Davvy's Guide to Call of Cthulhu 

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“My character is wearing a Hawaiian Shirt” A sentence that strikes terror into the heart of every GM who has heard the tale of Old Man Henderson.

Davvy: *Does somthing other than DND* His Audience: *Frantically rolling sanity check*

"... and if I talked about every book, we´d be here all day." Do you really think I´m going anywhere?

I remember my first time running CoC, they spent 30 minutes arguing over the quality of 1920s jams.

Ms Frizzle is no ordinary teacher, she is either a Time Lord, whatever Mary Poppin's race is, or a child of both Or Both of them are Time Lords, along with Nanny McPhee.

3:09 its interesting to think about how "when would you wanna kill another person" is barely given a thought in D&D but here in CoC it's the moment a character is gonna start the downward slide into madness

"[Lovecraft] was also frightened of invertebrates, marine life in general, temperatures below freezing, fat people, people of other races, race-mixing, slums, percussion instruments, caves, cellars, old age, great expanses of time, monumental architecture, non-Euclidean geometry, deserts, oceans, rats, dogs, the New England countryside, New York City, fungi and molds, viscous substances, medical experiments, dreams, brittle textures, gelatinous textures, the color gray, plant life of diverse sorts, memory lapses, old books, heredity, mists, gases, whistling, whispering-the things that did not frighten him would probably make a shorter list."

My first character was a paranoid professor of history. He’d stumbled across the existence of the old ones in his research and started sleeping with a shotgun under his bed. Good times 🙂

"Man, does anyone ever win at this game? " "You don't win. You just do a little better each time."

All CoC, when you want to teach players what "backup characters" are.

The closest I've come to playing CoC is Earthbound. it's a mostly lighthearted game that gets darker as the story progresses and the big bad is literally eldritch horror.

I literally bought this game yesterday out of a sheer whim and Davvy puts out a video on it. Just amazing luck honestly

My comment has two purposes: 1. Boost the algorithm. All hail the algorithm. 2. Give Davvy encouragement as he branches out from solely D&D stuff. Good job Davvy! You can do it!

Played it recently. Got my players PRing well which translated well to DnD, like a breath of new life they started focusing on the RP rather than the combat all the time

As someone who has been playing in a group for almost two years now, including having gone through the campaign "Terror on the Orient Express", this game is great for anyone who wants a mystery focused horror adventure. Especially one where negotiating information out of the NPCs you meet is just as important as fighting monsters. And for those interested in the game but not the time period, there's rules for the modern day and the 1800s in the books, as well as numerous first and third party time period books. Invictus is set in the Roman Empire, Dark ages the early medieval, Achtung! Cthulhu for the second world war... And while technically not a Call of Cthulhu game anymore, Delta Green combines espionage thriller and the mythos together.

So ... i can play .. A stoner electrictian with a supernatural encyclopedia of every scifi and fantasy creatures... Aka Me .. hahaha

Since its not a dnd video, Ima comment to help this go further. Always behind a creator going for more variety content.

CoC has stats for Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies & stuff, so you CAN play X-Files. after writing this, I wanna play in a solo feds X-Files-style CoC game.

I've heard this game is perfect for one-shots where the players aren't expected to survive XD

As someone who's played this game the one piece of advice I can offer is this. Do not fight! If you find yourself in a combat encounter, either run or force whatever you're fighting to flee.

Just don't mind the funny van full of surveillance equipment following your CoC players, that's another handbook.

The first CoC character I rolled was a Socialist Reporter, who basically ran his own Labor Paper with Enquirer characteristics.

Respect you Elders.... And their Sign. As for killing other people... Really. Oh yea, cultists usually count as people.

Alright So while D&D might be more combat focused and what you can do in combat Call of Cthulhu is more focused on mystery solving and what you can do to uncover mysteries

Call of Cthulhu also know as Alex Jones simulator.

Im GMing this right now and we’re doing every era from Wild West to modern-ish day (like early 2010s) it’s a JoJo type beat cause there’s always one character/character’s family connecting the eras together, plus I get to mix up the soundtrack a bunch

I miss playing this so much. I was a silent film actress who was extremely good at using a shotgun and even better at charming men into giving us info. It was so much fun

You sound so much more excited and invested to do this video. It's like old Davvy's back. I'm really glad you decided to do this.

I just finished runninga D&D campaign for my group and we are planning on going into one shots and new systems now. THIS looks exciting!

Finally someone covers call of cthulhu. The tears of joy of a CoC GM bless you

Thank you for this, Daddy Chappy

Ah yes. The "5 character death in a session" game my GM told me about. Kinda want to play it

The fact that you gave the basic play along with the rules and its difference to D&D in less than 10 mins is impressive. It also makes me miss my old CoC group. Such a fun game.

I'd say i like CoC, but that would be an understatement.

But does this game let you see "Colors-unlike-any-seen-on-earth"?

Great rundown! I'm a big big fan of call of cthulhu. One thing that I think it does well is that, if you're an inexperienced GM (known in the game as Keeper of Arcane Lore) it's relatively easy to make stuff up if you have a general knowledge of the rules and a familiarity with the setting. My first ever game that I ran as GM was call of cthulhu and I forgot to print the stat sheet for a dude who resurrected himself through arcane forces but was still able to approximate a decently difficult battle scene based on generic combat rules and what I knew about the world. It's also great for trying character builds you might not expect to work. My friend really wanted to have a high "library use" stat, so we made him a librarian and it surprisingly came in super handy when he had to dig through some old county records while his cohorts distracted the other people in the room

I'm curious. What's the longest campaign anyone has ever run without getting everyone killed?

Would love to see more Cthulhu content! A huge fan of the game and this video was a nice surprise!

