PF 4: RPG Stories: Everyone died in Call Of Cthulhu

Everyone died in my Call of Cthulhu game, do to some very, very odd plays made by the players.

[@normal6969]

Player: Who are you? Goblin: I am a goblin. Player: And what do you do here? Goblin: I pull this lever. Would you mind to stand over that big X on the floor? Player: Well, yes. With pleasure.

[@shinobidaniel_12]

I keep saying persuasion will be your greatest weapon

[@TaylehAwondras]

Wroong leveeer

[@craigh5236]

Sound like my first campaign at age 14

[@normal6969]

@@craigh5236 :D Fun moments, you know. :)

[@BigJackGameplays]

"I set the house on fire" "Ok, everything's on fire, how do you plan on getting out of there" "I'll set myself on fire"

[@alphapolimeris]

Your games of Cthulhu were so good you turned the players insane instead of their characters :D

[@justseffstuff3308]

Lol, you’re right.

[@soup-flavored-soup6613]

Z O IN K Z

[@paulcoy9060]

"You see a moldering tome of eldritch horror on the table." "I read the book." "Don't read the book!"

[@DarkCT]

I MUST BOOP THE SNOOT. ...wait, wrong thing to not do,

[@paulcoy9060]

How about I just glance at the Index ?

[@michaeledmunds1767]

paul coy Index: Chapter 1, Zombie revival. Chapter 2, Dagon for dummies Chapter 3, Cthul-geddon Chapter 4, The curse of the index

[@DarkCT]

...that was at least a better move than smoking the book of bad juju...

[@paulcoy9060]

"Dagon for Dummies" actually sounds like a good name for an adventure. Maybe the players stumble into something, think it's about something low level, then BOOM! Motherfuckin' Dagon walks the Earth! Watch your players shit themselves. There's a great video of the 80's D&D cartoon redubbed, and the DM announces,"okay, you're all first level characters. You see a door." "I open the door." "On the other side of the door is TIAMAT!" There's no way those kids would have made it past the first episode.

[@RealMiniLink]

"I lay in a puddle, I can't get burned" 1. That's not how burns work 2. The smoke is the real danger and 3. You're trapped in a burning room, either the floors gonna fall or the roof is

[@MrWarriorace]

there is also the suffocation from the smoke.

[@BloodyBay]

+MrWarriorace Did he _not_ say "The smoke is the real danger"?

[@sploofmcsterra4786]

4. it's a puddle from a monster that is flammable

[@TheArahnatidOverlord]

Actually, the floor caving in is almost a way out of the problem, if it is not a small cellar in the basement he's going to land in or a huge bottomless chasm beneath the house he's falling into. Falling one floor's worth of height is not such a big deal, really. Unless the floor beneath him lands on some large hard surface that would cause the center to remain higher than the ends of the floor section, in a ^ manner - that would probably break his spine and either kill him or make him quadriplegic...which would alse mean soon, but slow and agonizing death.

[@seanpeacock4290]

The water boils. You are now a soft boiled human.

[@TigerKirby215]

I can only imagine that brief moment of clarity piercing his idiocy, followed by the feeling of "Ohhhhh shiiiiiiit! OHHHHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT!"

[@soup-flavored-soup6613]

ZO I N K Z

[@ApprenticeNick]

I love how rather than explaining how a small puddle on the ground wouldn't protect him from a huge fire and arguing about it, you just killed him in a different way.

[@redfeildre349]

My thought process as a DM is this: * The monster fears fire. * The character finds a puddle in the room left by the monster and wants to roll in it to protect himself from fire. * Therefor, the monster fears fire because it secretes a flammable ooze. ---- The character dies horribly. I should write adventure games.

[@MrCompassionate01]

Well I thought he'd just yknow, asphyxiate to death.

