Call of Cthulhu: The Dare - RPG Review

A group of children are dared to spend Halloween night in a haunted house, unfortunately something plans to keep them. Here are my thoughts and criticisms for this 1980's-style horror adventure, as well as the Call of Kid-Thulhu rules (which I enjoyed far more than Kids on Bikes).
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Guest starring Jack the NPC

[@mattieguilliams129]

This seems like it'd make for a great prequel one shot for origin stories of later Call Of Cthulhu Modern / Delta Green characters. Like, "this is what happened to me as a kid. And now this is why I combat The Mythos as an adult."

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Rather "It"-like.

[@kaiserlevi]

I did this exact thing. Had a scenario set circa 2000 for the characters to be in their late teens and bridge that gap to adulthood.

[@johnnysizemore5797]

That's not a bad idea, actually. You can even link it as a "Legacy" series. The Grandparents(s) got involved in the mythos with something simple(the Happening or something else), then got involved with Cadduseus( Two-Headed Serpent). Their Parents continued fighting(the Well or the Airplane one) and now they get involved unintentionally....

[@tonyromasco1735]

You could add a lovecraftian twist to the movie "The People Under The Stairs" for a one or two player story!

[@tonyromasco1735]

Old man Cavendish who lived next door died. Nobody knew he owned a mythos relic. Soon after he died, the groups' mutual friend Timmy Cooper has been acting wierd.... Like a grown-up...... Guys! We HAVE to figure out what's going on Who's in?

[@MrDrumStikz]

The "Dweebles is a psychopath" plotline thickens... I love it

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

When you name your kid "Dweebles" the inevitable bullying is going to shove some nasty mental issues deep in there...

[@raymondbrasuell2564]

You would go nuts too if the only person who knows your real name refused to reveal it and made the only thing anyone calls you be a degrading nickname.

[@CominUpMillhouse]

For any Keepers looking to run this scenario, here is what the moldy page from Evelyn's grimoire says. It's essentially a copy of the contract with Nyarlathotep that gave her her powers. I've also subsituted 'th' for 'y' in certain places, as that Y letter you see in place names like Ye Olde Public House is actually a Middle English letter called thorn that produces a 'th' sound: ---- "have made the pact with the Black Man who hast manny faces & forms, that wisdom & lyfe shall beest thine beyond imaginings The flesh of the imature is yond which is most pure, f’r it enwheels few’r of the taints yond age, exp’rience, carnality, & sineth impart upon it. Sayd flesh can beest consum'd raw or did cook, though heateth tends to removeth some of the sweetest flav’rs of innosence & inc’rruption. Such repasts impart upon the feast’r the vitality did contain in potentiall within the child’s flesh. Tribute wilt beest given to yond Black Man bef’re each such feast, yond that gent might eke gain benefyt from it his children shalt thee beareth as the did cost f’r his most wondrous gi" There is more text on the page, but it's been made completely unreadable (deliberately, this time) by the water damage on the grimoire page.

[@glendisshiko8182]

Loving this Idea!

[@deathbagel]

I was about to do this, I thought "wait, what does he mean he can't read that, can!" But you've beaten me to it. Good work!

[@josephtodaro9515]

We do an 80s themed one shot every year in honor of a fallen player. He wouldve loved this

[@dimsum3329]

Your a good man, may God rest his soul

[@snakeyman5560]

God rest him.

[@renatosouza9261]

A year ago I adapted Mister Corbitt from Mansions of Madness into an adventure with kids. All players were children between 12 and 14 years old. It was very interesting. I made some modifications, giving mr. Corbitt scarier look, based a little on the movie Fright Night (the whole idea of the teenager knowing the vampire next door, but no one believing him). It was very interesting.

[@SSkorkowsky]

That sounds like an awesome mod for that scenario.

[@andychandler1737]

Yes! I'm prepping a Kids of Cthulhu for my kids (think Hardy Boys meets the Mythos) and Mr. Corbett is going to to be the sophomore adventure after...The Haunting. Jack the NPC, particularly in Seth's The Haunting, inspired me to use old timey radio shows to give the players hints and options. Dead-Eye Jack wouldn't just barge in, he would look into the history of the house knowing, sometimes, naming the demon weakens ones foes. Stuff like that.

[@Bluecho4]

@@andychandler1737 I like the idea of the radio occasionally coming on by itself, and it's just like, "I'm Jack, from N.P.C. public radio! You have a great day!"

