Call of Cthulhu: A Mother's Love - RPG Overview 

UPDATE: I've been informed of an error in the module (quite embarrassing). In the adventure I said the statue is at the intersection of Fall, Marsh, and South Streets (which was from the Escape From Innsmouth book and I carried it over). That is incorrect. The Statue start point should be at the intersection of Marsh, Main, and Babson (See the Keeper Map I shared).

Congratulation to Jack being a published character

Call of Cthulhu: A Mother's Love. Otherwise known as the Roast of Seth Skorkowsky: Presented by Jack Malone (Official) NPC.

Congrats on the golden ENnie in the "best crude drawing" nomination!

"And I'm Jack, the officially published NPC. I'm here to geek out over the fact that I'm now canon." ;~)

"Jack Malone, Senior BOI Agent..." and he is a very good boi indeed.

Oh exciting Jack being Cannon to Call of Cthulhu scenario now is my favourite thing

In all honesty, that background between Tobias and his mother is actually touching. It almost sound like a fairy tale if you ask me. Its clear that she loves her son no matter what becomes of him or even whatever is his opinion is regarding his home-town. He is very much a prodigal son who came back from a life of misdemeanor and crime, only to be welcomed by the sole individual who loves him with all her heart.

For what it's worth, I'd love to see a video on HOW to write a Call of Cthulhu scenario. The process would have to be a lot different from writing the adventure-style stories you'd see in a game like D&D or Traveller, and it's definitely outside the bounds of my experience. Presumably it would help other people wanting to get into Call of Cthulhu, as well.

Perfect ending that would make for a great come back later. Shootout in the grotto, he's headed for the bell and takes a round in the shoulder, grabs the bell, rings it, and falls into the water. The NPCs say he's dead as there are sharks or something in the area, and they will take care of him now, but truth is, momma grabs him, and saves him. Years later, the baby is kidnapped as the girlfriend is travelling down the shoreline, and she hires the players to get him back, knowing they were kind and let her live last time. And now, both mother and son are an issue.

It's nice to see that Jack has become a published character. He's earned it.

Man, kudos to these artists for really bringing out that Innsmouth look while still keeping these NPCs very human. And grats on another completed work!

Jack at the end, saying thoughts that had occurred to me whilst watching the video.

Man, I need to convince my friends to play something other than DnD more than ever now. It’s driving me nuts

I feel less self confident about my own drawing and mapping skills now. Those “crude” drawings are about as good as I ever get!

I see we have retconned Jack's stat block from the core rulebook videos.

i would love to see the actual amount of TPK's this adventure has from the Innsmouth police.

That one surviving PC makes for a delightfully Lovecraftian ending! Cool adventure, nice work on it!

Hey Seth, just ran this scenario for my group tonight and it was a blast. You would've been proud of my players, while they did blunder around a bit they survived due to some amazing skill rolls and good decisions to avoid an outright firefight with the townsfolk and managed to enlist Jack's help in covering things up before it went too far. Damn good bit of fun.

BBC Radio 4 is going to be doing 'Shadow over Innesmouth' as a short form dramatisation fairly soon

Seth skorkowski content two days in a row. It is truly a good time to be alive. 😜

Congrats to Seth on the Ennie and Jack becoming a published character! Huzzahs all around!

"And then the bad thing happened." was by far my favorite part lol as always great video and I look forward to running this for my group once we can start meeting in person again

First, congratulations are in order. I can see how something like this could be reskinned to reflect lycanthropy as well as it spreads through a community rumoured for it's spread. I can also see how this can inform other settings and adventures like "Cult of the Reptile God". Now you've got me thinking...

Always exciting when a new scenario review is released by Seth! Whenever he says "Now I must warn you, spoilers ahead!" It's like the classic Hollywood lion roar at the start of a movie. That's when you know the show is about to begin! ps. I'll make sure to check out the release in support.

I was dreading this week, now it might be ok.

Months later, characters read the news of a pregnant woman found killed in a clandestine cesarea and his baby missing. - What's the woman's name? - asked one - oh! I know where that baby may be. #hook

It's refreshing to see a Call of Cthulhu adventure that actually discouranges you from learning about the Mythos, sure in other adventures that I've read you get bonked with the Insanity stick if you do, but you are still required to learn and delve deeper if you want to resolve the situation. The Berlin: The witcked city book is particulary guilty of this with its first two scenerios, and even the third one but the first two are just on the nose town-saving adventures.