[@joj1560]

Yeah,just because you are in a puddle you can still die from the smoke

[@theotherghostgirl337]

I would have said he dies of smoke inhalation or he drowned in the puddle trying to protect himself from the fire

[@ForceFromAbove]

I would have him boiled alive as the fire came nearer and nearer

[@theDMLair]

I love it! They committed the first classical blunder: split the party. The second classical blunder, only slightly less known, is to set everything on fire and hope for the best. I was totally waiting for that puddle of water to turn out to be the ooze. LOL

[@MrUmakemelaff]

the DM Lair That's what I thought as well...or have the ooze put on a bowler and say to the players on the floor "Later, Bitches" and then have it escape through a hidden exit...and THEN have the ceiling collapse.

[@seanpeacock4290]

I once played a phyrocinetic character who liked playing with fire. He died under a massive wall of fire in an orc village on an open plane. I think I need to make another pyro to see how he will die.

[@patrickmcgann2673]

I don't know. Setting everything on fire can work very well. One time I had to escape a prison camp, and to create a distraction I broke into the kitchen and poured out every single barrel of cooking oil. The resulting explosion vaporized the kitchen and set half of the prison camp on fire, allowing the entire party to escape unnoticed.

[@raistlarn]

I played a pyromaniac kid in d&d 3.5. He had some epic moments with fire, because high rolls and fire resistance.

[@swirvinbirds1971]

@@patrickmcgann2673 it worked on Steading of the Hill Giant Chief more than once... 😆 That massive wooden structure makes for a great bbq.

[@grindstone4910]

Had a similar instance where a newcomer to our Pathfinder game set a forest on fire. That we were in. Also our GM was an actual Fireman.

[@grindstone4910]

You could hear the thump of his boner hitting the table. We learned a lot about how fire propagates through dry, dead underbrush and the damage smoke inhalation can do...

[@SweetMattieG]

I had someone toss alchemist's fire in a forest while chasing after someone.

[@mitchellslate1249]

Damn you are in Hell then...

[@cicerobully]

There is a house that is a maze. It's the Winchester house. Mrs . Winchester was told that the vengeful spirits that died at hands of someone using the gun her husband made (the winchester rifle) would come and kill her so she had to constantly remodel the house to confuse them

[@hunter1586]

Cicero Bully ikr I went there for the Friday 13th tour this year it's boring af

[@luckyowl1681]

... I guess this module was based off the Winchester House? *blink*

[@kordelshorgar122]

i sense some winchester mansion inspiration?

[@airawolf4261]

lol I was going to comment this

[@carminecommander4297]

Same

[@malcomalexander9437]

Agreed.

[@jackh3mmerjack]

I’ve actually BEEN to the Winchester mystery house, it’s pretty spooky.

[@starlepus8686]

i love the fact that people stared using that mansion in their fiction.

[@crowsenpai5625]

2:47 he painted himself into a corner...WITH FIRE

[@troodon1096]

He painted himself into a corner, then set the paint on fire.

[@TrackerRoo]

He wouldn't just have to worry about physically being on fire. You have smoke, which is deadly. Plus the heat itself. It's still hot enough to cause burns, and hot enough to evaporate the water, steam can cause burns as well but at some point he'd either be cooked to death or die of smoke inhalation.

[@kylerosa4369]

Why not both?

[@adamdavenport8009]

Could be worse. He could've set the floor on fire too. 🤣🤣🤣

[@superepicguy]

Adam Davenport Your profile picture makes thos comment perfect

[@cliftonl.2353]

Set the floor on fire and then jump through. Genius!

[@dddmemaybe]

or use your shirt to move the drapes out of the way, open and leave through window, take advantage of unoptimized house-shape to easily climb down and out. friends and evidence are still gonezoed though. I would probably just bullrush the door though, most doors won't take too long for a panicked person to get through. maybe like 2 minutes at best. a good shot and less scary

[@Blossommoon64]

The windows were barred by the owner. They couldn’t get out from there, and the only other exit was on fire

[@levelcatyna7854]

Adam Davenport could have also lit himself on fire

[@chrisrudolf9839]

When you started describing how he set everything on fire, including the door, I expected that he would protest when you confront him about the situation and claim that he obviously meant he is lighting the door on fire AFTER opening it and leaving the room in order to slam it shut from the outside. But no, he was just being an idiot. At least he was honest about it :-)

[@jakubrejzekjunior7349]

Chris Rudolf He should have rolled which side can it be opened and if it was opened out of the room just take his dead comrade and use him to slam the dozor open and run.