[@Eradose]

I was thinking the same thing. I would love to run the rules from The Dare with Mister Corbitt.

[@thechevyferrari9559]

THATS AMAZING!!! He’s a perfect baddie for a kid campaign.

[@chunktopus]

Love the Venture Bros reference - a series taken from us too soon.

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

1:01 I caught that too... I was thinking the other day that I really need to rewatch that show, I guess this is just fate reminding me. I love Dr. Mrs. The Monarch lol. I guess Jack The NPC doesn't have to worry about dying in this adventure, since he has a Clone At Home.

[@danielrowan4716]

I came here to comment on this. Hank frequently wore the very same store bought Batman costume

[@SSkorkowsky]

Anyone who thinks Jack's costume being the same as Hank Ventures was mere coincidence has clearly never tried to find a 1970s/80s Ben Cooper Batman mask.

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

@@SSkorkowsky It's also the quote of getting the tongue caught in the mouth slit. I thought for sure there was going to be a joke of cutting himself on the tongue. Hank incapacitated himself with that in an episode. I personally wasn't sure if it was a coincidence or a nod, but regardless the inclusion of the lines hit a note with the Venture Bros fans, and we clearly appreciate the honor provided! Thanks for the great video, I want to try to run this adventure soon.

[@mattw6993]

"Ith maddening!"

[@danielrowan4716]

I really like the Dreams in the Witch House vibe here. The semi-human rat/bat creatures are very reminiscent of the critter Brown Jenkins.

[@lepatriote5767]

the dead homeless man wasn't killed by the villain, but by a Scott-Brown Agent who was trying to get a showing.

[@o0Pezinator0o]

I love the side bars and silly goofs. They make me smile but "Im just referring to Dweebles" actually made me spit take. Bravo!

[@tuomasronnberg5244]

Same! The side skits are usually fun to watch, but this time the Dweebles line made me actually laugh out loud :D

[@bluedragonninja]

Damn I love the idea for this one. you could do a squeal to this if the kids lose. where the there parents/investigator come looking for for the kids, learning the location one of the other kids that didn't make it to the dare due not get away from their parents that night, finding the remains/rat creatures of the kids. btw you didn't say if your group survived or died at the end, what happen man!

[@SSkorkowsky]

Our group survived (save for The Snob who died up in the attic and was reborn as a Rat Thing).

[@ArkriteTheMad]

@@SSkorkowsky Five sessions later: Revenge of the Rat Thing! "You let me die!" -Reanimated Rat Thing They'll never see it coming. Unless they saw horror movies from the 80's, in which case they will entirely see it coming.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

This could also make a great back story for some call of Cthulhu player characters or even delta green ones

[@antirevomag834]

fun fact: the razor blades thing actually wasn't an urban legend, in a sense. While, yes, it was spurred on by the satanic panic, there was a kid who died from it. The thing is, the entire story came from his dad, who was also the one who killed him. He made the claim, as a way to attempt to get away with the murder of his son.

[@ironwolf56]

It wasn't razor blades though it was poison. Cyanide.

[@blandedgear9704]

That wasn't fun. Interesting, maybe, but not 'fun'

[@LordofIsleofTritone]

The true sanity draining cosmic horror is the eldritch, non-Euclidean interior layout

[@Tysto]

LOL I’m a historian used to reading old handwriting, & that grimoire is a mess. Not only does it use the long S, but it uses “ye” for “the” which is a mistake that comes from the genuine use of the Old English letter thorn, which kind of looks like a Y. Also, there are some very silly nonstandard archaisms like “did cook” for “cooked” & “sineth” for “sin” & “heateth” for heat. It basically says she made a pact with the Black Man who has many forms & that eating the flesh of the young can impart the vitality of the child.

[@dubuyajay9964]

So Nyarlathotep? (See "Dream In The Witch's House.")

[@ultharyt]

Thanks, I'm not an native english speaker and i'm having a hard time reading that sheet (although I can guess what it says)

[@Zyrdalf]

I was reading it too and it was just a mess of ye

[@goose6752]

Kids don't need a reason to do stupid stuff, they'll do it for the sake of a dare alone. I was kinda hoping for a scene like: Jack: "Hey guys! I bet none of you are brave enough to spend the night in that old haunted house." Dweebles: "Not me! That place is scary." Jack: "You coward!" Dweebles: "Am not!" Todd: "Hey Dweebs! I dare you to do it." Dweebles: "I dunno. I don't want to." Todd: "I double dawg dare you!" Dweeble: "Well.... If I have to. But I'm not doing it by myself, you guys have to come along too." Jack: "Sure Dweebs. We got your back."

