When Old Man Henderson, The Craziest Character Wins Call Of Cthulhu | Narrated D&D Story

[@DomyTheMad420]

not gonna lie. anything less then 20-30 minutes does not do the full story justice. if you liked this PLEASE look further into the madman that is Old Man Henderson. he is *legend*

[@fenorlex1126]

I found him first while searching for more info in 1d4chan. A madlad.

[@Shatterverse]

The Tale Forge does a full & proper reading.

[@Covah86]

Agree with you totally.

[@metagames.errata7777]

The reply from the other player just adds so much more context to OMH and his player's insanity.

[@AngelDame17]

Tale Forge Does a very nice Audio Read of the Story of Old Man Henderson. Google them up

[@elden_lord22]

Me: "who's old man Henderson" Bartender: "not local I see he's a legend round here"

[@Shadow9808]

And thus, ladies and gentlemen, the origin of the Henderson Scale of Plot Derailment.

[@elecstorm3701]

Can you explain what the increments are?

[@Shadow9808]

@@elecstorm3701 ​ Certainly, just be aware it's a BIG one! The scale is as follows, in three stages: Stage 1; Negative Hendersons -9(!) Hendersons: The action taken has solved every problem in the game's universe, for every living and non-living thing in existence. -2 Hendersons: The action has started a chain of events that'll fix every problem previously thought of by the GM for all future campaigns, to the degree not even That Guy can screw it up. -1 Henderson: The action taken has immediately solved the campaign in its entirety. The BBEG has been defeated, th threat to the universe has been stopped, the NPC has been saved; pack up your dice and sheets, GG everybody. -0.75 Hendersons: The action taken has effectively caused the party to HAVE TO be victorious in all events, what so ever. Success is only a matter of time. -0.5 Hendersons: The action taken has solved the current plot, and nearly solved the main subplot. It also has a minutely positive effect on the main plot, and the universe as a whole, outside your party. -0.25 Hendersons: The action taken has solved the current problem the party is facing, just as the GM planned for. Stage 2; Standard Hendersons 0 Hendersons: The action taken has no impact on the plot what so ever. 0.25 Hendersons: The action taken has derailed the trains of thought of all party members present and involved in the current plot, and derailed the most minute of current subplots, but the GM can easily reroute the party and continue to the end of the current subplot. 0.5 Hendersons (AKA Half a Henderson): The action taken has totally derailed the current plot, and severely screwed with the main subplot, but only has a minor effect on the main plot and the universe outside your party. 0.75 Hendersons: The action taken has derailed the main subplot and all underlying subplots, and caused minor consequences to the universe as a whole, but the GM can still make it to the plot's end goal, with some finagling. 1 Full Henderson: The action taken has effectively caused Total Plot derailment. Stage 3; The WRATH of Old Man Henderson 1.25 Hendersons: A special notch on the Henderson Scale that is achieved under certain conditions and a specific reaction of the GM. The action taken has totally derailed the plot, and rather than make a new plot, the GM declaires "Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies." 1.5 (One and a Half) Hendersons: The action taken has resulted in a TPK. 1.75 Hendersons: The action taken has NOT ONLY resulted in a TPK, but has killed everyone involved with the plot. It has completely ruined the game, and caused the GM to begin seizing, attempting to strangle the perpetrator, laugh uncontrollably, or sit there in total shock. 2 Full Hendersons: The action taken has devastated the plot an universe so utterly that the ENTIRE GAME has to be retconned, scrapped, and posted about on/tg/. The GM has to start a brand new game. And if you SOMEHOW go beyond 2 Full Hendersons... You have 2> Hendersons: Near mythical levels. Unrepresentable by any number on the Scale. The action taken has undergone the steps above starting at 0.25 Hendersons, except possibly 2 Full Hendersons. Either way, the game refuses to go away, and die. Maybe the GM initiated The Scratch (Total retconnen), but the game remains in some form, screwing the players. Only 2 people, to the knowledge of the Scale's creators, have done this. If you've read this all, I thank you, I had to find the scale and type it by hand because it wasn't in a location where I could copy/paste, and I didn't want to force anyone to click a link to a site they may not want to view, plus there's a satisfaction typing it out.

