Speaking as a northerner who just weathered a polar vortex, a proper heavy blizzard can knock out just about anything. Cell towers, transformers, large trees, any physical object that can be covered in enough ice to weigh it down for wind to wipe out is fair game. In 2013, we had an extreme ice storm that knocked utilities out for for over a week. Fun fact: if it gets too cold, too quickly; trees will literally explode as the water inside them expands.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
good to know, thanks
@mitchc6059
5 жыл бұрын
My most memorable game took place in modern Oklahoma.My character was a successful(retired) football player and was hosting a gathering of friends(the party)for new years eve.We saw strange lights and noises coming frim a large old cemetery down the hill.We went to invesigate but th e cops got there shortly after and assumed we were the ones tearing the place up.We were all promptly arrested and cuffed.As we were leaving the cops noticed several shadowy figures and went ti check it out.They were immediately eaten by a dozen or so zombies.Two of the characters failed insanity checks badly so it was just me and a college professor left.The undead smashed the windows and the professor couldnt get out of the cuffs and was dragged out of the car and eaten.Imade another insanity check and broke the cuffs and escaped the car fleeing blindly into the cemetery.Ifled down into a mausoleum and ran smack into a cultist ritual where i was (finally) captured after killing 3 cultists and sacrificed.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
wow, did you all ever have a chance?
@mitchc6059
5 жыл бұрын
I think the GM wasnt expecting half the party to fail the first check so completely
@Loehengrin
5 жыл бұрын
Kudos to your keeper for playing the dice where they fell!
@nicholashurst780
5 жыл бұрын
If the wind and snow cuts the electrical wires providing power to the cell tower then there just is no cell single. But one would expect the internet/electricity in general to also at least be interrupted
@oneworldonecrew7433
5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking, ' beat that joke like it just killed your dog!' and you did. Thank you.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
squeezed every last inch out of it.
@hel117
5 жыл бұрын
Wind and snow can easily knock down, tear or otherwise screw up things like phone lines and internet, sometimes even in blizzard conditions.
@peterrants9634
5 жыл бұрын
That conversation between you and that cop killed me!! Your trying to explain things to him, and he's just sitting there sleeping lolz!! I've never played CoC, but it's always sounded hard to me, I did have the board game Arkham Horror though which is a CoC based game. Good vid man, sounds like you had your hands full. Before I go though, two things. One that scene where the cultist came in, and muscles is moving slowly across the screen, and Dr. Newbie is just bouncing back and forth from one end of the screen to the next and both ya'll look panicked cracked me up lolz!! Second muscles wanted to get to San Fran cuz that's where the Charmed Ones are man!!
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
I think you're right! why didn't I think of that?
@peterrants9634
5 жыл бұрын
@@EternallNewbie That's the only real reason I would ever want to go there lolz.
@ChannelName66
5 жыл бұрын
Snow interferes with everything
@aquawoelfly
5 жыл бұрын
Phones in ILL/WIS do not (usually) go out durring a storm unless the power goes out then the cordless phones are out but the landline is still good. Or poles for the phones go down but since most of our lines arr underground this doesnt happen often. Cell towers are a different story, but typically do not go down plus wifi signals are abundant so even if the cell tower is down you have wifi,and if the wifi goes down we have cell service.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
makes sense the story took place in the early 2000s so there probably wasn't any wifi
@Cronock92
5 жыл бұрын
Blizzards only affect our landlines and that's if a telephone pole goes down from weight of snow or someone going off the road and hitting it.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
good to know, thanks.
@babulbi
5 жыл бұрын
Oh. THAT CoC.
@Ralndrath
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah 50% is pretty low for a doctor in Call of Cthulhu, but you can get bonuses for 'simple' tests of up to thirty or whatnot. (Might be Dark Heresy, they are both percentile) But I think it does.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
I didn't know about that.
@Nyghtking
5 жыл бұрын
I played a warhammer 40k game that had the same dice system, I actually did pretty well in it since I guess my natural affinity is to roll low on any dice, my character at the end is the only one left when the inquisition arrived, my legs had ended up mutated but the mutation wasn't so bad it warranted my death so they lopped my legs off and gave me a new pair of robot legs, and I guess I was inducted as a trainee into the inquisition what with all the warpy stuff and me being the only one left from my team to give them a debriefing.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
that sounds fun. everyone else died?