[@David_Blake91]

Wow, going right for the double dog dare?

[@AnimiHFR]

I just made a transcript of the grimoire's page. Bear in mind I'm a native Spanish speaker, so sorry in advance if something is not perfectly correct. Hope you find it useful. *Original:* Have made Ye pact with the Blak Man who hast manny fases & forms, that wisdom & lyfe shall beest thine beyond imaginings... ...Ye flesh of Ye imature is yond which is most pure, f'r it enwheels few'r of Ye taints yond age, exp'rience, carnality, & sineth impart upon it. Sayd flefh can beest consum'd raw or did cook, though heateth tends to removeth some of Ye sweeteft flav'rs of innosence & inc'rruption. Such repafts impart upon Ye feaft'r Ye vitality did contain in potentiall within Ye child’s flefh. Tribute wilt beest given to yond Blak Man bef're each such feaft, yond that gent might eke gain benefyt from it... ...his children shalt thee beareth as Ye did cost f'r his most wondruss gift - *Simplified/modern English:* Have made the pact with the Black Man who has many faces and forms, so wisdom and life will be yours beyond imagination... ...The flesh of the immature is beyond that which is purest, for it involves fewer corruptions beyond age, experience, carnality and the sins imparted upon it. Said flesh can be consumed raw or cooked, although the heat tends to remove some of the sweet flavors of innocence and incorruption. Such repayments impart upon you the vitality contained in the potential within children's flesh. Tribute will be given to the Black Man before each of such feasts, even if the lord can't benefit from it... ...his children you will bear as you did for his most wonderful gift

[@justinsinke2088]

I'm not sure if it's a mark of pride, nerdiness, or age, but I'm 99% sure I know what each Halloween costume is on that cover. And I have to agree, the "kid-thulhu" modifications sound rather need and, as mentioned, works for creating scenarios like IT Chapter 1. It reminds me of how World of Darkness made an expansion book called "Innocents" I believe fully around playing as children and teens in their horror setting. I can definitely see what you mean about an editing pass. It does sound like things changed over time or parts were "we'll sort this out later" and they never went back to really solidify the whole.

[@Skullkan6]

Tbh it's not hard

[@jccusell]

I'll just keep singing praise to this channel: yet again a highly entertaining and informative video from one of the most underrated YT channels out there.

[@manticore6963]

Okay, so I wasn't the only one getting really confused about the map while making their notes. Guess I'll have to go over the map before I run this adventure around Halloween.

[@scottplumer3668]

Yeah, I ended up copying and pasting the text from the PDF into my own document, and sort of re-wrote the adventure so it would make sense to me as I was running it.

[@otakuofmine]

Oh hey, what a surprise to see ya here. (From Bruugar) Seth is awesome.

[@manticore6963]

@@otakuofmine Yep, he's really helpfull when it comes to running modules or tips for DMing in general.

[@otakuofmine]

@@manticore6963 indeed and very entertaining at that. also he brough me just to buy a lot of Cthulhu stuff :D

[@deanospimoniful]

I've been wracking my brain for something for this year's Halloween game, and this looks perfect.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Arguably the best thing I've learnt from this video is that you should never trick-or-treat at Dweeble's house.

[@williamshafer1996]

Roger kidnapped the dog of the gang and will not give it back unless they stay the night

[@davidbrennan660]

They meet the dog again as a Animal thing.

[@oz_jones]

@@davidbrennan660 Ruh-roh

[@meistersalomon]

You heard it here, folks: Jack the NPC is totally canon in the Dweeblesverse. Nice review, btw.

[@TheNoobRapter]

I am imagining kid Jack returning home to his grandpa Jack the NPC to tell him about the night. Only for Jack the NPC to just say something like "Yah something like that happened to me at the Corbitt house a few years back" (The Haunting)

[@dubuyajay9964]

"Have I ever told ya the story of th' Old Man Corbitt house? Hang on, lemme get my dentures, vodka flask, and Elder Sign Amulet..."

[@euansmith3699]

I like the kids costumes on the book cover; and the Rat and Bat Things illustrations are cool too.