[@Jebu911]

Personally I'd assume the door was left open when he lit it on fire making him able to leave the room still. Why did he close the door in the first place when he entered the room. Did he close the door and set it on fire? That's just asking to die.

[@tefnutstemple7433]

... Literally the Winchester Mystery House, 1 minute in and I see it.

[@Bad_Gazpacho]

I'm from Argentina and know the story of the Winchester house, so I'd say it's pretty well-known.

[@UlyssesofAthens]

I was confused when he didn't call it the Winchester house

[@JokerFace090]

I've seen it on a TV show before. It's good use of inspiration.

[@souffrantdepine3762]

Wow, that.. that's a special kind of stupid. A real rarity. Treasure it always.

[@chromaphasia453]

I don't think you were being too harsh, I mean if he says 'I light all the walls on fire' then that's officially when all bets are off, if you light all the walls on fire in a room in your house, you're boned, unless you try and beef it through a door or something.

[@RealMiniLink]

I like how instead of braving the flames on the door to escape the smoke filled room, he decided to lay in a puddle so he wouldn't get burned

[@anon2447]

doors on fire don't open tho, they barely budge, the lock melts, and they get stuck that's why all emergency exits are breakable crystals. how do i know? Some random idiot started a fire on the building where i used to live and yes my door caugh tfire and yes it didn't budge and no, fucking insurance doesn't cover fires if the place is rented and not yours but the tax to pay still falls into you since you were living there instead of the owner of the house, growing up sucks, neighbors suck even more.

[@chrisw3024]

Seriously, I know these people must have been your friends, but they seem sort of...well...let's just say not super bright? First they find themselves locked in a crazy, haunted house with blood trails on the floor, and their big plan is to SPLIT UP!?! Then, knowing he's locked inside a house with no avenue of escape, player 2 sets the house ON FIRE?!? How was that NOT going to eventually kill them all?!? I think you really had no option but to kill them. Especially player 2.

[@KickyFut]

What the he'll was his intention of lighting everything in the room on fire?!? Did he think he was a fire spirit or something, that he was for some reason invulnerable??

[@Lilitha11]

Even if breaking the door wouldn't work, it is one of the two logical steps to try. The other being going for the window. Laying on the ground in a puddle, isn't a very good one. Though to be fair, it might be okay if you were in a house on fire and you thought someone might come save you. However, when you set the fire and start it in the room your in, that isn't likely.

[@celestereynolds4536]

This is genius. Using the deaths of the characters to make a plot for the next characters? GENIUS.

[@bigalzo5311]

how to turn horror Cthulhu game into comedy!

[@brandonkenney6310]

At 0:54 I thought to myself "Oh, so its the Winchester Mansion." Same idea to keep adding additions to placate/confuse the ghosts, including stairways that lead to nowhere.

[@Eidako]

A: "I'm gonna get a soda, anyone want one? Hey Puffin, I'm not in the room, right?" GM: "What room?" B: "I want to 'set bed on fire!'" A: "The room where he's setting all this stuff on fire." GM: "He hasn't set anything on fire yet!" B: "I am though, if you'd listen. I am 'setting bed on fire'." GM: "Why are you setting the bed on fire? There's no ooze monster here." B: "I -- I'm burning the darkness!"

[@Atamosk-bu7zt]

i see what you did there!

[@SynthApprentice]

I'm getting drunk, are there any girls there?

[@FirstMetalHamster]

Arsonist Jenkins, Grim Servant of Death

[@imblindboy]

Holy shit this video is hilarious. I honestly cannot believe you aren't famous. I find it funny how I found you because the first rpg I'll be playing is going to be Call of Cthulhu, and I'm also going to be a Keeper haha.

[@puffinforest]

High praise! Thanks! Also, good luck running it. Have fun!

