OKAY SO During the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war, there were basically four sides. You had the Communist army (Reds) and the counterrevolutionary army (Whites), of course. But both of those groups were basically seizing any food or weapons they could find from the third side, the regular folks, which both created the fourth side, bandits, and left the regular folks vulnerable to banditry. Now, when Russia withdrew from WW1 several years earlier, many soldiers just went straight home and took their Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifles with them. In the subsequent chaos, it became popular to cut down the barrel and stock to convert the gun into a large pistol-like weapon that could be easily hidden from the two armies and used for home defense against bandits. The resulting "Obrez" ("cut") Mosin is a perfect weapon to let the players find concealed around the house in this adventure. It's a weird and distinctly Russian weapon that's deeply connected to this specific setting and era.
That's my second favorite gag. The first being Jack going "5000 gold pieces/credits/eurobucks? You got it, Boss/Chief/Sir. Consider it done." Every time the party is offered a lot of money. If I recall correctly, most of the time the reward is a trap.
6:44 I love the idea of a group of hardened occult investigators going to another country and bringing along an interpreter who has no idea what the flying heck they're in for.
Another idea for the cookoo clock, maybe the hands need to be moved *backwards* for the secret door to open- if they inspect the mechanisms then the winding and adjusting the time normally gets done by moving the hands forwards, so in day to day use the secret door would never open, but if you wind the hands backwards to 11:58 then the door opens.
I would have the State Organs of Internal Security are false flagging the Investigators as they have the skills to root out this.... they will then blackmail them into becoming Agents ... not all Agents are ideological and the Investigators would be useful to Mother Russia. Trying to run any form of subversive Organisation in the Soviet Union would be infiltrated and destroyed in short order, they ( were) are paranoid about Wreckers, foreigners,spies and internal decent ... somethings don’t change. This is why MoN doesn’t work.... it has not been infiltrated by the NKVD .... the big N would have his hands fiull.😅 “And then things got worse”.... is almost a way of life in a Progressive Command society with very strong internal security . Good review.
Or, do this. The Cookoo clock appears to be broken. Have the PCs make a spot roll when they enter the kitchen the first time, and if they pass they notice that the time is wrong. Can be another hint that the cookoo clock is important.
I ended up going on a bit of a wiki dive on cuckoo clocks, as I thought seeing one of these clocks in 1920 Soviet Russia felt a little anachronistic. In that research though I found a lot of the classic German Black Forest cuckoo clocks from the 19th century to be incredibly striking, and art pieces in their own right. So you could also have an alternative way of drawing attention to the clock by saying its an antique, and if a player has a high art or credit rating they’d take note of that.
Another option, and one that ties in to the suggested addition of shouting "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" is that the cuckoo mechanism needs to be activated manually while the clock is set to 11:58 for the door to open. That way, the door won't open on its own, the possibility of accidental revelation is lowered and you get to add that extra layer to the clue that keys in that it's the combination of mechanisms that is the key.
Minor Spoilers in comment. I want to run this after the Secret of Cast. Cast ... The one with the immortality ring. I want to see the vampire drain that player character, and see what happens. Knowing at least one of my players, they will sit up and ask if she is done. Would the vampire have to roll sanity in this case?
The era use of fire arms would be finger on trigger, that is why there were stiff triggers on firearms.... weapon safety was then a different and frighting thing to our sensibles.
29:30 Its also possible that the author might actually have some experience with being in the easter soviet block countries. IF so they may have taken some things for granted. If you want military weapons in the soviet union, or even modern day Russia. Your best bet is to go to Army Armory officer, and barter with him or some of the gear he has on the site. There was even a guy who traded two dead Iphones for DShK Heavy Machine Gun, and two full drums of ammo. He unfortunately has to leave it over there when he came back to the states. But point is getting some heavy hardware over there would not be difficult if you know where to look. The difficulty would be losing that agent... Then again depending on how you did things the agent might be on your side, and he might be the one helping you acquire some series hardware.
I went down a rabbit hole a couple years ago, reading biographies, histories, and political books about Europe & specifically Russia in the early 20th Century, and boy howdy, but it made me want to run some Call of Cthulhu in that era and region. Such a wild backdrop with so much story potential. Just the Sidney Reilly bio I read alone gave me material for a whole campaign. That dude. Supposedly one of many "inspiration for James Bond" figures, he seems more like a Thomas Ripley.
There are two great opportunities for the players to get weapons (and add some local flavor): 1. In the 1920s various Soviet organizations (including even forestries and city maintenance organizations) had arsenals (not machine guns, but rifles and handguns - easily). Their disarmament started right in 1927, so there are a lot of opportunities here. 2. At the time, members of the communist party actually were allowed to carry handguns. Naturally, handguns became a status item. So if one of the players' local contacts is a party member, they would certainly brag about it. And give the players the opportunity to "borrow" said handgun. As for the adventure as a whole... It didn't really work for our group. It has a lot of issues and the "exotic local" thing doesn't really work for a group that lives in St. Petersburg =) And, by the way, the map handout has a huge red herring. So huge that our Keeper used it as a starting point for another adventure set in an even more alternative reality. Zelenogorsk in 1927 was a Finnish town named Terijoki (and it was called Terijoki in the Russian Empire as well). It became Zelenogorsk in 1948. So, naturally, our characters started looking for this mysterious place "Zelenogorsk", since all the players believed that such an alternation of reality must be a major clue =) Basically, if you have a history buff in your party - edit the handout a bit. And while spelling mistakes are present in all handouts - they are not a problem, they even add a bit of charm.
As a Finn, cool! The setting - the dark forests on the Finno-Russian border just after the war(s) is rife with some spooky scary stuff, even without the mythos. EDIT: Typos.
@@OldtimerOfSweden Well, the map is obviously from 1953 onwards (Kirovsk is another "temporal anomaly" but our group ignored it for a variety of reasons), and hilariously "precise" - it covers about 120x120 kilometers. And the selection of depicted settlements is beautifully random. However, when it comes to the relative positions of said settlements, it is surprisingly good. With a caveat that "up" on the map is not North, but North-East. In other words, the map is great and obviously is drawn by a madman. The only map in the module that is really bad is the combat map for the Mariinsky theater. The authors really did it dirty =) EDIT: Typos.
What I'd do is have a contact be a former member of the White Army who’s willing to hand over his hidden stash of weapons if the party is willing to do something for him.
While I was born at the very end of Soviet Union's era, our schools pay enough attention to it so I can confirm: USSR is a great place to have dark, slow and heavy plot for Cthulhu adventures. Multiple different ideologies blend and oppose each other all the time while everything looking strict and rigid on the surface like any good dictatorship should. Mythos can be within common folk, tied to pagan gods of the old, to church being oppressed by the state, to the state itself having dark affairs for powerhungry individuals. And all of it done under cold ruthless blanket of snow and grumpy unkind determination.
