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KULT: The Driver - RPG Review
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- An interesting 1-on-1 Horror adventure that's more of a toolbox for creating a quick improvised game, where the character, threat, NPC companion, and assets are selected by the player. Here are my thought and tips for running this scenario for Kult Divinity Lost.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:01 Spoiler Warning
02:17 Jack Rides
04:21 New Question
05:16 Fleshing the Adventure
09:06 Prepping
11:21 Ending the Adventure
13:50 Overall Thoughts
15:22 Outro
"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair.....up ahead in the distance I saw a shimmering light. My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim. I had to stop for the night" This scenario sort of writes itself.
"I stab it with my Steely Knife!"
"You just can't seem to kill this beast..."
"We can't stay here! This is bat country!"
@@dubuyajay9964 "The perp was raving about being attacked by monsters and some weird cult."
"Of course he was, patrolman. Considering all that was in his satchel, it would be odd if he *wasn't* hallucinating."
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I know every video someone say it, but I will also say it because it true-
when Seth say "Hello Internet" it make me quite happy.
I reply, "Hello, Seth!"
I ran this scenario twice, once when it came out early on and later on during this year. Both were powerful experiences for the different players, one even wrote an entire short story based on the experience we had. I was, at first, skeptical of this scenario, but my two sessions where I ran it were fantastic and I was amazed by how well they went.
The partner dying in the backseat option had me thinking of Reservoir Dogs. Mr. Orange shouting that he's dying while Mr. White sing-songs "you're gonna be okaayaaa!"
"Who's a tough guy?"
@@SSkorkowsky yo, is there any chance you release a full skit of Jack & tod's rendition of this scenario? that was awesome!, i think this is the very 1st PBA type system that i've liked so thx for introducing me to it, any tips for a longer campaign?, ik i'm late but better late than ever!
By the way, this weekend is Illusion Horror Con, an online event through Discord. I believe all the big charity games have filled, but there might be some smaller pickup games still open for Call of Cthulhu and Kult: Divinity Lost. I'll be there doing some panels all 3 days. Swing by and say hello.
www.theillusionhorrorcon.events/
As an add-on to Jack's idea at the end: Make sure that you either remove or modify the 'fleeing from' and 'advantage' after a player takes that choice so you don't have two players with the same backstory when they meet up.
Happy 6th anniversary 🍭
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Thanks for the tip on The 13th Warrior.
A most excellent movie.
I ran The Driver twice for different people, they both chose the house and both chose that they were meeting someone in the desert. I brought them both to the same house (excl the sex torture stuff) with the same people in it but with subtle differences for each. For both, their desert contacts ended up in the cellar, apparently having been there already for days and gone insane. Both characters escaped and the house burned down with each play. The players liked it so much that we decided to bring them together and continue as a mini campaign. Really like the improv this scenario offers!
My first run was the kidnapped girl, the amulet, the gas station.
It was probably one of the most fun games I've run in years. Turned into him hearing cries coming from the back of a semi, failing his roll not to react as if he'd heard it (backstory was his former boss was a human trafficker, so he recognised what the sounds meant), getting seized by a biker gang, fighting several bikers with his feet duct-taped together, stealing a pickup with 10 kilos of meth and an assault rifle, chase through the desert, taking out the entire biker gang, flipping the pickup, stealing a motorcycle, chasing down the fleeing mac-truck with girls in the back, nearly getting swiped off the road, passing it and laying an ambush further up the highway, stopping the truck, but getting hit by it in the process, and then the scene in the ambulance. Never even got to the villian who was chasing him. It was incredible.
I am converting this to CoC, and nobody can stop me. This sounds too awesome.
Shoggoth cleaner?
I appreciate Jack’s trigger discipline.
Also, the monster in the hotel operates on Jason Voorhees logic
Only good Christian boys and girls are allowed in Hotel Crystal Road
_You know:_ you could switch that car out for a horse and put this in a fantasy setting.
A dying horse or a sinking river boat would work. Same sort of setup as their ride is about to give out on them. Totally possible.
