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Thanks for doing this. I'm going to use your adventure tonight to test out my Harry Potter Fate hack I wrote.

Great comparison! How about an Everyday Heroes review? IMO, it's more Outgunned adjacent.

Ran my first convention game in May 2024, homebrew cinematic for AlienRPG. The best thing I did was run the game for some friends first, months in advance. Then I was able to trim, streamline, and build a pace for it. It was an amazing success! All the players had fun, and all are interested in playing when next year. Even convention staff got positive feedback! Honestly next year I might run the same game for new players, and write another for returning or advanced players.

I manage to play it in one session, I don’t understand how you can spend 15 sessions on this. And I agree cutting the Satillo is the best thing to do, even the book tells you it’s optional, and to cut it if you want a shorter session.

pleaaaaase do sailors on the starless sea

My favorite campaign is the orient express!

Subbed for Outgunned as well. Recommend you check out Alchemy RPG. Seems to be a little bit more refined VTT for the game. UpturnedTabletop (all one word) on twitch has a playthrough using the beta version of the Alchemy VTT and it plays really well.

It wasn't until the sequel ("Against the Rat Men" in DUNGEON FANTASY COMPANION) that I really managed to threaten my players' lives and health. Perhaps I wasn't playing the monsters cleverly enough. The 'Rune Limned Corridor' caused them some terrors but despite the fact that the text says you can't neutralise it my players did find a way and I didn't just nix it.

Good review :) one thing l will add though is that many people forget when reviewing 7e material is that the philosophy of dice rolls in the 7e book being that dice rolls are not always about failing or succeeding at the task but are also about who has “possession of the story”. As such, nothing “hinges” on dice rolls. Player succeeds, player gets what they want and how they want it (within reason), player fails the roll, GM controls the story and uses it to ramp up the horror (but that can still mean the task is succeeded). Example, failed mechanical repair on the radio could mean player just takes longer doing so, leaving them out of action in combat making life harder for the others, or cannot flee immediately if they want to fix it whilst hearing creatures crawl up the lighthouse side, or they succeed but just takes a little longer whilst secretly the cultist on the other side picks up the signal and heads over. Failed rolls shouldn’t mean failure at the all the time.

Glad to see this video before I actually starting this campaign with my players <3 but they need to find the emperor's wrath first lol

I've been loving playing this. It's so fast and perfectly captures the action movie vibe. My group has also been playing everyday Heroes for a bit more crunch and longevity. I don't think I could manage a long running campaign of Outgunned, partially because it openly says not to, but also because I think players might get a little bored of it. It seems the perfect game for short spurts.

Jam-jar Soup - my next PCs name.

Nice footy shirt. Have a few Roma tops myself back from the days of Totti.

I would love to see a comparison between these games and the other FFF game, Savage Worlds.

Solid comparison. I commented about VTT availability in the Outgunned video. You seem to use the old Foundry module, which is now defunct and replaced by newer ones.

Great Video! The style reminds me of Seth Skorkowsky a lot. It's balanced and fair. OG is my favourite system and has replaced Savage Worlds for me, so I am biased. Although I can't entirely agree with some of them, I can still see your negative points. Luckily OG has "modular crunch," so ignoring specific subsystems, as you suggest for Weak Points or Brawl, is valid and won't break the systems. Which is a big plus for OG for me. For VTT, there are now two complete fan-made Foundry Systems, sheets for Roleapp and Let's Role, and a system for Alchemy. The latter is still in development and will be the only official VTT support at this time.

Very interesting review. I had Broken Compass lined up as our next game for my group, but you convinced me to jump over and go straight to Outgunned.

I find action-based games incredibly boring (even the great ones), because they’re a mechanic not a genre (I’m sure plenty disagree) Bu I love the narrative emphasis and chase rules in this review so I’ll be picking it up. Thanks for a great review

Your video on Outgunned is the reason I subbed.

Thank you for the comparison. Why do you think 2LM has moved away from Broken Compass? Does it have to do with CMON seeming to own it?

regarding Broken Compass: well, after everyone "one-shotted" it, it was to be expected to fade into oblivion, right?

Are you ever going to cover Outgunned?

For preventing the burning of the ship, you could say the whole ship oozes water or a wet substance from everything. Consider it as a side effect of the spell which transported the ship there, melding the ship with some of the ocean it was in when teleported. A melding kind of like in the movie The Fly, only with the ship & water.

Awesome stuff, going to be running it this weekend!

I love Outgunned! It has quickly become one of my favorite systems. Great review!

2 Little Mice made a deal with CMON but then they departed after a few months. They succeeded in getting back the Household IP but not Broken Compass. That the whole story in short.

A really thorough and balanced review (fun and funny too). Your channel deserves to be way more popular!