[@KickyFut]

That's just subs. Mathematically *at least* 36-7k people know who he is. (Here in the future, it's over 360k) He might be more famous if he showed more than his left(right?) hand!😁

[@carsonrush3352]

"Don't you know? You never split the party! Clerics in the back keep those fighters hale and hardy. The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light. And you never let that d*** thief out of sight!" -A great and educational song 😁

[@ThePurplehobo]

I seriously love how much better the animation has gotten in the last 2 years

[@vazak11]

I feel bad cos my first instinct to being trapped in such a place was also "Fire" followed by "Bust out the burning door and hope for the best."

[@TheAnon03]

You said this doesn't end like I expect, this ended EXACTLY how I expected (they burned the house down with themselves still inside. Then again I've never played Call of Cthulhu, so maybe it's a less common ending in that game.

[@Rathkryn]

Only one person burned the house down with himself inside. One person died prior to that because they split the party. The other person went in wanting to die so he could roll a new character.

[@Karanthaneos]

Call of Cthulhu is all about investigation, you're constantly dealing with highly volatile elements and unknown deadly magic and monstruous entities... Burning the house down isn't that weird, but burning your escape routes is something that shouldn't really happen that often.

[@troodon1096]

Usually a game ends with everyone dying and/or going insane. Usually not with self-inflicted death though. Ironically the monster probably thought these people were more insane than it was.

[@jeremiahlewis410]

Palladium Fantasy, party lost out in the forest, looking for shelter. My character, a Diabolist, which is a mage that relies on drawing/carving/painting glyphs/runes to cast a spell, runs across a cave entrance. In my defense, it was like 1 or 2 am and we had been drinking a little. I decide it's a good idea to use an alarm ward to let the rest of the party know that I had found shelter and roughly where it was. The alarm ward can be herd 1 mile away per level of experience. I had neglected to check to see if anything had been laring in the cave. TPK, thanks to the Tuskers I had woken up by setting the ward off in the mouth of the cave. Imagine a cross between a boar and a tiger that travel in packs like wolves or lions. Climbing trees didn't help.

[@ImNotGam]

You hear. out from the distance, a shimmer of light looking like a sword "I Waarneedddddd yooooooouuuuuuu"

[@oldscorp]

i dont think it was harsh. i think that he would have choked to death on the smoke the moment he started the last fire. and the puddle of water would take like one minute tops to vaporasie from the heat. even though he would still catch fire thats besides the point, he would have died from smoke, lack of oxigen and heat if fires didnt get him, which im sure they would have.

[@SOAHCSOAHCSOAHC]

I love your intonation on "I let'im live from that one... Not from this one."

[@chriswalls546]

I love this. It's freaking hilarious. I mean, not for you at the time. Nor for your players. But for the rest of us, really funny. Thank you.

[@Palaschurk]

I have a dude who is really bad at problem solving like the guy who sets the house he is locked in on fire, thats not the bad part the bad part is that i have to explain why my character will not go along with the Plan and try to come up with a better course of action which is hard because the DM often gives us nothing to go on so hours get lost with me debunking his plans because they activly put us in a shit situationand have to come up with a actual good plan with basically no leads which ended up with 8 assassins trying to kill me.

[@AGrumpyPanda]

Better idea: say "Y'know what, that sounds like a great idea- you go do that, I'll be over here watching/taking notes/getting popcorn/whatever." Let them mess up, just make sure they mess up in a way that doesn't adversely affect you too badly.

[@Poldovico]

Even better, begrudgingly go with the wackyness and see what happens! Maybe if it's not too suicidal it can be a vector for a long term character arc where they learn to think twice and you learn to chill out.

[@VoltisArt]

Online D&D game years ago, my neutrally-aligned mage who cared not for any one of his arguing party-mates wound up leading by abstaining because he'd make up his mind and walk off (I'd literally roll a die to decide which way) while they bickered. "Hey, where's Stellon?" "I think he went that way." "Dammit, let's go." Meanwhile, the DM and I were rollin' in private messages...good times.

[@claremeinhardt4578]

I would love to see this story re-animated with your new skills! It also gives me a good laugh, thanks for having it :D

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

I like the old MS paint sketches, lol.

[@richardgrayson432]

Randomly came across your videos and I feel in love with them, please make more!

[@FroggyTheSane]

I thought I had watched all your videos but theres always more and more undiscovered gems!