Really appreciate all your content Seth. I just picked up the Keeper Manual and Investigator's Handbook for Black Friday. Getting my wife into roleplaying. She did Alone in the Flames and loved it. Can't wait to get into some more free form game play with her! She picked being Latvian for her character's background so I wonder if I can weave this adventure in with her.
when my friend was Keeper for a few adventures in Pulp Cthulhu we played this, since my long running character was a former Russian mob thug i had him be able to contact arms dealers, smugglers, call in favors from old friends to get the secret police off our asses for a bit... it was a lot of fun playing this and my characters backstory finally became useful outside of his proficiency with brass knuckles
The Age of Cthulhu adventures are interesting because they were written by actual beings from Outer Space, although they clearly read some books about Planet Earth and tried hard to get it right.
The movie Mr. Jones is worth seeing to get a feel of what life was like in Soviet Russia. Also, in the book Forbidden Archaeology, there are reports made by Soviet officers in Mongolia that reference yeti and half-yeti half-human hybrids.
Tip for “the business card clue”. Noone carries a single business card for themselves (or calling card (in the literal sense), or similar casual means of identification). If you find a single business card (unless deliberately placed), it’s really evidence of anyone except the named party… Business cards therefore should always be found in multiples. In this instance either in the coat, in a scatter which might suggest that a pocket has been torn, or in a scatter where something else has been hurriedly dug out of the pocket they were in (perhaps a book of matches, found somewhere else in the area).
Minor historical note: You can use “Cheka” for short in regards to the OGPU and that it wouldn’t be the KGB till the 50s with it first being the NKVD under Stalin.
Watching Seth's videos inspired me to run several Call of Cthulhu scenarios, including Call of Cthulhu - Blood Brothers "Uncle Timothy's Will" & "The Dollmaker", as well as The Things We Leave Behind's "Intimate Encounters". None of these short adventures were particularly Lovecraftian, which was good, and with a bit of flushing out of NPCs became beloved by players! Thanks, Seth!
Everybody needs to check out the other Age of Cthulhu module, "A Dream of Japan". I have successfully ran it and it is one of the best modules i have ever played! I also strongly dipped into the traditional Rokurokubi from folklore, as well the Aokigahara forrest it made this entire scenario super chilling.
I love the start when you say it can be done in 8 hours but it took us 17. Reminds me of my last campaign and there was so much role-playing going on ... well ... everything took AGES! Wouldn't have it any other way.
Such a shame, I wanted this module to rock, but it does sound like a mess and a missed opportunity. Have you looked into the Berlin handbook and scenarios? Some of them are great, especially when the group is into historical figures and past political intrigue.
While this adventure might not have been a success, the follow up of trying to escape Russia while chased by the Soviets and a Vampire child sounds like a fun time
I'm dissapointed that Rasputin didn't seem to have any role in this adventure. I don't think it's legal to make a Cthulhu adventure in 1900s Russia without any mention of Rasputin. He's like a real life Cthulhu cult leader or prophet.
randomly meeting 'celebrities' might break immersion a bit, especially when it happens often. You can namedrop them maybe, but something as popular as rasputin would be heavily covered up by most versions of suppresion services like the (proto)kgb in the adventure
Great review as always 😊 All these tips and suggestions help me every time I prepare to run a session. Not because I'm running these scenarios, but because they make me aware to be on the lookout for weid/senseless stuff
Thanks for covering this one Seth. Your channel inspired me to run A.O.C. 6 Dreams of Japan at KingdomCon 2017. It was a bit trying, but was a fun session. That was the con that I learned to cut back on the number of games I run. It was the fourth game I ran that day, after two different Mutant Crawl Classics adventures, and a Dungeon Crawl Classics playtest. I started the first game at 10 AM, and by the time I finished the Dreams it was 2 AM. I had an early game scheduled the next morning, but fortunately no one showed up, and I was able to get a Power nap in before my afternoon game.
Who'd have thought a company known mostly for (good) D&D adventures would turn a CoC mystery into a D&D adventure lol Edit: Oh, you make the same observation lol
this video got randomly recommended to me and when i saw the channel name i thought it sounded familiar. Then i saw Damoren in the background and had my light bulb moment. Love that book.
I find it always best to rewrite every module before running it. Even when running for strangers, although if you know your players you can really focus the script. This allows you to speak more organically, rather than reciting someone else's words. You also, unless you are tainted by the Mythos, know what you meant at every point in the adventure. I generally write all of my own material, but certain modules are intriguing.
I ran the CoC adventure "Cold Harvest" for my group some years ago. It plays in the soviet union too. We had a blast and I really thought i picked it up because of Seth review. But now I cannot find any video from Seth about it.
Oh yes back to some good old call of Cthulhu. its the system im currently GMing for so this is very nice. Im thinking about running the 3rd adventure from the starter box set in harlem so they get familiar with it before we run masks of nyarlothotep. My biggest problem with the CoC historical settings is that i feel the need to research them a lot more then the module require. so this would send me down a rabbithole watching every movie and reading every book i can find set in the timeperiod along with history textbooks
This seems like a cool adventure offering something unusual to detectives everywhere. Worth checking it out, thanks for the tip Seth! P.S. What kind of bribe would you need to review WArhammer Fantasy Roleplay (any edition but 3rd)?
Nice review. Seems like most of the Goodman Games Age of Cthulhu scenarios were pretty rough overall. They tend to get facts wrong, leave out a lot of information, railroad, or simply turn into a mythos hoedown. I've never had much interest in running any of these. The game could be republished by the author on the Miskatonic Repository ... maybe. Many of the mythos creatures used in Call of Cthulhu are licensed by Chaosium from the descendants of various authors, many of whom are long dead, and simply cannot be used in Miskatonic Repository scenarios. In this case Ithaqua, gnof-ke, and the like are simply not available. I lucked out that the zuvembie was never used for Call of Cthulhu and I was able to contact a representative of the estate of Robert E. Howard, who was fine with my using the zuvembie so long as I gave them credit. I also did my entire forward in that product on Howard. I'd love to see all the old stuff available to more people though.
I have a love for the old Age of Cthulhu line. This was a wonderful walk down memory lane, and a completely fair and thorough review. Thanks for this, Seth.