@Nyghtking
5 жыл бұрын
@@EternallNewbie No idea actually, I missed the session beforehand so I was basically dropped into a game where our psychic was being a cultist, our melee specialist was nowhere to be found, and it was me and the mechanicus guy who had been turned into a robot left, he was killed after the mission by the inquisition for being an AI, I don't remember what happened to the psychic but if the warp didn't take him then he was probably killed by the inquisition on the grounds of heresy.
@dusty74
5 жыл бұрын
I love these stories
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, always love to hear this.
@OomaGooma
5 жыл бұрын
I really want to play Call of Cthulhu. I bought the rule books but haven’t figured out the rules yet.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
It seems pretty easy to pick up the basics. but with only one game under my belt can't really say for sure.
@talkan999
5 жыл бұрын
I'm just dying a little inside that you abbreviated Call of Cthulhu as just "Call" rather than "Cthulhu", which would be more easily recognizable.
@talkan999
5 жыл бұрын
That being said, I've played some CoC, and this sounds like the GM is very inexperienced with this system as well. The typical published starter's sessions are much less high stakes, random, and are in general competently done. It also sounds like you had a grenade character handed to you. Is this correct? While it's also important to note that not all Doctors are Medical Doctors, most people I've played with who build MDs in this system have at least a 70 in Medicine.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
he may have been new, I'm not sure. I was for sure a medical doctor.
@KertaDrake
5 жыл бұрын
Santa Cultist has come to bring you the gift of things man was not meant to know!
@aviowl
5 жыл бұрын
Bad ones and sometimes the door is completely covered in snow and these huge drifts cover the road
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
good to know, thanks.
@aviowl
5 жыл бұрын
I’m going to play my first game of dnd soon I will one day surpass you I hope they remember you
@aviowl
5 жыл бұрын
Eternall Newbie cheers
@aviowl
5 жыл бұрын
Eternall Newbie the worst part is my cold toes they are so very cold and I’m know to be leaner than lean so I’m always cold and I think cold is colder than normal like 80F is getting there just today my dad told me to go outside and close the door in the shed and to take the gator it got stuck in the snow and I walked there like 40 ft at least then I Walked home no less than 50 ft I hate snow it’s really sNOw problem but it would be ice to live in Louisiana living here gives me plenty of time for ice puns also I found out riot sheild are very useful for getting out of snow because of surface area anyway thank you for reading if you still are and goodbye
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
Good Luck!
@chrisbowden8060
5 жыл бұрын
I don't feel like your GM/Keeper did a very good job of explaining how the game works. You shouldn't have been that confused.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
I have no reference for this so II'm not sure.
@GaiaDblade
5 жыл бұрын
If you don't want the cultists to get the dagger, then don't move TOWARDS the ritual location...
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
I still don't know what he had planned.
@noahwolff5455
5 жыл бұрын
In canada. Blizzards can shut like everything down man. Phones wont work power goes off water pipes freeze. Its usually not that bad tho
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing in the early 2000s when the story took place it probably was better at messing with people's reception.
@noahwolff5455
5 жыл бұрын
@@EternallNewbie probably. Blizzards and really just snow in general can do some weird stuff
@amrooo1997
5 жыл бұрын
Just a Great video good job keep it up
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
thanks, always appreciate hearing this.
@adamwelch4336
5 жыл бұрын
I always warn people if you play call of cuthulu your probably not going to win your going to die or go insane! There's no way to actually win
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
can't you win for a little while?
@chrisbowden8060
5 жыл бұрын
@@EternallNewbie Yes. You can. It's a common misconception that every CoC game ends with the players dead or insane by the end of the scenario/module. I think the idea comes from many people playing the game for one session, doing poorly because they are new and then never playing again. Assuming their experience is how the game always works. While it is true that in the grand scheme of things, you can never totally "win" at CoC, you can absolutely triumph over evil in a session. The eldritch apocalypse is always on the horizon but you can get small victories with bravery and luck. You should check out Seth Skorkowsky's youtube channel. He reviews CoC modules and has an excellent primer on the game.
@brettonalwood4173
5 жыл бұрын
Yes blizzards absolutely interfere with cell service.
@adamwelch4336
5 жыл бұрын
I find thunderstorms are better but yeah Blizzard's interrupt cell service
@narumi4960
5 жыл бұрын
If the snow storm is bad enough then yeah just like a rain storm it'll mess with phone connection and power
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
good to know, thanks.