[@snorrimcguffin2282]

Gonna GM this today for my group (even though it's not Halloween). I set up an online play via Foundry VTT. Thanks to your advices about the errors in the book and for convenience sake, I copied the text parts for the room descriptions out of the PDF and made journal entries that I've linked to every room on the map. I just have to click those book tokens on the map and get every relevant information. Setting this up was a lot of fun. Hope the players agree to make Kidthulhu a campaign. Too bad there don't seem to be any other modules for it out there.

[@JamesSeda]

This kids 80’s theme reminds me of “Tales From The Loop”. Thanks for the video Seth!

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

The Call of Cathulhu, that RPG is puuurrrrrrrrfect.

[@decaffeinateddrumsticks]

Running my players through this next week as their first attempt in call of cthulu! Very excited. They rolled up their characters today. I was worried as they'd never strayed from DnD before, but they all seem super excited about their pre-teen characters

[@SSkorkowsky]

Best of luck with the game. Hope they have a blast

[@decaffeinateddrumsticks]

@@SSkorkowsky Thank you! Turned into a two shot, but the first session went really well. Took it easy to start with, but now I'm gonna start ramping up the action and horror. They are really digging roleplaying as kids. Got them to split up a little bit, and Rodger attacked one of them as his buddy was Freaking Out. Got two impaling strikes on the guys, but they were able to set him on fire and finish him off. Next week's session should be awesome

[@jackfuqua6555]

"my tongue keeps getting cut in the mouth slit" nice hank venture reference

[@Nightbreed24]

Sweet! I'm a fan of these sort of films. I have even written an 80's child scenario myself, based around William Hope Hodgson's Swine-folk and the Vermont Pigman, an IRL cryptid. But my group fell apart...

[@Panicagq2]

That's too bad, your scenario sounds fun! Wow...Hodgson's work has a lot of potential...hmmm.

[@Gudamangipo]

I would love about a dozen more adventures done with the call of kidthulu ruleset.

[@--enyo--]

I played this for Halloween a while back. It was fun. 🙂 I have to admit, the Keeper ran it way more Spielberg than King. The ‘Call of Kid-thulhu’ thing should be a system of its own for kids. Also love that Dweebles essentially being a psycho killer is now canon. 🤣

[@ssskids123]

That seems like sooo much fun.. thank you for the review, the tips, and bringing to everyone’s attention. My hope is that I can run this without any of the players actually knowing it is a CoC adventure!

[@VangornStrange]

I haven't read if someone wrote this, but this adventure in a shorter version was originally published in July 1996 by Triad Entertainments in the adventure anthology Dwellers in Shadow.

[@LordDeathkeeper]

Just a note- the pregen characters have a few oddities, like some having the fight skill at 30-35 despite the kid-thulhu rules starting it at 25% and the smallest point value you're supposed to add in character gen is 20. I asked online and the author confirmed this was just a small error in converting the sheets from an older version. There's no issue; the sheets are still balanced for the adventure. So if anyone saw them and spent half an hour trying to figure out where those numbers came from (like me) - don't worry, you're not crazy!

[@Volvandese]

I sacrifice this comment on the altar of the algorithm... Also the Hank Venture mouth slit reference was *chef's kiss*

[@mikeharrison6039]

I’m definitely going to DM this for some friends just like I DMed Uncle Timothy’s will as contest with a fabulous prize

[@Ottergame]

Thanks for making this video, I ended up running this for my group for Halloween, and it was a blast, one of the most fun evenings I've had role playing.

[@SSkorkowsky]

Awesome to hear. It's such a fun scenario. I really hope they do more with the Call of Kidthulhu rules because we had an absolute blast.

[@zanforian]

Hearing that birth description made me want to throw up. Good job Seth!

[@jesternario]

For added benefit on the yearbook photos, is you run the names through a word processor to put them down as a readable font, they’re all characters from horror films or authors. Also, it is now canonically confirmed that Dweebles is indeed the evil guy we all assume he is. :p

[@anthonyragan2696]

What is the typeface they're using there?

[@jesternario]

@@anthonyragan2696 No clue. It just defaults to whatever your default is when you put it into the word processor.

[@JimHopper]

Despite the poor editing of the book, I am looking forward to running this. Thanks for the review!

[@Anacronian]

I totally believe that Dweebles would soil his razor blades with apples, He totally seems the type.

[@TheIoPC]

Full size Snickers while trick or treating?! A popular house, indeed. ~ Adam

[@vanessaeve925]

Putting this one on my wishlist - this sounds like a blast!