"this game is best played with as little knowledge on hp lovecraft as possible" me, who hasnt even been in the same room as a book since highschool: "i am killing it rn"

This is one of my favorites omg I’m so glad you did a video on this!!!!

Thank you for covering this! Absolutely love the CoC system. My regular D&D group branched out into it a while ago and it's honestly super fun!

Here I am sitting here, WANTING to play it, but my friends are stuck in the “but why not just make it D&D” phase. I wanna try other systems!!!!!!

The amount of information you pack into this short video is astonishing. Tbh, I wish more RU-vidrs had your talent for speed talking and brevity.

Just popped in to say it's awesome that you're introducing D&D crowd to other games, keep at it! I think you're telling people just enough to get them interested and explore, and that's the most important - for the short time of the video you're very informative.

I love this. Please do more Call of Cthulhu videos! I want to be a keeper, and your vids are really insightful to how games could be played in a fun way.

I also love how Call of Cthulhu lets you also play an SCP Game as well. The in between for classic lovecraft and pulp action. You may die, but you are way more likely to be able to push the hand of doomsday with actual importance

Literally been waiting to play this. Thanks Davvy

I've wanted this for so long. Thank you for giving it to me.

I’ve actually always wanted to play this! Epic video! Thanks!

Loved the video, been trying to find a way to convince friends to try this system out. This video might just do it!

Yey, the series begins! I’m looking forward to the others, and it was a ton of fun hearing about CoC in the relaxed happy voice of davvy

My favorite game of all time! I just found your channel and I'm enjoying it immensely!

This was an awesome overview! I’m down for you getting more in depth with it as well!

Great video, nice format too. I would like to see you create an example of scene or situation that plays out in game when you do other ones. Keep up!

I'm going to run my first CoC7e game next weekend! So glad you did this video, gonna suggest my players watch it!

Great summary. Somehow your really captured the vibe of this game too. I use this video to introduce friends to the game when I am about to run a session.

I love all the art you've picked out for this.

I haven't played this game before, looked at it, or seen any podcasts of it, but I've definitely heard of it. I enjoy the format for sure, and I'd be willing to play a game of it! I appreciate you solidifying that sentiment in me!

Loved the video! I would love a video on some of the prominent occupations for inspiration

Can't wait for more of these sorts of formatted videos. I completely agree with your Stop Playing DnD video and I've been feverishly looking for new systems like Shadowrun, WoD, and others. I'm excited to potentially learn about more systems as you teach us about them.

This is a pretty cool format. I would enjoy hearing about other RPG game systems form you!

Loved this vid!!

I liked it very much. Hope the world of Darkness stuff comes up always found that intriguing

I think you have convinced me that I want to play this! Thank you!

That was a very good rundown of character creation. I will be using this when my group switches to CoC. Thank you.

This is excellent. Keep it up!

Sweet! Call of Cthulhu is a classic. Hope you keep this series going. D&D is great of course, but there's a whole world of RPG's to introduce people to. Great video!

YESSS THANK YOU IVE BEEN WANTING TO PLAY COC AND THIS MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND

Thanks for the great synopsis of this!

I like this new format!

Thanks! I'll soon be starting my first ever game of CoCth, this was a great intro to the world an mechanics 🙂

Thanks for the video. I was seriously considering picking up the rulebook for this.

This was fantastic! I'd love to see OVA covered in the future!

Love this game. Glad you covered it.

Loved this video! I would love it if you covered Through the Breach! It's great fun

Love this! We are currently experimenting with Pathfinder in my group and I've wanted to try CoC and Blades too.

This is the earliest I’ve seen a video on RU-vid. That’s fun

My favorite TTRPG. Thanks for the video.

Great vid! Really hope you’ll bring Vampire the Masquerade next!

Love the video big guy, COC never inspired me before but hearing you talk about it makes me think of a campaign where the players are an MTF from the SCP foundation

Really digging the non-D&D content. And this is a FANTASTIC rundown of CoC. I'd love to see some tips about running it in a future video? Just like how you like to build the sense of dread and horror in sessions.

Just wanted to say I really appreciated this, C of C is not my jam, but you really explained it in a fun and informative way, so that I at least have a base level of knowledge about it if ever I do need

I can't wait for Wraith the oblivion to be covered!! These are great

This was rlly great! I'd heard of call of cthulhu before but I didn't know anything about it other than ~~~tEnTaCleS~~~ Also I love how you're branching out into more rpgs than just dnd cus it's rlly interesting to see how other systems work

I'm glad this is ur fav it is mine, across several editions

I am so excited to start playing this game. I love how you are improving in your skills, but at the same time you are slowly losing your mind.

I love the HP system in Call of Cthulhu, I’m so glad you’re covering it :)))

I’m a big fan of this! I fully intend to run other games but the plethora of 5e RU-vid content makes it so much easier to learn and keep track of. P.S. Please do Mutants and masterminds or 40k next

I'm really happy you're making content on other table tops

I'm not really sure exactly what I just watched but I thoroughly enjoyed it because of your upbeat, articulate, cute and sincere personality. 2 thumbs way up.

Thank you Chappy, you make me feel (pun intended) sane for liking and playing this system

Excellent guide. Eagre to see how the expanded list of talking topics pans out.

Love your video :) thank you I'm trying to get my group in coc so i shared this. Also i very much forgot about the cats name until you brought it up :P

nice work explaining the game and the sistem

I would love to play this game and this video was very informative thank you

Hell Yeah! CoC is awesome! Glad you're talking about this one!

Really looking forward to your Pathfinder vid if/when you make it.

I find one-shoot of CoC really fun to do. Also, good you mention the pulp ruleset. I really like the pulp rule.

Awesome. Great into to the game.