My first two Call of Cthulhu games ran back to back. First, The Haunting, and then a homebrew. One of the players learned the spell Summon/Bind Dimensional Shambler from Corbitt's diary. Then, in the next scenario we ran, they were up against a spawn of Abhoth that had been fed for years and had grown incredibly powerful. Right before the final encounter, our professor character decided that the best thing to do was summon the Shambler and instruct it to simply "get rid of" the spawn of Abhoth. He performed the ritual to summon the Shambler successfully, and then he had to bind it. He failed his first roll, the Shambler took a step forward, claws outstretched. He failed his second roll, the Shambler opened its maw. He finally succeeded on his final roll, and gave the Shambler its orders. The creature quietly faded into the shadows, and that was that. Shortly after, the party made it into the spawn of Abhoth's lair to interrupt a ritual sacrifice. Right as the spawn noticed the party and began charging, the Shambler appeared and began grappling with the beast. It bought the party just enough time to save the victim and flee as the catacombs began collapsing around them. I absolutely love how it all played out in the end. The Shambler was intimidating and terrifying, but was successfully used to aid the players. High risk, high reward. Really great stuff. Thank you, Sandy! You're the best, man.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
3 жыл бұрын
Scariest of all, Shamblers only take half damage from explosive weapons!
@aevvah_flxwer8550
3 жыл бұрын
*Oh...no...*
@Eldorado1239
2 жыл бұрын
You have to embrace the madness and face them upclose.
@mollywantshugs5944
2 жыл бұрын
*BFG charging intensifies*
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
2 жыл бұрын
@@Eldorado1239 Doable. If you can draw him to a good corner or pillar, you can bait him to claw at you and then fire at him with your Super Shotgun as you dodge, then get back into melee range so he tries to claw you again, repeat. It needs good timing to do though, if you're not fast enough he'll strike at you with his thunder instead, and without something to hide behind he'll zap you for sure. This strategy really only works on a lone Shambler, if there's more than one, or just other monsters in general supporting him, the method is a non-starter. I really love the monster behaviors in Doom and Quake, the Revenant, Pain-Elemental, Arch-Vile, Vore, Spawn, and Shambler, they all add a lot of complexity to combat to make it more challenging and stimulating, and their support can make even the weaker and less sophisticated far more threatening.
@jesternario
3 жыл бұрын
Sandy Peterson was making the plot to Stranger Things before it was cool.
@BenFrayle
3 жыл бұрын
The shambler that chases you around the museum galleries in the recent computer game is very scary.
@BoneItis639
11 ай бұрын
You grab one of the daggers from the display cases; the one left of the main doors. You use it to stab the painting; it sends the shambler back through the painting.
@Skullkan6
3 жыл бұрын
I had a hilarious realization which is that Mr.Meseeks from Rick and Morty are effectively benign Dimensional Shamblers in terms of summoning them and how they act albeit Meseeks are physical in form, but similar in terms of how sorcerers use them.
@SAINTOTHEKID
3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite CoC monsters! When I watch Stranger Things for the first time, the Demogorgon monster makes me remember a Dimensional Shambler, too. Also the Argentinian film "Aterrados" has this very lovecraftian shambler-like creatures (but more like poltergeist or the Hounds of Tindalos). BTW, I love the idea of Shamblers consuming astral trails! Nice twist of the man-eating monster cliche.
@SandyofCthulhu
3 жыл бұрын
I really liked Aterrados which is usually called Terrifier in English and I recommend it without reservation.
@H-HWJvN
3 жыл бұрын
I would like Sandy to write it all down eventually. It would be a great lore book, something between Hideous Creatures (Pelgrane) and Sandy Petersen's Field Guide (Chaosium). As a Call of Cthulhu Keeper I'd appreciate such sourcebook.
@SandyofCthulhu
3 жыл бұрын
check out Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos for 5e. Most of what I talk about is in there, plus more.
@H-HWJvN
3 жыл бұрын
@@SandyofCthulhu I tried to buy it, but my country (Brazil) isn't shipping friendly. Guess I'll have to wait for Amazon 😞
@boriskondratev1704
3 жыл бұрын
Basically, the Call of Cthulhu (2018) videogame by Cyanide deliver the very believable & frightening version of an Interdimentional Shambler. The protagonist unable to deal with it, until he uses the magic ritual almost at the end of the game. So, it's very uncomphy for Quake 1 gamer-veteran to be helpless against with familiar monster. It's a very atmospheric horror/adventure game at the end.
@jgr7487
Жыл бұрын
I love Sandy's enthusiasm as he presents his t-shirt!
@Janshevik
3 жыл бұрын
This astral trail reminds me in D&D when you do astral projection, it creates a silver cord, which for some reason and specific weapons (like Githyanki silversword) is cut when traveling in astral sea, you immediately die. Also good explanation why when failing combat check in Arkham horror against this monster, you are lost in time and space.
