Play@YSDC

I've created the forum here and made you the Keeper. You can also recruit additional players if you like.

Thanks. If this game is a success, and after I've played MoM, I'll try another game with more players.

Do you have Foresaken Lore?

Which character do you want to play?

You're welcome. I do have Forsaken Lore. It adds a lot to the game, and it seems to make it more challenging too. I won easily when I played my first game with just the base game, but I was very lucky that time. I haven't yet won with Forsaken Lore added in, though I came extremely close once.

I'd like to play a random character, please.

I remember that you played Leo in your first game and the Active Expedition was in the Amazon?--now that was lucky!

Here is your character:




And I chose Jim Culver:


Who is to be the Lead Investigator?

Yes, and that was more lucky than I even needed, as I never even used the Gate Box I acquired on that expedition. The real stroke of luck was even earlier on the first turn of the game. Cthylla had risen as the first mystery, and my first Action was to go shopping for Assets. I got two successes on my Influence roll and took out a Bank Loan to get two more so I could buy the Agency Quarantine and defeat Cthylla right away. And that was only half of my first turn; the other half was the expedition. On turn two, I returned to Buenos Aires, and on the third turn I went out to the South Pacific to get a Clue token that I used to solve the second mystery. Then R'lyeh rose right underneath me as the third mystery, and I only needed two turns of exploration to solve it. Poor Cthulhu never stood a chance.

I played Lily Chen in my first game with Forsaken Lore, and that was also against Cthulhu. I started out okay, getting a Clue token out at sea and clobbering a Deep One that attacked me during the Research encounter, but I soon lost my Lucky Rabbit's Foot, and it was all downhill from there. I only managed to solve one mystery before Cthulhu awakened, I think, and I didn't have enough time to stop him from winning.

I have no preference on who should be the Lead Investigator. You can be it if you like, or we can roll randomly.

Lead Investigator? 1-3 Lily, 4-6 Jim (1d6=5)

Who will be the Ancient One? I'd prefer Nyarly, Cthulhu or Yig.

The Haunted Few, Investigators in MoM: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_ ... ?eidn=5145

I'm okay with any Ancient One. I always choose a random one when I play. Either we can select randomly, or you can choose which one you prefer. I've never played against Nyarlathotep before, so that would be new and interesting, but I also had fun playing against Cthulhu and Yig. I've beaten Cthulhu before, and I came agonizingly close to beating Yig when playing as Trish Scarborough. The other two would be fine be me as well.

I've never played against Nyarlathotep before, so that would be new and interesting

Too right! I got confused,--must be the dark portrait of these two Ancient Ones--I meant Shub-Niggurath. So, S-N it is.

I haven't played against Shubby yet either. Should be fun.

Re. Turn 1 Action Phase. I Googled Grand Master Hu and Li Xiao thinking that you had specific persons in mind, but couldn't find a kung-fu master or a warlock!

No, I just made up those NPCs.

I'm going to need an Other World Encounter drawn for the Gate so I can encounter it.

Awww nuts! You cannot have an encounter with a monster on your space. Together we've rolled 15d6 without a single 5 or 6, harrumph! I'll post the Mythos Phase later today. Turn 1 has been a waste for us, Jim did gain a Spell though--and a Condition. One thing, if we choose to we can discard 1 item from the reserve because of our failed Aquire Assets Action?

My Kung Fu is weak. I did get one 5, thanks to the bonus point from my amulet on the Will check. If I hadn't, I'd be in much worse shape.

I think we might want to discard the Holy Cross. It's expensive, and I don't think I need it, as my Protective Amulet is still pretty good, but if you want it in the mix we can leave it there. If you discard that one from your Acquire Assets action, we should see what the replacement card is before I decide whether or not to discard the new one for mine. I'd like to keep the Revolver, the Fishing Net, and the Agency Quarantine in the mix. We need stuff to help us in combat. The Quarantine is very costly, but we may need it later. That's probably the only way to beat an Epic Monster without actually engaging it in combat.

I want to Acquire Assets again, so I want to know if a new card is in the Reserve before I do. I'll also acquire a Train Ticket and then have another go at the Warlock and the Gate. I can go to Istanbul on Turn 3. It turns out I couldn't have gotten the Clue on 12 this turn anyway, as I'd mistakenly thought it was where space 11 is. It's not easily reachable for me, but you could get it on Turn 3 if you spend your first Action getting a Ship Ticket before heading to space 8. You should definitely try to take care of that Rumor this turn. I should probably be the Lead Investigator in case you fail to find the island. Otherwise, you could pick up a second Madness and two of the Eldritch tokens will be lost.

Yep, I'll get a Ship Ticket in Arkham before moving to Space 8 and the Rumor. I agree regards Assets, Jim discards the Holy Cross in Turn 1, so let's see what we get (image to follow later), Lily may also discard the replacement in Turn 1. . . . And Lily is the Lead Investigator Turn 2.

