Call of Cthulhu: Bad Moon Rising - RPG Review 

It's a must for you to play this song during this module..

Stargate had the better setup

Another thing to note is the adventure hook. It's weird how weak it is, when it could have been so easy to fix. In order to get the plot-hook nice and deep into players, the most elegant of solutions is to make it specifically one of the PCs that get's the vision of the future. Have it be a scenario, where one of the PCs has agreed to help him in the demonstration, letting him see with his own eyes the horrible fate that is to come in the future. You either make this doctor an already-established expert in the mythos, possibly even an ally that the heroes can trust the word of or have the gig pay well enough that the PCs don't care one way or the other. Perhaps use some of the time between this and the mystery proper to also make sure to enforce the idea that the prediction is accurate. Have it be like they saw alot of other, smaller prophecies in those visions too and over the course of a handful of weeks or months, have these visions come true without fail to insinuate that these visions weren't just a parlor-trick. The diving accident itself is pretty good to ensure that, but making the PCs the ones that personally experience that will help sell the narrative. Hell, there are some fun things you could do with Moe as a character in the alternative scenarios I suggested. In the "Dystopian society" plot, you could have it so that Moe had kept looking into the future and armed with the knowledge of all that is going to transpire, he will dedicate the rest of his life to using both his own wealth and a few lottery-predictions he made to set a plan into motion that is set to go off whenever the players awake, which involves assisting them in getting back to the past to save the future.

Hey! The 80s was great! 🤨😤😡🤬

jesternario my current campaign is set in the 80s, my players loving call it Cthulhu Vice.

@@justinjanicki6561 HA! Have fun!

how did it go?

@ they weren't having it, but i'll talk them into it eventually.

I also bought several Call of Cthulhu game books based on Seth’s reviews. My group is now starting our first Call of Cthulhu game this week.

@@peershaunm I've also been trying to get my gaming group into Call of Cthulhu. I'm a nut for Lovecrafts work, and I have his complete collection. Read the whole thing more than once. The problem my players have with the system is they like to be definitive hero's, which draws them to games like D&D and Mutants and Masterminds, and their issue with Call of Cthulhu is that there's generally no "Win" situation. The bad still happens, you just work to prevent it for a while longer, which I can see where they're coming from. Someday I'll get a party together.

Thank you very much. I'm glad you find them helpful.

Thanks. I love the story of it, but it's just too much exposition in the last third. Yes, there is an option to drop them in the middle of the Martian Invasion. I'd originally started making a big plastic helmet from an instruction page I found. It....did not go well. So I opted for just shoving my face into a picture.

My distinct impression is that this isn't so much a session that is intended to be played through but rather a story. A story can get away with these big jumps in logic by the sake of that the characters are ultimately completely at the mercy of the author, works less when with players who are much more likely to have different ideas then the GM. Even so, it's so random and requires significant modification to make sense. Why not cut out the awkward investigation and just have the military invite them in?

Nothing stops it. It even mentions you could drop then in Cthulhu by Gaslight or Modern Era, or any other time you wish

I'd drop them in the middle of a CCR concert while there playing "Bad Moon Rising"

Only now by coincidence I showed her the end and realised: she was even born in the same year the scenario was published! :o

Yeah, they showed up 2 weeks after their other selves had left. Sanity was ground down hard. I didn't even go into the Hound of Tindalos that chased their time machine for a few million years. That was one of the biggest San killers. Pulp Cthulhu is no nicer to Sanity than regular Call of Cthulhu, so all of the PC's were well into Indefinite Insanity by the end of it.

Haven't tried The Spawn out yet. Next review might be Born in Darkness from that book.

Are they really hesitant into getting into a new system? If so, I recommend trying to get them to do a oneshot, something like Edge of Darkness(which is one that Seth has actually reviewed) is a good start I think as it's short, easy to understand, and if you get bored of the investigation, just have the zombies start popping up.

@@hysterical5408 Seen all his Reviews and found out one of my Co workers actually know the Call of Cthulu system

@@Artemisthemp Oh, good to hear. Hope you can play it at some point.

I've thought about it. But when I narrated a short story of mine for a podcast, I came to the understanding that I'm just not a voice actor and audiobooks should be left to the profeddional voice actors. When my first novel was going to be an audio book, my editor asked me to read it. I said no. So we got R.C. Bray and he's been way better than I would have been. Here's my terrible attempts to narrate. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VveSe3MFgf8.html

I finally got to play it recently. Fun game. More Hollywood Western with the Pulp rules than historic Western, which made it a lot of fun.

Seth Skorkowsky so would you say it’s better suited to the Pulp ruleset?

I say yes. But I'm also heavily biased toward the Pulp ruleset. Really it depends on how you want your own games to feel. If you want your PCs jumping off cliffs and onto horses while shooting two 6-guns and laughing, then definitely pulp.