[@nicholascasey6473]

@@Shadow9808 Who the hell is the 2nd one?

[@Shadow9808]

@@nicholascasey6473 Hell if I know, I'm just referencing what's on the list from those who MADE the list. Closest guy I can think of is the Man Who Destroyed Psyonics.

[@lanteanboy]

@@Shadow9808 The Man who destroyed Psyonics is indeed one of the Mythic ones but I don't know what the second story is

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

I’m beginning to see a trend in call of cthulhu tabletop where the most disturbed characters do the best YIRBEL LIVES!

[@twinphalanx4465]

Heir schnitzelnazi tips his hat

[@fenorlex1126]

The fact that HP Lovecraft's items are all about disturbing horrors, makes sense that the insane has a better chance at winning, relatively.

[@kyriss12]

@@twinphalanx4465 Bonzy the sad clown honks his horn.

[@sebigrell]

It's true, I played one based on Pops from Regular Show and he died immediately

[@Reddotzebra]

You can't instawin based on driving your opponents insane if they're already insane and beat you by experience.

[@Mgauge]

Old Man Henderson showing eldritch horrors what madness and chaos REALLY mean.

[@diverlawn3491]

I would like to see as Old man Henderson shows what chaos means to Nyarlathotep The crawling chaos.

[@laurenceroberts5239]

@@diverlawn3491 He can't Nyarlathotep met the Eternal Mr Henderson and was wiped from creation.

[@NintendoDude360]

You guys think he will turn into an elder god himself? God help us all if that happens

[@williamchewning1057]

​@@NintendoDude360 your fucking right

[@tellder1]

Elder Gods: *look at Earth* It's free real estate Old Man Henderson: *still exist* Elder Gods: Understandable. Have a nice day

[@lalallama2298]

"I'd like to start by saying that the GM was a bastard that had it coming" Oh this is gonna be good.

[@Mirthrall]

DM: You can't win a ttrpg! Old Man Henderson: Hold my gnomes.

[@shirothefish9688]

dont you dare hold my gnomes*

[@privatename5788]

You of course mean "Hold me wee men!"

[@draconicdemigod9696]

"He was 12 in 74" It's a reference to Venture Bros.

[@darkenna]

Nope. Old Man Henderson pre-dates the Venture Bros. It's a reference to an old Tim Wilson song ("He's My Brother-in-Law").

[@MaxPower-ke5rq]

@@darkenna nope. It’s a reference to a scene in the movie “Falling Down”

[@omicdog]

You don't get to change the ending! They didn't even smoke a joint together!

[@Evil_Librarian]

In the intital post of old man henderson they didn't comment on that aspect at all. The less abridged version which followed the post this sounds like its from went into details like that

[@druid_zephyrus]

I can never decide who I love more, Old Man Henderson Or Bonzy, the Sad Clown (honk)

[@violinfanatickamraz1403]

My fave is Herr Schnitzelnazi

[@DwarfDaddy]

Well the Henderson story was read better than the Bonzy one. I like this narrator but a story like Bonzy required a slower more emotional narration

[@snackcakesmcgee7729]

How the fuck is that a contest? It's obviously the guy made by someone who spontaneously learned German to create a character backstory that would explain why he knew how to skate on a rink full of explosives. EDIT: oh, and used a page from the necronomicon to roll a joint. And freaked out a cultist. Why the fuck is this only 11 minutes long?

[@violinfanatickamraz1403]

@@snackcakesmcgee7729 you obviously havent heard the Herr Schnitzelnazi. He's just as insane as the old man Henderson story

[@druid_zephyrus]

@@snackcakesmcgee7729 because it is two characters that basically hit "remind me later" everytime Death comes for them and it just keeps working until the job is truly done.

[@magenstaffarts]

Glorious, when One Full Henderson was committed.

[@LegendStormcrow]

Always loved Old Man Henderson. He's one of 3 characters I know of that beat the game. Also, poor Jimmy, he lasted so long.

[@4ncientGu150]

That glorious moment when you already know the story thats going to be read. Going to listen to all of this, Henderson is the best crap ever.