@bradmajors390
3 жыл бұрын
Walter Corbitt from The Haunting/The Haunted House has a Summon Dimensional Shambler spell. So do a lot of other cultist leaders, even ones with very few spells like Faccia from Horror on the Orient Express. Must be a pretty easy spell.
@Battury
3 жыл бұрын
Well, summoning the Shambler isn't -too- hard, but successfully binding it is where the challenge comes in.
@SandyofCthulhu
3 жыл бұрын
My assumption is that given how easy it is to make Gates as shown in Dreams in the Witch-House, that all you need to contact a SHambler is to make an error while making a Gate - that leads nowhere.
@tazmokhan7614
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting look on how to use the shambler to use against the investigators, I need to rewatch so i can take more notes...Thxz for the idea Mr.P
@maximilianobartomucci6044
3 жыл бұрын
What would you think about them having hyperdimensional bodies? I'm kinda torn about it, because it would make perfect sense with those asymmetrical features that you mention, as we observe their different body parts in motion from our lesser number of dimensions, and would also be the way they move so easily between the different lower dimensional realities. But at the same time is kinda hard to imagine how could someone use the skin of such a creature as a costume. Normally, unlike with other genres, I don't care that much about these kind of things for my CoC games (as it feels a lot like the "jargon" that M. R. James thought went against horror, which you've mentioned many times), and I just go with whatever feels more uncanny and unexplainable for the players (like describing a Hunting Horror's movement as if it was stop motion), not really thinking of how it should work. But I love these monster ecology videos and your reasonings behind them, and they put me in a more inquisitive mindset.
@rodneykelly8768
3 жыл бұрын
A mythos explanation for the Bermuda Triangle.
@HomebrewToons
3 жыл бұрын
Banchee chapter was a fun watch, I hope the shamblers were able to properly warm themselves in those skins.
@over-the-hilltop6920
Жыл бұрын
I thought I would go my life without hearing "Nico nico ni" in a Sandy Petersen video. I was wrong.
@aevvah_flxwer8550
3 жыл бұрын
What a very interesting and terrifying creature... 😥
@JonTTu111
3 жыл бұрын
If i'd be a Dimensional Shambler, I'd find two universes that have war thirsty beings and teach them how to build portals Aka "Teleports" and guide them so that they would know about each other and make them go into war. Free food when they teleport between the worlds and I'd be just hangin around and getting fat from all that astral trail.
@steretsjaaj2368
2 жыл бұрын
Peterson's face always looks like it's CG
@ArkhamReporter
3 жыл бұрын
This is a good example of the thought processes going into that new book you mentioned. In the end the Mythos creatures, especially the lesser ones, do have biological bodies, even if otherworldly to us.
@joshuamontoya-fk5ei
7 ай бұрын
Hellraiser is similar with Cynobites taking you torturing you in the the Laberinth.
@lucascoval828
3 жыл бұрын
Arkham Reporter sent me here.
@crapphone7744
2 жыл бұрын
Nice rationale to let the player characters survive something horrible and then experience something even more horrible. That's the kind of evil genius that makes call of Cthulhu so fun.
@tazmokhan7614
3 жыл бұрын
The shirt looks really kool!!!!!
@Rizimar
3 жыл бұрын
The shirt looks like it could be an Andrew Liles album cover
@ethanjoyce2810
3 жыл бұрын
How would they deal with a member of the great race? I'd imagine its difficult with the body snatching?
@SandyofCthulhu
3 жыл бұрын
well if you're speaking of the body form they had in the Mesozoic, i imagine it would take several Shamblers to kidnap a single Great Race member. As far as traveling back home, if the Great Race had whatever device they use to mind-swap, it could of course mind-swap back to whenever, but its body would presuimably remain in the new dimension
@ethanjoyce2810
3 жыл бұрын
@@SandyofCthulhu that's actually really cool. Thanks for the information, man
@AlexM1983DHUN
3 жыл бұрын
Hmm... There is a game called Astral Chain where people are dragged by things called chimeras into an inter-dimension called Astral Plane. I wonder if Platinum got their idea from this.
@amyceleste7446
3 жыл бұрын
Now I’ll sleep well tonight 🙄😂
@harleyjackson3708
Жыл бұрын
I know we aren't talking about the same shamblers but I desperately hope he at least in passing goes "by the way, they aren't furry in my game so quit arguing, those dark lines are skin folds like on baggy clothes."
@villiamkarl-gustavlundberg5422
3 жыл бұрын
Make a 6' x 2' Sandy hazu pillow please..
@SandyofCthulhu
3 жыл бұрын
you can get a pillow of it on Redbubble. Not sure if you can get a body pillow.
@JaketheCultist
3 жыл бұрын
So do the shamblers exist outside of Azathoth's reach? Like if Azathoth woke up could the shamblers just go to a different plane of existence?
@SandyofCthulhu
3 жыл бұрын
i guess it depends on whether Azathoth covers all planes or just ours.
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