Call of Cthulhu: Mister Corbitt - RPG Review

A review and GM tips for the Call of Cthulhu scenario Mister Corbitt, an adventure that asks the question, "What do we really know about our neighbors?"
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Guest Starring Jack the NPC

[@kingcole5977]

*players eating at table in relative's house players: "Haha, like we'd fall for Mr Corbitt's suspicious gift basket he gave us. At least he's left for his business trip." player's relative: "How're you enjoying the pie I made, dears?" players: "It's delicious, what's in this thing?" player's relative: "I used some of the fruit you left on the counter" *players start noticing floor melting into the ceiling and psychedelic pattern pulsating over the walls players: "Oh no"

[@bigPapabear1980]

I laughed too long and too hard at that mental image.

[@loganmommsen8834]

*inna gadda Davida by iron butterfly intensifies*

[@thelasttaarakian]

Holy shit man that’s really good. Only nit picking is that the heat from an oven would probably destroy any psychoactive substances. But man that is hilarious! If I ever do this scenario - I am totally doing that. They’d not fall for Corbitts food but they’d certainly fall for Corbitts food baked into a pie!

[@somerandomschmuck2547]

@@thelasttaarakian admittedly these may be mythos psychedelics, considering some of the weird stuff in this universe heat might make them even worse somehow

[@NodDisciple1]

@@thelasttaarakian Fruit Salad? Yummy yummy?

[@morpheus7347]

Did you know, that your review is mentioned in the new edition of mansions of madness I qoute: "Special thanks to Seth Skorkowsky's excellent video review of Mister Corbitt, which highlited some issues with the original version." Way to go.

[@oz_jones]

Seths guide to CoC is mentioned in the starter pack too. It's great that Chaosium is promoting (for lack of a better word) good content creators.

[@dubuyajay9964]

What did they change?

[@romulusnuma116]

Shoutout to the guy in Call of Cthulhu who just called the cops.

[@ArmorNox]

:D

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@ArmorNox Is that you?

[@JohnSmithAprilMay]

You ever see The Taking of Deborah Logan? There's a character in that who just leaves the movie after they figure out that there's some supernatural shenanigans going on. He never comes back, and he doesn't die, he's just out of the movie. It's pretty great.

[@BanditGaming479]

Is it bad role playing or role playing so good that it's bad?

[@kontrarien5721]

@@JohnSmithAprilMay Just checked that out. Fantastic. Right up there with Captain Miller in Event Horizon. "We're leavin'."

[@nerdherd1819]

The part where Seth pointed out how a player may come to adopt an abomination meant to praise a god of insanity made me think of something: a party of cultists for Cthulhu or some other elder god. They’re going on these investigations, not to rid the world of evil or by chance, but to make way for their god by clearing out others’ influences.

[@ultimor1183]

Nerd Herd I want to run this now.

[@madmadameminx]

Player (spots the scion of YogSothoth being raised next door): Not in my good Satanic cul-de-sac!

[@ancapftw9113]

@@madmadameminx *invites cousin from Innsmoth over to do a bit of B&E while the guy's away.*

[@johnathangrishaw3096]

I laughed way to hard at the "rich afluent white guy" line

[@TinyPirate]

Particularly poignant this week...

[@cruelpulse]

@@TinyPirate Well it is current year

[@GaryArkham]

I'm playing the module right now, and it has spawned through three sessions now. My players are so scared to go into the basement that they're exhausting every single damn thread of investigation before going in there. Now they are studying the tomes that Mr. Corbitt had near his diaries (True Magick and The Key and the Gate) and I suspect that they are gonna be full fledged Yog Sohtoth cultist in about two months. Damn I like this game. Thanks for the review! Great work, as usual.

[@NodDisciple1]

They tripping balls yet on fruit? :P

[@gmradio2436]

How did it rurn out?

