Mr. Welch's Mad Musings: Little Fears

[@theblackpantslegion]

"Good for a laugh" - I agree. A .38 is fair.

[@Zeithri]

A BPL in the wild! \o/

[@Gordon519]

AWSAQ awesome

[@patrickbuckley7259]

I prefer to think the Teddy Bear would remain a cute Teddy Bear but proceed to pull out a big stick and beat the monster back with absurd Kong Fu while spouting Teddy Roosevelt quotes.

[@KimKhan]

Bully! 8D

[@falloutbos34]

or the teddy bear doing wrestling moves

[@christiangarza8122]

Ah, the history nerd kid, and his defense.

[@Zane-It]

​@@christiangarza8122I just rolled a character for happy birthday edition today. He's a boy scout.

[@Se7enBeatleofDoom]

Can’t wait for the Nickelodeon tie-in module with the Dan Schneider boss right.

[@therasslintheatre2960]

4:53 That line alone makes me realize the insane amount of ways my players could break the game Just picture a child summoning God Gundam, the Doom Slayer, or just imagining he has a Stand from Jojo

[@Maehedrose]

The game does have rules.

[@AlainproFredric]

The rules make it so if you fail the roll of the beliefs, you loose a point in that belief. So every time Mr. teddy doesn't help he gets weaker tell it's just a bear

[@Winterydee]

This sounds like a very interesting game system/mechanics with the PC becoming weaker over time as they start to become teenagers and lose their child like wonder and imagination. Almost a design nod towards "It" by Steven King and "The Chronicles of Narnia" series by C.S. Lewis with the limited time to be effective in this world. Now that said I can totally see and understand the issues and problems with getting a group together and playing this game. It seems like a bunch of topics that most people don't even want to think about let alone talk about. Sorry to hear about the loss of your buddy/doggy. It is always hard to lose one's pet. Also I love the shout out for the BPL. It is because of Mr. Tex that I was introduced to your channel and this brilliant series which is "Mad Musings". Whenever I meet someone who plays tabletop RPG's, but only lists D&D 5e I tell them about your channel and specifically this playlist series.

[@dirgesinger1382]

Always good to hear the good word of BPL being spread. Also, it would be interesting to have a Let The Right One In situation, say, the perpetually scruffy kid is a werewolf.

[@paladinebahamut]

Sorry to hear about your pup, man. *hugs*

[@stephenclements6158]

Indeed, F for sweet pup. When I saw the pup, I told my wife to look, because she loves dogs. Fortunately she didn't hear the send off for good doggo.

[@Whipster-Old]

Hear hear.

[@angryspacemarine6677]

I remember playing this game with a group after we’d all turned old enough to drink, so by then there wasn’t very much in the game that “frightened,” us. I don’t think I ran it 100% true to the writers intentions, because it was more of a 3rd-Grade, A-Team Ghostbusters, monster-of-the-week smack down where the players characters would convene, figure out who was dealing with what, then Scooby-Doo sawed-off shotgun trapped the monsters kneecaps. Any parental intervention was usually just taken on the nose because the irl player wouldn’t actually be grounded. I remember after one particularly violent exorcism of a haunted closet, one of them got sent to juvie. It was hilarious, like watching a bunch of midget Johnny Knoxvilles running around. Never did fight the pedo-monster, I mentioned it and there was a collective veto against it. Pretty good game.

[@markskarr2257]

Years ago, I came across a game called Furry Heroes. It was a "tactical combat game" about stuffed animals battling childhood monsters. The story behind it was the writer had a very young daughter who was terrified of the "Closet Monster." So, he wrote up the rules, and they had her stuffed animals go into the closet and defeat the closet monster. After that, the girl was never afraid of the closet again. Later editions turned it into an _actual_ wargame, which, I thought, caused it to lose it's magic.

[@Zane-It]

Ok where do I find this game at?

[@DwarfElvishDiplomacy]

Think about the bullet thing, tex might see it as a challenge

[@Fernoll]

Imagine that: Somewhere in Closetland there is a huge mountain made entirely out of milk cartons.

[@derrabbit7289]

Picked up Changeling the Lost recently, the 7 boogeymen kings would be great Fey Lords for that game. I’d water down what they actually do to people though. The seven still send their servants to abduct children but the end result is a changeling who differs depending on which one took him. Goal of the characters is to stop this from happening to other kids while making certain they don’t get dragged back to Arcadia as well.

[@CowCommando]

Better watch this right away before KZbin strikes again.

[@swytchblayd]

Surprisingly its still up.

[@Zane-It]

​@@swytchblaydit's incredibly difficult to find anything to do with first edition or happy birthday little fears on KZbin. I wish I could see an actual play of first edition.

[@Nightbreed24]

I've got very thick skin and very dark humor. I've watched Where The Dead Go To Die, which freaked out my PMC friend, who has spent years in Kabul. I run Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green and have watched a cartload of true crime documentaries of the most devilish things you can imagine. But even I had to switch to 1st edition Ghostbusters for a while, because researching the Goler clan, Jim Jones, Luis Garavito, Béla Kiss or Fritz Honka for inspiration wears on you after a few years. But this game awakened my interest, although 99% of the dudes and gals I play with will lose their shit.