[@evanhuizenga8626]

Hoo boy, that was a great story...I love players like that, they always make the best tales and jokes that can be told over and over again.

[@DVZ000]

I have been watching your animated D&D stories for years now and I have never seen this particular story before. I didn't know you started out on Call of Cthulhu and I think that is kind of neat. Though I did find it weird how many games you went before you killed someone according to this story lol. Whenever I played it you pretty much needed a new character every game. Because even if you survived they were to mentally scarred to investigate the void/darkness any further.

[@ActuallyAFungus]

So. These are your roots. I can tell you've improved, but your always had entertaining animatic stories. Kudos!

[@necessities597]

I still love the Call of Cthulhu RPG. The simplicity of characters forces the GM to really make great stories. Plus the concept that the whole game is trying to make your characters fail, go insane, or die is fantastic.

[@Ikelae]

I hope to hear more Call of Cthulhu stories in the future! Good shit, Puffin, good shit.

[@Darkmage1293]

I love the part where he said "Including the door." That's some next level pyromania there.

[@madzapple]

The OG stuff. Finally going back and checking out your old stuff while you're on the rise :-D

[@TtheWriter]

Looking forward to more CoC!

[@tomkrause5158]

TtheWriter phrasing

[@jamjar4804]

Everyone loves some good CoC

[@moaningconservatives1616]

Kyle Stevenson phrasing

[@darthalex3]

TtheWriter CoCk

[@dddmemaybe]

Cockadoodledoo! Some puffin forest in the morning is good for you!. I wood share some of my Big breakfast with you, butt I am very eager for my Meat and eggs. kms huehue

[@VikingFyre]

Call of Cthulhu is a game where the players need to accept the high likelihood of death or worse. I’ve been lenient with my players if I was running a long investigation, but in most of my one shots it’s rare if most of the party lives or comes away moderately sane. Ironically they’re never driven to insanity by Mythos related horror, rather the horrors of humanity and grotesque sights like mutilated bodies. Maybe one day I’ll run a game with the titular character as the main antagonist.

[@roguishpaladin]

VikingFyre Well, playstyles are different, too. In my opinion, CoC is oriented toward campaign TPKs, but not necessarily session TPKs. That's Paranoia, and character creation is sufficiently brief in compensation.

[@SpammerRapist]

And you basically have six lives.

[@Billy_West]

Haaaahahahaha! I love it. Please do more DND videos like this. Maybe even do a full game as a cartoon video with 30 minute intervals or something as a season.

[@Aeroldoth3]

"The monster fears fire. I know, I set myself on fire. Now he can't touch me." * smug *

[@jamesgoad478]

how did he react to the roof collapsing?

[@puffinforest]

He had another "Oh, shit!" look on his face and then just shook his head.

[@jamesgoad478]

+Puffin Forrest ha ha awesome.

[@PsylomeAlpha]

He died.

[@JokerFace090]

I would have thought he'd try to get under the burning bed prior to collapse.

[@Aeroldoth3]

Roof collapses, everyone dies.

[@TheFrugalVideoGamer]

With that premise, I have to wonder whether you realize just how close you got to the real-life case of Sarah Winchester, who was convinced that the ghosts of those killed by her husband's rifle design would haunt her, so she kept making additions to the house.

[@vicbaez]

You improved so much in 2 years.

[@MrDsleepyeyes]

I laughed so hard when I heard this... mainly because it reminds me of most of the games I've been in... so many good funny games... please tell us more like this.

[@KamiNoBaka1]

Ohe hey, I love the Winchester mansion. Great thing to take inspiration for a dungeon from!

[@prognosis8768]

Yeah that is pretty bad. One of my favorites is when one of the characters in one of our games said he was going to run out in front of his army of trained monkey archers and yell "Fire!". Human archers probably would have tried to shoot around him, but he had trained monkeys...

[@trollson66]

Good follow up there. Best CoC I ran was a 1900s Raj piece where the last player went mad on the train out. Great narrative.

[@patrickmcgann2673]

Still my favorite video that you've made.

[@PrinceElvisX]

I have not laughed like that in years. Thank you.

