>References both The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China You are a man of culture, I see.

You ended up convincing me that pulp Cthulhu was a worthwhile pickup. Now, my group has been plagued by all my pulpy ideas such as The Robot Thief, Rocky Horror RPG, and Snake People on a plane.

My favourite way of summing up the difference between base and Pulp? Evil Dead 1 vs Army of Darkness

Telephone shoe *random cultist* "Its for you" *cultist killed by telephone shoe*

This is, hands down, one of the best RPG related channels on KZfaq. Seth, you're the man. (You too Jack)

Chatted with Mike Mason, you CAN have experience packages added to Pulp characters. He recommended the War Experienced Package for my veteran turned librarian.

For that time when your cthulhu characters wake up in the village of homlet

Psychometry is a psychic talent in many games and stories. It relates specifically to touching an object like a watch or knife to learn more about a person or event connected with that object.

I cant wait for parts 2-9 of the Pulp Cthulhu series!

I was looking at the descriptions of Clairvoyance and Psychometry and I think the difference is Clairvoyance, in addition to allowing you to see invisible spirits and such, allows you to basically scry the CURRENT location of an object or person that isn't present while Psychometry let's you hold an object and know things about it. So in a scenario where the heroes are looking for a missing child, the hero with Clairvoyance makes his roll and sees that the child is currently crying in a cave somewhere to the South. The hero with Psychometry finds the boy's baseball in a field, holds it, makes his roll and sees that a wendigo grabbed the boy and started walking South just before the boy dropped the ball.

What I did as a Keeper was to have my Investigators take the characters who'd survived multiple scenarios and carry them over into Pulp Cthulhu as Heroes with the previous campaigns being their backstory for combatting the Mythos creatures.

I mixed pulp and normal Cathulu to make it so a that they should still run/investigate, but also be a hero/and fight monsters.

Agreeing with Mauricio, Seth. You are the freakin' man. In the wasteland that is Call of Cthulhu content you are king. I really appreciate all the amazing content you put out there. Thank-you, Seth!

Seth is the best at what he does.

Seth, I noticed a typo on your Luck Cheat Sheet: you wrote "Halfling Sanity Check" instead of "Halving Sanity Check". Do you have something against Hobbits? :)

I found this Channel having never played Call of Cthulhu, and hadn't played D&D in almost a decade. Your main CoC series taught me enough of the system that I got my groove back. Picked up 7e Keepers Guide + Pulp Cthulhu last month. Read both cover to cover and started a session last weekend. Hooked now, got u to thank homie. You rock, sent all my players to your channel to learn the basics. You are epic.

I love that Pulp Cthulhu can still be used with standard COC scenarios, just add more combatants or make them tougher. One issue I had trying to run a COC campaign was it's hard to use any of the monsters cause they can and will eat a player's face off in seconds. Regular COC doesn't have generic stat blocks for any human enemies either, so I had to stumble through the first combat. Coming off D&D, I was very used to having maybe 1 or 2 combats every session or every other session. So it was an interesting experience. Yet again, thank you Seth for having links to your self-made tables, maps, alternate charact sheets, etc.

I like the idea of injecting more Robert E Howard into my HP Lovecraft. Something about a pulpier, beating back the darkness take on the CoC has always appealed to me a bit more then the cosmic nihilism of Lovecraft's main work. Even if purest probably hate that idea. Anyhoo! Thanks for the review!

You just named my favorite director, actor, and movie in the same sentence. I'm sold.

Don not forget , the 1930's is when Superman came out.

This actually reminds me of the time I took Twilight 2000's rule book and converted it for the Aliens universe. (By the way, nice Wayland Yutani shirt.) I let the players take their existing characters and upped the power of the weapons to reflect the sci-fi action improvements. Overall we had a great time and that's really what mattered.

