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[-] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

Sure, use spellcasting in a world where even knowing about anything eldritch makes you insane. Low intelligence builds live longer.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Can't go mad from having an existential crisis if you're too dumb to have one in the first place.

Taps at head

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Absolutely. For anyone not familiar, one of the mechanics in call of cthulu is an intelligence roll that if you fail, you're good, but if you succeed on the roll... Well then your mind correlates all its contents and you go mad

Going mad is part of the fun though

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I don't see the draw in that kind of setting. Not really my cup of tea.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Me neither, this is just a one-shot for halloween. But this kind of you-are-a-piece-of-shit-and-cannot-do-anything-to-survive isn't something I'd do for weeks on end.

I actually try to go insane or die before the end of the one-shot usually. Not this one thought, because a soul is in jeopardy this time.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

We have nothing else. No weapons, no guns, nothing. It's do or die.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Hence the meme indeed

[-] southsamurai 35 points 8 months ago

See, that's the secret. It isn't if you go insane and get devoured by a deep one, it's when.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

There is no winning Call of Cthulhu. You usually go insane. Dying is actually the best move.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

I thought I'd make it to round 3 maybe before it happens.

[-] southsamurai 3 points 8 months ago

Pfft, if you even finish the first round, that's a win lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Of the combat of the one shot ?

Probsbly yeah.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

To be fair, dying is probably one of the best ways to resolve a character in CoC.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

CoC players should remember combat and spellcasting should be avoided at all costs. Your characters don't know what these spells really do and are too fragile, just like we are, for any heroic D&D action.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

But, if you must get into combat, shotguns and dynamite are your friends.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

You don't win CoC...best you can hope for is to lose less.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I wonder if this meme man is still alive

[-] Kecessa 9 points 8 months ago
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