[@GabrielMajere]

lamo That was great! In a recent game, me as the DM: Do you really think it's a good idea to split the party? One of the players: But that's when all the good stuff happens.

[@KalinaHitanaVTuber]

having found this video from some of your more recent work, I'm kinda reminded of that one Samurai from House Valus who tried to calm everyone in the school down by shooting his pistol, resisting arrest, and then trying to defuse the whole situation with grenades XD

[@K33pItGHOST]

That trope of a never ending construction mansion actually happened in real life with the Winchester family! Great work in regardless of the outcome.

[@skylerwade5352]

I love the Winchester mansion inspiration for the hotel. Very cool!

[@guldrev]

thats harsh`?, My first cthulhu game i went into the basement of a house and just straight up died in a paralyzed state after my fellow investigator just walked right up to a ghoul and started to chat with it. my second death i had just killed my life long friend after he attacked a passenger on my ship and the gm throws 3 deep ones at me. it sounds to me like you are too kind to be the GM of CoC

[@Karanthaneos]

Ah, good old Corbitt has been at it again ~

[@richey2008]

I once did this to a PC who decided to start a wildfire and pray to the fire gods of that universe. He kept praying and asking me if he heard something, expecting to be granted some magical powers i guess. The gods stayed quiet, but I'm sure they were pleased with their willing sacrifice, as i just let him burn to a crisp. Of course, the entire rest of the gaming session was suddenly dedicated to the remainder of the party dealing with a sudden forest fire near the capital of their realm. (our fire fanatic used that time to start picking his next character ^^)

[@0ceancr4wler85]

Man your videos has evolved a lot

[@ethangriffin3935]

You based this off of the Winchester house! That's really creative!

[@DirtyFNsocks]

Holy Hucking Sherbert this was awesome. "not from this one" heheheh

[@MIloszKluski]

Wow, I just randomly decided to watch first video on this channel and realized that after all those years we finally know the story described shortly in 4:38

[@Alash1r]

Literally, that mansion plot is a movie in progress right now

[@mrbluemanyova]

I dont know why....but I just love this video~

[@ShockAweGaming]

A very Rose Red style story. Sounds awesome!!!

[@qwertyb18]

I love RPGs and games like Kotor, Dragon Age, and Baldurs Gate. Are tabletop games essentially the same thing, or should I looks somewhere else? A big fan of the monsters for Call of Cthulhu, so I might try that out first.

[@puffinforest]

Baldurs Gate is based on Dungeons and Dragons tabletop RPG, so that one is pretty close. It's hard to compare a tabletop RPG with video game RPGs, because in tabletop RPGs it's all about being able to impact the narrative and you have 3-6 other people at the table who you're working with to tell a story, whereas in video games everything is pre-set. But yeah, in those video games and in tabletop RPGs, the story is very important, just in tabletop RPGs, you sit right in front of the guy making the story and world, so you can talk to him about the plot developments. Call of Cthulhu was the first RPG I started running. It's simple and easy to get into, but because it's dark and morbid, it might turn some people off. If you ask people "Would you rather play as Superman, or a 1920s investigator with a gun, no hit points, no willpower, and who is probably going to die hideously?" People tend to prefer being Superman. Here are some example videos of people playing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIWrpmCrq5tqaac kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3-pn4Oiiayqnsk kzbin.info/www/bejne/n17Tap-Nfs2WgrM Enjoy! (PS: I don't think that RPGs are as much fun to watch as they are to play. But it should give you a good idea what they can be.) (PPS: All the example videos are people playing Dungeons and Dragons because that game is the most popular right now to stream.)

[@qwertyb18]

Hey, thanks for the response! To answer the "would you rather play as superman, or an investigator with a gun" I guess I'd rather be superman, but that doesn't mean I want the game to be easy. I'm a big fan of the strategic combat with these games. How you need to work together as either a tank, support, or damage dealer and min max hard in order to barely make it on the hardest difficulty. The strategy and cooperative combat is what draws me to these games more than the story or "role playing" So I suppose I'd rather be superman, but against enemies packed with kryptonite. Call of Cthulhu doesn't seem like the right game for me as it's very investigative and exploration focused. My issue with Pathfinders is that it's difficult to calculate characters and monsters.My god, calculating each and every monster is an absolute nightmare after a certain level. From your experience/understanding, what game do you think would appeal to my demographic? I feel like there are a lot of people like me looking for the vintage rpg experience. The gameplay is super important, whereas the story and setting is less so. I think it would be amazing to play "game designer" and GM a few dungeons. Probably balanced around what classes the players chose to play; give them opportunities to use the skills they picked.