[@juliagoodwin9510]

Aww yeah, the man, the myth, the legend! Old Man Henderson himself!

[@A._Person]

SCOTT STERLING!!! . . . Wait, who?

[@masonwheeler6536]

A bit surprising to see the legendary tale of Henderson show up on this channel. Honestly, I'm not sure this really constitutes "beating" Call of Cthulhu so much as cheating like crazy in order to beat an abusive GM.

[@aidanjackson5084]

Henderson Player: "New Game Goal: Spite DM"

[@kabob0077]

@@aidanjackson5084 Current Objective >>>Break the Game, Break the DM

[@nicholasgutierrez6672]

As far as I'm concerned I count it as a win due to how many wrenches in the dm's plans.

[@ZeroCanalX]

@@aidanjackson5084 Well, I'm not sure wheather this GM is a daemonic entity, but sure...

[@gwanael34]

Now we only need Heir Shnitzelnazi

[@josephboechat6020]

A Crazy character, for a chaotic game about insane gods. JUST...ONE...WORD: "PERFECTION!!!!"

[@darklord884]

And the best part: It's all made up! A true reflection of Lovecraftian fiction, an insane story about a madman dreamt up by a lunatic!

[@emberfist8347]

@@darklord884 It is unlikely it was made since it is corroborated by a second poster.

[@darklord884]

@@emberfist8347 Or the same guy with a different account or another guy who OP had a talk with before. Or just someone else who wanted to be a part of this. Remember Leeroy Jenkins? That was fake too and that even had video evidence.

[@emberfist8347]

@@darklord884 Leeroy Jenkins wasn't fake it was meant to be an example of how not do a raid in WOW.

[@darklord884]

@@emberfist8347 Sure buddy. Whatever you say. In any case, this one is totally fake as I said.

[@trickponystudios]

The tanker truck incident will always be the opening to Tango and Cash.

[@tripple-a6031]

This is a really old, though admittedly legendary story.

[@deadmanwalking658]

"Once I saw that simple lawn gnome, I knew my fate was sealed."

[@LegendStormcrow]

How to defeat Cthulu. Step 1: Be old man. Step 2: Be insane. Step 3: Have an assortment of rare weapons normal people could never dream of . Step 4: Have huge backstory that justifies everything, including knowing how to build weapons. Step 5: Profit.

[@hexxidelux6224]

Listened to the entire story. Still have no idea what was going on. God bless Old Man Henderson. *salutes*

[@kabob0077]

Oh boy, it's the Legend itself!

[@Wolfphototech]

*Call of Cthulhu & Trail of Cthulhu should always feel like that the madness , darkness & monsters are always just around the corner & just out of sight .* *An one can't grab on to it or put it together .* *Then when one is not ready .* *It's on top of you .*

[@SimoneSpinozzi]

My goodness... this was a legend that was already old 12 years ago, still glad to see it replayed today. ❤️ Honestly did not remember this to be a trail of cthulhu adventure. Tempted to ask you peeps to narrate the director's cut too. I saw it around 2011. Anyway. Have fun.

[@steveharrison76]

Ah, the legend never dies.

[@RyanReidSpeaks]

Tim Wilson “Brother-in-Law” reference! OP’s got class! Kind of.

[@AngealHewley88]

As soon as I heard it I thought the same thing! Gotta love Tim Wilson!

[@RyanReidSpeaks]

He’s on something and it dang sure ain’t the job.

[@proxxyBean]

This by far is my favorite gaming legend.

[@AuntLoopy123]

I love the gnome showing up as his harbinger of death (Good one, DM!), but for some reason, exploding hockey pucks just really got me hard. This was brilliant!

[@brendanmoriarty3]

I’ve been waiting for this one for ages!

[@Saiaix]

To this day still the best account of a roleplay I've ever read. Nice to hear it again, and on my favorite RP story channel.

[@MarkATorres1989]

I've been waiting for this to appear on this channel. Edited: Now... for the director's cut!

[@TehWrongGuy]

Omg i remember when Stephanos Rex read this story, his voices for Old Man Henderson were the best! So glad to see this story is still around.