Nice call on Big Trouble in Little China there. I have absolutely loved the Pulp Cthulhu rules since I picked them up, and I cannot recommend them enough to people looking for a nice alternative to a typical pulp adventure game. I agree with the point on psychic powers and the gadget list. A few more really would have gone a long way to fleshing the book out a bit more and helping out the GM.

Hell yeah, I have been looking forward to this video

A fantastic addition to your library of reviews, Seth. Thank you for furthering the hobby.

As always, you deliver top quality content. Thanks for so much Seth!

High production quality, very informative and fun. Thanks for this video!

Your videos have really helped me explore the hobby with some friends. Getting ready to run Paranioa for the first time, and I'd love to see videos on some of the additional goodies outside the core set.

This is great, thank you! Looking to get into Pulp after I finish my current campaign and this video only increased my hype.

Great work as usual! Haven’t tried out Pulp rules yet but based on this video seems just right for my group

As usual, this is a masterfully made and incredibly useful look at the system. This is a wonderful guide to how Pulp changes the game and provides tips on how to handle things that are less well supported in the system. Thank you again! Your Cthulhu series should be required watching!

Great Video Seth. Wasn't sure about it before but I gotta check it out now

The campaign we just started in running in Victorian England with Steampunk elements. Make use of the weird science aspect for many things.

Great review and overview. I have really come to love Pulp Cthulhu as a way to take players more used to games like D&D and use it to give them an in to Lovecraftian RPGs without dying the first time they get a bit exited and forget that their 65 year old Archeology professor isn't a D&D fighter :) On top of the Excellent goodman games modules, I think Pulp Cthulhu finally gave me the system to actually run Shadows of Yog-Sothoth with and actually have a chance of the players surviving that meatgrinder campaign.

Great reference! Thanks! This has helped me decide if I should try out the Pulp verion

I literally turned on youtube to watch a Seth video while going to bed. Seth uploads 1 minute ago? *WTF*

Now this seems like my kind of game. Was hesitant to grab call of Cthulhu but with this I think I could actually run it with my friends :)

Theres something wrong with this video. Every time I get to the part where Jack says look into my eyes it ends. I know there are several minutes left, but the video seems to skip to the end.

I like the idea of tougher investigators. Thanks for this review..going to share it my RPG group.

Thanks For the content Seth. You inspired my players and myself to create our channel. Hoping to eventually do reviews like yourself, Thanks!

I’ve been looking forward to giving pulp a try.

I like my Cthulhu like how I like my OJ, with pulp

Seth, I’ve just bought this game based on your fantastic and comprehensive reviews of it. I want to test it against Realms of Cthulhu (the Savage Worlds conversion) to see which works better for me. Thanks for all the great work!

i'm running a pulp cthulhu game this satudary, thanks for remembering me some details.

I like this, I'm going to be playing a oneshot this weekend. Might suggest to the Keeper to do a Pulp campaign after it ends.

The classic definition of Psychometry is the ability to touch an item and get a pychic impression of some aspect of its history. I could see that being a very dangerous power in any COC game.

This sounds like so much fun!

From all channels I subscribe to, Seth's the fastest click/like

Thank Seth! While I've been thinking about getting into Call of Cthulhu, my group is a little hesitant. They are more of your typical "Big Damn Heroes" instead of your troubled investigator types and like punching things more than investigation. Pulp Cthulhu looks like it's right up our ally and I think it's worth a shot! We regularly compare ourselves to a lot of your pulp movie examples!

Well you sold me, I’m buying this ASAP

Cthulhu gaslight to steampunk sounds amazing!

I've been wanting to try out Pulp Cthulhu for awhile, since the slower pace of Call of Cthulhu just didn't work for my group. This looks really fun and a lot more engaging!

So glad you made all these videos, I'm way late to the party, but Pulp is what I will be running. Campaigns don't seem like campaigns if everyone dies and gets replaced often.

Interesting, I might have to give this a try. Sounds like it could make a fun prequel to my Demon Hunters game. Wouldn't a pulp version of Cthulhu Invictus just be Xena with a high special effects budget?

