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General Category => Role Playing Public Radio Podcast => : Wooberman July 14, 2009, 05:54:02 AM
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While working I've been sneaking my headphones on to listen to Tom's Call of Cthulhu Actual play debut.
So far i'm 2hrs 40mins through and I'm really impressed.
Nearly got caught out as i had to choke back laughter at...
Tom "His arm bends like this"
Ross "I shoot him"
Pure class!
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I was also very impressed by this game. Tom's GMing (Keeping?) style is spot-on: he populated his game with memorable NPCs, a setting rife with vivid imagery, and a villain that made me want to scream and hide under the bed.
CAUTION: Ahead be spoilers.
I loved Grunefeld especially for the antipodal aspects of humanity and inhumanity united in his character--he listens to Mozart while he dines on human flesh, for God's sake! Kohl and Schuller turned out to be total badasses, one because he pulled himself back from the brink of insanity, and the other because he competently navigated his way through the scenario while his squad mates fumbled at every turn (thanks to Tom's lucky die rolls).
The setting was also a gem for a CoC / survival horror game--isolated, buffeted by severe weather, and somehow claustrophobic even in its open spaces. Tom dreamed up some wonderful images for the game as well. The two that come most readily to mind are the defrosting portrait of Hitler in the colonel's office and the sentry frozen to his machine gun in the guard tower. Stuff like that really puts you into the world as a player, and Tom sprinkled it in like a pro.
Perhaps the best part of the game was the villain, a presence from another place slowly changing the Nazi complex into its home away from home. The monster that chased them down a the end, the dead colonel sitting up and speaking in the bath tub where he committed suicide, and the radio that channeled the voices of the Nazis trapped in Area G were flat out awesome devices, each of which added to the inhuman power and cunning manipulations of the mysterious unseen enemy.
I hope this scenario is published at some point, because I would love to read it and run it for a group of my friends. I think they'd really get a kick out of it.
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While working I've been sneaking my headphones on to listen to Tom's Call of Cthulhu Actual play debut.
So far i'm 2hrs 40mins through and I'm really impressed.
Nearly got caught out as i had to choke back laughter at...
Tom "His arm bends like this"
Ross "I shoot him"
Pure class!
I've noticed that regardless of game, whenever I play, I tend to have a violent knee jerk reaction to unnatural creatures. I remember my thoughts were "FUCK THAT THING" when Tom described the arm bending.
In a 4E game I played in, when I found a brain in a jar making undead creatures my immediate instinct was to 'KILL IT WITH FIRE'. Because seriously fuck that thing.
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Okay I have to ask this.....
Can we get a CoC with the same crew but with Cody as well? Maybe a ransom like for the the New World primer to encourage it to get done? Seriously I think we all want to hear what would come out of Cody's mouth in a CoC game.
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Okay I have to ask this.....
Can we get a CoC with the same crew but with Cody as well? Maybe a ransom like for the the New World primer to encourage it to get done? Seriously I think we all want to hear what would come out of Cody's mouth in a CoC game.
I can add it to the previews for the ransom contributors
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oh and Cody was a french resistance member and made all kinds of bad jokes about it.
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oh and Cody was a french resistance member and made all kinds of bad jokes about it.
I'll pay to hear that. Consider my blood money in the bank.
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Tom is defently a great player, and even better GM. I could only imagine what his gargoyles game are like. Great job tom.
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I loved this actual play. It was absolutely great. I always had an inkling that Tom would be a good GM- his 10,000 year Gargoyles game he speaks of from time to time provided said inkling.
Hahah! We know your secret, Tom! You are not as suck as you say you are! :P
Now, for my favorite quote from the recording. It sounds a lot like something I'd hear at one of my games:
Tom: "There are shelves that have, like, bundles wrapped in butcher-paper..."
Ross:"Good! So I don't know what they are!"
Tom: "Then there are the gurneys in the center of the freezer..."
Ross:"Son of a fucking Bitch!"
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I loved this actual play. It was absolutely great. I always had an inkling that Tom would be a good GM- his 10,000 year Gargoyles game he speaks of from time to time provided said inkling.
Hahah! We know your secret, Tom! You are not as suck as you say you are! :P
Now, for my favorite quote from the recording. It sounds a lot like something I'd hear at one of my games:
Tom: "There are shelves that have, like, bundles wrapped in butcher-paper..."
Ross:"Good! So I don't know what they are!"
Tom: "Then there are the gurneys in the center of the freezer..."
Ross:"Son of a fucking Bitch!"
hahahah yeah I know how that song and dance goes and it does not end well for the PC usually
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What I loved about my game of Tom's CoC was that every joke I made, Ross gave me a look as if I had really crossed the line. He was really worried about the sensibilities of the listeners and every French joke I made was met with cringes.
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I like listening to everybody worry about making their spot hidden rolls and rejoicing when the fail.