"Hello internet!" A sure sign that today's going to be a good day. It definitely sounds like there was the making of a good adventure here, but it needed a couple of more re-writes to iron all of the bugs. Which is a shame, because Pulp adventure involving magical paintings and a race to stop the summoning of an eternal winter while dodging the Proto-KGB sounds like a good time. The part at the end about the licensed adventures that have fallen out of print post-license expiration is a bit depressing to think about. Might be a good subject for a Top 10 list of your favorite such games to bring awareness of them to your fans. Lord knows I've bought plenty of stuff you've showcased or recommended, I could use some more items to add to my RPG shopping list.
Hello Seth Skorkowsky, Lime, and today I'm going to continue March Toward Mortalicassionè with Part 5: The Obligatory Flashback Episode. As for why it's hours late- RUclips seems to hate this gag, it kept deleting my comment before I could finish. The Players: 'Bill', 'Kathrine', 'Chief Jeef' and 'Jemma' Their Characters: Melvin Maiyelvin the Human Bladesinger-Wizard, Mariana Evecanth the Icthioid Barbarian, Kaldroth Soulcleanser the Judiadrine Sorcerer and Vendrika Stormwind the Dragonborn Paladin. The DM: Me. Last Time: The Gang stuck it to Vigovek and made a whole bunch of new friends. More importantly, none of them died! Well... Not permanently at least. Thanks to a lot of leftover bookkeeping and leveling up that we'd all forgotten to do since last session, I Elected to give them a brief window of prep time before beginning the trek to the Dawn of Time to prevent Mortalicassionè. About 1 Session worth of prep time to be exact. Kaldroth spends most of it dramatically cradling Vendrika, who is now totally embarrassed. But, I was pretty sure watching the love of your life, whom you Reincarnated for, have their soul eaten by a Litch God is grounds for a Major Trauma, so, he's allowed to get a bit more performative upon finding out she's Ok. Which brings us to the first flashback scene, in a rule I shamelessly lifted from traveller, I gave them some benefits as we ran through how Kaldroth and Vendrika met back when Kaldroth was Tyrivene. Tyrivene was a Young Elven Sorcerer who was tasked with assisting Paladin Stormwind with rescuing Princess Vendrika from the Talons of the Dragon: Boltjaws the Conquerer. Unfortunately that was a bit of a mix up, because as you may have guessed, Boltjaws, Princess Vendrika and Paladin Stormwind were all the same person, and the questgiver was just confused. Tyrivene cleared up that confusion and arrived just in time to back her up against her actual enemy, Illimir the Ashen, a young, evil, Red Dragon, and his small gaggle of kobald worshippers. Long story short they made such a good team that they fell in love. Years passed, and they were about to get married, when Illimir was ressurected as an undead monstrosity and bit the groom's head clean off. Normal Wedding things. Illimir's necroflame breath also struck Vendrika, severely wounding her and killing the couple's unborn child, which is what she had signed the Contract with Sorakiel and Ivrakoth for: Her Family back. Ivrakoth had Their Child's Soul, while Sorakiel had promised to retrieve Tyrivene's from his parents. (Amayali and Valociel) Which he did technically do, by 'conning' the Newly reborn Kaldroth into joining up with the team in exchange for his memories from his previous life, which were restored only now. We then had to do Mariana and Melvin, but that was a lot less dark. A Mad Bladesinger and a Barbarian; met during a war neither of them should've been fighting in and got on like a house on fire. They'd only become 'friends' when Melvin found an exhausted and collapsed Mariana gasping for breath with her water-suit damaged, and cast create water on her, allowing her to breathe and saving her life. Mariana then repaid the favour when Melvin was about to be stabbed from behind by cultists of Vigovek (a total bastard even in flashbacks!) Mariana signed on for Ivrakoth to extend Melvin's lifespan to match her own, and to have Sorakiel give her some of his overwhelming power. Melvin signed on to get arcane knowledge from Ivrakoth, and while he was there, bargained for Sorakiel to 'bless' Mariana with a super-enhanced form of Karcharíanthropy (Wereshark-hood.) Because 1. Chaos & 2. To make his Landshark Buddy a *way, way stronger* Landshark Buddy seemed like a good deal at the time. They'll get those parts of the deal soon, since Vendrika and Kaldroth are already getting their ends of the bargain. But those two flashbacks and a Lot of Supply-gathering later and it was about time to head towards the dawn of time for the first part of stopping mortalicassionè But that's going to have to be for next time, and until then Seth, you have a great day. ... Zack the NCP: Y'know, you kinda held back on the real horrorshow that flashback actually was- What? Zack The NCP: That Baby was only gonna be 'Unborn' for another day or so, and 'seriously injured' undersells how little of Vendrika's body was even left- it was Burned and Rotted out, she went from super-prounounced Nine-months Bump to losing 55% of her body mass in Six Seconds. And even Mariana's section was a little more horrible than you care to admit- Stop. I will proudly own that I said 'roll to stay standing', which she failed. Then 'roll con to try to crawl' which she failed, and then 'roll con to gasp weakly' I just didn't think it'd fit. Zack The NCP: Yeah. Right. You were light on content, but you still cut that out for time. Makes total sense. Any more sass out of you and I'll make the Tomb of Annihilation look like the Tower of Cuddles! Zack The NCP: Not the Tower of Cuddles!
This scenario sounds tailor-made for one of those "dress-up/murder-mystery" dinners that ppl have, where each guest has their own motivation, etc...I can't be the first person to think of this; have a designated camera-guy to record the evening & I reckon you've got a hit on your hands! P.S. I dig your Elder Sign charm...
I am not critical of seth's style, but this module seems to be running counter to the style he likes to run. It is a bit like critisizing A Game of Thrones for being a poor biography for saying that this classic cthulhu scenario makes a bad pulp cthulhu adventure. I would say the "opertunities for combat" in the module were more likely intended to be things the players run from rather than fight as it is a classic cthulhu module rather than a pulp cthulhu game. Seth notes the lack of weapons through the module and lethal encounters; this is not meant to be a pulp game, so running it under pulp rules is taking it a little beyond the scope of the scenario. This is a classic horror feel, and the cheerleader usually does not have a bazooka when she runs into Jason in a slasher slasher movie; it is meant to be deadly if they get caught the way I read it. I will say expecting players to go to other places is easily done with idea rolls, having to wait for npc's, having monsters you cannot beat at a location... if nothing else works, wait for them to get bored and go somewhere else. This is an estate with disputed ownership so there should be npc's coming in and out of any place that has paintings providing suggestions to players to leave.
As someone who has been down the Bigfoot rabbit hole, a Russian Almas being used like this fits with some of the local lore around them. Though the usual domestic Almas story tends to use female ones for... reasons... I'm sure you can guess what Russian men do with the ape-woman. And to shift this conversation away from Zana(whe the DNA evidence from her kids suggests was just a human, though not a Russian), here's one of the best discussions of Bigfoot I've ever seen: ruclips.net/video/JNe74B3Jlj4/видео.html
Leningrad isn't too bad... Now you want a bad neighborhood, go to Kazakhstan, around Semipalatinsk, or up north to Severny Island. Let us pray they still lay dreaming.