[@i-love-the-void9580]

Oh hell yeah! I’m so happy someone write a module like this! I really liked the concept for kids on bikes but the system lacked a little crunch for my taste. I hope that more people write CoC adventures meant to have child or teen protags in the future, it really ups that feeling of helplessness and being waaaay out of your league that makes for a great horror game.

[@williamaitken7533]

I just ran this tonight and it was a TOOOOON of fun! Thank you so much for the recommendation and tips on running this! I think that if I run this again I'll definitely make room by room notes since the layout is a little wonky. And I might redo the attic map because my players wanted to explore it but there was nothing there worth exploring!

[@ms9ball]

Got a big smile from the costume reveal, you really go the extra mile- Go Team Skorkowsky!

[@sterlingmbarker]

It's 2am in Australia. I woke up and knew there'd be a post. Uploaded 4 minutes ago.

[@sebbychou]

Looks like the grimoire page talks about a Black Man with many faces and forms, making a pact with the witch about feasting on "those immature and most pure" to continue to "experience carnality" -- which might I add is a beautiful way to say stay alive and I'm probably gonna steal that phrase.

[@catyear75]

My best friend was living in Thailand at the time of David Carradine's death . He said the word on the street was that it was actually a robbery/extortion gone wrong .

[@riff727]

Seth, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for the invaluable information that you provide for each scenario you discuss. I found your channel about four years ago when I was looking to find something other than D and D to play. I am happy to say that I have now run three different one-shot scenarios that you had discussed, with the Dare being the most recent and the first one I have been asked to run for a second group due to the first group's reaction to it. I am also just about to start chapter 4 of the Two Headed Serpent for my main group. I was not sure if the CoC games would have been something that the people I game with would be into and was not sure if I was going to be able to run these games as I had not been a GM for anything in 20 years. Had I not found your site I still may have just been a player in the same old D and D games I have been in. So once again thank you. You have helped this player step back into the GM role, or in the case of CoC, the Keeper of Arcane Lore, and given me a chance to pull others into the darker corners of the mythos once a month. Next up is a small road trip journey of the Dead Lights, A Mother's Love, and Cold Warning. Keep up the great work and, in the words of your very own Jack, you have a great day.

[@OrdinaryTrevor]

Running this module tomorrow! Thanks, Seth.

[@SSkorkowsky]

Good luck. Hope ya have fun.

[@disunsnogoot3319]

I am going to have to see if my D&D group would be down for a change of games on occasion. I've been listening to all of your Call of Kathulu reviews and one of these days I'm gonna have to try GMing this game.

[@floot_7817]

I got this a while ago when you mentioned it in another video, so I'm glad to see a full video on it! Hopefully I'll run it on Halloween for some friends or family

[@z.adkins862]

There is a rage in the heart of Dweebles. Maybe because everyone calls him Dweebles.

[@missmeaghanj2482]

This is a great video! I really want to run this now.

[@Graham-ce2yk]

Good review, the only thing missed out on was the scenario's pre-history, per the Call of Cthulhu wiki, the original appearance was as a tournament scenario, like 'The Cracked & Crooked Manse'. It then got republished in Triad Entertainments 'Dwellers in Shadow' fourth scenario anthology, before Bret Kramer got permission to update it. One thing your comment about not spelling out the dare reminded me of was the Traveller Amber Zone 'Foodrunner'. Part of what the players need to do is spelled out early in the scenario, but two key conditions are hidden away at the end of the scenario which I suspect a lot of GMs overlooked when they tried to run it. Also loved Jack's 'Orange Juice'...

[@Malachi57]

Definitely going to run this in October. Thanks!

[@dminard1]

Holy crap, is Call of Cthulhu better with child protagonists? Kind of a Kids on Bikes dark.

[@TheDoomAbides]

This one sounds like a lot of fun. I’ve never run a call of Cthulhu game myself but I’d love to give this one a go with my players

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

1:05 I thought of this today... I think it's weird that out of all of Seth's personas, Jack Malone is the one that goes trick or treating, and his three other personas give him "treats". This implies that Jack is a grown child (that is still an alcoholic) and the other personas are adults handing out "candy".

[@ADiceySituation]

"long delayed and possibly cursed?" Gonna need an explanation on that last part!

[@Dae-D-Ellis]

Was not expecting this kind of Dweeble lore

[@tuomastall5836]

You know, I would summon Outer God to get more simplified CoC ruleset, something in Mothership scale.