@narumi4960
5 жыл бұрын
@@EternallNewbie No problem, my friend and I really enjoy your videos keep up the good work.
@christhiancosta1844
5 жыл бұрын
The eternall dad XD
@thomashernandez6536
5 жыл бұрын
I'm from Minnesota, ya know the state that had the -40 polar vortex. I think it actually got colder than that, but my cell phone worked fine. I think a blizzard would maybe slow our service down though
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
good to know, thanks.
@blazingfire90034
5 жыл бұрын
Woot wake up episode!!
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
hope you enjoyed it.
@blazingfire90034
5 жыл бұрын
@@EternallNewbie definitely
@NU121493255
5 жыл бұрын
Where did the package containing the dagger come from? Because if it came from San Francisco that may explain why he wanted to go there.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
His uncle in Minnesota I think it was.
@pinkbiohazardmercurialcoll7133
5 жыл бұрын
You know in Call you're supposed to be the ones who stop the ritual right?
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
Actually I've only played that one game so I wasn't sure the way it was supposed to go.
@pinkbiohazardmercurialcoll7133
5 жыл бұрын
@@EternallNewbie
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
I thought the battles felt odd. I had the impression from reading about CoC that battles were few and far between
@FrozenHawkHunter
5 жыл бұрын
So if the land line was out and you had poor cell reception how did muscles use the internet? I know you're a Doctor and not an IT guy but?
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, I totally didnt' think of that at all. that is a good question.
@tripple-a6031
5 жыл бұрын
Doctor with 50 on medicine? Someone clearly miss-skilled his character. Either your GM didn't explain anything or you haven't paid attention, because the system is really simple. Which pen and paper player hasn't played any Cthulhu? It's one of the most known systems and usually isn't one of these that gets replaced by your own/main system. The only reason I don't play it that often is that I have some problems with writing cthulhu adventures.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
It was a pregen, just a bad doctor I guess. and yeah the system is pretty simple and fun.
@helbent4
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear your intro to CoC was kind of an incoherent mess! If I may offer my opinion on why the other player wanted to go to SF, it was he was fooled by a couple red herrings and seeing a pattern that wasn't there. Namely, the fact that there was something important happening in SF (eclipse) and there was an ancient ritual dagger tossed randomly into your lap. Ergo, the CoC thing to do was improvise and get to SF with the dagger. You can figure out why later when the GM gives you a more solid hint of what to do then. CoC adventures tend to be kind of convoluted with tons of clues. For example, in the classic CoC adventure "Masks of Nyarlothotep" an early clue is an empty matchbox from a bar in Shanghai, a pretty solid lead for CoC. An experienced player might see this and conclude "aha! At some point we must go to Shangahi to continue our investigations there!" This is why mention of SF seemed significant. And the dagger was too important-seeming to simply destroy or hide, it must have seemed like it was necessary to get the dagger to SF. For a different example in another CoC game at a convention we struggled to find a mystical portal and managed to do so at the end of the adventure. For some reason we felt we needed to go through it to complete the adventure. All but one PC did. Everyone who went through never returned. It turned out the answer was we needed to destroy the gate. There was no temple on the other side with a big bad we needed to defeat, the gate was WAS the big bad. Sometimes the obvious thing is too simple. Anyways, having a lot of fun, please keep up the good work!
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
thanks, I didn't think of that. and glad you like the channel.
@helbent4
5 жыл бұрын
@@EternallNewbie My pleasure! And cold weather can effect cell service, particularly if there's a storm. This is less of a problem now cell signals are digital and not analogue. As you probably know, cell phones are basically little radios that transmit and receive FM signals. They are not powerful nor do they have a large antenna, and FM is best in line-of-sight. They make up for this by having lots of boosters (cell towers) nearby serving that cell. Weather like a snowstorm (which has moisture in it) can disrupt radio signals, leading to dropped or low-quality calls. If you are in a remote area like a small New England town without good cell service the loss of the nearest tower could possibly weaken your signal (bars) and your phone could struggle to connect to a tower that's further away, partially blocked, etc. especially if you are in a structure like a concrete building (not so much a house). So I can see there being a problem with getting a connection, low call quality and dropped calls. One problem, or at least notable feature, of CoC is how police are often not very effective. Or maybe too effective, with them deciding to take your characters in for extended questioning to figure out what really went on. ("Drug deal went wrong" seems more plausible to police than "attack by cultist".) One way to solve this is to have an investigator PC a police officer or federal agent (off-duty, on leave, etc.) Police seem to believe one of their own in these circumstances!