[@N317V]

[SPOILERS!] This is a perfect scenario for beginning players (and GMs) and if your investigators are not investigators. I ran it with four people only one of which was a typical investigator type: a professor. The PCs were: - an actress, who recently bought the mansion across the street from Corbitt, - her gardener, who kind of "belonged" to the mansion and already knew Corbitt and got some very valuable gardening tipps from him in the past and borrowed some fertilizer during the game, - a snoopy neighbor, who was the wife of a rich textile producer and lived next door to the actress, - and said professor, who was a friend of the actresses father and held a chair in the local university. I placed it in Arkham and just let them play out idyllic neighborhood stuff at first with a charming Mr. Corbitt and another family who were new as well and only spoke German. Then the actress, who was the only one of the PCs new to the vicinity, saw the severed arm. And when the snoopy neighbor sneaked up to the door to take a peak through the mail slot, when Corbitt wasn't home later on, she heard some noise from inside the house... My point is: as they were just normal people, they wouldn't just go get their favourite bazookas and raid the house. And it allowed me to do the irruption of horrible things into normal lives, which is so typical for Lovecraft.

[@krispalermo8133]

You just bought a house that came on the market a month ago. The last owner died in a car wreak. Nice house, great neighborhood. " Now what was that I heard in the basement ?"

[@DarthStalkers]

I just finished playing and entered the house twice, first time I didn’t want to open the secret door because Mr Corbitt was about to get home from work, second day I failed my locksmith roll and decided to just bash the door down, knowing I couldn’t keep the secret that I’ve been inside the house I grabbed all the journals for evidence and bashed the door to the lab before running and screaming with the pudding monster following me out the front door where, after a lengthy battle, it met its demise. Prior to this though I failed a stealth check and one of the neighbours kept pestering me afterwards that they were watching me. After the creature died I knocked on the neighbours door, pointed to the creature and yelled “Did you see that asshole?!” Good times

[@ADiceySituation]

I love that "Did you see that asshole" has two meanings depending on if you meant go include a comma or not. It's either "Did you see that, asshole" as in "Were you watching me fight a blob monster, you bastard?" Or it's "Did you see that asshole" as in "This thing keeps spurting brown stuff out of an orifice. I think it might be a butthole, but can't confirm".

[@NefariousKoel]

The 'Burbs - Call Of Cthulhu edition! Maybe we should base our "steering NPC" on Bruce Dern's nosy gung-ho neighbor?

[@karlbaresic4091]

I ran this module with my girlfriend without dice in a cafe (im a fundamentalist at heart). It was her first ever role play and now she actually pays attention when i coerce her to watch you. You're doing God's work out there, sir.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Yes but which god?

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

so basically it's The Dunwich Horror but with better pacing - I like it!

[@Rajaat99]

I ran this adventure for my Shadowrun group and it freaked them out. It was great.

[@mittelz5976]

I love how much fun you have with jack the NPC. Even knowing the module really well, those reactions really bring something entertaining to the discussion.

[@DahVoozel]

Tulsa Doom says "Nice shirt, my child."

[@TheDreadedBeauty]

"Well that is a cure for constipation" I cannot stop laughing at this.

[@Troommate]

Only 1 Soul for Getting New Eyes and Ghost Vision! Worth it what a steal! :D

[@MaxWriter]