[@XenobiaWolfMoon2]

My D&D character has Old Henderson as their uncle and Hastor for their aunt. And of course Cousin Wilbur and Cousin Yog Wately

[@articusramos808]

The legendary old man Henderson....

[@drsquirrel7276]

Waiting for the second part of this as there more to the back story

[@willparry530]

More? But they already told the ending...

[@4ncientGu150]

@@willparry530 This was the fairly abridged account that was given by Henderson's player. The Proffesor had a much more detailed story, including what Henderson's player was like when he wrote the Backstory of Doom.

[@willparry530]

@@4ncientGu150 I know, I've actually read the more detailed account. I'm just wondering what they mean by a part two.

[@JeevesAnthrozaurUS]

My favorite part of the Old Man Henderson story is still when he smoked a mondo blunt rolled with a page from the Necronomicon

[@sorapwn1200]

Please... Please. I am begging you to do the uncut old man Henderson story. I have never read anything more beautiful than that, and this just does not do it justice.

[@willparry530]

Old Man Henderson is a classic!

[@gamblersluck]

Yesssss. So happy to see this, but if I might make a suggestion, grab a friend and narrate the director's cut. It's the best, also maybe explain the Henderson plot derailment scale afterwards. This would also explain why WHM made Henderson.

[@bubbanator3340]

Old classic, read this one a few times myself, and to my girlfriend. Glad you're finally coverings it.

[@4ncientGu150]

I read this to my wife to! XD

[@spongeyspikes09]

I'm feeling like OMH and Doomguy are kindred spirits One has a vendetta against demons, The other against Lovecraftian nightmares all because they took something important to them, Daisy to Doomguy and the Gnomes to OMH

[@zachbible2025]

"He's my brother in law, he's from Arkansas. Lord the best man at my wedding and the worse I ever saw." Tim Wilson

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

Den of The Drake's rendition is truely epic. Sorry.

[@360entertainment2]

His rendition has inspired me to recreate the events in Lego Form!

[@MercenaryX21]

I saw the archive of what happened at the hockey rink from the director's cut perspective. Old man Henderson basically makes the old God die laughing with him as they both share a Blunt while buried under the exploded debris of the hockey rank. It was pure pure madness and genius and it was beautiful.

[@drefranks691]

You know the dm deserved this because Hastur is a benevolent entity. Or more good than other Cthulhu gods. What an idiot am I right guys haha. I have depression.

[@michaelwolf8690]

We had a technical victory in a GURPS fantasy game we were playing. We had some small-town irregular militia guys who ended up facing off against a Necromancer. After a few short primer adventures around the town we had a Wagoneer, and his brother-in law circus performer, two hunters, one of them a wear-bear. They dealt with a few stressful battles against orcs and dealt with some bandits and a pretty large cult before they started dealing with zombies and skeletons. The setting was very paranoid about necromancy because of bad undead problems in the past, so their Baroness sent them do her Duke to deal with this zombie-cranker. The party had through a lot of adventures dealt with the Wagoneer's wife and daughter, sleeping on their floor, teaching the daughter how to track, just a tone of side-line wholesome stuff that upped the stakes while they were defending the town. Now they were heroed up and in the endgame. They said their tearful goodbyes and to his family and got on the road. The Duke was skeptical that this Necromancer was even real so he's completely unhelpful. There is another group of heroes also sent to deal with the Necromancer but they're a bit more equipped and professional-looking. The players follow rumors of the undead into the southlands until they encounter a village overwhealmed by the dead. But rather than the zombies and skeletons doing evil they're repairing the town and planting crops. The Necromancer in town and explains to the characters that his dream is to free the toiling peasant class with dead laborers that would give them lives of luxury and this village was proof of his ability to deliver. The other hero group suddenly attacks leaving the players with no plan in the middle of the fight as all of the skeletons drop their tools and begins to swarm them both. They wisely decide to get out but not before they throw some firebombs at the buildings of the village, narrowly escaping unharmed. As the PCs recovered in a valley they found themselves trapped by the undead and began to climb the walls of the gorge. All except for the hunter that used the chaos to slip into one of the trees. While she waited unseen the necromancer backed up near her because their camp had a nice warm fire and was away from the terrified adventures who were knocking skeletons off the gorge wall. She lined up a forever aimed shot at near point blank and put an arrow through the top of his skull. The werebear, the hunter's brother, fell off the cliff doing something foolish and was torn apart by the dead. With the necromancer killed the remaining undead just wandered away eventually. All of the players were shook by the werebear's death as he was kind of a sweet kid, especially the hunter who had dedicated her life to protecting him. They went back to the village with a nice reward that I figured would fuel their next adventure and the Wagoneer just looked at me and said "I think this is where Hal gets off this crazy ride. He's going to go back to his crappy life and hold his wife and kid every night", and the remaining players also decided they weren't going to end up like the werebear and wanted to take their reward and live a simple life. They rebuilt the bar that was burnt down fighting with the cult and lived out their lives in quite obscurity.