[@Smacstac]

Should have mentioned the great and terrible story of Tex and his spiritual and physical journey through Kansas. The worst state in the union.

[@PenumbranWolf]

This sounds Old World of Darkness-y.

[@Zane-It]

this series is one of the best ive ever seen. keep up the good work.

[@michaelmclaughlin261]

This sounds like it would make a great (dark) Changeling: The Dreaming chronicle.

[@Hilti-rb6dp]

Aww man. Jared from subway. You are smooth mr welch 🤣🤣🤣

[@puremgtowpaladin2940]

Dude I lost my shit at the moment subway Jared popped up 😆

[@BunkerAnon]

Does sound like a brutal one. Definitely not for ones first journey into Tabletop. But at that same time I can see a good amount of possibilities that hearken back to my times of imaginary play. Especially with the older set. Lots Kids Next Door stuff to work with.

[@madmachanicest9955]

ok so this is IT the rpg sold

[@lizardjr.7826]

Can't believe I never heard of this. Nice slideshow of the true monsters

[@Ashasverus]

The game itself sounds very creative, very original. Yes, definitely concerning sensitive content, though. Still, those old, unreformed Brother's Grimm type stories are valuable. It's that old fine line between protecting children and preparing them. It would be a bit much to expect anything to overcome that hurdle easily.

[@EvilDoresh]

Don't set a campaign of this in Japan unless you want the player characters to summon Ultraman.

[@swytchblayd]

Or have some really, *really* messed up shit as villains.

[@Pink_Noodle]

Have you heard the good word of side corn brother?

[@zippymctarget2770]

After having to live through the satanic panic I would shudder to have to try and run this game. Also, praise Z0rg! Crap, I should mention that I found the BPL from your channel rather than the other way around as is normal.

[@bigblue344]

Little Nightmares total conversion when?

[@Titan360]

Wait, youtube locks videos for having too many...children? What if you just happened to live stream some kid's birthday party?

[@Mr_Welch]

Then they turn off comments and demonitize it. Isn't the first time I've had it happen. No comments=no engagement. Video drops off suggestions like a rock

[@simonacerton3478]

I've read the books and its great game but zero chance I'd run or play it. No kids in my play circle and as adults? I can't get my guys to run high school kids for Buffy . Also the ick factor is far too high and while my current group is squared away, I've been with groups where some of the players have trauma. No way.

[@AlainproFredric]

I do love this game, but finding players is hard

[@patrickholt2270]

Sounds grim, and too disturbing to run. My childhood was bad enough. I don't relish the idea of having to go back there, even for XP. I also feel like a lot of this kind of horror is playable in other games where you don't play as children, but you are nearly as powerless relative to what you're up against, like in Call of Cthulhu, and some of the World of Darkness games.

[@berserkshirtbear1271]

The images there...

[@Ashasverus]

Heads up, audio track is not kicking in.

[@fleetcenturion]

Was there a reason you had to re-upload this, or did you just want to include the woodchipper image?

[@viktord2025]

He had to remove the images of children because KZbin is KZbin

[@Mr_Welch]

KZbin turned off comments for pictures of children. Images of children in classic horror movies like The Shining and Lost Boys? No Bueno. Images of child murderers and kid diddlers? NO PROBLEM

[@fleetcenturion]

@@Mr_Welch - Somewhat ironic, considering Hollywood's history with the Corys.

[@benhramiak8781]

No audio

[@jacktomas1596]

6:37 I see what you did there. Audio works

[@youcantbeatk7006]

Almost everyone in the video is a pedophile. It took you 6 minutes to notice?

[@MrNetWraith]

Really hope this isn't offensive, but is there any possibility you might do a Mad Musings on either the Unisystems games as a whole, or else specifically on All Flesh Must Be Eaten and/or Terra Primate?

[@Mr_Welch]

If I can find a copy for review. That's really the only main restriction I have on what I can talk about

[@MrNetWraith]

@@Mr_Welch Well, if PDFs are viable, the entire Eden Studios library can be had from DriveThruRPG at fairly cheap prices. In Australian dollars, the AFMBE corebook is 20 bucks and the splats average 13 to 17, with some dropping as low as 3-4 dollars; I don't know what that converts to in American moneys.

[@TheGenericavatar]

White Wolf's Chronicle's of Darkness's 'Innocents' book has a similar child centered horror / suspense vibe. Chronicles of Darkness is simply World of Darkness 2nd Edition.

[@Fernoll]

This game sounds awesome. Very much a dark mirror to the Kids Next Door cartoon, I'd say. I must confess, when you posted your earlier dispute with YT, I went and read about it myself. The idea is captivating, and although it sounds like a game that takes a certein amount of emotional maturity to play, I'd love to run one. Did you get to play it yourself at some point? If so, how was it?

[@Mr_Welch]

One-Shot second edition. Mechanics were sound enough we defeated the bad guy with the crazy grandpa that remembered the boogeyman and was dying to reunite him with a ancient stuffed dog named mr. Ruff ruff. Grandpa shut the door and all we could hear was the screams

[@Fernoll]

Nothing connects generational gaps better than closet demons. Telling a parent about an encounter, making him remember and essentialy flip out sounds like a fun plot hook.