I totally agree with the assessment of it being a bit rough to play, when I was looking at it to run as a oneshot for my players, but I ended up going with Missed dues which fit much better as a introduction to the system.
I kinda hope next CoC review Seth does is Children of Fear, Cold Fire Withjn, Masks of Nyarlarthotep, Hotel Hell, Ties That Bind, other Alone against the _____ scenarios etc.
I hope you have enough small arms ammunition for this review Seth, also use a Walther Pistol rather than a Nagant 1895, the recoil is less on your wrist so you can liquidate Enemies of State for longer. ( Sadly that gag is true) Jack has been a NKVD 1st Directorate operative since 1923 after that “Honeytrap” in Cape Town( the letters change every so often, the State Organ doesn’t .. like their methods).CODENAME “FLASK”.
WTG Seth ! Breathing life into this fun old module :D Back in the day I Loved the Goodman modules - my Keeper as well made them a wild Romp - And yeah, it was just such a great experience to be stuck in Russia of all places heheh - very cool
I don’t want to spoil anything for myself but i want to support your channel so i click on your videos and mute my speakers and then leave a comment. Everyone should try it.
Jack raises an interesting question. Since it's- Well, spoilers further down in the comment. Since the book is, y'know. The book of ***Dark winter.*** There's probably a book out there for each season aswell. I'd imagine Summer's bright as hell, but in the worse possible manners.
I always loves adventures in foreign countries you always have that panic when you don't have escape plan because you don't know the area the local language or how to get out of the country while on the run from the law.
Technically in Russia it a "Yeti" be an Almas or Almasty, which depending on how seriously you take the various Ape-Men that supposedly populate the world could a substantial difference. Then again, I don't know how Mythos Yeti work compared to more realistic interpretations of the various species/sub-species of non-human hominids that line up to each region's local myth/legend/sightings/evidence.
Nah, the yeti in Russian is "снежный человек" (lit. snowman). It's called "almast" in Kabardino-Balkariya, a small region in the Caucasus, and "chuchuna" in Yakutia (at least according to Wikipedia). I'm not sure my region has any folklore about them, but a yeti butler in Leningrad definitely sounds so goofy!
Much like the Highlander, Jack's accent is an amalgamation of lives stretching down through the centuries. From Hyperborea to the distant future through the stars, he has stood as witness. He is eternal. He is Jack.
This idea is great. Heck, a whole short campaign about Westerners in Soviet Russia trying to stop the end of the world while the Secret Police are first shadowing and then chasing would be cool. It could culminate in an escape from the country (or a prison camp). But..this sounds messy.
Good day Mr. Skorkowsky! Nice review, again :) I was really surprised today, I couldn't find a review for "Lightless Beacon" on your channel and wondering if I just overlooked it or it is really missing on your channel. It's such a classic scenario, stands next beside the all classic introductary scenario "The haunting" for me. I would swear you already played it. Do you mind making a review about it (the "polished new" version) in the future :) Thanks a lot and keep on going!
No, Jack. It's not "The Book of Dark Winter" that you need to complete your set, it's "Dragons of Winter Night". Boy, we lose so many Dragonlance fans that way....
Hmmm...could not time this better with Last Train Home being released on PC to give gamers some background and filler material and give player characters even better feeling for the time period.
OKAY SO
During the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war, there were basically four sides. You had the Communist army (Reds) and the counterrevolutionary army (Whites), of course. But both of those groups were basically seizing any food or weapons they could find from the third side, the regular folks, which both created the fourth side, bandits, and left the regular folks vulnerable to banditry.
Now, when Russia withdrew from WW1 several years earlier, many soldiers just went straight home and took their Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifles with them. In the subsequent chaos, it became popular to cut down the barrel and stock to convert the gun into a large pistol-like weapon that could be easily hidden from the two armies and used for home defense against bandits. The resulting "Obrez" ("cut") Mosin is a perfect weapon to let the players find concealed around the house in this adventure. It's a weird and distinctly Russian weapon that's deeply connected to this specific setting and era.
I'm never getting tired of the "Hold on ____, we're coming to save you!" running gag
We need a compilation of those bits!
That's my second favorite gag. The first being Jack going "5000 gold pieces/credits/eurobucks? You got it, Boss/Chief/Sir. Consider it done." Every time the party is offered a lot of money.
If I recall correctly, most of the time the reward is a trap.
My favorite is "I'm with Scott Brown, get the eff out! I gotta showin'." I use this all the time now. 😂
6:44 I love the idea of a group of hardened occult investigators going to another country and bringing along an interpreter who has no idea what the flying heck they're in for.
"In Soviet Russia, You Don't Look For Party. Party Finds YOU!"
To be fair, the Party has help in the form of the secret police.
@nefariousKoel What a country!
A shirt with Jack and the quote "Hang on newly discovered life long friend! We're coming to save you!" :)
I expected an "In Soviet Russia" joke and Jack delivered swiftly.
Approved.
It was a good one, too.
"Hello internet, Seth Skorkowsky" the words that fill my day with joy.
Yes they do!
Another idea for the cookoo clock, maybe the hands need to be moved *backwards* for the secret door to open- if they inspect the mechanisms then the winding and adjusting the time normally gets done by moving the hands forwards, so in day to day use the secret door would never open, but if you wind the hands backwards to 11:58 then the door opens.
I would have the State Organs of Internal Security are false flagging the Investigators as they have the skills to root out this.... they will then blackmail them into becoming Agents ... not all Agents are ideological and the Investigators would be useful to Mother Russia.
Trying to run any form of subversive Organisation in the Soviet Union would be infiltrated and destroyed in short order, they ( were) are paranoid about Wreckers, foreigners,spies and internal decent ... somethings don’t change.
This is why MoN doesn’t work.... it has not been infiltrated by the NKVD .... the big N would have his hands fiull.😅
“And then things got worse”.... is almost a way of life in a Progressive Command society with very strong internal security .
Good review.
Or, do this. The Cookoo clock appears to be broken. Have the PCs make a spot roll when they enter the kitchen the first time, and if they pass they notice that the time is wrong. Can be another hint that the cookoo clock is important.
I ended up going on a bit of a wiki dive on cuckoo clocks, as I thought seeing one of these clocks in 1920 Soviet Russia felt a little anachronistic. In that research though I found a lot of the classic German Black Forest cuckoo clocks from the 19th century to be incredibly striking, and art pieces in their own right. So you could also have an alternative way of drawing attention to the clock by saying its an antique, and if a player has a high art or credit rating they’d take note of that.