Kudos for Jack always handing firearms per correct safety protocols, regardless those be real or props.

I use ur handout and it's help me a lottt. Thx for ur work

Psychometry is also known as object reading, and the psychometrist would be able to read the history of an object to some degree ... who used it, when, and why, for example.

You're a gentleman and a scholar Seth. Just found your cheat sheets.distributing to my PCs soon. Raising a mead horn to Seth and of course, Jack.

Just found your channel a little while ago and am catching up with these CoC reviews. Interestingly, I wasn't aware of Pulp Cthulhu but the campaign I've just started with my players is set in a 'Mummy/Van-Helsing' type world where the players are working for British Intelligence MI14 (MI14 was real but couldn't find any details of what they did before they merged with other MI units). The players are a mix of civilians and military which makes for fun action and investigation (so far, 2 adventures in).

Good honest & insightful review. I recently got into the Arkham Horror novels and audiotapes. I've been using Pulp Cthulhu to convert the characters and scenarios from the books. It seems to work really well but I haven't group playtested it yet. During Lockdown, I came up with rules for playing Solo with allies - Pulp Cthulhu is also great for this! Ps. I bought and tested BRP Pulp but it doesn't have the right feel for what I wanted. I recommend Pulp Cthulhu for 'heroic' fights against dark cultists, Nazis and insane gods!

A great video! Would like to try.

Sir, love the channel.

Awesome! Seth, you ought to check out Pulp Alley. It's more of a "wargame" than an RPG, but still a ton of fun.

Seth, thanks so much! I love your content! I played COC once way back in the 80s, but it was such a downer I never tried it again. But now Im super stoked to explore this gameverse again. Could you do a video on atomic age coc? I watched alot of twilight zone as a kid and COC seems to just be perfect for that genre. Thanks!

Just got the book and waiting for Masks to arrive

Thank you again for another really helpful video, Seth! I got this book as a Christmas gift because my friends know how much I enjoy the "pulp era" setting for RPGs. One look at this book and I ran out to the game store I usually visit and bought a copy of the core rulebook. I've been DMing D&D games for years; I'm going to switch to this for a while. 🙂 Now, I just gotta find tabletop miniatures for this.

Great review, Seth! I'd love to get my group interested in doing a Call of Cthulhu/Pulp Cthulhu game.☠👻🐙

Couldn't agree more with the comment about Pulp being good if you want to have a longer-form campaign. I'm running my group through Masks of Nyaralathotep right now, and mixing in some Pulp rules just makes my life so much easier - I'm not averse to character death or insanity, but the dramatically reduced odds of losing _everyone_ means I have the freedom to let the dice fall where they may, both literally and figuratively. One bad decision from the party is now pretty unlikely to mean the campaign falls apart. What I've had great success with so far is mixing in bits and pieces of Pulp to CoC. Keeping the survivability bits, adding in archetypes, and using talents. I'm planning to very judiciously add in a couple of the pulpier bits (insanity powers, psychic abilities) as Big Moments tailored to individual characters over time, and probably never bring in weird science.\ For my group, at least, they're still playing through in a very CoC style (lots of investigation, avoiding direct confrontation more often than not), but when the action does kick in, there's a bit more meat on the bones, IMO.

Love it, love it, love it.

Love the video as always just one minor thing at 8:17 you incorrectly mention luck regained in investigator development phase, you do have it as per session in your cheat sheet immediately thereafter, though it might be confusing for new keepers

I'm actually planning on starting my players out in standard COC then about 2 or 3 mysteries in boosting them into higher tier pulp Cthulhu sort of like leveling up

Thanks Seth - I'm going to run Hurricane and/or Disintegrator this weekend - it's been a while since I've played CoC, so I'm looking forward to it!

You know, I bet that you could get a lot of mileage out of the Smith & Robards catalog of weird science gadgets from Deadlands. You could get ideas from a whole slew of inventions from that thing.