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Hmmm, interesting. And, I just noticed, Acquire Assets: "City spaces without Monsters only"--luckily Lily didn't gain an Asset Turn 1. So shall Jim Acquire Assets instead of a Ship Ticket?

I really need to remember the rules better. There was no other Action I could have taken to substitute for Acquire Assets last turn. I can't even Rest this turn, but I could use my innate ability to trade Sanity for Health. I think I'll do that, as well as pick up a Train Ticket.

Jim should only Acquire Assets if he's going for the Intelligence Report and he's willing to take a Bank Loan to get it. Clues are so rare in this game, and that'll really help!

There is something about "My Kung Fu is weak" that simply tickles me.

Nicely done! I've never seen the board completely menace-free before. Of course, I'm sure that will change as soon as you draw the Mythos card.

Was it a game convention, Mr. Handy?

Yes, it was. Metatopia was centered around game designers, and we got to playtest all sorts of up and coming games. My favorite was Timewatch: Mythos, and I was lucky to get into that one. I'd played regular Timewatch before last year (run by the same person), and it was great seeing it applied to the Mythos. I have another convention (Philcon) from November 21-23, but that one hasn't been as good as the others lately.

Cultist is killed. Hallucinations Condition gained. The Gate is still open.

Lily thumped Father Guiseppe good, so that's something .

Timewatch: Mythos sounds cool, like Doctor Who meets Cthulhu.

One less cultist is definitely a good thing! Just wish I'd had some of those extra successes for my other rolls.

TImewatch: Mythos is a bit different, and it uses a GUMSHOE variant. The investigators don't travel physically in time, but mentally, the same way the Great Race does it. We were all members of a secret society called the Order of the Silver Key in the early 1930s. We'd experience a "call" when the timeline was changing, and we'd rush to the lodge to get into these specially prepared coffin-like enclosures so we could mindswap safely before the change hit. In this adventure, we went back to Weymouth in 1348, where I quickly pegged to the fact that the Black Death was coming. My host was infected, and my character (Dr. Kate Attridge) was planning to synthesize penicillin, but events soon made that a moot point. A brother and sister who were actually plague-spreading Mythos entities were luring beggars (including two of the party's hosts) and others to a church where they planned to spread a plague far worse and more contagious than the Black Death, into which they transformed my host's disease. We sealed the building from the inside, spilled barrels of rum (which had been offered to the beggars), and set the place on fire as we fought. One of us went back a little further in time by mindswapping again to get a barrel of gunpowder from the ship that had just arrived, disguise it as a barrel of rum, and place it in the building in advance. I then stood on top of it carrying a lantern and had the party member in the ship captain's body shoot the barrel with a flaming crossbow bolt while I jumped back to my own body - I was the only one who didn't have to experience my host's death.

I never did have time to talk to the Keeper about my own Doctor Who/Call of Cthulhu campaign on this site.

Interesting and different. Personally, I'm losing interest with the run of the mill CoC investigation. I enjoy trying to role play as characters in real life, like from a book; and thematic board games, of course.

Yes, the story should be paramount. One of the things I like about Call of Cthulhu is that characters are realistic people in over their heads.

I'm a sucker for unusual settings (and for time travel). My Doctor Who/Call of Cthulhu campaign started out with a fairly traditional setting (1930 London), but I'm able to diversify easily. The second one was set on Pluto in the year 2112, which I don't think has been done before. The current adventure is set in 1985, which is the modern era, but it was nearly thirty years ago. The next one is set in Rome in 44 BC, and the settings will get more nonstandard from there (though I am planning a Gaslight adventure at some point).

Just picked Eldritch Horror up and played two solo games yesterday. Won one and lost one. But both were nail biters.

With the images your using for this game are you just scanning them or are they somewhere in the internet?

Plus if you run this again I would like to join!

Hi, I'm scanning the images, but if you know where else they can be found I'd appreciate a link.

I'll probably run Mountains of Madness in the new year, so I'll send you a PM if and when it happens.

Monsters of Primal Myth: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_ ... ?eidn=5213

Jake Murray's blog: http://www.murr-art.com/blog/2014/09/th ... dness.html

That looks awesome! I wasn't expecting the Rise of the Elder Things to be an Ancient One, since it isn't a single powerful enemy. I'd thought it might have been handled similarly to the Deep Ones Rising track in Innsmouth Horror.

Except for the fact that her hair isn't red, the woman blazing away at the Elder Thing could be Katie Wright, the aviatrix I play in Beyond the Mountains of Madness.

It does look awesome! MoM should be in the shops soon.

Did you play any games at the convention?

Yes, that was mostly what I did there. Primarily board games, but I was able to play in one RPG: Ravaged Earth, a pulp action system based on Savage Worlds and set in 1936 in an alternate history where the Martians invaded Earth in the 1890s as described in H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (and then again in 1936, as described in the notorious Orson Welles radio play).