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What I loved about my game of Tom's CoC was that every joke I made, Ross gave me a look as if I had really crossed the line. He was really worried about the sensibilities of the listeners and every French joke I made was met with cringes.
the French Resistance was badass and you know who else makes fun of the French in general? That's right. Bill O'Reilly. You wanna be that guy?
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What I loved about my game of Tom's CoC was that every joke I made, Ross gave me a look as if I had really crossed the line. He was really worried about the sensibilities of the listeners and every French joke I made was met with cringes.
the French Resistance was badass and you know who else makes fun of the French in general? That's right. Bill O'Reilly. You wanna be that guy?
You who else makes fun of the French?
The English
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What I loved about my game of Tom's CoC was that every joke I made, Ross gave me a look as if I had really crossed the line. He was really worried about the sensibilities of the listeners and every French joke I made was met with cringes.
the French Resistance was badass and you know who else makes fun of the French in general? That's right. Bill O'Reilly. You wanna be that guy?
You who else makes fun of the French?
The English
And who bombed the English?
Germans, that's who.
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What I loved about my game of Tom's CoC was that every joke I made, Ross gave me a look as if I had really crossed the line. He was really worried about the sensibilities of the listeners and every French joke I made was met with cringes.
the French Resistance was badass and you know who else makes fun of the French in general? That's right. Bill O'Reilly. You wanna be that guy?
You who else makes fun of the French?
The English
And who bombed the English?
Germans, that's who.
Thats right!
you wanna be German?
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Wait
They CUT Cody out of the recording?
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Wait
They CUT Cody out of the recording?
no. Tom ran the same adventure twice - second time Cody was a player.
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Wait
They CUT Cody out of the recording?
no. Tom ran the same adventure twice - second time Cody was a player.
You know who else has Cody as a second play? That's right: the Dutch.
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Wait
They CUT Cody out of the recording?
no. Tom ran the same adventure twice - second time Cody was a player.
You know who else has Cody as a second play? That's right: the Dutch.
that doesn't even make sense and those are my shoes give them back you are a dog
they don't even fit
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I liked the how they had to stay in the cave with the monsters for a while that was an interesting way to go.
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I liked the how they had to stay in the cave with the monsters for a while that was an interesting way to go.
Spoiler
I like that their demo guy ended the mission saner than when he started.
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here's a cheerful essay about the real story of World War 2
"The infantryman hates shells more than anything else," Bill Mauldin wrote about the front lines in Italy. His phrasing makes it sound like the men were expressing an aesthetic preference, like a choice among distasteful rations. But "shells" weren't a few rounds of artillery floating in at odd intervals. They were deafening, unrelenting, maddening, terrifying. One fortified American position in the Pacific recorded being hit in a single day by 16,000 shells. In the middle of an artillery barrage hardened veterans would hug each other and sob helplessly. Men caught in a direct hit were unraveled by the blast, blown apart into shards of flying skeleton that would maim or kill anyone nearby. Afterward the survivors would sometimes discover one of their buddies so badly mangled they couldn't understand how he could still be breathing; all they could do was give him the largest dose of morphine they dared and write an "M" for "morphine" on his forehead in his own blood, so that nobody else who found him would give him a second, fatal dose. (One soldier marked with that "M" was Bob Dole, wounded in Italy in 1945; he wasn't released from the hospital until 1948.) Commanders came to prefer leading green troops into combat, because the veterans were far more scared. They knew what was coming.
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Jesus H. Christ
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forgot to post hte link http://leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm
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I'm not Bill O'Reilly, but I am 100% Red Blooded American. I'm a Patriot! In the immortal words of Charlie Kelly:
I'm gonna rise up, gonna kick a little ass. Gonna kick some ass in the USA. Gonna climb a mountain, gonna sew a flag, gonna fly on an eagle. I'm gonna kick some butt, gonna drive a big truck. I'm gonna rule this world. I'm gonna kick some ass. I'm gonna rise up, gonna kick a little ass. Rock, flag, and eagle!
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I just got the chance, due to adjusted time off, to run a long game for once. In an effort to try something new I'm planning to try and run an approximation of Tom's game. I'm using the second game as the base since I like the way that one opens and I love the radiation thing.
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I just finished Tom first (non paid member released) game and i just have to say, wow. I've never been much of a CoC RPG fan cuz I never got the chance to play in one and I don't own any of the books. I know of the mythos and read those books and love the setting but I never really got into the game. But listening to the AP is enough to make me want to try it out. Or at least try running a survival horror game of Nazi soldiers during WWII.
You have to love the fact that CoC is the only game where FAILing a spot or listen check can be better for the players than making it.
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Ran the game tonight. Very different than I thought it would be. My players are new to the game and not great with the playing out their temporary insanity. Still worked out.
They never meet the doctor, never talked to the ghoul, and didn't do anything about the reactor. They did have to fight against a mutated PC, a mutated NPC, and a veriation on the mutated soldier from the mess hall. They also fought the colonel while riding a modified panzer (something I added via improv) and won the fight.
With three players, four out of nine characters survived the adventure.