LOL. Awesome, as usual. I love the bits with Jack and the binoculars the most. When I ran this years ago, I initially set up Mr. Corbitt as a neighbor of one of the investigators who lived in Arkham. He stopped by a couple of times at Mr. Willows’ house to drop off fruits or vegetables from his garden and greenhouse between earlier sessions. The Sunday in question saw Willows hosting a dinner with the other investigators so that Spot Hidden meant not all of them saw the arm. The first thing one of the investigators did was try to bully his way into Corbitt’s house by pretending to be a police officer. When that didn’t work, the same couple of investigators broke into his clipping business, which raised more suspicions. They also tried to pose as house painters to get into the place. Some of them did manage to track down Tomaszewski though; he jumped out a window. It was a little annoying to all of them, I think, when Willows got the key to the house to house sit, as well as a warning that someone seemed to be trying to break in. After that, it was easy to go in and search the place. Unfortunately, when they found the thing in the basement, Elliott Macy, the dilettante, panicked and stabbed it. It went berserk and attacked the private eye, at which point the bounty hunter panicked and dumped gasoline all over the floor, lighting it on fire and killing said private eye. The beast fled from the house and out into Arkham. Several of the investigators escaped either out of the front door or the cellar door. Only Willows ran for his Cadillac to chase the beast down and was aided driving it by Macy’s butler. They followed the thing from West Washington Street onto Hill Street, striking it with the car twice before cracking up and ending up flipping the car, the dying horror atop it, the doors jammed shut, and the thing oozing down upon them. Willows claimed to his insurance company that he’d hit a deer. In the end, the house burned to the ground and two members of the United States Bureau of Investigation showed up to deal with the greenhouse and try to get Corbitt’s books from them. Corbitt ended up in Arkham Sanitarium. Good times.

[@lsdths82]

I am laying the plot seeds for this adventure. I have the corbits related (great uncle). One of the PC's mother lives across the street. The group went there on an investigation and Mr corbit came by and dropped off vegs. One of the investigator was like... Hey what did u say his name was.. Thanks for the reviews!!!

[@dwalsh6779]

"Whats does it take to get a rich affluent white guy arrested around here?" is a fucking mood.

[@NodDisciple1]

16:36 "We can't stay here! This is Nightgaunt country!"

[@SSkorkowsky]

We were somewhere around Innsmouth, on the edge of the salt marsh, when the madness began to take hold.

[@NodDisciple1]

"You can turn your back on a friend, but you can NEVER turn your back on a drug."

[@GabeSwart]

I lost it when Uncle Jack came to save the kids.

[@jasonnewell7036]

Thanks for this. This is a scenario that I'm going to build up to in my campaign. I'm actually going to introduce Mr Corbitt as a red herring in The Haunting to establish him before running his scenario in a few sessions time.

[@charlesstinson4957]

The scene of Jack tripping is my favorite of all the player/npc scenes!

[@jesternario]

A soul? Was it Todd’s or Dweebles’?

[@samprastherabbit]

jesternario Todd's too likely to be able to fight back :-P even if he was the one that shot Jack!

[@dubuyajay9964]

Who's Todd?

[@docartemis2878]

Dubuya Jay one of the other characters from Seth’s videos. Usually in his top 5s and rpg philosphy stuff. One of three stand-ins for players. Todd is the skater/surfer cali dude.

[@NodDisciple1]

@@docartemis2878 Oh him. Yeah, probably Todd. It's his fault Jack lost his eye.

[@gunmunz]

@@docartemis2878 No, it's the unnamed one, since he doesn't have a name he can be replaced.

[@samprastherabbit]

You're out doing yourself, sir! I loved the review but my absolute favourite part is seeing Jack trip balls to weird 60s hippie music & that cool 1920s style car set you had in that shot. Was that something you built or in a real vintage car?

[@SSkorkowsky]

Thanks. Thew car was just a picture I found of a real car and then some bad photoshop.

[@meth_squirrel]

What song was that?

[@SSkorkowsky]

The first song was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly. Second song at the end was White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane

[@meth_squirrel]

Seth Skorkowsky thanks

[@samprastherabbit]

Seth Skorkowsky Fooled me!

[@0rthopraxy]

I'm sure you've heard of this one, but there's an adventure collection called Monophobia which has adventures exclusively for one player and a GM. You should do a review of it, I've had a lot of fun running the adventures out of that book.

[@RedwoodTheElf]

I would replace the "Melt your face off" flowers and make them the source of the hallucinogens previously mentioned.

[@oz_jones]

Yeah, that's what I thought they were until Seth said "melt your face off".

[@PasteySardine]

Ran Mr. Corbitt for my group of three, who decided the best way to get information from Mr. Corbitt was to throw ANOTHER DINNER PARTY, and invite Mr. Corbitt. That was an absolute curve ball.