[@puffinforest]

No problem. Funnily enough, I'm in the same boat. I think Pathfinder is a bit complicated. Also, the pitch for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons was, "we want a return to form for old-school RPGs, but don't want to make is super complicated to appeal to new players." So, it sounds like 5e D&D is what you want.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

I know it's an old thread here... But for what it's worth... The REAL trick to having a good experience in breaking into a tabletop RPG is more about the GM (DM in D&D) than the particular system. If you've got a good story-teller creator in your GM, he/she is worth the weight in GOLD... Seriously. So... My suggestion would be to hold back your judgment(s) of systems for a few sessions, AND really try to find a good fit in the GM... (An old-schooler with a lot of patience would be great)... On systems, you prob'ly won't miss too far with about any of the D&D ed's... Personally, I love CoC, but it takes some real effort and skill on the GM side to get a good investigation going (even just the basic monster or bug-hunt type)... And the investigation to action ratio can depend more on what the GM "reads" from the players' intentions. If you're really serious about Superman, you could check out Marvel Comic Universe. As I recall (okay, it's been years since I last played it) it wasn't particularly sophisticated, but it catered to super humans and super villains so balance usually wasn't difficult to maintain... The fact is, there's a system and setting for just about any flavor or influence you want to incorporate. What I really loved about tabletops versus video games was that you could literally get to do ANYTHING in a tabletop. There was no "non-access" or "unavailable" functions. Again, there's a bit of fiat to the GM' about it, but it really was never an issue in tabletops, while video games... well... flat, linear... one way to go, or you just run out of options. :o)

[@natebardwell]

I had a guy in one of my campaigns do something very similar. Took a whole necklace of explosive beads and tried demolishing the building to avoid getting arrested. He was obliterated and crushed to death (damage rolled) getting exactly what he wanted, then proceeded to have a full-on meltdown because PCs died. Everyone else was totally cool with it because they wanted to do this exact scenario you did.

[@munderpool]

I've watched live sessions on KZbin to get a feel for running a scenario to see if it played out as spooky and tense as it sounded, and in reference to your arsonist, I'm astounded sometimes by the overthinking and/or lack of thinking that usually presages disaster. Be detectives, not bulls in a china shop! :)

[@prognosis8768]

Actually, the best thing that happened in one of our Call of Cthulhu games was when we were fighting this weird enemy at the bottom of the ocean that had taken on the appearance of a young naked boy. One of the players wrote a note to the GM that said "Can I ram the young naked boy from behind with my submarine?' Actually, nothing particularly interesting happened during the game itself. The interesting part happened later when the GM's mom found the note and he had to explain to his mom why she had found a note saying that in his room.

[@joepersch6779]

LMAO These are the stories I live for

[@Parbruek]

Ironically, he'd be more likely to survive the fire than the dynamite in real life. He was so asking for it.

[@LazyWorkCreations]

That expression when that one player went 'Oh Shit! What have I done?!" That was pretty funny and also when that player blew up the dynamite in the cave while they were inside. In my group we called that a 'Vast Intelligence' moment for showing 'how smart you are'

[@Alresu]

Well, burning the house down while in it is a very fitting end for a Cthulhu adventure...

[@daemonvision6160]

Setting the entire room on fire? Damn, Cthugha would be proud.

[@MajesticVampireking]

My favorite part about this is the fact that they were investigating The Winchester Mystery House

[@RobertWF42]

LOL! I think it's very hard to run a horror rpg like CoC w/out things getting silly or just turning into a monster hunt.

[@sterilebroth8933]

This is where the legend began

[@rajinbin]

you need more game stories with that crazy player lol. "I'll lay in the water haha" shit is crazy

[@JakeSnake07]

I'm a minute in, and you just described the Winchester House.