[@360entertainment2]

This might just be my new favorite RPG story, not gonna lie. The main character is like John Wick got cancer, became Deadpool, and all of his love and affection was aimed at Lawn Gnomes. FFUCKING LAWN GNOMES! Gosh I just love that, really hope this character sees a spiritual resurrection at the very least!

[@KalinaHitanaVTuber]

Ah yes, I was wondering if this legendary tale was going to show up ^^

[@michaeledmunds7056]

"He had memorized the anarchist's cookbook." "He started the game with a hatred of cutlery, religion, and books." Wait a minute...

[@matthewgg9286]

I'm so happy he made it into your channel. He became a cool urban legend of tabletop RPGs and rightfully so because of what he did

[@WriterKing92]

Finally! I love hearing Henderson!

[@BlueThePrairiedog]

Ah, Old Man Henderson, I salute you! But this also reminds me of another story about a magical hobo with a beat up old couch and a guitar, can't remember the characters name though. It'd be cool if you could read that story. Edit: I just remembered the name, Boxcar Joe the Magic Hobo. His couch wasn't beat up, but in remarkably good condition and it was a bass guitar, he also had a pair of aviators. But you wanna know the kicker? The guy who posted the Old Man Henderson stories posted Boxcar Joe's story too.

[@thecursedgalleon7096]

Just realised I already listened to a different voicing, favourite story was the yacht, also sad this doesn't include more detail unlike the other one I listened which included aftermath

[@dlausactor6373]

Hastur: *”I AM FREE TO WALK THE EARTH AT LAST!!! ALL SHALL BOW BEFORE ME AND-* …why do I hear DOOM Eternal music?”

[@probablythedm1669]

Not bad! It's no Herr Schnitzelnazi, but a lot shorter and a lot less sad. Though, that old man really did win. Shame about what he had to do though...

[@darklord884]

And shame that it's pure fiction. Fun story though.

[@Piratejoe44]

@@darklord884 Why are you going to every comment and saying it's not true? Also, this is a shortened down version.

[@darklord884]

@@Piratejoe44 I am merely providing responses to other people's comments. That's partially what this comment section exists for, no? And I know. I have heard the longer version and that is equally as fake. The most blatant example being that you cannot solo a Shoggoth.

[@articusramos808]

@@Piratejoe44 Don bother with this killjoy.

[@lexington476]

So did Henderson die? Seems a little unclear. Awesome story, I was cracking up.

[@beauvillamor621]

This isn't even half the story. If you want more look him up. There is a reason the "Henderson Scale" exists

[@GlassArrowTribeShaman]

Oh, Well.. There's much more to it than the time scale used here can truly tell.. And some of the story can't be told on YT without getting removed.. Do a search and you can find adventures that happened after his"death".. It is a wild and wonderful tale..

[@waleedkhalid7486]

This honestly sounds insane and I’m surprised the DM and party let even half this stuff fly. If it was me I’d like to see where things would end up, but plenty of others might feel annoyed.

[@bryceaustin4995]

I remember reading this story in Highschool years ago, so great.

[@MarkEdwardRom]

As a GM I would have read the 300 pages...and still would have forgot

[@kinggeo8545]

The 300 page back story for Henderson was referred to as " a tome of madness"

[@centric3125]

And was promptly burned after SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS The GM got so mad that He performed the first and only table flip the narrator had seen, after which there was a brief ending scene from someone else, and apparently the Backstory of Doom/ Tome of Madness was burned because of the ominous presence it emitted.