[@ArmorNox]

you could also run this like Rear Window. With the sick relative being the Jimmy Stewart and the PCs filling the legs like Grace kelley. that'd be awesome

[@raptorjesues1445]

OR, and listen here, the PC's could be the crippled patients in a private orthopedic clinic that is built in front of mr corbitt mansion

[@thedementedhouse381]

I have to admit it Seth everytime I see you've put out a new video I get excited. I'd love to see content from you more often, but I realize real life, writing, and such get in the way. I love the fact that your production values on your videos are extraordinarily highest than one would expect. Your humor is exceedingly witty and well performed. You're characters are well developed in the short time they're seen. Is there anything, aside from buying your books, that we as a fanbase can do to help you out? I'm looking forward to reading your books (they're quickly coming up on my reading list). Once again thank you for your videos they are a high point to my day when I see them.

[@SSkorkowsky]

Thanks. Glad you've been enjoying my little channel. For support, picking up my books is always a good way. Ratings/reviews on Amazon/Goodreads/Audible is also extremely helpful. I have some shirts/merch in the works, but not much so far outside of some Scott Brown stuff. After that, just enjoy the videos, Like and share them, and be excellent.

[@evilscientistrecords]

The segment at 16:28 makes me want to run a 1960s Call of Cthulhu game! Groovy tune!

[@oz_jones]

Disco Cthulhu!

[@Panicagq2]

@@oz_jones Aaaaauuugggghhhh! The Horror!

[@Sumrow]

Great review Seth! Top notch as always. Your suggestion of stitching this scenario to a campaign over time is sneaky. Digging it.

[@chriskirby9408]

“Best not to ask about that”... LOL

[@brianlawson3757]

The Iron Butterfly/ Jack sequence was comedy gold!

[@oz_jones]

In the Garden of Eden by I. Ron Butterfly

[@captaintwitch340]

For my game I just made Walter corbitt Bernard's great grandfather I thought that was a nice way to avoid confusion and tie the to advetures together.

[@timbuktu8069]

For some reason, it always bothered me that the "very wealthy" Mr. Corbitt did not have a driveway.

[@SSkorkowsky]

I just blame it on his house being older and driveways not being common on houses from that time (I'm assuming). But yeah, it bothers me, too.

[@timbuktu8069]

I just had a thought. Maybe that's his "town" house where he does his experiments. His "real" house is out in the country somewhere complete with horses, servants and the rest.

[@finnmchugh99]

21:19 that is the funniest one liner Jack made in the video I was rolling on the floor in laughter. I might say that when I start playing CoC

[@Gondorf5]

Recently played in this scenario as a one-shot. One thing that really helped was having one of the players almost stubbornly insistant over the goodness of Mr. Corbitt. My investigator was that guy, and he took the approach early on of "somebody must be forcing Mr. Corbitt to do these bad things," with the caveat that--once he saw the horrors for himself--that idea get blown out the window. It worked really well.

[@aleksimartikainen9131]

Late, but not too late. :) there is also other great scenario included in that Mansions of Madness book called: "The Sanatorium". Remember to support Seth!

[@fireknight4151]

This adventure sounds like a actully good version of the video game "Hello Neighbor"

[@GenericJake]

My “constipation” was almost cured too. 😂KZbin decided to put an ad between Seth talking and the child’s laugh. So I looked away to continue some work when the laughter comes through my trucks speakers much louder and clearer than the normal audio.

[@sergentharker7182]

I really like this adventure overall, I thought this might be an interesting adventure to include with The Plantation from the same adventure pack, namely when the kid gets hit by the car at the start, who comes to help but nice old Mister Corbit to take care of the kid. Or introduce him early on as a helpful npc, maybe he invites them over for tea on the weekend maybe offering the players medical care when they're injured. Then after some time begin the Corbit House adventure, making this NPC who seemed like such a nice old man doing some serious evil.

[@electricrancid]

Jack sections were hilarious in this one :) As always!

[@Oborosen]

The iron butterfly reference sold me on this one.

