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Jon Hook
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King in Yellow Tarot Deck Review
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I recently purchased the King in Yellow Tarot Deck produced by Arc Dream Publishing. This is my review of that product.
New Coriolis Blog: Commentary on Coriolis: The Great Dark and The Sky Machine
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In this new blog, I talk about how me and my players started playing the new Coriolis: The Great Dark game. The Quickstart rules includes a short con-length adventure called, The Sky Machine. We only just started playing it, and have barely scratched the surface, but we all really enjoyed the new Coriolis game mechanics. We're all looking forward to our next game session.
Coriolis Blog 02
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I talk about our first actual session playing Coriolis. Spoilers It was awesome!
Coriolis Blog ep.01
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I'm starting a Coriolis campaign which we are not going to play "on camera," so I thought I'd make occasional blogs to let you know how the campaign is unfolding.
My Storage Solution for the Classic Props Set
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A short video that shows how I chose to store all of the handouts from the Call of Cthulhu Classic Props Set.
Unboxing of the HPLHS Call of Cthulhu Classic Prop Set
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Unboxing of the amazing props crafted by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS) for Chaosium's 40th anniversary Kickstarter publication of some of their classic core box sets and supplements. Apologies for some of the poor sound quality. My son was helping me create this video, and he accidently placed his finger over the microphone a few times. Thank you for your understanding.
How I made my alternative ALIEN Initiative tokens
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How I made my alternative ALIEN Initiative tokens
Psi World - A walkthrough of this dead game
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Psi World - A walkthrough of this dead game
Call of Cthulhu box sets - 1st & 2nd Edition
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Call of Cthulhu box sets - 1st & 2nd Edition
Picture in a Silver Frame Handout Description
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Picture in a Silver Frame Handout Description
After 40 years or so of hauling this box set around...I'm going to finally solo play it. I love the concept, but like you stated, the combat seems crazy complicated. I'm going to try to run it as written first and then tweaked once I fully understand it. That's the plan for now. I wish there was more interest in this game.
I know who did the art! ;)
^^^ Haha yeah, that would be the amazing Kurt Komoda :)
Pretty sure this is based on the tarot described in the old Delta Green: Countdown book.
I think "Le Mat" looks like "The Fool" in a traditional Tarot deck, which is always numbered 0 (there are 22 Major Arcana in a traditional deck)
I'm sure that's true, but card #1 in the Major Arcanas is "Le Bateleur," which translates into "The Fool."
According to Wikipedia, "The Fool is titled Le Mat in the Tarot of Marseilles."
I think Le Bateleur is The Magician, traditionally Number I of the Major Arcana.
@@MrfnordTim , okay, so Le Mat is the Fool, and the Balefeur is the Magician? Darn Google Translate failed me.
Bateleur is French for “street performer”
Great video! This game has always sparked my imagination. I bought it when it came out, but no one wanted to play it. I’ve carried it around with me this whole time. I’m finally going to play it solo. I can’t wait.
Has your existing Coriolis game switched to the new edition?
Yes, we're playing The Sky Machine in the quickstart rules right now. But once it's done we'll switch back to The Third Horizon while we wait for the Kickstarter to deliver in a year.
@@JonHook Cool! Can't wait to hear more of your thoughts on The Great Dark!
Sounds like your group has agreed upon how Darkness Points work at your table. Just as an FYI though, Darkness Points carry over between sessions according to Pg. 56 of the core rulebook!
Thank you. I must've misunderstood that. I thought the DP reset with each session.
Just stumbled across this years later, and had to make a note on the blanks: They're excellent for dry-erase markers, i.e. not for permanent use. I think that's the intent anyway.
Oh man... great insight on that. Thanks for letting me know. I honestly would have defaulted to a permanent marker, but leaving myself some options to update it or completely change it is a fantastic idea. Thanks man.
