Modern Call of Cthulhu - Bachelor Party | Chaosium | Glass Cannon Network at Gen Con 2023

Chaosium's Brian Holland returns to the booth for one of the highlights of the weekend as he takes Rob Kerkovich, Troy Lavallee, Skid Maher, and Joe O'Brien through a wildly original Modern Call of Cthulhu story where four knuckleheads head to a log cabin in the woods for a Bachelor Party weekend! What could go wrong?!
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Cast: Brian Holland (GM), Rob Kerkovich, Troy Lavallee, Skid Maher, Joe O'Brien
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[@vwkflynn]

You know it's great horror when you're scared in a well lit room, surrounded by people. (That's me at work rn)

[@matthew_thefallen]

Fuck, I am home alone and scared to death 🥲🥲🥲

[@pedrobernardo5887]

I know he wrote the book on this scenario, but the way Brian simply owns the system and the setting is impressive AF. I've never seen a keeper so aware of what skills are relevant at each point and MAKING A POINT of asking characters to roll them to inform what comes next. CoC is the best content on GCN guys... make more of it!

[@curtisbrown2281]

Wow we need more Brian on the network.

[@ichifish]

It's Friend of the Pod Brian Holland and he's terrifying! So sad the Busted Mufflers wasn't streamed -Blades is how I discovered GCN, but man, this was a great show.

[@aureliomanalo]

We DEFINITELY need Brian to run a long COC campaign, that was truly impressive.

[@jsa66]

Seriously... Call of Cthulhu is an INSANELY good system. Also, Brian is an INSANELY good GM. ALSO... TGCN are all INSANELY good at APs. Zero notes. Bravo.

[@t3db0t97]

This is easily one of my new favorite one-offs they've ever done

[@SoFlyBmOr3]

Brian is a awesome GM he's so funny and just loose I love his style

[@ReadingAde]

Amazing job by Brian

[@morontiamind]

That 911 call good grief!

[@borgy1337]

That was creepy AF -- great job by Brian

[@krobb1290]

I still remember looking over from working the merch booth and seeing Brian with no notes. And now after listening, I’m somehow even more impressed. Really fun, creepy show. Brian needs to be on more stuff.

[@ReadingAde]

Who was it that passed by near the end when the guys reacted and a couple said “It’s Craig!”?

[@brianholland3033]

@@ReadingAde it was a cosplayer dressed in a full scarecrow outfit who pressed himself full-body against the glass of the booth! It was well timed haha.

[@snoophogg85]

Troy and Joe absolutely NAILED their characters on this one 😂 so good

[@sub-jec-tiv]

I love that Kegstand is immediately like "let’s just get the hell out of here!" 😂

[@patrickwaldeck6681]

GOD that whole concept with the TV is incredibly inspired. What an incredible one-shot.

[@rhubbard4346]

CoC is the greatest game ever. Love watching you guys play this. Can't wait for more of it on your chanel.

[@elizabethcarver6661]

This was such a simplistic yet horrifying scenario. I can't wait to run it for my table! 😂

[@CarlosRodriguez-dd4sb]

Laughing out loud! Omg. One of the best things you’ve done

[@iesika7387]

I was waaaaiting for somebody to come out of that vault toilet. Those things always spook me just because of putting your bare bits above a deep dark hole with who knows what at the bottom, but in this context knowing there was a big dark hole nobody was paying attention to was looming big in my awareness the whole time. Every time someone went in the bathroom and was looking the other direction I just knew it was coming. Someone secretly being in the house with you is always scary but the idea of somebody climing into a vault toilet to hide after what Skid's character and the gas station sushi just did to it was so inhuman and weird it got extra threatening.

[@kaliumnith]

This is so good. The creep factor was pretty rapidly ramped up, fuck me

[@ulfhazelcreek8108]

Cabin in the wood cliché done well. Love how everyone just gets into it.

[@neonfieldmouse]

Watched this live and it was SO GOOD

[@bobnixon6220]

this is really funny my sons name is cody nixon and i currently live in south dakota

[@Hootie225]

This one was great! I want another creepy adventure with all these guys!

[@TheDanielWooster]

God, Troy’s obscure What About Bob? reference (Don’t touch my sister!!) just had me in bloody stitches for a solid 20 minutes. Thank Troy!