[@GinG2077]

Hell yeah, it's been 3 days and the story is Old Man Henderson?! Hell yeah! Lol

[@lanteanboy]

I love how every comment is about how this is such a legendary story

[@andyknightwarden9746]

Oh, I have been waiting for you to do this one. All right everyone, sit back, enjoy the show, and prepare to bust a gut laughing.

[@alexinfinite7142]

Me reading the title: "wait what...?"

[@stephenstonge7968]

THIS... This needs to become a movie..

[@Gidonamor]

Old Man Henderson and the Tale of an Industrious Rogue are two of my fave stories

[@Imasuky]

This is amazing timing. I was just thinking of looking up this story like 2 days ago, so this is a great way to go ahead and get it.

[@mygaming353]

How every other player at the group didn't leave 5 minutes in is the real mystery.

[@emberfist8347]

Everyone hated the GM and they were really close friends. In an expanded retelling of the story by one of the other players, it is kinda clear this is the case and they were happy to be part of Henderon's antics. Even the OP of part II who lost multiple characters to Henderson (One session he actually went through four in just one session) was willing to assist him and made his last character to be the perfect partner to enable Henderson to do his thing.

[@dravenbladesong1]

I normally love hearing You read these stories. But, it didn’t feel like You put much heart into the reading. “The Tale Forge” did an amazing job reading this and “The Sith Janitor” story with palpable emotion

[@pottersrevenge]

I was wondering when this story would surface. This character is an inspiration and a legend any TTRPG player should study.

[@BlyssOblyvion]

the best part of this is the narrator trying to read the scottish part

[@jondoe4904]

And definite win in my book. Build the old coot an statue in his honor.

[@Mejeke]

As far as stories that never happened goes, this one is pretty good.

[@duckawesome2012]

I aspire to make a character as good as old man Henderson

[@darklord884]

Unfortunately, you can't. Not in Trail of Cthulhu at least, where this story supposedly takes place.

[@articusramos808]

@@darklord884 not with that attitude.

[@emberfist8347]

@@darklord884 You can. It is called being Munckin.

[@darklord884]

@@articusramos808 With any attitude. It's physically impossible to accomplish what Henderson is alleged to have done by the game rules.

[@darklord884]

@@emberfist8347 And a liar as doing these things is simply impossible. But I explained it to you plenty enough times alreafy.

[@radfarlander]

Is Old Man Henderson actually Trevor from GTA 5?

[@twistedlight9750]

This is heavily abridged, and the full story is *WELL* worth the read.

[@TheMalkavianPrince]

Ah yes, I was wondering if you'd ever do this one, it's a classic, and everyone should know the tale. Not gonna lie though, the full thing was amazing, and way more epic than this video makes it sound - would have made a better 2-3 part story.

[@kinging98]

The true legacy of old man Henderson, was not done justice by this short video

[@ATSucks1]

Old man Henderson aint got no time for bullshit, theirs whisky to drink and gnomes to find

[@joakimber1]

Old man henderson is amazing

[@Karol_generic_nick_ending]

A true rpg classic, awesome every time.

[@kellcomnet]

Love the Tim Wilson reference

[@MaveriKat]

Not really a recent story but a nice re-telling on one of the greatest legends of Call Of Cthulhu!

[@TigerKirby215]

An all-time classic.

[@orgixvi3]

AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND

[@TheUnnbreakable]

GM actually sounds pretty cool to allow so much honestly

[@themr.greenshow7144]

About time you did this story

[@AuntLoopy123]

I got "be keepin' me wee men." So whatever he said, seems to have boiled down to "You have my gnomes!"

[@hedwigon6951]

Thanks for backstory of doom! I really want to try it out sometime! Also, messing around with it would be WTF SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheSurvivor637]

I love old man Henderson. If he was in my campaign, I’m positive that my players would have made this mad man their leader.

[@Dasher260]

Ah... this old tale! Hope you do it justice!