Could also work with an Apocalypse Now/Spec Ops: The Line(if you know you know) type set up
A horror western. I've been looking for a good setup for a horror western
@@rocksteadyska6933 After the intro questions and describing the opening scene, the last line said should be "Do you feel like a hero yet?".
@@SSkorkowsky "The rest of the crew are dead, and the life support stopped working an hour ago. Freetrader Beowulf is limping towards the nearest planetoid... Pop Quiz, waddayado?"
i just wanna say that ending bit about every player doing a one v one sesh to establish backstory before coming together as a group thing sounded like such a cool idea to me that i’m actually going to do it
I'm happy to hear that I'm not the only GM out there that thinks about where the bathroom is for scenarios / lairs (in one case, leading to a scene with a goblin on chamber pot duty stumbling upon the party and lobbing the pot as a weapon)
I've heard good things about the KULT system but glad to see a playthrough with a breakdown of the crunch and story.
Did they have to save Vs. disease?
This seems like it’d work for an entire small campaign. Add a few more destinations, maybe flesh out the pursuers a bit more, probably give the player character a touch more in the way of resources to get out of trouble so they don’t meet a horrible end quite so easily, etc
Kinda reminds me of the old tv shows about a wanderer going from town to town and having little adventures in each. It’s flexible enough for that and then some.
I've now run The Driver 4 times, very good way to learn the system
I love your dives into Kult, its so dark and gritty. Thank you Seth!
This prompted improv method could also be used to help flesh out a character's backstory for a longer-term campaign.
Yeah I think he talked about that in the character creation video for Kult
I'm not sure about kult as a system but it has some of the most interesting adventures
Same. Gameplay sounds weird but the adventures all sound awesome. I would love to modify The Atrocity Exhibition for a D&D or Call of Cthulhu game: start off as a literal down time activity or even a heist by the PC's and they wind up in the middle of Slaughter-Purgatory Central.
“We’ve got 106 miles to go, a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.”
"Hit it."
Maybe it's just me, but the setup for this scenario reminds me a bit of the choices you get for a game of Fiasco. 👍
This sounds very cool; I might have to think about doing something like this for one of my Call of Cthulhu games. I like Jack's idea at the end and, throughout the video, was thinking 'This could make for a good backstory for the start of a campaign." Excellently done, as usual.
I love ideas like this. Just a module that’s a brief description but is full of tables like this. You can ask the player or players to choose or roll for it but still ask a set question that gives it their own flavor. More modules should be like this so it’s never always the same story, giving it replay value for the GM running it multiple times.
Great video as always. Love the twist you brought upon the player in the end, very cool. Very dark. Also LOVE that you got to use maps from Labyrinths & Secret Chambers. The guy who did the maps you showed in the vid is an old buddy of mine and a part of my gaming group. It was his first published work and every time I see it mentioned I’m filled with joy for him ❤
Tell him he did a fantastic job.
Great video and really appreciate that you put your handouts for people to use, as it does, with your advice, enhance the games we run
Damn, that mind swapping idea is brilliant. I will definitely use it at some point in my campaigns
I was so excited to see that you did another Kult scenario review!! My fiance just got me screams whispers for our five year anniversary and I had been eyeing this scenario, the saint jude's one, and the one with the time skip excitedly. Its so nice to see other people especially people with an online following get into and share their thoughts on this system which I think is, quite frankly, criminally underrated!
This scenario is also high on my "want to try" list. Thank you for the ideas about preparing at least for the base options with maps and item cards!
I did a very light version of the "backstory" part at the very end of the video with my current D&D crew's characters. Some of them had interactions with one other PC before the game start in a session or two of lead in. Was done more for feeling the characters out than building a coherent campaign but I too highly recommend this sort of shenanigan.
This adventure reminds of a game book, and I was as sucker for those as a kid, even now I play now and then.
Another video making me want to try out Kult. I have to finish our Masks campaign first.