[@FoamingPipeSnakes]

I am running my first game of CofC tomorrow. I like this scenario so much better than the Haunting that I have decided to run it instead. The only thing I am changing is that I am going to have Corbitt have a completely Dominated caretaker who lives on the grounds in order to make sure the PC's get a little taste of combat. Thanks for the great reviews/tips you do on scenarios!

[@Skullkan6]

Why not have him be a relative of Mr. Corbitt from the Haunting? It could be an easy red herring, yeah, but there's nice ways to obscure it like requiring a lot of research to find out that connection.

[@adamtifone9243]

Jack's face in the thumbnail lol

[@waterklaar]

love the video.! You should run The Sanatorium next! I thought it the best scenario of the book and ran it multiple times for different groups

[@SSkorkowsky]

I've been wanting to run that adventure for a while. Eventually we'll hit it.

[@Zacknafin]

"That's a cure for constipation" COULD NOT STOP LoLzing!!!!

[@jgr7487]

if Mr Corbitt is introduced in another adventure, the only person who doubts him actually being a model citizen could be the PC's grandma, who would always say "I don't like that Mr. Corvetti. there's something fishy about him."

[@Wanderinpaladin]

Oh good Jack's eye is back :-)

[@reteller]

And it only cost a soul.

[@Darksummerswind]

Just what I needed to start my day

[@NodDisciple1]

12:00 Could this be the means to award the PC's a magical/cursed blade? That Tomazewski used it as part of his self-sacrifice? After all, the short story "Dreams In The Witch House" very heavily hinted that Satan was yet another mask of the infamous Nyarlathotep.

[@disunsnogoot3319]

Love your reviews Seth!

[@TheStowAway594]

This scenario reminds me of "The Burbs", one of the greatest movies ever made.

[@bryanalexander7571]

Came here to comment because I was literally walking down the street when i realized this would be perfect for Call of Kidthulu, I think it was called.

[@Wolfphototech]

Call of Cthulhu is funny . It's standard of mansions from 1920s/1930s are house no bigger ( but actually smaller ) then the average modern home in the city suburbs .

[@MrSadness_]

I just ran this game and it went extremely well. SPOILERS AHEAD My favorite part was when my three players split the party and managed to encounter every creature almost simultaneously. One player sees the alien plant, switch to the next player encountering the woman-thing in an upstairs closet, switch to the last player encountering the child. The dominos fell perfectly.

[@kellyloganme]

Instead of deadly gas, what about spores that infect and start growing throughout the player's body. This could start a clock on the adventure as they desperately search for a cure throughout the house.

[@SSkorkowsky]

That is an excellent idea.

[@evilminion4989]

The beginning of the adventure reminds me of the classic movie The 'Burbs with Tom Hanks and some buddies suspecting something is up with their neighbors.

[@ARC1701A]

Jack the NPC having a 60s era acid trip was funny as hell.

[@Cameroo]

Your videos are amazing. Thanks for putting all the effort into these! They're a ton of fun!

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

So... Maybe it's best to start with "The Rear Window" meets CoC... and add just a dash of "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas"... ...Is that approximately Close? Great video!!! ;o)

[@dubuyajay9964]

"We can't stay here! This is ghoul country!"

[@craftsmenMC]

I intend to run both Mister Corbitt and The Haunting in my latest campaign. To avoid any confusion among my players, I decided that changing Mister Corbitts name to Mister Cobbler would be a good idea. I mean, it’s a name you’d expect from a nice man like him

[@Thetb93]

i didnt need to stear my players at all. they went like a homing missile into the basement. i should not have played 2 other adventures beforhand that also had the "big secret" in the basement.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Just for future reference, MrFinn T... This is "Call of Cthulu"... NOTHING in the books ever says you can't replace a "basement secret" with the nomenclature of an "attic secret"... just to spice things up a bit. Rule 1. "Never EVER let the rules get in the way of the game." ;o)

[@CommadoreGothnogDragonheart]

Basically, this is what you'd get if HP Lovecraft wrote the script for The Burbs. :)

[@d36class]

Just bought the updated Mansions of Madness V.1 and Seth is credited for the updates to the scenario! Almost looked like some of things Seth said were taken verbatim lmao Woo!