[@erdachtzumuntergang]

So, I GM Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition for my friends. We mostly play "freeform", for I like to let my players de-rail if they wish so, as that allows the most zany adventures possible. We had a few great wins. The first Character was "Isaac Slaughter", in one of our first times playing. His player had never played any RPG, and decided to play CoC like a FPS-Game. So, Isaac Slaughter was a humble accountant, but he also was a 1920s era race car driver with a skill of about 90 in Ranged Combat (Rifle). From this point onwards, players were allowed to start with 65 max on any stat. His weapon of choice was a .700 Nitro Elephant Gun. He was of great use, at the end of the campaign, he was alive, but was so heavily burned that he could not even walk anymore. He, however, managed to let the Players win. Of great help was a NPC Character. There was a drunk gunner on a guard tower the PCs persuaded into not attacking. When the biomechanical Avatar of Whatever (That feiry Cthulhu expy that wasn't created by Lovecraft himself) chased the PCs in the End, the Gunner woke up from his guard towed, and managed to roll a 1, so he got a crit with his Lewis Gun on full auto. The Players loved him for that, and the last thing they did in that campaign was to invest into a memorial plaque where is guard tower stood. In a Campaign set in the 80s, we had John Johnson Jr., Marine-Corps VietnamVet and war-criminal. He tortured the girl NPC another player was dating to get information about the Cult (imagine Scientology with Lovecraftian Lore and a sprinkle of Pokemons Team Galaktic) to death, only to get informations that would have been in the phone-book anyways. Then, to get rid of the evidence, he burned down the Church of another PC, southern baptist fire and brimstone preacher Luther Kimball, for they used the crypt as a torture chamber. Later, he blew up the dam from "The Colour out of Space" (which, in the 80s was at arkhams outskirts), to distract the cops as the players went to infiltrate the cult leaders mansion.

[@FamosoMarcoso]

This is the tale of a GM who is incredibly nice to you lol

[@HeraldHealer]

Truely a legend but, there is so much more to this story.

[@tyrannosaur219]

The man, the myth, the _legend._

[@impofstpete727]

It really is high strategy that the character is already insane in a game where you lose sanity. Kind of makes if difficult to handle him.

[@jackmack4181]

Tale forge does this legend justice

[@MindOfGenius]

The Man, The Myth, The Legend

[@sebigrell]