I was looking at the Outgunned crowd funding a month or two ago for Outgunned Adventure (and reprints of the other stuff) I ultimately decided not to back it as I couldn't find much about it, now thinking I'll try the PDF from DriveThru or something because this does sound fun. thanks for another great review

Sounds amazing! I'll be checking it out and have already shared this video with several of my friends from back in the 80s who ate these sorts of movies up.

I actually had a really fun dungeon I built with Kobolds in mind as well. The plot behind the dungeon was that the leader had made a deal with a devil because a rift to the abyss had begun to open in the neglected part of the cave. Only minor demons (the ones that look like a blob and are only like... I think CR 2 or 3... Maybe 1.) were coming out of the pit. I took the soul coins from Descent into Avernus and gave one to each Kobold commander as a way for them to get an emergency heal if possible, but a large number of the Kobolds were suspicious of the coins, so the chief had the commanders hold the eggs, young and a portion of the warren as hostages while the rest were trained with siege tactics against the demons. With that, the dungeon had two major paths the players could pick: A: A rather large, open-looking chamber with barricades, traps and other such threats or... B: An unlit cavern that took advantage of the Kobolds darkvision to allow them the chance to shoot arrows at incoming adventurers that were holding torches. Making use of the mass attacks rules, my players realized quickly that both ways were dangerous because now the Kobolds knew they were coming and had formed Phalanxes to cut off the party's progress. My players had to retreat and we sadly never finished the dungeon, but it was a really fun setup that I'd love to use again.

Great video, but can I make one small criticism that I think would help you? In this video, you are very often looking off to the right of center, as if you are looking at your script. It is unfortunately very distracting. Maybe a slightly different setup? Please understand, the video is great, this is just a small point I thought you'd like to know.

Karl Teugen? :)

I've run Enemy in Shadows when it was still two adventures! Using rules adapted for 2e. I allowed my players to get sidetracked with the tournaments in Bogenhafen (they eagerly re-enacted the plot from the film A Knight's Tale with stolen armor), which gave them some extra cash to blow on items to make themselves less likely to die from a trip & fall. This came in handy at the end of the adventure with the run-in with the daemons.

Surprised there's no mention of the excellent Pirate Borg game on your channel :)

A VERY streamlined version. Have always loved the overall system mechanics. Just WAY too many rules to read through. Way too many skills. Take a note from Savage Worlds. Trim down all of that stuff by a large factor by combining a lot of it. Especially weapon skills. I mean, many weapons are similar enough that you shouldn't need a skill for each one. I know it's more realistic, but it's too much. Generalize more.

Comments. 1. You made no mention of the Army vehicle(s) the soldiers would have come in, probably at least one truck. 2. Except for the grenades, they might have found rifles, and/or a pistol or two. 3. How did the alien know about or control the bombing by the aircraft? Overall, it sounds like a good adventure.

I'm planning on running this for two brand new players. As another way to have them contact the main land and/or fighting the deep ones, I was thinking of having two barrels of fuel that can either be set on fire as a massive explosion, to get the attention of the mainland, or as something that can be used as a defensive measure: torches, Wall of Fire (with the risk of burning down the light house).

The map on this thing was so confusing I drew it out on 3d graph paper to better understand the layout.

4th Edition became a weird boring and dry read. It's not easy to use or get around either. I tried so many times to get into 4th ed, and it just didn't work. I stuck with the main 3rd edition book and it just works. I have a ton of supplements, and it's just easy to use. The book is easy, and actually fun to read. Third is the best. :)

Great video!

Which version should i play if doing 5e? Do i need to modify? Newish dm here

Generated a lot of thoughts for a game I'm running next week! Thanks!

This is a fun adventure. I ran it with my group, and I enjoyed it very much. To kind of add to it I ended up having the English teacher also be necessary to cast the spell because she was able to read all of the big words. This was because of how they roleplayed their interaction with her previously. A big thanks for making this.

I love Orcslayer...runs great in The Fantasy Trip, GURPS or DnD...want to try it in Daggerheart and the new monolith Conan game now.

Dead space anyone

I agree, Gateways to terror adventures are far too simple, there are better beginners options that make the experience of playing call of cthulhu more fun.

Ran this not long ago as my forst ever session of CoC i loved it im so glad you wrote this its amazing and can thank you. I did some unique endimgs depending on how they ended it even included something crazy if they decided to go down the hole in the mine. It went smooth and was rly fun for my first ever session ive ran.

I have just played ths adventure with a group of experienced D&D players that were new to Cthulu. I loved how detailed everything is laid out and how tight and creepy the plot is. What I really disliked is, that the whole thing feels VERY railroaded in the end. The investigatprs dont really have much influence on the outcome of the whole thing. At some point the Seamen come and either flood/kill them or make them run away. This makes it so that I can only recommend this to players that are completely new t pen and paper RPGs. I just never feel good, railroading my players too much.

Great series, very well-made with a lot of smart ideas.