Call of Cthulhu: The Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic - RPG Review

HOW IS BABBY CULT FORMED

-_- Please tell me you're joking. Please please PLEASE tell me you're joking! A spell that lets you create animated inanimate objects is useless? That's a standard spell in dungeons and dragons! Sorry. Closing this video!

Good review, I agree with the idea for a Tome focussed suplement, the old Keepers Companion books had a few suggestions on how to customise tomes, but little advice on how to create their own. There are also a lot of early 'one off' tomes (For example, 'The Dark Angel's Kiss') that need additional background. And you are absolutely right, again the Keepers Companions had a huge concordance of scenarios sorted by tomes and creatures which helped alert players to their existence.

I highly recommend Silent Legions by Sinne Nomine Publishing. It's full of tables for rolling up cults, tomes, monsters, aliens, alternate dimensions, and so on. It has a game attached, a sort of B/X version of CoC, but the real joy of that product is the ability to create a full mythos of your own based on random tables. It does a lot of what you wish this product did!

Will you review Masks of Nyarlathotep?

Anyone knows more subtle scenarios to run? Ones where the supernatural is more implied than in your face? my main problem with most of the CoC scenarios is that they start cool but ends with the party fighting ghouls and zombies and all that, and it really cheapens the whole story and reduces the cosmic horror aspect of it all.

I only post on your videos. You are honestly such an INSPIRATION. just when I think I'm ready to carry on my dnd campaign another video comes up, and I get all excited to dive into Cthulhu again. Kick-start some cthulhu mystery modules. I am IN

Also I'm stealing the mythos tomes as VHS boxed set. I'm going to mix it with the film The Endless and have the investigators reteuning to their old UFO death cult. Damn. Maybe I should write a module

Definitely agree with Jack about more modern scenarios

I didn't even know this existed! Thank you, Seth!

I picked this book up after watching your video. Greatly appreciated it!

Where did you get that shirt? I love it!

Hello Seth, I'm a Junior Keeper(Been running for 3 or 4 years, but with games very spaced between them) and I'm thinking about buying "Ripples from Carcosa", what do you think about it?

Just discovered you, Seth. Your videos are great!

Hi Seth, any chance for a review of Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors?

Awesome review as always. I am curious though, do you think you will be looking into Trails of Cthulhu at some point?

I'd personally love to see a video game as a mythos tome.

Hello, Seth!
You have awesome videos about CoC! Thank you!
Can you make some videos about Masks of Nyarlathotep
Maybe just your ideas and opinion and not the full review

Hay Seth I know this might be a little late but, I thought I'd let you know that you can look on theTrove (no joke that's it's name) and get the PDF's for CoC (and a lot of other games to)for free and just use that & The Grimoire to make your own list and put it out there for everyone.

This book is a must for me. As odd as it sounds, I'm planning on running a crossover between Mage: the Ascension and Call of Cthulhu. I know they don't fit tonally, but it sounds like it would be fun. I'm interested what my mages will think about Lovecraftian magic.

Magic is always more powerful when a Buffy rerun is on.

I only recently found your great Chanel and being a German Keeper I totally admire you for your work.
You should definitely check out German Cthulhu Supplement Necronomicon which has elaborate Background Infos on Mythos Tomes and is a great reference (There are several others on different topics like sanity and Mythos creatures as well)

You forgot to mention that other super useful spell, "Whither Limb?"
The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing and in some cases the victim cannot tell their arse from their elbow ;-)
Who says CoC lacks humour?

I agree with Jack! More modern day call of cthulhu scenario reviews would be wonderful if possible please and thank you

Current objective: Create seventy year old pulp Cthulhu character who’s a Mystic, can cast spells, and also has a six shooter

I know it is late but there is a spanish system called "cultos innombrables". With it, you play as a cultist, good or bad intended, in a contemporary setting. Maybe you could extract some things of it like the use electronic devices and dinamics of cults.

Seth's suggestions for future supplements at the end of this video are amazing. I want that book of artifacts so badly. I desperately hope someone from Chaosium has watched this video.

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Great video there and I totally agree. (As I actually do a lot of times)

But concerning your false expectation. There Actually is a book giving you exactly the information you mention about mythos tombs. It's from 2008 and called Necronomicon (how inventive) and it is all about the more popular books of the mythos. On 260 and some beautyfull pages it gives you general ideas about occult and mythos tomes, expands on the lists from the rulebook and the old Keeper Compandions and even details many of the different editions of some of the books. You get a list of suggested spells as well as descriptions of the books and what topics they might contain. And on top it gives you suggestions how to drive home the alien nature of those books.