[@AdamPreset]

This is a neat idea and I look forward to saving this and running it, probably for a Halloween one-shot. 🎃

[@murban3]

I ran this last October and had my player dress up in Halloween costumes as Their characters. I had 9 player it was a blast everyone had a great time.

[@screamingblue7]

Ha! Venture Brothers reference in the Batman mask! Always enjoyable to hear your reviews!

[@josephkiddy3331]

Oh my god just when I thought I couldn't enjoy your videos more you throw a reference to the Venture Bros. in there.

[@kaiserlevi]

Love the Dare

[@hysterical5408]

I would totally play as the nerdy kid who went into karate class because of bullies. Imagine the nerdy four-eyes kid just sends Roger down the stairs with a powerful kick to the face. "This is the power of Blue Belt Kyokushin! Kiah!"

[@dubuyajay9964]

Daniel-San?

[@skyblazeeterno]

I think the kid would realise that martial arts is more for avoiding fights than kicking ass

[@ianshaw5211]

Around 1 minute in and you already got me quoting the venture brothers.

[@irontemplar6222]

One thing you could do if one of the players die, but their had been something of a ruckus caused. Perhaps you could have a police officer, or local Sheriff deputy arrive. I would make him either really old sort of a kindly cowboy type who wants to keep the kids safe, or perhaps a young officer whos inexperienced and was given a safe neighborhood to patrol. Then hand whatever player who bit it. That character. That way the kids just got some firepower for the final fight. Of course thats after they find out that radio doesn't work nor methods of escape.

[@Starcraftgamer97]

I'm gonna be running this on Halloween in a few weeks. The amount of notes and times I have watched this video to get a vibe on how to run it is more than I ever have done before. Hopefully it will all be worth it in the end! I have music, plan on buying props, and snacks will be brought to get into the spirit of the season.

[@riff727]

I just ran this scenario for the first of what will be two times for the month, with the second run happening this weekend. It really is a great time if you have players that can really embrace it. I love doing little things for the group where props are concerned. For this scenario I bought a plastic jack o lantern trick or treat pail for each player and filled each one about half full with candy. It helped sell the idea of the kids had been out trick or treating before they got to the Barnaker house, plus gave the added benefit of having snackies they could munch on throughout the evening.

[@Starcraftgamer97]

​@@riff727 I am planning on something similar. I bought some Kool-Aid, some Capri Sun, and candy as well as some electric candles. Aside from a few changes I made to provide optional objectives and ways out (potentially to set up a Part 2 for lucky characters), I'm proud of the music and ambiance I found to play in the background. Fingers crossed I get actual rain that night so we can have creepy music and natural rain noises! Hopefully your sessions went well as I am very hopeful mine goes well this Halloween!

[@riff727]

@@Starcraftgamer97 Rain would have been a great and serendipitous addition, but alas the weather did not cooperate as much for that. Music and ambience are great ways to help immerse the players. I hope your run goes well for this. My second run definitely went better than the first run. I think the biggest difference was in the players in each group. The first had more people that wanted to play the game but were very much more stereotypical "roll players". The approach from this group derailed quickly into a stereotypical dungeon crawly find the item and defeat the baddie type of experience. Part of this was certainly my fault but part of this was the group. The members of that first group tend to approach things that way in other games as well and don't really embrace the idea of "playing a character" and interpersonal interactions between the players or players and npc. I tried to coax more of the character interplay out of them, but it just landed flat. I think this group just might not be the right fit for Call of Cthulhu type games that are not extreme action oriented. That being said, even though I found it to be a bit lacking, the players themselves really enjoyed it, even though it played out more or less like a board game than an rpg. The second group was much more into player interaction and the difference could not have been more major. The second run took twice the time the first run took just because the players were really into interacting with each other and exploring the scenario and their characters. This also made it much easier to "creep out" the players as they really got into the headspace of the characters they played. Honestly, as a keeper I much preferred this second group as my job was much easier to do than it was with the first group. There were actually a lot of things that the first group never even got to experience because they just didn't bother with something if they figured it did not help to achieve the end game, where the second group ended up almost insane because they found almost every bad thing they could. It was actually a pretty fun night. It is important to note that while I felt the second group was a better experience, on the player side both groups thoroughly enjoyed their play through. Though I think the story will stick with the second group more than the first, both got I guess what they wanted out of the experience. The second group just gave me more of what I like about running a Cthulhu game, and I will be doing Cthulhu with that group more often I think, while sticking to more Shadowrun, D and D, or Cyberpunk with the first group. That first group is less concerned with what we play and more concerned with getting together to do something. The second group specifically approached me because I run Cthulhu and they wanted to play that particular game. Cthulhu is one of those games where the players will get out only as much as they put in, and that second group definitely put in the effort, at least for what I expect from a Cthulhu game.

