287: Injury and Disease in Call of Cthulhu (ad free)
Added 2024-05-21 16:35:19 +0000 UTCThis episode, we’re looking at how injury, disease, poisons, and other physical hazards work in Call of Cthulhu.
Being an investigator is fraught with hazards. While we’ve discussed sanity a few times, we’ve never really got into more corporeal damage before. We discuss how the game mechanics handle physical harm, some options for portraying it narratively, and some of the different ways in which an investigator can get hurt in the first place. As ever, we throw in a few ideas about how we handle these things in our own games, and what plot hooks dealing with serious physical harm might present.
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Links
Things we mention in this episode include:
The Thing (1982)
DOA (1950)
Children of Atom from Fallout 4
Comments
Thanks Rob! Just recorded a recommendation for the Innsmouth Literary Festival - looking forward to it! - Paul
The Good Friends of Jackson Elias
2024-06-08 17:38:20 +0000 UTCInteresting topic, and one which can be applied across the whole RPG spectrum. Paul may remember I had a quick chat at Dragonmeet with him on this topic, which led to me putting my thoughts on a video https://youtu.be/z7C4BdCe2S0 For characters bed-ridden in hospital or such - this might be a good opportunity to add in some Dreamlands adventuring? That way the whole group can still be involved. Perhaps they have to go in to rescue the injured / ill /in a coma person? Cheers! Rob
Robert Poyton
2024-05-31 17:12:37 +0000 UTC