Another option, and one that ties in to the suggested addition of shouting "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" is that the cuckoo mechanism needs to be activated manually while the clock is set to 11:58 for the door to open. That way, the door won't open on its own, the possibility of accidental revelation is lowered and you get to add that extra layer to the clue that keys in that it's the combination of mechanisms that is the key.
Minor Spoilers in comment.
I want to run this after the Secret of Cast. Cast ... The one with the immortality ring. I want to see the vampire drain that player character, and see what happens. Knowing at least one of my players, they will sit up and ask if she is done. Would the vampire have to roll sanity in this case?
we have a player who drove a cultists insane doing things like that to quote " see how they like it"
@@rickychapman3377 Story time? That sounds awesome.
I really apreciate how Jack always keeps his finger off the trigger while holding a firearm.
The era use of fire arms would be finger on trigger, that is why there were stiff triggers on firearms.... weapon safety was then a different and frighting thing to our sensibles.
29:30 Its also possible that the author might actually have some experience with being in the easter soviet block countries. IF so they may have taken some things for granted.
If you want military weapons in the soviet union, or even modern day Russia. Your best bet is to go to Army Armory officer, and barter with him or some of the gear he has on the site. There was even a guy who traded two dead Iphones for DShK Heavy Machine Gun, and two full drums of ammo. He unfortunately has to leave it over there when he came back to the states.
But point is getting some heavy hardware over there would not be difficult if you know where to look. The difficulty would be losing that agent... Then again depending on how you did things the agent might be on your side, and he might be the one helping you acquire some series hardware.
I went down a rabbit hole a couple years ago, reading biographies, histories, and political books about Europe & specifically Russia in the early 20th Century, and boy howdy, but it made me want to run some Call of Cthulhu in that era and region. Such a wild backdrop with so much story potential. Just the Sidney Reilly bio I read alone gave me material for a whole campaign. That dude. Supposedly one of many "inspiration for James Bond" figures, he seems more like a Thomas Ripley.
There are two great opportunities for the players to get weapons (and add some local flavor):
1. In the 1920s various Soviet organizations (including even forestries and city maintenance organizations) had arsenals (not machine guns, but rifles and handguns - easily). Their disarmament started right in 1927, so there are a lot of opportunities here.
2. At the time, members of the communist party actually were allowed to carry handguns. Naturally, handguns became a status item. So if one of the players' local contacts is a party member, they would certainly brag about it. And give the players the opportunity to "borrow" said handgun.
As for the adventure as a whole... It didn't really work for our group. It has a lot of issues and the "exotic local" thing doesn't really work for a group that lives in St. Petersburg =)
And, by the way, the map handout has a huge red herring. So huge that our Keeper used it as a starting point for another adventure set in an even more alternative reality. Zelenogorsk in 1927 was a Finnish town named Terijoki (and it was called Terijoki in the Russian Empire as well). It became Zelenogorsk in 1948. So, naturally, our characters started looking for this mysterious place "Zelenogorsk", since all the players believed that such an alternation of reality must be a major clue =)
Basically, if you have a history buff in your party - edit the handout a bit. And while spelling mistakes are present in all handouts - they are not a problem, they even add a bit of charm.
That was my first thought when I saw that map. "Hey, where is the finnish border on that map?"
As a Finn, cool! The setting - the dark forests on the Finno-Russian border just after the war(s) is rife with some spooky scary stuff, even without the mythos. EDIT: Typos.
@@OldtimerOfSweden Well, the map is obviously from 1953 onwards (Kirovsk is another "temporal anomaly" but our group ignored it for a variety of reasons), and hilariously "precise" - it covers about 120x120 kilometers. And the selection of depicted settlements is beautifully random. However, when it comes to the relative positions of said settlements, it is surprisingly good. With a caveat that "up" on the map is not North, but North-East. In other words, the map is great and obviously is drawn by a madman.
The only map in the module that is really bad is the combat map for the Mariinsky theater. The authors really did it dirty =)
EDIT: Typos.
I’m getting the impression that this adventure was not well written. 😕
What I'd do is have a contact be a former member of the White Army who’s willing to hand over his hidden stash of weapons if the party is willing to do something for him.
Really glad you're getting back to one of these Goodman modules. Hard to believe it's been 6 years since you did the Lost Expedition!!
He just got back from the Center of the Earth!
@@oz_jones Yeah, those Hollow Earth Expeditions can take ages… and you can wait months for your redirected luggage!
While I was born at the very end of Soviet Union's era, our schools pay enough attention to it so I can confirm: USSR is a great place to have dark, slow and heavy plot for Cthulhu adventures. Multiple different ideologies blend and oppose each other all the time while everything looking strict and rigid on the surface like any good dictatorship should. Mythos can be within common folk, tied to pagan gods of the old, to church being oppressed by the state, to the state itself having dark affairs for powerhungry individuals.
And all of it done under cold ruthless blanket of snow and grumpy unkind determination.
Really appreciate all your content Seth.
I just picked up the Keeper Manual and Investigator's Handbook for Black Friday. Getting my wife into roleplaying. She did Alone in the Flames and loved it. Can't wait to get into some more free form game play with her! She picked being Latvian for her character's background so I wonder if I can weave this adventure in with her.
when my friend was Keeper for a few adventures in Pulp Cthulhu we played this, since my long running character was a former Russian mob thug i had him be able to contact arms dealers, smugglers, call in favors from old friends to get the secret police off our asses for a bit... it was a lot of fun playing this and my characters backstory finally became useful outside of his proficiency with brass knuckles
The Age of Cthulhu adventures are interesting because they were written by actual beings from Outer Space, although they clearly read some books about Planet Earth and tried hard to get it right.
I resemble this remark. 😊 😉
The movie Mr. Jones is worth seeing to get a feel of what life was like in Soviet Russia. Also, in the book Forbidden Archaeology, there are reports made by Soviet officers in Mongolia that reference yeti and half-yeti half-human hybrids.
Tip for “the business card clue”.
Noone carries a single business card for themselves (or calling card (in the literal sense), or similar casual means of identification). If you find a single business card (unless deliberately placed), it’s really evidence of anyone except the named party…
Business cards therefore should always be found in multiples. In this instance either in the coat, in a scatter which might suggest that a pocket has been torn, or in a scatter where something else has been hurriedly dug out of the pocket they were in (perhaps a book of matches, found somewhere else in the area).
I don't even play CoC but I love listening to your videos on these modules!
Minor historical note: You can use “Cheka” for short in regards to the OGPU and that it wouldn’t be the KGB till the 50s with it first being the NKVD under Stalin.
