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Then you are directed to a single volume book that is aesthetically pleasing, fun to read, and a useful at the table resource without a massive price tag. It doesn't take lots of prep time, and it's easy to run, play, and it's a FUN adventure.

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That, some pre-gens and the basics of the system in one small booklet/PDF has been available as the free Quickstart for years. Thousands and thousands of CoC gamers have been made with the classic and excellent 'The Haunting' which has been in every edition. I think the current Chaosium, like with the new version of RQ, is making CoC more complicated and harder to engage with than it needs to be by having multiple books, stressing pretty books over functionality and then feeling the need to produce a starter set such as this- like it was D&D or PF. I’m glad I did even if I didn’t get the result I was hoping for. See how it actually plays without sinking a large investment into finding out. I recommend the starter set for trying out Call of Cthulhu.

Nothing in the box besides the dice is something you can’t just print or run from a screen.

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The pregenerated investigator sheets are corrected in PDF form. If you don’t need the dice, I don’t think the starter set is worth getting in print. Not the outcome I wanted and I wish the game had worked better for me. I am holding off on buying the main rulebooks for now. Right now though, it is simply too much work for me. I think CoC would be a fine game to run if I had a few more hours a week to prep and wasn’t already tired from work and life when I show up to GM. Rules were hard to find and parse, adventures ran short, and the overall vibe varied wildly. Overall, I was surprised to find running Call of Cthulhu to be exhausting. I also didn’t know that a revised Dead Lights and Other Dark Tales was available which might have helped. The monster seemed weak and it appeared that few shotgun blasts would end it without the need for a ritual. The rules on running the ritual were buried in text so I missed the rule and had to wing it. The PCs already knew the monster was in the attic so the whole description of what happened if they went up there was wasted information. I did end up running Edge of Darkness because Dead Light was so short. It didn’t have any of the Call of Cthulhu tropes I wanted: secrets, mystery, slowly building threat, and a horrifying monster reveal. I was so stymied by this adventure that I simply couldn’t run it. There are no secrets for the investigators to investigate. The PCs must travel to an abandoned ruin of rooms and corridors, find magic that beats the monster, and use the magic while fighting off zombies and the monster to defeat it. A dying sage asks the PCs to stop a monster he and some fellow sages summoned years ago but never banished. I did not like Edge of Darkness which is an on the rails dungeon crawl. Some clues were staggered with better results yielding more uncovered secrets. The binary pass/fail nature of each clue was sometimes offset by the chance to push rolls.

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I did like all the investigating the PC does. But the adventure is benign and a bit silly instead. Make the PC make a hard choice concerning the ghoul, to kill it or trust it to banish itself, and make the choice cost sanity. Now if the ghoul uncle had eaten someone? And the PC knew? That would be horrific.

The PC meets a book reading uncle turning into a ghoul so he can have more time to read (the art shows the ghoul in clothes while in the adventure it is naked). An approach like that would have hooked me.Īfter surviving the solo adventure, I found Paper Chase to be cheerful and light hearted. In the boarding house basement I find evidence not only of previous doomed travelers but also the bicycle which I later use to escape. The secret the girl at the boarding house provides a bonus die to break my chains later. If the village contained secrets my PC needed to find to survive I’d be spurred on to investigate. I also saw a glimmer of what Call of Cthulhu could be. It looks to be more robust and maybe will give me a better play experience. I saw enough promise in Alone Against the Flames to buy the PDF Alone Against the Frost.

It wasn’t satisfying to me as a player looking for investigation and using uncovered secrets to survive. The way to survive involves making a successful strength roll and finding a random bike, fighting some villagers or a bear, or sneaking away. However, all the rituals you uncover as secrets kill you. I really felt like it was the 1920s and I was in the middle of nowhere. If you plan to run the starter set you can play the solo adventure (free Alone Against the Flames PDF) before reading my review of that adventure.Īlone Against the Flames started off strong. I decided to playtest the rules exactly as recommended.

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