I just ran my group through this adventure, and it was their introduction to 7th edition Call of Cthulhu. We had a great time! Since my PCs were all tied to the mob in some way, I motivated the players by saying the Chicago mob was calling in a favor from the Arkham or Boston Italian mob, because the Frog gang had hit a mob bank. Because of the mob ties the PCs were reluctant to work with the Innsmouth Constabulary (one PC was a crooked Private Investigator), but were pretty trusting of Grace Deckert. I also added an event that pointed the PCs to the local pharmacy, only to find out the pharmacy was out of the anti-nausea medicine they were sent for, it was purchased by a young woman with a scar on her cheek (to deal with her morning sickness). I tried to turn the Teddy Wynne fight into a chase, but due to some amazingly good and bad dice rolls (on my players part and my part respectively), Wynne was caught in one round and bashed over the head with a crowbar, then turned in for the bounty (and left in the tender care of Dr. Marsh... who will make sure he doesn't survive). Also, since my group very smartly did not trigger the Deep One fight at the end and since Pearl survived the encounter, I kept the "mother" in "a Mother's Love" theme going by, in the denoument of the scenario stating that, a few months later, Dr. Marsh fills out a birth certificate--a baby boy who bears a strong resemblence to Toby Sisk, recorded as being born to Grace Deckert... Pearl Kammire has disappeared, never to be seen again.

Its cool to see the payoff from that old video. Congrats on the award. Its a great thing to live in a time where the author of an adventure can readily give advice on it.

Please accept my heartiest congratulations, Seth! Bravo!!!

Almost first, darn! I got to thank this channel for getting me into non-d&d RPGs I'm starting my traveler campaign this week

Hell yeah! Gonna be a good day

I’ve been wanting a copy of this book but I really want a physical copy so I’ve been patiently waiting for the second printing. Your adventure sounds awesome. And I agree with Jack about rules to play as a deep one hybrid.

Nice way to start off a Monday!

Oh it’s Seths own scenario. Cool, can’t wait to see.

I LOVE the Richard Coyle version, listen to it several times a year. Considering the description of Innsmouth in the story, I'd always thought there was great potential when it was describing the decaying mansions in the wide streets with the old trees so great that one of the mansions got referenced. Congrats on the publication!

Concgratulations on your second Ennie Award! (I remember you got one for "best online content" as well.)

Anyone else reviewing their own adventure would seem trite, but in your case I’ll most definitely make an exception. Congratulations on all the much deserved success, I hope we see a lot more Seth scenarios in the near future 🦑👽

No conflict of interest here just some healthy pride. Congratulations 🍾

The BBC have released 4 series of audio plays called "The Lovecraft Investigations". S1 is CDW, S2 is Whisperer in Darkness, S3 is Shadow Over Innsmouth (brilliantly incorporating the Covid Lockdown as a means of trapping theinvestigator in the town... and several refernces to "The Innsmouth look") and S4 is Haunter of The Dark. They take the form of modern, multi episode "True Crime" podcasts and are, pardon me for saying so... fucking BRILLIANT. When they start out investing Charles Dexter Ward its simple... a fairly standard "Locked Room Mystery" and as the investigators keep coming across strange shit they are constantly trying to find rational explanations, but over the years start to realise that "rational" is playing in a different garden to the one they are in. The writing is just superb and the actors are great. The structure is almost like the Welles (as opposed to "Wells") War of the Worlds, as the show maintains the podcast format through each series, and doesn't even have credits until the very end of the final part of each story. So there's nothing at all to suggest to anyone listening to them cold that they ARE dramatic adaptations. The writer really knows his stuff, and all sorts of real life mysteries, and "Googleable" events are also used throughout, and one bit with an "Audio Hallucination" that I GUARANTEE will make you skip back and listen to it over again and sit there in amazement when you realise that it is genuine. and that they didn't fiddle with the audio... they genuinely fucked with your head! If you love Cthulhu, do yourself a favour and give this a listen if you can find it. I'm in the UK so its all on the BBC Sounds Website. If you can find it... sit back and enjoy it.

Congrats on getting your own canon contribution to the Call of Cthulhu archives. I ran this for my player's last week and they loved it.

Congratulations 🎉! Nothing I love more than when I see people’s hard work and dedication pay off! Good for you Sir!

Monster mother loves her child? So sweet! 😍

Missed opportunity at the end to follow up on "Hit that subscribe button" with "and ring that bell." I mean, the bell was right there in the background! Great video, as always.

I was looking for a scenario to be the finale follow-up to The Lightless Beacon, and the cult of Dagon tie in is perfect! Also, belated congratulations on the award. 🎉

Best Monday ever

*Please do more expansions for this scenario .* *This scenario is the most true to lovecraftian philosophy possible .*

Before I started to GM a friend and I used to play in an online group where we once played a heavily modified version of Escape from Innsmouth where my friends character actually was revealed to be a hybrid. Something he only discovered when we all clicked that for some reason deep one technology and magic worked for him but nobody else...

Well done Seth! Talk about a flex when you reviewed something you made.