Watching Seth's videos inspired me to run several Call of Cthulhu scenarios, including Call of Cthulhu - Blood Brothers "Uncle Timothy's Will" & "The Dollmaker", as well as The Things We Leave Behind's "Intimate Encounters". None of these short adventures were particularly Lovecraftian, which was good, and with a bit of flushing out of NPCs became beloved by players! Thanks, Seth!
Jack in cultist robes with a sawed off shotgun is giving me *Blood* flashbacks.
Everybody needs to check out the other Age of Cthulhu module, "A Dream of Japan".
I have successfully ran it and it is one of the best modules i have ever played!
I also strongly dipped into the traditional Rokurokubi from folklore, as well the Aokigahara forrest it made this entire scenario super chilling.
I love the start when you say it can be done in 8 hours but it took us 17. Reminds me of my last campaign and there was so much role-playing going on ... well ... everything took AGES! Wouldn't have it any other way.
Such a shame, I wanted this module to rock, but it does sound like a mess and a missed opportunity. Have you looked into the Berlin handbook and scenarios? Some of them are great, especially when the group is into historical figures and past political intrigue.
Just one exit is not a strange thing in houses of Eastern Europe.
It's pretty bold for the guy to make Doomsday Clock references years before the Doomsday Clock would be established.
While this adventure might not have been a success, the follow up of trying to escape Russia while chased by the Soviets and a Vampire child sounds like a fun time
I'm dissapointed that Rasputin didn't seem to have any role in this adventure. I don't think it's legal to make a Cthulhu adventure in 1900s Russia without any mention of Rasputin. He's like a real life Cthulhu cult leader or prophet.
It's Soviets. Rasputin is dead.
@@kuroinokitsune And that's stopped mythos sorcerers before? hahaha.
@@CtHuIHuSpAwN good point
randomly meeting 'celebrities' might break immersion a bit, especially when it happens often. You can namedrop them maybe, but something as popular as rasputin would be heavily covered up by most versions of suppresion services like the (proto)kgb in the adventure
I mean he has been allegedly been rotting away nearly a decade when this adventure kicks off, but yes. 'tis a shame.
29:59 - 30:12 My mind immediately thought of the Merchant from Resident Evil 4 with your description lol.
Great review as always 😊
All these tips and suggestions help me every time I prepare to run a session.
Not because I'm running these scenarios, but because they make me aware to be on the lookout for weid/senseless stuff
Thanks for covering this one Seth. Your channel inspired me to run A.O.C. 6 Dreams of Japan at KingdomCon 2017. It was a bit trying, but was a fun session. That was the con that I learned to cut back on the number of games I run. It was the fourth game I ran that day, after two different Mutant Crawl Classics adventures, and a Dungeon Crawl Classics playtest. I started the first game at 10 AM, and by the time I finished the Dreams it was 2 AM. I had an early game scheduled the next morning, but fortunately no one showed up, and I was able to get a Power nap in before my afternoon game.
Just watched your Intimate Encounters Actual Play but can probably watch another 30min. Cheers from Dallas.
Who'd have thought a company known mostly for (good) D&D adventures would turn a CoC mystery into a D&D adventure lol
Edit: Oh, you make the same observation lol
CoC when someone mentions an auction it is a good sign you should run for your life away from where it is happening.
this video got randomly recommended to me and when i saw the channel name i thought it sounded familiar. Then i saw Damoren in the background and had my light bulb moment. Love that book.
I'm running Cold Harvest ATM, players seem to really like the setting. I may give this a go.
I find it always best to rewrite every module before running it. Even when running for strangers, although if you know your players you can really focus the script. This allows you to speak more organically, rather than reciting someone else's words. You also, unless you are tainted by the Mythos, know what you meant at every point in the adventure. I generally write all of my own material, but certain modules are intriguing.
I ran the CoC adventure "Cold Harvest" for my group some years ago. It plays in the soviet union too. We had a blast and I really thought i picked it up because of Seth review. But now I cannot find any video from Seth about it.
If I was running this adventure I would have the pre KGB work with the pc’s if they saved them at some point in the game from the monsters.
Oh yes back to some good old call of Cthulhu. its the system im currently GMing for so this is very nice. Im thinking about running the 3rd adventure from the starter box set in harlem so they get familiar with it before we run masks of nyarlothotep.
My biggest problem with the CoC historical settings is that i feel the need to research them a lot more then the module require. so this would send me down a rabbithole watching every movie and reading every book i can find set in the timeperiod along with history textbooks
Someone's been watching "Horror Express".
This seems like a cool adventure offering something unusual to detectives everywhere. Worth checking it out, thanks for the tip Seth!
P.S.
What kind of bribe would you need to review WArhammer Fantasy Roleplay (any edition but 3rd)?
I second this.
GW treats their customers like crap. They'll never get any more of my money.
@@danacoleman4007 WHFRPG is currently published by Cubicle7.
@@danacoleman4007 cool thanks some of us like it, so maybe you can keep to yourself maybe? Thanks.
@@channel_named788 nope. It's important for people to know stuff like that. Maybe they'll do some research and support good companies instead.
"To complete my set". I would be concerned, but then again, this is Call of Cthulhu, madness is assumed.
This feels like you could rewrite it as a dope Delta Green scenario
6:03 I love that one of these pregens is clearly Bela Lugosi.
"The Most Dangerous Game?"
Nice review. Seems like most of the Goodman Games Age of Cthulhu scenarios were pretty rough overall. They tend to get facts wrong, leave out a lot of information, railroad, or simply turn into a mythos hoedown. I've never had much interest in running any of these.
The game could be republished by the author on the Miskatonic Repository ... maybe. Many of the mythos creatures used in Call of Cthulhu are licensed by Chaosium from the descendants of various authors, many of whom are long dead, and simply cannot be used in Miskatonic Repository scenarios. In this case Ithaqua, gnof-ke, and the like are simply not available. I lucked out that the zuvembie was never used for Call of Cthulhu and I was able to contact a representative of the estate of Robert E. Howard, who was fine with my using the zuvembie so long as I gave them credit. I also did my entire forward in that product on Howard.
I'd love to see all the old stuff available to more people though.
Great review. Thanks Seth.
I have a love for the old Age of Cthulhu line. This was a wonderful walk down memory lane, and a completely fair and thorough review. Thanks for this, Seth.
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A sure sign that today's going to be a good day. It definitely sounds like there was the making of a good adventure here, but it needed a couple of more re-writes to iron all of the bugs. Which is a shame, because Pulp adventure involving magical paintings and a race to stop the summoning of an eternal winter while dodging the Proto-KGB sounds like a good time.