I always wanted to play Big Trouble In Little China.

Awesome review! Two questions: Would you recommend this system for the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign? And second: which module do you think is good for starting a Pulp campaign? I'm looking for one that can bring the characters together and explain them the core mechanics of this supplement for CoC. Also, please make a MoN review! your videos are just great!

Every time he says Cthulhu...DRINK! Adam

Pulp Cthulhu, the film that instantly sprang to mind was "Doc Savage : The Man of Bronze" (1975)

I'm running Two Headed Serpent with Call of Cthulhu right now and this explains a lot of my problems.

Damn love that shirt

the original mummy movies are also pulp. Also, I love your videos, great things to look forward to. Also, bought one of the necklaces from your website, ty so much

This is the second review of the game I have watched. Kurt Weigel @ Game Geeks gave a mixed review of this product. I like both reviews and reviewers.

I’m thinking of running a Victorian era Campaign combining Castlevania and Bloodborne. I think this would be perfect.

I had no idea Pulp Cthulhu had weird science. Has anyone in your group tried a weird science character? It would be so tempting to have a rocketeer or to have a Ghost Busters esc mythos pest controller.

Hey Seth, I was wondering did you ever try some rules light Cthulhu games like Cthulhu Dark or Tremulus or any similar systems, if yes what's your experience with them?

Thank you

Set love your videos I'm a prospective player and also prospective keeper who's just recently bought the starter set my question is to make regular Cthulhu a little bit more palatable and the characters a little less flimsy could you add just a small amount of Pulp elements and how would you go about this?

You can have a fine playing experience with just pulp the starter set and your phone

Have you ever considered the Achtung Cthulhu campaigns to run with Pulp Cthulhu? Modiphius have a ridiculous sale at the moment and the campaigns look great.

This review just made me login into Amazon:)

When do we get a Valducan RPG?

Cool!

Hey there Seth, Awesome content. It's very entertaining and informative. You always keep our attention. We just finished a D&D campaign and I am looking to run a Pulp game 1930s early 40s primarily like a Weird War 2 with Nazis, robots, weird science and occult magic. Can you recommend any supplements that might help me with campaign ideas or scenario ideas for rhis genre?

Hey Seth, are you gonna cover the Chaosium Pulp Cthulhu campaign A Cold Fire Within? To my knowledge its got more psychic talents

Interesting.

Yo Seth, hope u can review A Cold Fire Within

I like how, despite being a more action focused game with an easier difficulty curve and lowered mortality, pulp cthulhu is actually liked by basically everybody, it is rare for such kinds of spin off to be so successful, guess that the catharsis that comes from kicking the deep ones ass after countless classic cthulhu games of getting mindfucked (and also regular fucked) by them is something that you can get into very easily.

For something "completely different," I would love for you to run and review on a module such as "The Dying of St. Margaret's", or any similar "the investigators are doomed" module. These strike me as being beyond even Purist in their philosophy, and I have a hard time wrapping my head around them.

📝 you should make a video listing what Scenarios are best played as Call of Cthulhu or Pulp Cthulhu.

I use to run my Call of Cthulhu games as pulp style games in the late 80's .long before the Pulp Cthulhu rules ever came out .

Seth is there a monster manual for call of Cthulhu because I don't know a lot about Lovecraft books and would like to run a campaign centred around Cthulhu.

I know it's probably been said before, but the difference between clairvoyance and psychometry: Clairvoyance: I see the present, but not from my perspective. I can't see what has been or any great detail about emotive events, but I can see what currently is with great clarity. Psychometry: I see the past as it pertains to this item, especially emotional events. I can't leave this item's frame of reference, but if this item has "seen" it, I can through it with great clarity. So clairvoyance, you can see a thing's present state, but only the present. Psychometry, you can see a thing's past, but you need the thing to do it and only that thing. Basically, the difference is the limiting factor - for clairvoyance, it's that you're limited to what currently is, for psychometry, it's what item you're looking through.