Hey Seth have you thought of doing a Dedicated video on your books and what they are about or at least a summary of the plot? I know you talk about them some times and they sound very interesting so I would like to know more. Also thanks for the great content!

Oh wow! Congratulations! Sounds like something I'd like to give it a try with my group. Thankyou for the overview

Can't wait for you other overview of the Traveler scenario you wrote :D

YeaY ! \o/ Could have waited for mother day !

Was waiting for a 'ring that (notification) bell' gag with Jack at the end, there.

Congratulations, Seth! Can't wait to see how you incorporate Jack into your inevitable Conan adventure. Jak Malicious-One, Warrior of Krom!!!

Love your videos seth!

Love your stuff, Seth.

Yus! And congrats Seth.

Personally, that is the sort of story I like best in a game like Call of Cthulhu: you are not part of the world so much as glancing off it, so you get to experience the real creepy sensation of knowing something is not normal, but you don't ever know why. Too often, our curiosity is satisfied, and that means we never appreciate the mystery. This is why I like to litter games with things that look like they have a story you want to know, but you know you probably won't ever know, and so you just imagine a story to slake your curiosity for the moment, hoping you will forget about it soon enough.

Congratulations, can't wait to give it a try. You rock Jack Malone.

Damn ive been looking forward to this!

This is great, after all the hard work you are making your mark in gaming history. Good job Jack.

Congratulations Seth! This adventure sounds great. But I must say that Your ideas for the Deep one centered adventures (the ones given to us by Jack) are pure gold! You should write them up.

Re-watching everything in prep for our groups Halloween sessions and picking up the miscellaneous tips has been a blast, good job on the re-watchability of your videos Seth!!!

A very helpful overview, Seth. You did some great work on Mysteries on Arcturus Station, i’ll likely look into picking up Tales from the Miskatonic Valley when I start a Call of Cthulhu game.

In regards to Jacks closing monologue, I ran briefly with a group in college with a player who went full hybrid on a trip overseas. The PCs had alot of trouble smuggling them home while being pursued by cultists.

Kudos to the published work and congrats on Jack being made into an official npc!

Well done as always. Congrats on the golden ENnie!

congrats seth you are a legend and i love your content!

Congratulations on the publication! The story sounds amazing.

damn, that's sounds amazing for a movie.

You have always been an inspiration! Congratulations on this publication and rock on! I hope to run this someday with friends!

Niiiice! Congrats and totally gonna run this!

Congratulations Seth! I’m definitely checking out that adventure as soon as I’m able.

Congrats on getting your adventure published! It looks awesome and interesting, and I can't wait to use it for my players.

Great work Seth!

Congratulations Seth ! That’s SO cool !

Congratulations Seth your the man! Thanks for all the awesome videos aswell!

Congrats on the module, Skorkowsky. You deserve endless success. Looking forward to your next one.

Thanks for sharring this. Was stunned by your explaination about your motive to write the adventure as it is. Keep up the great work. You inspire me to DM a lot more COC

Ooo... Been waiting for this video! Thank you sir!

2:19 Sweet! I've immensely enjoyed this character's dialogue!

New Tales of the Miskatonic is really an overall fantastic book. Highly recommend it to people looking for more 2-3 session scenarios for CoC.

This sounds amazing!

Brilliant!!! Both adventure and video!

I'm definitely going to try and make it a point of getting is that book just for this adventure; congratulations on getting published Seth!

Congrats Seth!!! 😊

Great video, glad to see Jack get the recognition he deserves.

Hey Seth! Thanks again for a great video. I purchased your Traveller adventure recently with the re-release of the Arcturus Station Murder mystery. Super excited to dig into it. Guess I'll have to get this one for CoC as well!

Seth, I can honestly say that this is a great, brutal, and totally enjoyable adventure. And I am so glad you didn't make a video on it until now, because I watch all of your new videos as they come out and that would have totally spoiled the fun of playing the scenario when Matthew McCloud ran it for us. As for Jack's questions at the very end, I suggest he check out the Flotsam and Jetsom series Chaosium released for free last fall. ;-)

This looks amazing. I haven't played Call of Cthulhu yet, but I am really tempted to run this sometime.

Really looking forward to more Traveller so hope you do a video on that Traveller scenario!

Awesome! I remember Seth mentioning working on this book a while back, looks like a must-buy! Beautiful art too.

i love these videos, nothing gets me more hyped to throw some dice.

Great Timing. I bought the PDF just yesterday and am looking forward to run the szenario!

Good job Seth! Sounds like you knocked it out of the park

This was a fun video. I haven't gotten to run the adventure yet, but getting to see the author's own take and tips is incredibly insightful.

Congratulations! Can’t wait to get my hands on a hard copy!

This sounds like a great adventure!