The part at the end about the licensed adventures that have fallen out of print post-license expiration is a bit depressing to think about. Might be a good subject for a Top 10 list of your favorite such games to bring awareness of them to your fans. Lord knows I've bought plenty of stuff you've showcased or recommended, I could use some more items to add to my RPG shopping list.
Hello Seth Skorkowsky, Lime, and today I'm going to continue March Toward Mortalicassionè with
Part 5: The Obligatory Flashback Episode.
As for why it's hours late- RUclips seems to hate this gag, it kept deleting my comment before I could finish.
The Players: 'Bill', 'Kathrine', 'Chief Jeef' and 'Jemma'
Their Characters: Melvin Maiyelvin the Human Bladesinger-Wizard, Mariana Evecanth the Icthioid Barbarian, Kaldroth Soulcleanser the Judiadrine Sorcerer and Vendrika Stormwind the Dragonborn Paladin.
The DM: Me.
Last Time: The Gang stuck it to Vigovek and made a whole bunch of new friends. More importantly, none of them died! Well... Not permanently at least.
Thanks to a lot of leftover bookkeeping and leveling up that we'd all forgotten to do since last session, I Elected to give them a brief window of prep time before beginning the trek to the Dawn of Time to prevent Mortalicassionè.
About 1 Session worth of prep time to be exact.
Kaldroth spends most of it dramatically cradling Vendrika, who is now totally embarrassed.
But, I was pretty sure watching the love of your life, whom you Reincarnated for, have their soul eaten by a Litch God is grounds for a Major Trauma, so, he's allowed to get a bit more performative upon finding out she's Ok.
Which brings us to the first flashback scene, in a rule I shamelessly lifted from traveller, I gave them some benefits as we ran through how Kaldroth and Vendrika met back when Kaldroth was Tyrivene.
Tyrivene was a Young Elven Sorcerer who was tasked with assisting Paladin Stormwind with rescuing Princess Vendrika from the Talons of the Dragon: Boltjaws the Conquerer.
Unfortunately that was a bit of a mix up, because as you may have guessed, Boltjaws, Princess Vendrika and Paladin Stormwind were all the same person, and the questgiver was just confused.
Tyrivene cleared up that confusion and arrived just in time to back her up against her actual enemy, Illimir the Ashen, a young, evil, Red Dragon, and his small gaggle of kobald worshippers.
Long story short they made such a good team that they fell in love.
Years passed, and they were about to get married, when Illimir was ressurected as an undead monstrosity and bit the groom's head clean off. Normal Wedding things.
Illimir's necroflame breath also struck Vendrika, severely wounding her and killing the couple's unborn child, which is what she had signed the Contract with Sorakiel and Ivrakoth for: Her Family back.
Ivrakoth had Their Child's Soul, while Sorakiel had promised to retrieve Tyrivene's from his parents. (Amayali and Valociel)
Which he did technically do, by 'conning' the Newly reborn Kaldroth into joining up with the team in exchange for his memories from his previous life, which were restored only now.
We then had to do Mariana and Melvin, but that was a lot less dark. A Mad Bladesinger and a Barbarian; met during a war neither of them should've been fighting in and got on like a house on fire.
They'd only become 'friends' when Melvin found an exhausted and collapsed Mariana gasping for breath with her water-suit damaged, and cast create water on her, allowing her to breathe and saving her life.
Mariana then repaid the favour when Melvin was about to be stabbed from behind by cultists of Vigovek (a total bastard even in flashbacks!)
Mariana signed on for Ivrakoth to extend Melvin's lifespan to match her own, and to have Sorakiel give her some of his overwhelming power.
Melvin signed on to get arcane knowledge from Ivrakoth, and while he was there, bargained for Sorakiel to 'bless' Mariana with a super-enhanced form of Karcharíanthropy (Wereshark-hood.) Because 1. Chaos & 2. To make his Landshark Buddy a *way, way stronger* Landshark Buddy seemed like a good deal at the time.
They'll get those parts of the deal soon, since Vendrika and Kaldroth are already getting their ends of the bargain.
But those two flashbacks and a Lot of Supply-gathering later and it was about time to head towards the dawn of time for the first part of stopping mortalicassionè
But that's going to have to be for next time, and until then Seth, you have a great day.
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Zack the NCP: Y'know, you kinda held back on the real horrorshow that flashback actually was-
What?
Zack The NCP: That Baby was only gonna be 'Unborn' for another day or so, and 'seriously injured' undersells how little of Vendrika's body was even left- it was Burned and Rotted out, she went from super-prounounced Nine-months Bump to losing 55% of her body mass in Six Seconds. And even Mariana's section was a little more horrible than you care to admit-
Stop. I will proudly own that I said 'roll to stay standing', which she failed. Then 'roll con to try to crawl' which she failed, and then 'roll con to gasp weakly'
I just didn't think it'd fit.
Zack The NCP: Yeah. Right. You were light on content, but you still cut that out for time. Makes total sense.
Any more sass out of you and I'll make the Tomb of Annihilation look like the Tower of Cuddles!
Zack The NCP: Not the Tower of Cuddles!
This scenario sounds tailor-made for one of those "dress-up/murder-mystery" dinners that ppl have, where each guest has their own motivation, etc...I can't be the first person to think of this; have a designated camera-guy to record the evening & I reckon you've got a hit on your hands!
P.S. I dig your Elder Sign charm...
I haven't even watched the vid yet, but I know you deserve the like
love the use of lesser used creatures in call of cthulhu had an idea for a game involving a yeti and a blind penguin
yo mama Jokes in german lmao
I am not critical of seth's style, but this module seems to be running counter to the style he likes to run. It is a bit like critisizing A Game of Thrones for being a poor biography for saying that this classic cthulhu scenario makes a bad pulp cthulhu adventure. I would say the "opertunities for combat" in the module were more likely intended to be things the players run from rather than fight as it is a classic cthulhu module rather than a pulp cthulhu game. Seth notes the lack of weapons through the module and lethal encounters; this is not meant to be a pulp game, so running it under pulp rules is taking it a little beyond the scope of the scenario. This is a classic horror feel, and the cheerleader usually does not have a bazooka when she runs into Jason in a slasher slasher movie; it is meant to be deadly if they get caught the way I read it.
I will say expecting players to go to other places is easily done with idea rolls, having to wait for npc's, having monsters you cannot beat at a location... if nothing else works, wait for them to get bored and go somewhere else. This is an estate with disputed ownership so there should be npc's coming in and out of any place that has paintings providing suggestions to players to leave.
Man, the second Seth said Two Minutes to Midnight, the Iron Maiden song started playing in my head, and I got legit distracted for a second.