@thunderthunderstorms8828
5 жыл бұрын
Did you sell your soul again. Oh you failed to save the world yeah this must be a field day to you but this time you have an excuse being new just like my 9hp fighter
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
Nope, but maybe I should have.
@wraithreaper22
5 жыл бұрын
Aaaaand the world ended.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
that's a great secondary title. THanks.
@manueltoney7702
5 жыл бұрын
Why do you have to make low rolls to succeed? why can't we have high rolls that mean you succeed?
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
just the system I guess
@talldorf6445
5 жыл бұрын
Because percentage based games work differently than d20, Almost every game That does that as there system uses that. (Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer, Unknown armies.) I personally don’t see what’s wrong with that system, as long as it is explained right out what you need to do by the GM ahead of time.
@krowodom5719
5 жыл бұрын
No you can still make phone call no problem. Blizzards aren't magic.
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
good to know, that's what I thought, but I don't have any experience with it.
@Rob_Thorsman
5 жыл бұрын
Did you have to roll any sanity checks?
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
I think we did 1 or 2 but passes them, I don't remember any negative things happening.
@tmage23
5 жыл бұрын
@@EternallNewbie That's unfortunate. It's not really a Call of Cthulhu game unless one character fails a sanity check and becomes a gibbering violent lunatic
@TheJohno95
5 жыл бұрын
Call of Cthulhu sucks! I love Lovecraft, but the game is pure rubbish. I have been a DM for decades, and I always tell budding DM's that it's not the system, it's your own story. If you love D&D, you can run a Lovecraft game with the D&D rules. I personally prefer the World Of Darkness system, so that's what I usually use. But Call of Cthulhu just makes no sense. It take forever and a day to make a character and then they die in seconds. If the DM doesn't constantly fudge rolls and give you 99% normal stuff to fight, you aren't going to make it through a single session.If you really MUST play that system, though, here is my advice. You level up your skills at the end of a game (if you somehow survive), so don't worry about doing the typical "put a little in everything" jazz. Unless your gamemaster insists you can't have skills of a certain level, go 99% in the things you want your character to be good at. If your GM wants the game to go a while, the other stats will level as they go up, since you have to roll against every skill you've used and if you fail, that skill goes up a few points. This is not the game to be a jack of all trades in. Specialize, specialize, specialize!
@EternallNewbie
5 жыл бұрын
I kept having the feeling during the game that we had no business fighting giant spiders.
@TheJohno95
5 жыл бұрын
God no! Unless the GM truly didn't want to have an ongoing campaign, you don't throw Mythos creatures at the players early on. They'll kill your sanity faster than they'll kill you physically. I lost a whole party in a campaign once just because they saw Nyarlothotep. That game you just have to be too careful in. And I am more of the Robert E. Howard school.....Rather than fainting and going mad, you grab the closest weapon and take it out. Call of Cthulhu just doesn't work for me. I put elements of it in my other games, but I shy away from the system itself. The books are pretty and the stories nice, but the rules are horrible.
@talldorf6445
5 жыл бұрын
TheJohno95 Saying run Lovecraft in d20 is literally the worst advice to give to someone. The reason being you're trying to put a game type ( investigation, cosmic horror, where if you get into a fight with something that's not human or at least human like, you messed up big.) into a system designed to be a combat simulator. This was the reason why CoC d20 was terrible, and also why Monte Cook's World of Darkness was rubbish. I know the idea your getting at is "work with the system that you know, and stories mater more than rules." but I always add this old adage in gaming circles of "don't run Metal Gear in Pathfinder." because 9.9 times out of 10, if you use the system and then shove a different setting or theme or style of play into it, it's not going to work. And there is a game that works WAY better for it. If you want horror games, play World of Darkness, or my favorite Dread.
