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@brown1971 Thank you kindly! Glad to help!

@runawayfromtoads674 Hiya! I'm extremely touched to hear that! Thank you. But I'm just another doofus who loves roleplaying and anyone who does that can run games well. Always great to hear someone picking up the torch to be a Keeper for CoC. Lightless Beacon is an ace module. Sorry to hear your The Haunting player experience was dampened. Your comment actually sparked a conversation between my wife and I all about the unfortunate instinct GMs can get to bash the players onto the "right" path. In theory, they mean well as they want you to have the "best" story but in practice it's bad times all round. I wish you well for when you run it and without arbitrary lock-ins.

No problem! I'd love to know how the changes compare, good or bad! Thanks

Like everything in life its about striking a balance; don't reveal everything to the point that there's no intrigue, but also don't hold everything so close to your chest that the story is irrelevant and boring.

@DeathwishDice You put that extremely well and now I am kicking myself for not using the line "actors AND the audience"! Agree totally that its integra the GM needs to maintain and generate intrigue from the game world, it's why I made sure to make that the final statement of the vid rather than hide it in the general chat. All of this player transparency depends on the GM rewarding that trust. Thank you!

Thank you!

@@Aloddff You're gonna do great.

@Lemonrollcake Cheers! Yeah, admittedly dispersing the clues does pad the runtime. 100%. But that dead stop for reading the letter, the journal, and the deed, right after the cough death is always a bugbear. You COULD split the difference by foregoing the bank entirely and have just the housekey and letter at the hospital, dumping everything else with Agnes (making sure to drop the hints from her and Bertrand to go there), as that's mostly flavour anyway! But totally understand running the clues as written to keep things tight. Hope the convention game goes wonderfully and thanks for watching!

@uzixx Haha noted! I'll definitely return to CoC but will be bouncing to another system or two first. Gotta keep my brain happy with some variation!

@uzixx Glad to be of service! Hope it helps and hope you have a grand time!

Mwuhahahahahaaaaaa...ahem, I mean thank you.

@doomcrab4271 Heya! I actually mention that it is a lot of money, so I do understand what you mean. However, I think it's not that guaranteed to be gripping unless a player character has getting rich as their ideology or desperately need money. For some players, cash and coin is a huge driver, for others, not so much. Appreciate your comment tho, as well for providing some more detail to the cash values (I should have included those!).

I hope they come in handy. Thank you for the kind words and for watching!

Kind of you to say. Glad you enjoyed it and thank YOU for watching!

@jameshenderson4876 Heya! I'll first take the compliment on it being nicely made! Thanks! But to your point, I do indeed roll my separated dice that fail the saltwater test afterward. Some (like that red D20 shown) demonstrate issues that are incredibly obvious with the result of the test in context, while others had more of a general tendency. But in every case, I found there was a verified issue. I totally understand if these minor rolling tendencies aren't that important to many players. To each their own! It's just my own personal bugbear, and seeing how paranoia about dice got under the skin of other players I know, I thought I'd share my approach to better mental calm about it. I very much appreciate you voicing this counterpoint! Thank you for offering it. Sidenote: I apologise if I made weighted and naturally unbalanced dice sound synonymous, I was actually trying to make the difference between the two clear as I have encountered players who were interested in having the difference explained.

@therocketboost Tha k you for the polite reply with your findings! If something is way off, then indeed good to remove! And if generally doing the test feels right for you, then is definitely worth doing!

@Christopheromoan Thank you kindly! Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, I didn't really feel like doing a straght up review format since as I say, I wouldn't be bothering to make this if I didn't like it! And specifically with this and the Haunting, Seth and other great channels have covered this ground EXTENSIVELY. I gave a shout out to Seth in my own The Haunting vid because ya have to, he is indisputably the big daddy of CoC guidance.

@@doylemoulder5590 It is indeed! Tim Curry is the absolute standout of the cast, which is impressive because its a hell of a cast.

@@aiby0nznvnwbmss537 Have a great session! Would love to know how it goes.

@@therocketboost Sooo it was really really fun and i think it worked really well. I am so glad about the advice to disperse the clues! One player who i've told afterwards said that this was much better then she would have imagined the big info and handout dump the beginning usually would be. Also having de vermiis mysteriis already stolen was helpful and bertrand as a minor antagonist worked well. So thanks for that advice! I also amped up the MP cost for the ritual (doubled it in fact) which led to the player characters having to care about the cost and even tapping into their hit points, which make the cost actually meaningful.