But I think you're end note is right, this really could be a prequel to a campaign. There seems to be enough meat on the bones that you can also switch game systems without too much trouble. Conan, Cyberpunk, Pulp Cthulhu... this would work for all of them
Good call regarding Conan. How many Conan stories start with something like, "The flames of the burning city illuminate the horizon. Conan is loping away through the night, with a bag of gems and a broken sword. From the darkness comes a mournful howl..." 😲😄
Ah yes, the riddle of steel .45 FMJ
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Great video as always Seth, I immediately went to the Modiphius store and picked the PDF up. Your handouts will be a massive help too.
This scenario sounds like a really good one to borrow some influence from the old Rutger Hauer movie "The Hitcher"
Also a fun old horror tv show.
This adventure, and your video on it, has got me working on a similar adventure. Instead of being on the road, the players are in the hospital with police watching over their room, and they have to get out before the thing that killed everyone else in that field comes back for them.
The outro idea, is what I did for Dark Heresy forever ago. Worked great.
It's always a good day, when Seth has a new video.
Hey, Seth is good, and all; but, we all know, Jack is the real star of the show... Unless Dweebles is on, in which case it is Dweebles.
@@euansmith3699 You misspelled 'Mike', but other than that you are spot on
I discovered your channel not too long ago and have been binging on it. Your RPG reviews and insights are unique content. Without a TTRPG group for me to play with, your reviews have become a vicarious way to enjoy so many awesome adventures. Admire your dedication to the channel and hope you keep on keeping.
Unironically, this would be an awesome "road trip" game. Use landmarks along the way to visualize what the PC sees. Stop in and eat at the diner. That sort of thing.
All but one of my players cancelled tonight's Cyberpunk game. I remembered this video, and I have quickly adapted it to Cyberpunk to run for the lone faithful player in a few hours. We can decide together if it happened before or after the campaign timeline. It's my first ever 1-on-1 game, wish us luck!
I absolutely love 1-on-1 sessions and even more when they lead to several players coming together. I have currently 3 solo campaigns with characters every now and then coming together, but influencing each others stories. It is great how much more alive characters feel once they were played by the players and have some really experienced background events to tell others :)
I just ran "The Driver" using EZD6, and we had an absolute blast! I had my player pick skills as we went and that worked swimmingly. I'm certainly running this again.
Hey Seth! Great video! I was super happy to see another Kult Divinity Lost adventure I might try and run this one as an introductory adventure!
You know what could also be fun? Imagine this like a card game for plot. So player chooses their path, but the choices come from a deck of fate cards. Draw three... choose one.
That would be a lot of fun!
The first thing I thought was Reservoir Dogs meets Hotel California :) great vid Seth
I really like how this game, gives off some pulp fiction or Reservoir Dogs vibes . Like if this game was made for those that like horror movies and Quentin Tarantino films.
Any opportunity to use music in a game is appreciated... And this one is set up perfectly
This is a fascinating way to play a game... I think I'm going to steal this format for my Christmas one shot.
"Who are you running from: Santa, Angry Reindeer or a Gingerbread Man?"
Hello ! There is a whole game about improvising Heists : it is Blades In The Dark ! It is really awesome with some really good ideas !
"Kult: It's like Call of Cthulhu, but without that sense of hope."
This video prompted me to rewatch David Bowies "I'm deranged" video. And this adventure should be called Lost Highway.
I really like game supplements which provide story seeds.
The New World of Darkness had some of those. The one I'm most familiar with is "Mysterious Places" which was published in 2005.
It's pretty light on rules, and mainly describes disturbing and dangerous locations which can be used in any of the main games without too much adjustment.
Each location has enough of a back story to make it work not just as a physical setting but also as a story seed, but not so much that they lose the adaptability.
My favourite is probably "The Swimming Hole", but I'll let interested readers look it up themselves to figure out why.
Just the name, "The Swimming Hole" is sinister 😲🥶
That was awesome, thank you for the share Seth. I absolutely love KULT and I am currently running The Black Madonna for my group.