If this video was just a subtle attempt to get Iron Maiden stuck in my head all day, it worked
You're not alone in that.
Man, your skill and presentation have come a long way. Good job!
Really true. So i feel bad about mentioning the long blonde (or maybe shiny brown) hair on your left chest/shoulder in this video.
You had a hair stuck on your left shoulder during this and I tried to clean it up from my screen. Proper interaction that.
I kept asking a Russian basketball player out on a date. It was the same answer everytime: Nothing but "nyet".
20 years of hard labour for that pun, comrade.
Giving the key to an escort seems like a good way to encourage the PCs to visit the house first -- if they don't, they'll miss their chance.
Obsessed with the yeti "interaction" 11:44
As someone who has been down the Bigfoot rabbit hole, a Russian Almas being used like this fits with some of the local lore around them.
Though the usual domestic Almas story tends to use female ones for... reasons... I'm sure you can guess what Russian men do with the ape-woman.
And to shift this conversation away from Zana(whe the DNA evidence from her kids suggests was just a human, though not a Russian), here's one of the best discussions of Bigfoot I've ever seen:
ruclips.net/video/JNe74B3Jlj4/видео.html
Leningrad isn't too bad... Now you want a bad neighborhood, go to Kazakhstan, around Semipalatinsk, or up north to Severny Island. Let us pray they still lay dreaming.
I was thinking: maybe the cramming of Russian on the trip, for any Investigators who do, could receive 10 + 1/5 INT + 1/5 EDU -- thoughts?
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Add a back door and toilet. Can't forget the toilet.
Dasvidanya comrade
Always a good day when Seth uploads.
I totally agree with the assessment of it being a bit rough to play, when I was looking at it to run as a oneshot for my players, but I ended up going with Missed dues which fit much better as a introduction to the system.
Love and appreciate the "Soviet Union" jokes Seth!
I kinda hope next CoC review Seth does is Children of Fear, Cold Fire Withjn, Masks of Nyarlarthotep, Hotel Hell, Ties That Bind, other Alone against the _____ scenarios etc.
I swear he has done either Flames or Cold. At least a playthrough? Am i suffering a bout of madness again?
In Soviet Russia, Law breaks you.
Damn. Jack should have used that one.
I hope you have enough small arms ammunition for this review Seth, also use a Walther Pistol rather than a Nagant 1895, the recoil is less on your wrist so you can liquidate Enemies of State for longer.
( Sadly that gag is true)
Jack has been a NKVD 1st Directorate operative since 1923 after that “Honeytrap” in Cape Town( the letters change every so often, the State Organ doesn’t .. like their methods).CODENAME “FLASK”.
WTG Seth ! Breathing life into this fun old module :D Back in the day I Loved the Goodman modules - my Keeper as well made them a wild Romp - And yeah, it was just such a great experience to be stuck in Russia of all places heheh - very cool
I don’t want to spoil anything for myself but i want to support your channel so i click on your videos and mute my speakers and then leave a comment. Everyone should try it.
Jack raises an interesting question.
Since it's- Well, spoilers further down in the comment.
Since the book is, y'know.
The book of ***Dark winter.*** There's probably a book out there for each season aswell. I'd imagine Summer's bright as hell, but in the worse possible manners.
"Oh you like hot summers? It's now 100 Celsius outside. :)"
I always loves adventures in foreign countries you always have that panic when you don't have escape plan because you don't know the area the local language or how to get out of the country while on the run from the law.
Excellent gun safety thank you! XD
Right up my alley! Awesome!
Alarm goes off, roll over, clear qlarm, seth skorkowsky notification pops up. LETS GOOOOO
Ive actually used a Pathfinder module Rasputin Must Die! As a pulp adventure which was fantastic.
Sounds more like a conversion of a Shadowrun adventure with the Yeti in a tuxedo, vampires ...
Technically in Russia it a "Yeti" be an Almas or Almasty, which depending on how seriously you take the various Ape-Men that supposedly populate the world could a substantial difference.
Then again, I don't know how Mythos Yeti work compared to more realistic interpretations of the various species/sub-species of non-human hominids that line up to each region's local myth/legend/sightings/evidence.
Nah, the yeti in Russian is "снежный человек" (lit. snowman). It's called "almast" in Kabardino-Balkariya, a small region in the Caucasus, and "chuchuna" in Yakutia (at least according to Wikipedia).
I'm not sure my region has any folklore about them, but a yeti butler in Leningrad definitely sounds so goofy!
@@user-cz6us7ok2j Really reminds me of Master and Margaritha, but it has been over a decade since I watched the russian minseries, so grain of salt.
Question is Jack from Brooklyn his accent sounds like he is
Much like the Highlander, Jack's accent is an amalgamation of lives stretching down through the centuries. From Hyperborea to the distant future through the stars, he has stood as witness. He is eternal. He is Jack.
This idea is great. Heck, a whole short campaign about Westerners in Soviet Russia trying to stop the end of the world while the Secret Police are first shadowing and then chasing would be cool. It could culminate in an escape from the country (or a prison camp). But..this sounds messy.
Good day Mr. Skorkowsky!
Nice review, again :)
I was really surprised today, I couldn't find a review for "Lightless Beacon" on your channel and wondering if I just overlooked it or it is really missing on your channel. It's such a classic scenario, stands next beside the all classic introductary scenario "The haunting" for me. I would swear you already played it. Do you mind making a review about it (the "polished new" version) in the future :)
Thanks a lot and keep on going!
No, Jack. It's not "The Book of Dark Winter" that you need to complete your set, it's "Dragons of Winter Night".
Boy, we lose so many Dragonlance fans that way....
HOW DARE YOU say our Seth isn't pretty enough for an OF!!! Don't listen to Jack, Seth, you're plenty pretty. Live your dreams!
6:04 Anyone else think the second-from-the-left pregenerated character looks very Romulan?
... imagine...a GM concerned with amp-up THINGS in his adventure...hmm💩
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Danke!
Hey! I see the pendragon starter set in the background how you liking it? I have one myself but nobody is interesting in playing it at the moment.
Hmmm...could not time this better with Last Train Home being released on PC to give gamers some background and filler material and give player characters even better feeling for the time period.
Meanwhile a russian Cthulhu player living in Leningrad: "Yeah. An exotic locale.. right." xd
"I only speak bad English and a few yo mama jokes in German."
Absolutely GOATed Jack.
"Ah crap, I always forget to ask the bad guy his evil plans before I shoot him dead." had me laughing because my characters do the same.
I think all of Age of Cthulhu adventures sound cool on paper but all have the same problems.
I was ever gonna run a game of Cthulhu this would be the adventure.
Age of Cthulhu Vol. 6: A Dream of Japan