[@WhiteWeaseI]

The pyro reminds me of one of our temporary players that after coming across resurrection jars, and using a spell to resurrect one of them and fought the enemy that came from it, that player wanted to know what would happen if they inhaled it and have someone cast the spell. "Roll idea: You get the distinct impression that your fellow party members would be quite shocked if the result *wasn't* fatal." Then they asked what would happen if they opened all the jars, mixed them together, and then used a resurrection spell.... Also to compound the issue, because other PC's weren't really thinking about it at the time, we didn't specify who got the necronomicon at the end of the session. So *that* player was able to hold onto it at the campaign because we forgot to specify it and they got dibs. So the necronomicon is now in the hands of a player that wanted to snort mummy dust and then *use it.* I'm sure there is an elder god -in their unknowable machinations- that had discovered the sensation of amusement that dark day and let out repeated stentorian bellows that echoed into the void, for doom was surely to come to the world of the human mortals.

[@novasiri7809]

That last bit.. wow. Honestly I would have forgone the roof collapsing, because the water would have just either evaporated or boiled him alive with all of the fire.. if the smoke didn't suffocate him first.

[@lotmyle5465]

I fully expected the puddle he crawled into to be the slime monster he was trying to kill with fire.

[@Godoflegos]

Another example of people playing Call of Cthulu likes its D&D. Splitting the party up in CoC usually means that you don't have to have your entire party die because everyone simultaneously went insane. If you're in a conflict that can't be handled by one person, you're probably going to die anyways.

[@cycloppsss]

This was a year ago?You improved so much! I can belive it!

[@justinjacobs1501]

I like that the story continued on after their original story ended.

[@terrorcop101]

You set this in the Winchester House? That's neat!

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

The adventure is actually called the Westchester House, because the Winchester Family sued Chaosism about the name, and thus they had to change it.

[@joshuasnyder8168]

So, the Winchester house. Awesome idea.

[@nicholi8933]

My group tends to play a lot of different RPG's. We played deadlands a few times and during one session we defeated some baby spiders but did not want to fight the mama. We left the cave and wanted to seal her in and our friend effectively botch his roll to know how much dynamite it would take to seal the cave. He thought it would take his entire crate, like 50 or 100 sticks or something to seal it in. The rest of us not know about dynamite but know it explodes really well ran for it. He wound up collapsing the cave and killing the mama spider. Oddly enough this was not the only entrance to the cave so if he had actually did it correctly we still would have had to fight her.

[@l0stndamned]

My Demon Hunters crew nearly had a similar situation. Whilst hiding in a barn, they for some reason gave the team's entire supply of napalm and entire supply of booze to the character with the pyromania drawback.

[@GamerPete101]

I did the same thing in a CoC campaign. Burnt down a museum and an asylum filled with patients because my character’s reaction to anything supernatural was to try and kill it with fire.

[@jordank7062]

The way you describe the house remodeling constantly happening it sounds like a real life equivalent. The Winchester mansion. The wife(Sarah Winchester)of the inventor of Winchester rifle(William Wirt Winchester) after her husbands death she supposedly heard voices or something then she went to a psychic where she was told that she was being haunted/cursed by all of the people killed by the rifles her husband had designed and produce and the only way to keep them at bay was to continually build onto the house and so she funded the construction of the house for 38 years without a full master plan of the house it is debated whether it was ceaseless work or if workers were dismissed for months at a time. Though all in all it’s a cool thing to check out

[@Ellisepha]

That part with the puddle was pure pokemon logic

[@timbuktu8069]

I love the fact that people who play Call of Cthulu never seem to have read any H.P. Lovecraft. YES the heroes die in those stories, and unlike D&D you don't always get saving throws. Recently a player (who has been around awhile) walked into the middle of a chanting circle of cultists and fired his gun in the air. I awarded his "bravery and courage" with a brand new blank character sheet.

[@skymarshallmarz5573]

Operative sentence: THEY ARE ALL ON FIRE!!

[@basedbarackobama]

That house eh based off a real house and even a movie. I like it