@TheJohno95
5 жыл бұрын
Personally, I used World of Darkness for EVERYTHING! But that is because I prefer roleplaying, not role-dice-playing. BUT, that is just what I prefer. In fact, I've tweaked that system into what a lot of people have called a much better fighting simulator than D&D. But, once again, that is what I prefer. I like the fact that you're only using one kind of die ( 10-sided), and the focus is more on abilities and stats than on hitting things. And the system for injury keeps all but the biggest murder hobos from constantly fighting. If you're going to suffer penalties from getting hurt, that keeps most people in check.If there is someone out there that actually LIKES the Call of Cthulhu system, that is great. I just don't care for it because it's hard to keep up with how to role up your character stats unless you have a book right in front of you the whole time. I don't like the stat advancement, since it turns into the characters trying to do everything in the universe possible so they can spend an hour rolling for advancement at the end of the game. IF they survive and don't just have to role up a new one. And the sanity can be debilitating quickly. As a game master that favors ongoing stories, the only thing harder than not killing my characters by accident was trying to keep them sane. Just seeing run of the mill stuff like blood can send you off the deep end when you start with a low sanity. And, ohhhh, is that easy to do. I know it fits the Lovecraft model. And I love his stories. But his protagonists just faint at every little revelation and sight. Personally, I always kind of preferred the Robert E. Howard Mythos characters that would freak out, grab a stick, and beat the hell out of whatever they encountered. But, once again, a matter of taste.As far as D&D, yes, it is hard to run a horror campaign in it when everything about the game is designed for combat. But, if you've ever played, say old school Ravenloft, it can be done. Yes, players are going to act out probably and want to fight everything. But, if they're that kind of player, they're going to do it in Call of Cthulhu, too and end up rolling up five characters a night. That is a problem with players more than the game. And, that's part of maturing. I think we all loved beating the hell out of orcs when we started. It's just a matter of moving past dungeon crawls and into more sophisticated things as we play. But, for a mature group that the DM can work with, you could easily add a sanity gauge. 5th Edition has instituted mental damage, which has worked good in the last group I played with. We took it very seriously, since that could mess you up worse than the physical damage. Basically, what I was trying to say was that a system isn't going to be what makes or breaks your game. If you're comfortable with a system and your players will work with your concept, you can do any game with any system. Some work better than others, but a good DM can MAKE THEIR SYSTEM WORK as Tim Gunn would say. I've seen a lot of storytellers that always blame the system for their games and switch all the time. When I reality, they keep trying to run dungeon crawls on people in groups that just expect more. If you're used to in-depth stories with continuing characters, you just don't care about how cool the latest map this guy randomly generated for a dungeon is. It's your group. If you have a group that likes beating monsters up, go for it! I like that occasionally! But it's not the system, it's the group. And, frankly, I just don't know a lot of people that actually like the system for Call of Cthulhu. I like the sourcebooks and reading lists, but that's about it. But, that is me. I know people that love Rifts, for instance. But I would rather play first edition basic D&D than spend three hours rolling up a character for rifts that will die in five minutes.Summing up, I'll stand by what I said originally about making any game work for your system. If you feel comfortable, your players will feel more at ease. Just try and find what works for you. If you and your players can easily jump from system to system based on the story, then go for it! But if you love the D&D system, then use it and see if you can make the games you want to do work for you. It's all trial and error. And I know I've done some pretty solid horror games using good old 2nd Edition AD&D. It can be done.
@talldorf6445
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheJohno95 I know stories (mine included) where people have a great time running something not intended for a system. But I also seen and heard Horror stories where Homebrewing and running a game didn't work so well. Ravenloft is one of my favorite settings in D&D and Curse of Strahd was the most fun I've had in Adventures League ( to a point.)But even then the thing can often break down after a point. I guess what bothered me the most is blaming the system for a style of play that you're used to. Call of Cthulhu and the works of HP Lovecraft is about investigation and cosmic horror. If Game Master comes in and tells the players what to expect, they can temper the expectations. Because from what I gathered he didn't tell you or the party that if an Elder God has already arrived to earth, then you done goofed. And generally speaking, picking while picking a fight with one monster (depending on which one) is okay, fighting a whole slew of them is generally going to get you killed. If you like the Idea of standing up against the Horrors, stick with D&D. I like Call of Cthulhu for horror, it's not the best for everything, and I know that, but I've said to friends if I wanted to run a games in the vain of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or the Metro series: I'd use CoC ( specifically it's modern setting Delta Green) in a heart beat. Because not only is it very lethal ( to match the games own lethality) it's also has elements of the Super Natural.
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