[@DrJekyllDHMI]

I was having any issue deciding what to do on the daily feeding issue with the out of town trips as well. Refrigerated hopper on a timer is an absolutely wonderful idea! Thank you for the tips.

[@NodDisciple1]

This and the NPC creation vid have to be my favorite videos of yours.

[@SSkorkowsky]

Don't lie, you just like the Jefferson Airplane lip-sync. ;)

[@NodDisciple1]

@@SSkorkowsky I do, but what I like more is Jack trying to call out to the kid all cutsie-like then screaming like a madman because he finds out it's an actual monster. XD

[@patrickd1968]

You rock Seth. I've only played COC once but your videos have encouraged me to pick up 7th ed. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@ComradePenguinski]

I should never be a PC in this scenario. I would chain the doors shut and just set the building on fire; after seeing a child's arm fall out of Mr. Corbitt's bag.

[@johnnysizemore5797]

Here's an intresting idea: Why not link both Module's together by having THIS Corbitt a cousin/relative to the other Corbitt? It can work from both a narrative perspective (it would explain how 1st Corbitt knew of the Mythos) and a World building perspective(maybe the Corbitt Family have been linked to the Mythos for years,even Decades).....

[@ajmeyers5661]

Maaaan, bonus points for In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and White Rabbit in the same video 👌

[@CookieMonster-nt8hh]

the story about Jacks's eye already sounds like an extremely good adventure hook. might steal this one

[@svenk5221]

I will include this into my campaigne like this: one pc has a grandfather who starts to struggle with demensia. He asks Pc between misteries for help, groceries, lawning the mawn etc and also gives him some advice/help because he will be some kind of specialist professor of something the Pc needs. And from time to time I will introduce Corbitt has very nice helping man but than I will plant in suspecious moments from time to time....and I will the granddad be the one who suddenly mumbles something about a little arm or other bodyparts.

[@nicolasdiaz1542]

One possible idea for working this into a campaign is to make Mr. Corbitt a descendant of the Mr. Corbitt of the haunting. He could be the afluent citizen who put pressure on the police to let members of the cult go

[@thor30013]

I'll admit it - I lol'ed @6:00. Honestly, that's probably the most disturbingly believable part of this adventure.

[@alirezapourasad9153]

I love this scenario.I have run it many times. The innocence of the child, the creature and Corbit himself makes it more fun. I usually add it to canis mysterium.

[@natesims1680]

I feel like this could be turned into a slow-burn adventure over several sessions.

[@chessmeister596]

I'd really like to watch a twitch or something of Seth running a game.

[@johnsmithfrombackeast7376]

I must say I am enjoying your selection of t-shirts Seth.

[@pedroribeiro7922]

I made the NPC whose house the PCs are visiting acting almost paranoid and trying to convince the players that mr Corbitt is evil.

[@readylockenroll]

I feel like this is a scenario you prep on the side and feed little clues to the players until they bite on it.

[@bobcatfish2796]

Hi Seth! I absolutely LOVE this module! As well as your channel as a whole! Absolutely stellar work, and you’ve helped me more than I can say. I’m starting a Call Of Cthulhu “campaign” soon and am definitely using this module sometime within it, but I just wanted to put this out there. The antagonist of this module is Mr. Corbitt. Like you said, this is also the name of a character in The Haunting, and would be strange to encounter 2 Mr. Corbitt’s a few sessions apart, especially for new investigators. The thing I wanted to put out there is that a kind of cool name change of Mr. Corbitt you could consider if you’ve already used the Haunting, is “Mr. Crowley” as in the early 20th century occultist. Just a thought :)

[@SSkorkowsky]

That definitely works. Have fun with the campaign.