@@JonHookI've tried to hoard GM tools lately, since I got that expensive Dragon Shield box where the lid is a screen (GM Companion). It comes with a bunch of dry-erase cards for any use, and the screen has a slot at the top where these cards fit. So the blank Keeper cards instantly made some sort of sense to me. And I think I'll finish the collection based on your recommendation :)
I'm hoping to join this game in the new year!!
I like this idea, plus it gets around people who don't like being broadcast or don't have good equipment for quality recording or decent internet access
hi would you share me a complete scan of the 2nd edition please, ill be eternally thankful
Sorry, I don't have a scanner large enough to do the job. I also don't want to damage my books by folding them backwards so they can be scanned. Chaosium's reprint edition is of the 2nd edition. You can get it from them for real cheap. It's currently only 99 cents on DriveThruRPG.
The envelope…lol. I am considering getting this. Thanks for showing.
Excellent video thanks so much.
I looked on facebook and google but I couldn't find this. Does anyone know where I might find this sheet?
Honestly I love this idea. Love handouts in games.
That envelope is designed to cause san loss...
Great unboxing! Now I know I’m ordering this!
Is this posted somewhere other than Facebook? Looks awesome! I'd love to try it. :)
Jon. Jon. Jon. Seriously. Jon. You need a much more unnecessarily aggressive unboxing knife. ;)
Great tool for keepers, i use mine every game. They're getting a bit tatty now!!
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Very nice. The source book is fantastic. Kind of feeling a little dated now lol. Why have I never checked to see if you had your own channel? I remember passing all this up at the time. It always interested me very highly. Just started getting into it about 8 months ago now. Happy to say Shadow over Providence was the first adventure I picked up after the starter set. Love the work you and Matt did. In print of course. I come from the area and am about 10 minutes away from Mr. Lovecraft's last residence, so the adventure was a definite no brainer. The 83' book was probably put into a couple of years of boxes. If there are no changes they won't reprint the book to change that. It was done a lot by TSR back then also. Really nice collectibles there.
Hay! This is my comment. 😆
I already own the Masks of Nyarlathotep handout box they made, and I knew I just had to get this one too, especially since I kickstarted the 40th Anniversary Classic set. I asolutely love that they gave The Haunting so much love and attention.
Hey Jon, it's Corey in KC. Glad to see the YT algorithm serve this vid up to me tonight. That set looks fantastic! Would love to play CoC in person with those more immersive props to go along with the scenarios! You can tell a lot of time and dedication went into all those pieces.
I believe what I read on the Kickstarter that this was the 2nd Edition. :)
Back in the day, after Chaosium published the 1st Edition Box Set, (which is the 2" thick box), they did next-to-nothing to support it. Then, in 1983 they published the 2nd Edition Box Set, (which is the thinner 1" thick box), which they did heavily support with lots of campaigns and adventure books afterwards. So, because the bulk of the material was originally published, (technically), to support the 2nd Edition, that's why the Kickstarter was described as a honorific for that edition. But it is actually both the 1st and 2nd Edition reprint.
@@JonHook, that is interesting I was looking at my pledge level, it must be a typo, it shows both of them as 2nd edition.
Man, that was painful to watch you opening the telegram...
Yeah... it had a crazy fold with paper edges hidden by the sticker.
@@JonHook There is a handy "how to open..." pictorial sequence in the members Sanctorum section of the HPLHS site, so I guess it's not just you ;)
@@davekidd9719 , LOL... if I had only known.
Lol!
It got mangled 😧
Very nice unboxing video Jon! For a minute I thought you were going to fumble your open envelope check.
Heck yes!!!!!!!! I got the Keeper Decks on the strength of Mike's mention on the podcast too!!!!! They are indeed fantastic!!!!!
"Other than a few cosmetic changes, this book is practically identical…" Not true, there were significant differences between almost every edition of Call of Cthulhu. There's a long post about it on RPG Geek.
When I say I RAN to Facebook...