I actually ran this as a game for 3 players, not as a 1-on1, (which is a fairly easy adjustment to make). I also made the change that I asked the setup questions *without* immediately giving out the default options, to give the players' a chance to come up with cool answers of their own. We ended up having 3 guys who recreated The Hangover in Las Vegas, who now found themselves on the wrong end of a shotgun wedding. Cue escape from a weird cult trying to murder and/or marry them. Later, two of them found themselves lost in the Borderlands of Metropolis, needing to deal with an Azghoul to escape and the other making a Pact with a Nepharite to escape the fated marriage he had "agreed" to.
Excellent as always. Had fun watching you in the Glass Cannon series - hope you get to play with them some more!
As a 'forever GM' I got to be a player and enjoyed this immensely. I sort of drew some inspiration from the film Getaway with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw and had a 'blast'
Great review,when you said found a map from a Real Estate agent I thought hmm 'Scott Brown?'
Really helpful vid Seth. Thanks. This gives me some really cool ideas of introducing a new PC into my campaign. The new PC is a first-timer and doesn't want to work so much on any background so this is a fun way of leading him into meeting the other PCs and gives him a basic background to build around. Thanks so much for your download links and access to your own PDFs. Cheers Seth,.
Hey, this is the first and so far only Kult scenario I’ve played!
Not a great comment, I know, but Jack's tree of life pin got to me from the begining. I had to pause to laugh and appriciate it during the intro. I've run/played a little bit of the first and second editions of Kult, and didn't realize this one had one for stats, so it seemed subtle until you showed a character sheet later. Great video as always.
"You are fleeing from..."
An Azuki Arai. He was washing azuki beans at me menacingly.
This is so freaking awesome! Really itching to DM it and try to see if I could write my own versions of this kinda adventure.
Just saw your panel with some of the developers and adventure writers and I'm looking forward to seeing your thoughts on a full review of this game when you get around to it and feel ready :)
Thanks for the heads up on this Seth
This sounds like a great game when not everyone can show up
Your review made me think of something I'd seen in an old book on music composition, the author of that argued that the worst thing a composer could do was sit down in front of a piano and start improvising without having any clear idea of what get out of it.
😃 Really enjoyed running this, was my first one on one improve style game though I used Eldritch Hack (rules-light) system. your suggested changes/handouts were really useful. thank you for the tips and the encouragement/inspiration to try something new.
Very interesting idea/tool. I do like 1 on 1 scenarios so I enjoy this concept. Maybe I should try it out in CoC.
Interesting! I like what I've read of Kult: Divinity Lost, but have not had the joy of playing it yet.
Kult instantly won me. I got it having no real idea what it was about, and was blown away on my first opening the book. The PbtA system was kinda weird to get used to. It works, but having come from decades of high-crunch games, we had to re-learn how to play.
It's also the only RPG that I really cared about the world lore. For every other game, I either ignored most of the world-lore, using only a little as backdrop flavor, or I started getting into the world lore after I was already playing the game and had became interested in learning more details about the setting. Kult, however, I devoured the lore sections immediately.
It's not a game for everyone, by any means. The big reason it's not our primary game is I have one player who would not like it. So it's a side-game with 3 of my players whenever schedules align for us to squeeze it in.
@@SSkorkowsky Kult's lore drew me in as well! Hopefully one of these days I'll get the chance to game it.
Another great review. The style of this adventure is very interesting and offers many ways of playing it. Btw, what did the custom bullets do?
No idea. The one player I had that chose the .45 never fired it.
Idk why but i think this would be a perfect ritual start to your character.
They are at the end of their rope and... find a "ritualpasta" to some.. but after follow the steps, they find themselves traveling and end up a changed person.
For a second, I was excited to see a 'new' character. Until I realized it was a 1/2 dead guy photo-shopped in 😝
Dark ending is an understatement! Damn....
i think im gonna run this for my two-player party. excited to see how they derail the intended "leatherface house of cannibals" plotline
Best of luck with it.
Your idea Seth of a whole book of these 1 on 1 games is a great idea there are many books that are for groups but not a lot of books for small groups or even solo adventures like the Alone Against Cthulhu series.
I think this campaign might just be the thing to get my table into Kult since they enjoy WoD but thought Kult sounded a little too hardcore when I mentioned the game.