[@anaximander66]

I love the idea of sandbox adventures but I rarely see them in practice and I find few players that actually enjoy them. It seems no matter what I suggest, or however many hooks I throw their way they just seem to languish or fall into mundane activities. For Mister Corbitt I made him someone else's neighbor who was considered the neighborhood conspiracy theorist and asked the players to step foot on Corbitt's property only as a last resort (as she didn't want to further damage her reputation). Enough failed rolls gave the illusion that this was indeed the only remaining option. The illusion of sandbox always wins in my mind.

[@LucasE269]

7:36 every session 0 or session 1 I do starts with a disclaimer that "I'll try to supply the best hooks I can for you but not everything is going to be seamless all the time and ultimately you are here because you want to play, so it's your responsibility to buy in and play."

[@AlluMan96]

Really nice. It actually reminds me alot of Phenomena, the 1985 Dario Argento movie. Really weird movie, but alot of cheesy fun for fans of more surreal trash-horror. This sounds like the kind of game-idea I would definitely run. It's got a great hook that's simple and straight-forward, but leaves an impressively open sandbox for how players might deal with the situation and how it might pan out. In fact, it could actually be really good for inserting into a longer urban game. Like, you establish this neighborhood over the course of a police procedural game for a good 4 to 5 games, get players really invested in not just Mr Corbitt himself, but also the entire neighborhood. Then when the chips are down and everything is revealed, you can elicit alot more emotional milage out of the reveal. It can either be great as a game-ender, maybe the reveal to the overarching mystery of a serial killer or it can also act as a sort of first act finalie to establish a gateway to the deeper machinations of Lovecraftian horror. And you know what? I might just incorporate this module into my game.

[@OscarTangoWhisky]

This was an insightful and hilarious review. Thank you, Seth!

[@NodDisciple1]

15:15 Tbh, I'd be tempted to bluff my way out and be like, "Aw...Mr. Corbett, you sly dog! Don't tell me you got a pretty young thing on the side? I mean, you've been a widower for way too long!" Plus, he might go along w/ the bluff and inadvertently slip up and say, "Oh...you got me! Yes...I am dating."

[@RonKhan]

It's like "The Burbs" with Tom Hanks!

[@murraytowle2123]

I am sad I can only give this one like. So many likable moments!

[@theonemantrainwreck]

better idea for the insisting peace of evidence inseid of an arm, say that the introduction includes the discrpition of a missing child, part of the discription is a bace ball cap, and instead of drooping the arm he could drop the cap

[@meatguyf1375]

I may end up running this with Tales From the Loop. Could give my players a great "Fright Night" vibe.

[@dubuyajay9964]

Tales From The Loop?

[@WastedYears76]

I had wondered the same thing ... child PCs, set in the 80s could work with this scenario

[@meatguyf1375]

@@dubuyajay9964 It's a tabletop RPG that's basically an alternate Earth in the 80's where a ton of sci fi inventions were were promised in the 50's came about. Robot servants, mad scientists, flying ships, etc... It's a pretty good rules lite system if you wanna show younger players what an RPG is like.

[@TheOGGMsAdventures]

Congratulations on 2 Million views. Any tips for us struggling you tubers. The OG GM Adventures

[@Nephilim225]

Love your videos and find them really helpful

[@jakedunson9098]

I wouldn’t worry about the start! Most players will know that’s a que to the adventure.

[@darthsidious6380]

My party had a CR 99 player, so the living in a nice neighborhood was definitely taken care of.

[@psychonexus]

Sounds like the movie The Burbs as a Call of Cthulhu adventure.

[@malcolmdarke5299]

...if Mr Corbitt is onto the PCs' suspicions of him, his inviting them to look over his house while he's gone gets rather more suspicious, considering that the Child needs daily feeding. It seems plausible to me that he'd trust that the Child is capable of killing the investigators, particularly if they're drugged to high heaven, and invite them to "look after the house" as a means to get rid of them.

[@ccorbitt77]

I want to play this game. I love the name. Especially the way it’s spelled. Often that name is spelled with an E. I grew up in the Corbitt house.