I want to play alien rpg with you!
Thank you. I'll try to remember to ping you when I spin-up a new game.
The 2nd edition Sourcebook for the 1920s is different to the 1st. They changed the skill system in the careers section so that it no longer lists the skill percentages per five year period, and simply listed the skill names. In my view, the 1st edition version is the better of the two.
That second edition 1" boxed set is a bit of a miss-mash, as you suspected. The color catalog you briefly referred to is from 85 or so. They wouldn't have included both catalogs in a single boxed set.
Thank you very much for the video. Unfortunately, I can't see the MS Paint program. I think I can figure it out though. This is great! Can you do a video for the poker chip markers as well?
Sorry, since I wasn't actually building the tokens in this video, and I wasn't actually using MS Paint, I failed to include Paint in my video. I just talked about it. But, this video demonstrates how to use the Crop feature in Paint. And it's exactly what I did to my images of numbers: ruclips.net/video/U0xEoBBBZZ0/видео.html
As for the poker chips, those are custom printed from a site called Chip Lab... www.chiplab.com/ Their website is so easy to follow. If you can make the JPG images for the initiative token, you can also make JPG images that you can send to Chip Lab to be printed onto poker chips. Those are super cool too.
@@JonHook Thank you. I'll try it out. :)
Hey, nice video. I have been a fan of MU pod and am getting into Modern Mythos as well. Also have the scenarios you wrote for Age of Cthulhu. That aside, as far as you 2nd edition box goes, it might be original first printing even with the spring 84 catalogue. The catalogues are printed in advance, and if this released in winter, they would be putting the next season's catalogue in there most likely which would have been spring. Also, reading the text in the new kickstarter, back then, those box sets were actually collated and shrink wrapped in the warehouse. So even if it was printed earlier, it depends on how many copies they had, and when that actual box set was shipped. They would most likely always put the current catalogue in the box, since they were building them as they were shipped. For example, and these are made up numbers, but if that first print was 5000 copies, and they sold 3000 copies right away, and it took them 6 months to sell the rest, it is very possible that that first edition sets sets sold at different times contained different catalogues. I could be totally wrong here, but is seems plausible. I'm sure others can correct me if I am wrong. Anyway, glad to see ya have a channel now, look forward to seeing more videos!
Thanks man!
Really nice. Did you know they are right now being reprinted? www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaosium/call-of-cthulhu-classic/description
Yes, I did know that Chaosium was going to launch it soon. So I thought I'd showcase it in advance of the new Kickstarter.
@@JonHook I thought it was a bit of a coincidence, but you didn't mention it so I thought I'd say. :)
Aaaaand... I just backed the reprint Kickstarter so I'll be getting both boxes. Even though I have all of the stuff in the Kickstarter as original material.
@@JonHook That's the way to do it! And you'll be getting lots of lovely dice! I never had the original cos I wasn't a Keeper in those days so this is my chance. :)
Love everything about this! Would you do a tutorial video on how you made the Tokens?
I use this website: www.boardgamesmaker.com/
Would do a tutorial on your process to make these Initiative Tokens? Great video! Thank you.
Here you go, man. Check out this new video: ruclips.net/video/sXCoEU1PG5M/видео.html
FGU produced mathy rules, agreed.
"Firestarter" was similar to Psi World, as well. Great vid!
You had me at Basic Roleplaying System. I loved Privateers and Gentlemen from Fantasy Games Unlimited. It was deadly though. I ran once. One player's character went blind and deaf from injuries, the other died in surgery. Good times. I love boxed sets. Games having introductory adventures is key, I think. Nice overview of the product.
Thanks for showing these - those are really nice copies, esp. the 1st edition!
I can practically smell the old paper.
Timely video Jon! Thanks! Great condition. Hand me your Nerd Card™ so I can punch it! ;P
This is sick. I want to play alien rpg with you.
Awesome game guys really enjoyed the creepy vibe.