A Time To Harvest for Call of Cthulhu Review - A Full-featured Classic-style Campaign 

I really need to get my hands on this book, thank you for the share. 👍

What a great review! Absolutely gonna pick this one up to run!

I really liked how this review was structured! Thank you :)

As its a long video, I write the comment as I watch. Its perfect as I was waiting to get and literally just ordered it with other books yesterday (3x CoC, 3x Runequest btw): I agree that few but great books are totally better than a mass of mediocre. We are past the 90s. Still catching me saying Time FOR Harvest instead. ;) Children of Fear is another I finally ordered. Still have to read my copy of the Two-Headed Serpent (as I watched the Seth Skorkowsky Reviews first back then), I read a Cold Fire Within though, which has some corners but great concept and potential. I prefered non-US stuff, but i think this is an awesome way to go back. I like the ideas. The pics of different mi-go just draws u in right away. The Body Switch is indeed an intriguing feature. And yeay for Armitage too. Moon Trotting heh. They seem to take always good care with the pre-mades. Agree with arcane vs weird science. It can be a good start alone for the base of playing students I think. Mi-Go are just all fun. Even the little bit they played that pulp scenario was nice. agree, it just makes sense in CoC that they dont care about us. all hail the monstrorum, but yesh more deep dives are always wished for. the university part was what got me initially interested even. agree, you can easily use a lot of it otherwise. that is a lot of time to improve indeed and glad they had it. good to hear once again news about the new book. and thx for relaying those answers too. and so much agree with the representation.

Badmoon rising with a trip to the moon...

Tell me more about the Canadian sidequest.

I'll admit, I had kinda dismissed this campaign early on. The aspect of playing college kids didn't light my fire at all, and I've only ever used Arkham in a game once. But this looks a lot more interesting to me, now. I certainly tend to lean my games toward the Science Fictional side of Lovecraft, often thinking of spells & such as unknown mathematics or what have you. But if I don't have to work hard to make that happen, all the better. If you had to guess, how long do you think this campaign would take? Like, assuming a weekly, three-hour session. I'm trying to find some mid-length stuff. Your mentioning being able to split pieces of it into mini-campaigns/adventures certainly makes it more tempting.

Really great review. Since this has a ton of Miskatonic University stuff, would you say it's somewhat comparable to the Miskatonic Sourcebook?

Can you give some hints about what sorts of content warnings the book should (or does) have? I love Call of Cthulhu and horror gaming in general but there are certain kinds of horrors I try to steer away from.

Can you pull some decent one-shots out of it without using the rest of the campaign? (4 hour max)

When is this being run at your FLGS?

I am a little surprised this is presented as a beginner campaign. Irrespective of Cthulhu, my experience in RPGs is that as the number of important NPCs increases the complexity of running a game increases more than linearly. More for the GM to keep track of & play multiplied by more for the players to keep track of! That, plus what would seem like a LOT of combat - which until you have experience can be kind of clunky (more streamlined in Cthulhu than many RPG systems) would seem to make this intermediate level. Do you think Chaosium pegged it right as 'intro' level?

I bought this intending to run it, and I am reading through it. Having got through the end of chapter 1, I am torn. I really like the concept, setting, and characters. But the action is sooo scripted, down to what has to happen every day, and how to railroad the players to make that happen. There is no pc agency at all and really nothing important to do in this whole chapter. It is just a setup to experience some mild to moderate horror. It seems very difficult to run given players propensity to wreak havoc with heavily planned scenarios… perhaps the rest of the campaign is better… I’ll keep reading.