsky

3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing. The letter is extremely hard to read even if you can read cursive with English as your first language, so I can imagine it's far more difficult for you. This is the best I can do (a couple words I had to make an educated guess at). December 30, 1923 - Relocated to new dig sit right at the base of The Singing Hills. The granite elevations are layered in hues of gold, red, black and tan, beautiful and fascinating. We sent leg and hip fossils from a small theropod to Peking but the larger finds have been ferried to Pyongyang to be shipped home. January 2, 1924 - A new amazing find. A sauropod with unprecedented features clearly need to help it forage for difficult to reach or difficult to eat plants. Some of the camels were stolen by some of the porters last night. The cowards are fleeing because of the ghost stories they tell about these hills. I’ve warned the other porters that I plan to shoot thieves should anyone want to consider stealing more camels. January 5, 1924 - The winds have shifted - and I now know why these are called The Singing Hills. The winds whip though eddies in the rocks like breath through a flute. Kent has discovered a cave, not too far from the camp, that seems to hum as the wind blows. It sets my teeth to rattling. I think we’ll check it out for fossils tomorrow. January 6, 1924 - All of my previous discoveries pale in comparison to what is inside that cave. The winds play hell with it though, and it’s damn hard to think straight in there. I’ve had enough of that damn hum. Father Armell has strengthened my resolve and we are praying for the winds to cease soon. More tomorrow.

@TheJoystickJunky

3 жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky Thank you so much.

@SSkorkowsky

3 жыл бұрын

No problem. Have fun with the adventure.

Seems like it's no longer available on either links. Can anyone help me out?

@SSkorkowsky

4 жыл бұрын

Weird. It appears the entire Goodman Games Age of Cthulhu line is gone, even from their website. Don't know what the story is there, but it bums me out to see.

@SSkorkowsky

4 жыл бұрын

According to Chaosium, Goodman Games decided not to renew their license and focus on other things. So the best bet now is Ebay or Amazon (there's like 1 copy left there.)

@bbd121

2 жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky it's on sale at Paizo, but I can't seem to post any information about it on the video. Am I blocked from doing so, or something?

Great content as usual could you do some more old school d&d reviews in the future really like the cthulu vids just seems like your getting a little one sided lol

If we need knives & sharp sticks does that make us an ultimate badass? 😜

@KuyVonBraun

7 жыл бұрын

I also always appreciate a Firefly reference 😊

@SSkorkowsky

7 жыл бұрын

State of the badass art.

@williamfawkes8379

5 жыл бұрын

Secure that shit, Hudson.

Hey, anyone know where to find this adventure now?

@SSkorkowsky

3 жыл бұрын

Goodman Games stopped carrying it along with all of their Age of Cthulhu line, but the author Jon Hook has expressed an interest in trying to secure the rights back and get it republished. Don't know when or if that might happen, though.

@Jax7787

3 жыл бұрын

Oddly enough Paizo has a copy, under Store > Roleplaying Games > CoC > Goodman Games. I just bought a copy. Not sure why they have it, but it is there.

@bbd121

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jax7787 You're a genius. (Not sure why my comment was removed. Also, I commented the link on this video for convenience)

@Jax7787

2 жыл бұрын

@@bbd121 lol, I tried adding the link twice and the comments disappeared, so I just wrote out steps to navigate to the module. It is too bad we can't get it from Goodman, or get the printed copy, but at least there is a PDF available somewhere!

@Gondorf5

2 жыл бұрын

I just recently.picked up a physical copy on ebay. PDFs are still available elsewhere online, but I'm not sure if you could get it anywhere else as a physical copy.

Seth😎

"...really brutal as it goes for one of the red-shirts." Ha! So, screw the poor porters...! They're just there to get horribly killed! That was hilariously cold blooded LOL... (Not judging; this'd happen in my own games...)

Jack is the best parr of these videos

Is this 7e?

This won't be of interest to 99% of people who play this game but my group plays these scenarios in the modern day. As near as I can tell, Mongolia is a lot more stable these days so if you want to modernize the module, maybe move it to Africa.

#PorterLivesMatter

Man, seventh edition call of Cthulhu modules just make me kind of sad. They’re basically dungeons and Dragon modules with Cthulhu stuff stuck in there. That’s a shame

@SSkorkowsky

6 жыл бұрын

There's more pulpy adventures out now (also Pulp Cthulhu) but there's a ton of wonderful investigative/Lovecraftian 7e modules coming out, too. Blackwater Creek, Dead Light, Cold Warning, Star on the Shore, etc. Since Chaosium in licensing to other makers who are doing Kickstarters, there's a lot more variety now.

@ishmiel21

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll check out some of or reviews on those titles. I just happened to watch 3 or 4 of your reviews in a row that were all about the puppy 7e Coc.

@SSkorkowsky

6 жыл бұрын

My reviews are for games I ran for our group. We split them action/investigative, just because that's what we like. So there's a higher percentage of action adventures among my module reviews than what all is out there. A couple classic-style ones that I'm looking forward to reading are "Sun Spots" and "The Dare." They're not officially released yet (both Kickstarters) but look extremely promising.