I'm not planning on making enough of these to allow for growing an audience and it's an obscure system so not a lot of people would be drawn to it.
I'll look around to see how well long reviews do I guess.
I see your point. Is it normal in an RPG gaming group that everyone is the big fucking hero in games where its goes against the genre? Like always looking for the greatest evil to fight and saving the innocent from said greater evil in games that are not black and white morality.
>Attacking a Megacorp without doing recon, planning, recruiting, and arming up
There's nothing wrong with playing the hero, especially if you're a new player. Just give the heroes difficult challenges and don't make it MCU cringe.
I generally had a rule that if shit wasn't fun, it didn't happen. So if someone came up with an epic idea and I had to do a roll behind the screen on it and the dice were a joke, I'd cheat in favor of the players. I generally wouldn't cheat for the players if they actually did something insanely dumb that naturally had a bad result, other than if one particular dumbass player did something that would wreck it for the whole team, in which case dumbass boy would take the consequences, not the rest of the team.
I would have busted a gut laughing at them.
Hey, no reason a Shadowrunner can't do the right thing sometimes. After all, its not like crime bosses are notorious for their ostentatious lifestyles or anything like that.
Lmao @ this hilariously pathetic TROON.
At least it'll be "out there", and you can spend time after that reaching out to other blogs, maybe someone like Ten Foot Pole but with a wider purview. Better that than just giving up on the project or letting it sit on your hard drive, unread by anyone.
These are people who only know "Lovecraft" from third-hand accounts and derivative works. They were fed a brief description of Lovecraft's work (alongside a big essay on how he was a big meanie rayciss) and now they think they know how it works.
And to me, that's what makes it so compelling. Your PCs are likely just ordinary Joes (or maybe a little unusual or special, just enough to get the wrong attention), so they're hopelessly outclassed. Chances are they're either going to end up dead, insane, or living out their days as a retired recluse haunted by the past. And if you're playing the setting straight, none of it really matters, because Cthulhu (or Azathoth, or the Yith, or whatever's worse) is going to eventually wipe the whole human race out. But that's good. It's a perfect allegory for our fear of death and the unknown, and fighting against that is necessary to avoid falling into terminal ennui.
The thing is that you are not even supposed to die at the end of every CoC adventure. If you do, you're doing it wrong. There are plenty of long multiple module adventure paths in CoC. The only way those work is if every game doesn't end in a TPK. It is fully possible for a campaign to end with most or even the entire group surviving and sane.
Yeah, the few times I've managed to run it, they weren't really even that lethal. Outside of terrible luck and a very risky plan, most of the PCs made it out relatively fine. I wasn't trying to killerDM or throw Shub-Niggurath at them or anything. But it seemed like any time I tried to pitch it to another group or some other friends, it kept being met with trepidation over their character getting eaten by monsters. So I mostly just gave up on it and stuck with D&D, which was always the usual go-to.
Others already answered the questions, but I wanted to chime in.