[@jrlonergan6773]

Holy shit the ending was even better!!

[@kevinjameskramer404]

Absolutely amazing scenario! That managed to be incredibly horrifying despite the convention setting and people being around. Brian Holland is a beast. You guys should totally have him run a second game.

[@skyblazeeterno]

Ive just started to watch this after seeing Chaosiums Alone Against The Static solo pick a path type adventure as the Chaosium folks referred that a sort of group adaptation was done live ...so here I am..promises to be interesting

[@nightcatarts]

Brian is really good. Little prep is like yea, okay, but zero prep is something else.

[@totallymojo]

He has probably run this scenario 200 times during testing and cons. Maybe he wrote it.

[@nightcatarts]

@@totallymojo Quite possible, but it's still a TTRPG so there's no way to know where the players will take it.

[@totallymojo]

@@nightcatarts You cannot prep for that anyway.

[@nightcatarts]

@@totallymojo Sure, but you can do a session zero to find out what a group is more or less likely to want to do; how they want to play the game, as it were.

[@totallymojo]

@@nightcatarts oh, do people do that?? feels like it spoils the fun to talk about that before hand. I have never ever really needed a session zero. we just improvise.

[@dirtymick01us]

This was really inspiring to see. Great one shot, keeper who knew enough about the world to keep the story moving, and players that were there to have fun. It was a treat to watch.

[@dietcake_222]

That was awesome! So creepy and well written!

[@TheGlassCannon]

Thank you so much!

[@cfmeyer01]

This was awesome. Great story telling and super creepy

[@MrLimebomb]

Overjoyed

[@ramzcoldlampin5460]

That was a hoot! Great job running it Brian! We need more rich frat boy characters from the group. The role play is just too funny and it makes character death less tragic 😂

[@jrlonergan6773]

Oh man that beginning was so great

[@jimtonn8081]

Wow did I get creeped out!! Brian was amazing!!

[@gabejohanns]

I love the videos where the guys just bust loose so much! Excellent video GCN!

[@AngelicBeatdown]

amazing

[@nonam3party]

Love this oneshot.

[@jrlonergan6773]

I have to get this

[@TheFaulkned]

Finally a story that nails cosmic horror in the new age.

[@emilymitchell6823]

Amazing!

[@DaSkwire]

You guys have such great energy: immediately engaging to watch, you know this is going to be fun. Love the GCN 🌟

[@noahgelb9289]

Wow, so good!

[@matthewkemp594]

Nice work!

[@BonjiggiliO911]

Watching this by myself and I'm so afraid lol

[@BostonDeadHead]

So Epic!

[@Killerafroman]

Soooo, good!

[@heatherwassing7606]

One hour in, my heart skipped a beat. Amazing!

[@heatherwassing7606]

Oh wait, oh no! I have a feeling that, when it arrives at my LGS, Alone Against the Static will have some very familiar beats.

[@mariovarga2892]

this was really, really good. I actually got goosebumps throughout

[@trevorgoodchild2928]

Amazing one-shot, such a cool creepy scenario - kudos to all

[@Phant0m51]

I really regret watching this just before bed. Incredible!

[@That_Eriksson]

This was insanely good lol, geat story.

[@JackieG0985]

Watching this while I'm home alone late at night. I'm so having nightmares!

[@stevengardiner5516]

My gawd--we are in the first Evil Dead movie.

[@That_Eriksson]

October is almost over and no news on this solo adventure I WANT IT do not make me wait till Halloween!

[@GerardoBCZ]

THAT little panic at 16:30 :D

[@stevengardiner5516]

I think luck can be spent in combat to succeed on a hit (though a to hit roll can't be pushed). This makes sense since luck is a cost automatically.

[@stevengardiner5516]

But could be wrong! This was fantastic!

[@ms9ball]

Joes character is hilarious 😂

[@jackferriter2533]

Beer soup in a UMass shirt, sounds about right

[@IM-Silviu]

1:06:35 Wow, Joe

[@Lorn8791]

Random recognition of Down Periscope, I feel like I'm one of the few that ever saw that movie at this point. Not that it's a great movie mind you.

[@alexanderpimentel6178]

Yes, it is rumored that a private Johnson has a tattoo across his body. ;)

[@MonteGruhlke]

Bets. Bachelor . Party. Ever.