[@stevenmarshall653]

I like how naturally you said 'corplaint'

[@BigEd1001]

Jack is going to steal your candy.

[@MatteBlacke]

Excellent video as always! Especially the last 3 minutes 😂

[@TalonBrush]

We learned something about Dweebles today...

[@TheeAugustCaesar]

So close to 100k! You've earned it, love your videos and thanks for the help!

[@caseycoker1051]

Thanks as always for the great content Seth! I'm really excited to try this adventure with some friends, and the PG version may be good for my teenage nieces and nephews who are into RPGs.

[@doompocalypse842]

getting close to 100k subscribers!

[@bossman4799]

This just sounds so fun. I'll check it out. Could use a distraction from the prep for my new campaign.

[@mikesands4681]

Nice Tshirt with a symbol from Conan 1982.

[@c-bass9367]

Great video. More glass cannon please!

[@marcusohoudrain9632]

From what I was able to decipher and transcribe from the grimoire: "Have made the pact with the Black Man, who has many faces and forms, that wisdom and life shall best yours beyond imagining." [Destroyed part] "The flesh of the immature that is most pure, for [?] Unwheels that of the taints years ago, experience, carnality, [?] , impart upon it. Said flesh can best consumed raw or did cook through heated [?] To reveal some of the sweetest flavors of innocence and incorruption. Such [?] Impart upon the feaster the vitality did contain in potential within the child's flesh." [Destroyed] "Tribute will best be given to that Black Man before such feast that the gent might benefit from it." "His children shall [?] As you did cast for his most wondrous gift"

[@agentblackfyre5922]

This is a great orgin Story

[@britishshock]

New story's. I love these reviews, I don't play and can't find players in my area.

[@keithvanboskirk7327]

The Rats in the Walls!

[@AlVainactual]

Ah, I see that Jack has decided to dress as "The Bat" from popular superhero cartoon "The Venture Bros".

[@rei6078]

This is already giving me the chills.

[@peterwosny1104]

I want to see the movie for this story 😊

[@gmradio2436]

I want to play the kid of cultist. What did little Johnny bring? Dad's Neconomicon and mom's ritual knife. Time to summon servents of dark gods.

[@icantthinkofagoodname.3983]

I think Jack’s vintage Batman costume is more terrifying than any child eating monster

[@dimsum3329]

I love how Jack has his flask replaced by a juice box

[@Bentheriault1]

ok, i really want to play call of kid-tuhlu

[@kaiserlevi]

The extra characters trick is a good suggestion. One of my players was the Prankster and threw a black cat firecracker into a shed, not realizing it was full of gasoline. A near TPK the first few minutes of play.

[@richmcgee434]

Poison ivy hazards? Could these be the first CoC characters ever to escape certain doom because they had to go home for some calamine lotion? Actually, I guess they wouldn't be. I remember playing when I was much younger and one of the PCs avoided getting eaten by a ghoul because he'd been slathered in the stuff after running into a kajillion mosquitos the day before. Apparently it doesn't taste very good even for corpse-eaters.

[@bjimenez88]

love the venture bros reference

[@robrogers5150]

Another great video. Seth, I've been watching you for a long time now. I even taught myself to play Call of Cthulhu with your videos, and I've had a running game with my friends for over 2 years now. So thank you so much for all the work you do. I wanted to ask: how do you go about altering your images for your games. I have a non-Call of Cthulu Map that has a bunch of stuff written on it that would break emersion, still I want to use it on Roll 20. What program or app would you recommend to make alterations to artwork/maps found in paperback supplements?

[@TaberIV]

This might be the game that gets me to run CoC! If it has the Kid-Thulu rules what other material would I need to run this adventure?

[@SSkorkowsky]

The full list of the witch's spell descriptions are in the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Guide. But with that exception, you could probably get away with just using the adventure (with its included Kid-thulhu rules), and the free Call of Cthulhu Quickstart rules.

[@TaberIV]

@@SSkorkowsky Awesome, thanks so much for the reply!

[@crax83]

I'm planning on running this scenario this Halloween. It's going to be great I think.