It took us 5 hours to complete the scenario. No one died, but it was a very close call and we had some bouts of madness and they just successfully managed to complete the ritual and banish the lurker. So fortunately there was a lot of tension and sense of danger.

@aiby0nznvnwbmss537 Wonderful!! Fantastic to hear it. Interesting idea about the magic points. I may up them myself next time I run it!

@RobWilsonCo Thanks! By sheer coincidence, I'm actually going to run the Chariot of the Gods scenario for the Alien RPG soon. Once I do, I'll have some practical experience to have an opinion, though I already have some thoughts on it...

@@therocketboost not run it but I enjoyed the mystery quest actual play.

@@RobWilsonCo Thanks for the advice! Am almost through the second episode. Still waiting to run it but definitely getting some solid prep seeing it run with such a solid group.

@Zoleeca You're too kind! Thank you. Tonally, I think it's a great module but just needs a bit of shaking up to engage players.

@@katied5371 Thankooo.

Kind of you to say!

@@dezert7685 Heya! You're absolutely correct about the paragraph on p.31 about it being able to "quickly" dispatch that person. I originally recorded a few lines about this paragraph being written a bit vague and how it leads to confusion what quickly means. a) If meaning instant, it has a "golden snitch" effect where it can put all the battle instawin on a single roll at the start of combat. If not used, the knife remains seeming unspectacular. b) If meaning it just skips flesh ward, which is a very specific use if just that but could be awesome if it bypasses all magic defenses, though perhaps too awesome and also not something in the knife's description. c) If meaning it is the only way of finishing him off its okay but still leaves the knife without any qualities of its own going forward. d) It just meaning that it will help dispatch him, regardless of his control of it (my reading). Again if that's the case the knife is nothing special then or afterwards. In the end I cut the lines explaining it because 1) Though unintentional, it came a bit bitchy to critique the phrasing (I similarly had a section about disagreeing with Seth's use of Jack the guiding NPC that was meant to be lighthearted but also got cut for sounding bitchy. I don't want to be another snarky RPG guy.) 2) I was really awkward and waffly explaining it, distracting from my main point about giving the knife importance and showing it BEFORE the fight, in case the group haven't met the Macarios. 3) The vid was getting LONG. Original cut was 45 minutes! But you are ABSOLUTELY correct and I am glad you pointed it out. I would very much like to see that paragraph cleaned up on future printings. And thank you for both watching the vid and your kind words about making the knife an artifact! Edge of Darkness tips is coming soon. Currently butchering that edit down. It's still at 40 minutes and I need to learn to shush!

I’m really looking forward to your Edge of Darkness video! I loved this entire video and honestly would have stuck around if it was 45 min long! I’m running this scenario for the first time and trying to absorb all of the keeper tips and tricks. Thanks for putting this out!

Thank you for an awesome video. It is quite helpful!!!

@SanJacintoArtGuild Cheers! Glad to be of help.

@dezert7685 The Edge of Darkness video came out by the way!

@@kokokakanomane You're very welcome! Next episode is in the final edit stages.

Ingenious! Bonkers but ingenious nonetheless.

Away to the number mines!

@@sirguy6678 I'm blushing. Thank you.

Kind of you to say! Look forward to making more.

@@therocketboost I'm looking forward to you _posting_ more!

That bed is a menace! Thank you.

​​​@@danmorgan3685 Good point! I do admit it is a worry they'll want to turn on Knott if he's holding favours over them. It's something I have worried about! But hasn't happened on a run...yet. One thing I think stops the rebellion is If the promise is to wipe the slate clean (e.g cancel debts, burn incriminating evidence, consider matters closed) doing this job is a lot easier than trying to take Knott on. Especially if doing so would just cause more trouble for them. After recording I did also remember something I forgot to mention I did on my last run, which was to promise the players a share of the house sale if they did this. I WISH I had included that! Definitely lessens the resentment.

@@therocketboost Yeah, a cut of the sale would provide them with a really strong incentive. Of course that would also obligate you to look up housing prices in Boston during the 1920s.

@@danmorgan3685 As a one shot, you can largely handwave the exact amount and offer a percentage, since they're never cashing it in! But as an ongoing campaign, there's fortunately a list of real estate prices in the core book on page 396. As someone who obsesses over a lot of period detail, I think getting more accurate house prices might be my limit haha.

@@therocketboost I forgot about that. The base book does have a lot of info.

@@danmorgan3685 Honestly, a marvelous book. The only gripe I have with it is the inconsistent art style, and that is so very very minor.