[@TheGlassCannon]

It was such a fun sesh!

[@matthew_thefallen]

Ah, nothing better than watching this home alone, scared as hell 🥲👍 Brian did a freaking great job, can't wait to get a copy of it 🙌

[@kyotol1ght584]

I thought I recognised an Australian accent

[@ssia6938]

This was more of a straight up horror game than a Call of Chthulu scenario. Also, most Lovecraft stories make an effort to explain the mystery involving the cosmic horror, this game did not. The players were fantastic, though.

[@vtc193]

And I thought nothing scary was going to happen because they weren't in Maine.

[@SilviuIM]

1:00:40 the call

[@JessiNaka]

Wait so what happened to Craig?!

[@La_Lente_Oscura]

There's too much content!!!!

[@hobertcooke2346]

Ladies and gentlemen I am proud to present: the opposite of Rodger Cumstone

[@mikevides4494]

Oh man - novel time! I've been waiting for this one to drop :D Surprisingly, I initially gave this a thumbs down - but reconsidered because quite honestly I had a great time watching it and you all deserve the kudos. But the ending had a lot of Keeper-fiat, railroading, and inconsistency with the rules, making it feel rushed, unfinished, and quite frankly, a bit unfair to the players. Like, when you point out that the Keeper had no GM notes to work form, for me that wasn't an "OH WOW!" moment, it was more of an "Ah... that's why..." moment. I get it though, this was a thrown together quickly and Brian stepped up to do the work as Keeper - much respect to him for that. I mean this as constructive criticism. I love everyone at that table and appreciate everything you do - and I'm sure I'm not 1/10th of the Keeper Brian is. But I feel like it would be a disservice to give nothing but praise when I see something that momentarily dips the quality of the show. I'm sure most people didn't even really care about the rules inconsistency. But part of what draws me to your channel is how you really make an attempt to bring the story out of the rules. On a high note: Skid - as always you stole the show. You leaned into the humor of the situation without breaking the tension! No disrespect to the others, but you remain one of my favorite cast members for the verisimilitude you bring to the sessions. Rob, you were the beating, heart of this scenario! One of my favorite episodes I've seen you in. You have a way of simultaneously capturing the horror and ridiculousness of these kinds of situations that rivals Skids! Joe, fantastic characterization! You pushed the story forward to the bitter end. The finance-bro energy was infectious, and your roleplaying of the increasing drunkenness seemed to match your loss of sanity - very interesting choice! Troy, what can I say: you played the straight man until the world went crooked, and then you snapped in the most glorious way. Brian, regardless of what I said above, you really did a fantastic job, and thank you for stepping up. You didn't disappoint - I just have a high bar for rules consistency, and if I didn't already know how good of a Keeper/GM you are, I wouldn't even bring up the criticism.

[@ReadingAde]

Brian only had 90 minutes, ffs!

[@mikevides4494]

@@ReadingAde I get that, and I think he did a great job with the time he had. I also get that he almost certainly had somewhere to jump to. And I can only imagine he's gotta contend with burnout by this point. He's out there representing his company and brand, though. Sure, the business here is fun - and they deliver on that - which is why I ultimately gave the video a thumbs up. There's a certain amount of technical professionalism that I'd expect from a Chaosium exec when running the game, even if it's as a favor for their friends at GCN. I know he's a fantastic GM. He doesn't need my validation for that. And he certainly doesn't have to feel self conscious about some dude he'll never meet having issues with two or three rapid fire decisions he made under a time crunch. But I saw him slip into some genuinely bad DM habits at the end that I feel were well below his level of skill. I know I can just ignore it and go on my way - but both Chaosium and Glass Cannon are businesses trying to make a profit. Catch more flies with honey, and all that. I fully expect my comment will have zero impact, anyway but then, so would one more post telling them how great the show is. Might as well offer a different set of eyes, you know?

[@ReadingAde]

@@mikevides4494 all this word salad and I don’t see any specific examples you have of rules inconsistencies, etc…

[@mikevides4494]

@@ReadingAde You mean like when he said "No, (you can't luck that)" on Skid's driving roll at the end? Luck burning rules had been in play previously. Or killing Rob's character without any sort of roll? Not even a damage roll.