Comments on: Actual Play: Call of Cthulhu – Dig to Victory!

By: beowuuf

beowuuf — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:35:12 +0000

I think it’s meant to be the dumb spawn carrying on with the rituals in a half-assed way, since the real priests who knew what it all meant had been killed off.

It was probably a tradition to bang the drums and have some good old fashiond sacrifices or orgies at midnight to drums, and now all the spawn can do are bang a few drums and give each other encouraging thumbs up signs.

By: Cavallo

Cavallo — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:09:16 +0000

Great. I’m going to run it very soon. There’s one thing I probably just missed. What was the drums thing in the deeps? I really loved tension it provided and whole idea of sound beyond the wall is brilliant, but what it meant to be exactly?

By: Bill Delgado

Bill Delgado — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:25:58 +0000

I thought I knew a few things about WW1, but found out I don’t know that much after all. The keeper dude really knew his stuff, and I enjoyed the attention to detail. I did enjoy some of the banter between the players, but I wish they hadn’t talked quite so much, because I was trying to listen to the story and they kept talking over the keeper.

By: Sidneu

Sidneu — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:35:41 +0000

I’ve come slightly late to the party on this podcast, but thought it was really excellent. The details of the tunnelling companies and their equipment was really well researched, the background was vibrant and the idea of the Great War as providing a realistic context to why a PC is interested in the occult in the 1920s sounded eminently plausible. And I particularly loved the logic in “He won’t be able to bleed on the stonework…because he’ll be on fire”.

By: A. Scott Glancy

A. Scott Glancy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:02:15 +0000

The scenario will be published in a collection we are calling “Horrors of War” and it will likely be published in 2010. We may publish a single scenario from the collection in 2009.

By: Max_Writer

Max_Writer — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:34:46 +0000

This is great. What book is it coming out in? I’m getting it!

By: Dawnsteel

Dawnsteel — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:04:50 +0000

You’ve earned yourselves a new listener! This scenario was fantastic, I absolutely loved the Keeper’s attention to detail.
My favorite lines?

Keeper: You need to move up with the rest of the group, because way back there, you stand a strong chance of surviving the scenario, and we can’t have that.

Keeper: And you’ll continue to laugh/cry for the next fourteen combat rounds…
Player: Or the rest of your life…whichever happens first.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:30:52 +0000

Was this all before or after they woke that thing up?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:04:25 +0000

Yes but I think the French got there surrender monkey “cred” from WW2.

Plus you and your blatantly true facts make me look bad….

( this may be double post my bad)

By: LS

LS — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:00:48 +0000

Those WW2 figures are very informative. But wasn’t this a WW1 scenario?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:16:52 +0000

That is of course not counting the 1,800,000 French captured in the Battle of France

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:12:57 +0000

A few estimates
Total military deaths.
Philippines 57,000
Finland 95,000
France* 217,600
Poland 240,000
Romania 300,000
Hungary 300,000
Italy 301,400
UK 382,600
US 416,800
Yugoslavia 446,000
Japan 2,120,000
China 3,800,000
the Nazis 5,533,000

10,700,000 soviet troops say that you should shut the hell up. Cause they lost almost 50 times the number of soldiers. they had 20 times more civilians die in the war then all of the French deaths in the whole war.

France also failed to show resistance to the militarization of Rhineland by Hitler; whose troops had orders to withdraw if France showed some balls. Instead of resisting they ran off to Britain. Then at the League of Nations meeting they did not even favors sanctions against them Germany.

As a side note are you counting civilian deaths? Cause the French lost a total of 567,000 people in the war.

By: The Ungodly Weight of Facts

The Ungodly Weight of Facts — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:09:47 +0000

I had to stop about 20 minutes in when the group decided to demonstrate their ignorance of WW2.

The 90,000 French killed in combat before the June 22 armistice are not amused by your “surrender monkey” jokes. The other 300,000 French casualties during the war aren’t all that impressed, either.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:55:33 +0000

I feel like I learned a lot about WWI listening to this. Lots of excellent detail, compelling suspense, and a horrific end. The sound effects were great! Thanks for posting and please share more!

By: TEHBOOCH

TEHBOOCH — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:55:21 +0000

Man that was awesome and hilarious! yet another reason i need to start running CoC for my buddies (although they would all just start killing everyone they meet hehe)
was great every second

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:42:48 +0000

Great game. I was almost disturbed by the amount of knowledge the Keeper had on the scenario and on the subject matter. The game itself did drag on for a bit 320 min is a bit much.

By: Shane Ivey

Shane Ivey — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:58:53 +0000

Thanks for posting this! Very fun stuff. Next time they need to schedule the awards ceremony so it doesn’t conflict with a game. (grumble, grumble)

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:37:36 +0000

My favorite moment is way over in the 250s: “We’re British. Anyone south of Dover is a wog!”

Pizza and fascism FTW!
J

By: Allan Goodall

Allan Goodall — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:55:22 +0000

Hi, Ross. I was one of the Arc Dream guys (Allan Goodall, who played the medic). Kevin Pezzano was the other Arc Dream player (and he was the character with the most dramatic “fate”).