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Like how the “Cultes des Goules” has a sickening stench wich makes it near impossible to read without blocking your nose with parfumed balls of cotton or the like and how this slowly grows less but you start to take one a disgusting smell as you progress studying. And than your food and groceries start to go spoiled and rotten in basically no time. But you don’t mind because it tastes better that way anyway.

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Unfortunatly the book has two gripes. First it is a german publication from Pegasus Press (which wouldn’t be a problem for me being from Germany) but it has been out of print for years now and because of some copyright Problems Pegasus was not able to publish a PDF version. And so the prices that are asked on ebay (if you can find it at all) are astronomical. I got my hands on a copy just a couple days ago and it was comparatively cheap, but I have seen prices as high as 250€ (that’s close to 300$).

So I guess my intent (aside form picking a little bit in open wounds and what keeper doesn't like to do that a little mti) was to say is that there actually used to be such a publication and I hope that Pegasus in germany and chaosium in the US (who according to the authors were in close contact during the development) will bring out a new edition for 7th Edition sometime soon.

It looks like a dnd 3.5 book

Can pc's learn every spell

Hey Seth, would you ever cover the new edition of the Malleus Monstoreum and your thoughts about it?

With respect to wither limb. Maybe both are correct. One of the wizard was just better at creating the spell then the other.

"A whole book about cults"....looks like that wish was granted.

I'd love a video about how you use supplements like this, the weapons guide and other similar things. Often when I get these awesome books I feel a bit overwhelmed by all the information and data in them that I end up feeling like I'm wasting them because I barely get to use all of the spells or details in them. Like I have the Terror Australis book but who knows when I'm going to get to use all the little facts. Knowing how you use them and if you think there is a good way to tackle these sorts of book, sorta like a how-to run modules but for supplements would be much appreciated.

Getting into CofC and love all your videos! Subbed 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Did Chaosium ever release a guide to mythos tomes as Seth suggested in this review?

What Post-it do you use? They do not mark permanently the book? I hate when the page is damaged by doing this to the book. Chaosium books are so good to be damaged.

I've been rewatching these Cthulhu videos cause they are so good. Gave me ideas for running a game set in B-Movie 50s time like Atomic Cthulhu or I was a Teenage Cthulhu. And even an anthology game series of one shot stories like Tales from the Crypt(Keeper). Like if I could still do it, I would introduce it with the voice of the Cryptkeeper.

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I homebrewed a mythos tome that took the form of a series of children's books.

IMO, the very last thing you want to do with Mythos Magic is have it be consistent.

Funny you basically asked for Cults of Cthulhu in this review!

I've read Lovecrafdt and done a couple of dungeon crawl style adventure stories based on Cthuku myseldfi in which the protagonists fight back , You can use a couple of antoginists I've made up myself-
Scaleback ( a crocodillian entity whose lowerr half is entirely made up of tentacles and he carries an eternally bleeding kria knife and his favoured method is to rip peoples brains out (he's also insane-
Cheebra: an eight legeded entity who hides or lurks in shadows and likes to hunt his 'hits; down or drive them mad with paranoia (but he HATES light). Seth, you have my permission to use them but here're the good guys;--
J'dara-a french pheonix godess.
Geldra- a giant diamondback godess

Scaleback ( a crocodillian entity whose lowerr half is entirely made up of tentacles and he carries an eternally bleeding kria knife and his fdt

I love your vids. I Do have a gripe though. You seem to ask for too much. In regards to grimoires then there is a book for 5'th edition out there. My Main thing to say is that you cant have a clearly defined, how many pages and what each page says, or how each artifact looks and every action it may do. That is for the Keeper to decide upon. Creativity is the defining part of Call of Cthulhu. If everything is by "by the rules in a book" ? The whole experience is lost. Each keeper and party of investigators should have a different experience. Sorry for voicing this but it is how I feel. To describe everything down to the basic is destroying the creativity of making a scenario. As every time in future plays with different Characters but the same players. Then they now do know the book that is described or the spell needed or the artifact. Changing them each time means the players don't really know and they are not ulna aware of what they are dealing with.

Are there any spells or items that heal, or take HP from someone and give it to someone else.

Thanks for drawing this one to my attention. I do believe I'll be ordering a copy this week. Thanks again.