A 1d4chan classic My favorite recent Call of Cthulhu experience follows... My Call of Cthulhu character is based on Rudol Von Stroheim (post battle tendency) from JoJo. He is a ridiculously overpowered character. In a ww2 Spain setting, he had -steel plate body except for a small part of the head and one arm -Laser Eye beam capable of doing simple welding -Rocket-propelled super punch -Ambiguous Infinite Energy Source And best of all -the MG34 full-auto machine gun, as well as two drums (50rounds) of ammo which folded into his mechanical body cavity and could be unfolded by doing the meme pose (you know the one.) In addition to this, Stroheims Stats are INSANE because I rolled extremely well and am a minmaxing bastard with experience in CoC. You've seen JoJo, you know the personality of the character so let's just leave it at Megalomaniac Nazi who respects Strength and Bravery as highly as he does German Engineering. And before you click away because of the Nazi, just know that my Keeper of Arcane Lore is a Jewish guy I've been RPing with for years who promised to kill Stroheim as soon as he did anything too problematic. So Stroheim has been assigned to travel to Spain to deliver some dark arcane texts to a madman named Kurtz. Stroheim has experienced the power of Eldritch Beings before, so he understands how likely it is for Kurtz to simply become a threat to the world (and the fatherland.) After traveling a distance through hostile Socialist territory and avoiding all the other investigators who wanted to kill him for obvious reasons, as well as the fact that I had massacred a truckload of soldiers returning from the front lines and taken their vehicle. One of the soldiers turned out to be the Brother-in-law of one of the Investigators. If you're wondering, "how could one soldier possibly take down nearly a whole platoon of armed and bloodlusted soldiers singlehandedly?" You would be very keen. Call of Cthulhu is a notoriously unbalanced combat system, where one bullet can easily kill an Investigator. It was all due to the overwhelming power of the MG-34. In Call of Cthulhu, full-auto fire is about the most powerful thing you can do, giving you the ability to fire a number of bullets equal to a percent of your machine gun skill. Each bullet did 2d6+4 and several Crit, and most humans in this game only have 10-12HP. Stroheim truly massacred those soldiers in cold blood, and the Keeper created a Poignant moment for the investigator whose family was killed. But Stroheim had a vehicle, and was long gone by then. I doubt the main party will catch up to him, lmao After arriving in the next town, he found it to be strangely abandoned. Doors left unbolted, food gone cold but not spoiled, left untouched on dinner tables. Stroheim investigated the surroundings of the town and found an orchard with a ghastly sight. All the residents of the town were killed and mangled, posed in a grim manner and impaled on tree branches. One body had an envelope with the wax seal of Kurtz, I'll transcribe the letter in the replies of this comment. It was basically insane rambling that he had ascended and was to a man as a man is to a louse, and finished off adressing his wife and telling her to "Sell the house. Kill the kids. Kill yourself." Stroheim returned to the abandoned town and smoked a cigar that he found in one of the victims houses. His mechanical brain could not feel the nicotine, but he derived a sick pleasure from consuming the resources of the dead. He didn't eat any of the food that night, or get any sleep. Not like he was capable of doing those things in the first place. Stroheim stowed the Arcane texts in the village (I won't say exactly where though, in case any of my fellow investigators see this comment) and booby trapped them with a bomb. He set out to the next location, a town that was supposed to be intact, but was completely leveled except for the stonework. It was as if all the organic material, people, wood, etc, in the town was just gone. The Keeper introduced two new investigators at the town, an old Spanish man and a crazy, Kurtz-worshiping madman. Nice to have fellow Investigators that don't want mine dead. After sheltering overnight in a church with no roof, Stroheim could see the outline of the monastery that Kurtz was at on the horizon, outlined by the bright sunrise. And flying towards the party from it, an enormous black dragon with stonelike skin, terrifying spiky tentacles, and a single black wing that its body swung beneath like a pendulum. At the sight of the monster, stroheim hid the old man in a cellar and told him the location of the Arcane tomes. The madman hid in the church. Stroheim, prepared to die for his cause, and driven mad by the sight of the beast (all of his stats except sanity were high), opened fire from his machine gun and emptied all 50 rounds into it. To the surprise of literally everyone, it died in under 20 shots and nearly crushed Stroheim as it fell. But all Investigators survived. So yeah next sesh might be a lil awkward but im really looking forward to it.

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The letter from Kurtz: I watched my men delousing themselves today and was struck how like the lice they were destroying my men were Feeding on blood they blindly crawl on the skin of this war which is their host and without which they could not exist They would feed and breed like the blind mindless insects that they are until they are selected for EXTERMINATION between the thumbnail of fate and the fingernail of MORTALITY I have seen the totality of what is done here and before the insight I have gained I have become as a man is to a louse TRANSFORMED and EXPANDED like a demi-god before the crawling insects who see but through a glass darkly what lies beyond this globe of earth but my BECOMING has made me glorious and brighter than the noonday sun whose rays blast the surface of the earth I have kicked myself free of all CONSTRAINTS and merely human notions of right and wrong and religion and politics and MORALITY and the proof of my BECOMING is what I have created here in my image which is THEIR image and in doing so bring liberation and COMMUNION with THEM which is the blessing THEY bestow As lice are to me so I am to THEM yet by these DEEDS I have fulfilled the COVENANT that TIME WAS TIME IS but TIME SHALL BE NO MORE and in our JOINING we will become true GODS inexplicable. As a louse cannot describe the so- called majesty of the man on which it feeds no man could encompass or describe with his mind that which I am to be with the TRANSFIGURATION of my BECOMING TO MY WIFE: SELL THE HOUSE KILL THE CHILDREN KILL YOURSELf

[@sebigrell]

Feel free to share this story but it is a copyrighted character so maybe bleep the name. Also give me a shout out lol

[@generalvash]

This is a classic TTRPG story and I'm a little surprised this is the first time it's been mentioned