Your videos on Kult made me look into it and I may start a campaign! Thanks for your advice. Have you had the opportunity to run another campaign like the Two-Headed Serpent? I would love to watch a series on Masks of Nyarlathotep!
I did the Mystery of BT-SHT 365 campaign diary.
I may do another one day. But that requires I find a campaign that looks like a good fit for us. Masks isn't one of those.
@@SSkorkowsky Thank you for the reply! You are an inspiration! Looking forward to when your group finds another campaign that fits!
@@SSkorkowsky - You mentioned something about a book in 'Pirates Of Drinax' in the BTSHT365 vids. I've not read much on Drinax yet. Been wondering if it's the classic Traveller campaign to run, as rumors say.
Heist, hotel. Come back to the car and your friend is spotlessly clean, like a freshly washed baby (he is even oiled).
Well, I need to get this one and try to run it. I like this idea you had for using it as a setup for a proper campaign.
If you are interested in improvising an investigation, I'd recommend Brindlewood Bay. You work from a basic mystery framework and the players roll when they think they've solved the mystery (with bonuses for every clue they're able to use in their theory). If they roll high enough - - huzzah! You've solved the mystery!
I've heard some cool things about Bridlewood Bay. I'll probably be picking it up.
Always nice to see more Seth and Jack.
Oh man, the moment you mentioned what giving it to her would do would do, I knew where this was going.
First thought that I had with the what you're running for is modifying the second, you're running with the boss' daughter, but because everything went wrong and you were ordered to get out to one of the destinations there
Jack's idea at the end was really great.
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This is my kind of RP. Didn't know Kult fit with that style. Thanks for the review Seth!
No problem at all. Glad you enjoyed it.
Kult uses a variant of the Powered by the Apocalypse system, so it's well-suited for these types of adventures.
@@SSkorkowsky cool. I'll check it out :)
Fantastic review! I've yet to pick up Kult it's on my list.
I kinda predicted what that amulet was about to do. Very clever though haha
Jack the NPC transforms into a little girl thru occult means and fights cuthulu and the mob. This sounds like the start to the strangest magic girl anime.
Very interesting scenario! Never tried Kult, and it doesn't seem like my particular cup of tea, but I'll try to adapt this for another system and run it with a friend.
Brilliant going to use this model for the set up of my next Conan adventure.
Oh boi a KULT review, Im here for it!
Badguy; "Have you seen this man/woman?"
Blind man; "Nope, haven't ~seen~ anybody."
Brilliant, and brilliant scenario🎉
We have used Kult for scifi and a weird WW2 type game. I quite liked the system - hell - it was a chance to RP something new.
Were they in New Mexico during the nuke tests? "The Hills Have Eyes" prequel?
This scenario looks like a lot of fun. The setup is also good inspiration for making your own 1-on-1 adventure.😁👍
~ Adam
Does anyone have a link for the music starting at 2:17? It matches the tone so well and I'd love to use it.
I tripped the fuck out seeing the Tree Of Life in the character sheet.
This gives me strong *Tales from the Crypt* vibes.
I loved that great intro!
Holy shit did this video make me want to run this! Thank you Seth :D
I love your dedication! Keep it up bro
Preparing to run this scenario this Saturday. Feeling a bit unsure and nervous of how it may go as I've never ran an improv game before but I'll try. 👏
Best of luck with it.
Great as always! Thank you for the KULT )) Still haven't tried it, still interested.
While it might be too last minute, this weekend is Illusion Horror Con, which is an online charity event through Discord. The big event games look to have closed, but there's still smaller games posting. I'll also be on some panels.
www.theillusionhorrorcon.events/
@@SSkorkowsky 🙏
Seth feasts on the blood.
Dewebbles playing this give it one hell of a dark dimension..... ( silent scream).
For some reason I see a 1967 Ford Shelby GT500 racing thru the desert and a bearded man singing at the top of his lungs. I feel the groove, I get the Mojo and for an instant I am transported into a Doors album. Fucking Morrison always had a way.