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Chaosium cleans up at this year's Ennies

Started by Dimitrios, August 04, 2019, 11:22:31 AM

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Dimitrios

August 04, 2019, 11:22:31 AM
Practically a clean sweep for Call of Cthulhu related products this year.

It's always impressed me how CoC manages to punch well above its weight in terms of visibility/influence versus actual number of players.

Trond

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August 04, 2019, 11:30:27 AM
Quote from: Dimitrios;1098202Practically a clean sweep for Call of Cthulhu related products this year.

It's always impressed me how CoC manages to punch well above its weight in terms of visibility/influence versus actual number of players.

Weird personal note is, I have lived in three countries, and played with a few groups in each. CoC was the only game that was present in all the groups. And I never ran it, so I'm not to blame :D

TheShadow

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August 04, 2019, 11:48:20 AM
Tradition has it that CoC is every group's second game of choice.
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Haffrung

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August 04, 2019, 12:24:41 PM
Quote from: Dimitrios;1098202Practically a clean sweep for Call of Cthulhu related products this year.

It's always impressed me how CoC manages to punch well above its weight in terms of visibility/influence versus actual number of players.

It's a game more admired than played. A dedicated group playing an immersive campaign of CoC is many hardcore RPGer's dream, and Chaosism puts out excellent content to fuel those dreams. So how many people actually play doesn't really factor into its stature as a critical darling.
 

Omega

#4
August 04, 2019, 01:42:13 PM
The Woke award? ;)

HappyDaze

#5
August 04, 2019, 05:21:16 PM
Quote from: The_Shadow;1098206Tradition has it that CoC is every group's second game of choice.

I've played in numerous groups in four different areas of the country, and only one of them would even touch CoC.

Shasarak

#6
August 04, 2019, 07:07:43 PM
It looks like a real bunch of random stuff up for awards this year.
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Theory of Games

#7
August 04, 2019, 09:20:13 PM
Chaoism is fantastic. They just keep kicking out magnificent games.
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Shawn Driscoll

#8
August 04, 2019, 10:23:06 PM
I use off-brand Cthulhu in my games.

GIMME SOME SUGAR

#9
August 05, 2019, 01:28:02 AM
I'm happy to see some fellow Swedes winning both silver and gold. Tobias Tranell is an acquintance of mine that makes fantastic maps and once we and another guy planned on making a fantasy rpg together, a worthy heir to the Drakar & Demoner Expert crown but it fizzled out due to creative differences.

JeremyR

#10
August 05, 2019, 01:34:15 AM
I pretty much owned every CoC product up to 6th edition...(then sold a bunch when I saw how much some of the stuff was going for)

I've played CoC twice. The idea of CoC is better than CoC itself.

Bren

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August 05, 2019, 01:38:27 AM
I've played CoC for decades with multiple groups of players in different cities and states. It's not for everyone, but for those that enjoy something different, its great. It's the only game system/setting where I use as many published adventures as I do adventures I make up on my own.
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GIMME SOME SUGAR

#12
August 05, 2019, 03:58:09 AM
It's a great game, but for each new product or for each "remake" of old material they seem to strive for something less horrific than found in earlier editions. I want them to make CoC pure horror. They already have Pulp Cthulhu for the ones who loves to travel the globe and blaze away with their M1911s at the baddies. I don't want to see CoC become some Miss Marple with a tad of tentacles rpg. Just look at some of their recent covers. The art isn't horrific or twisted. It's shit. If I was the art director I could easily find artists who produce more disturbing stuff. There are thousands upon thousands of talented but perhaps unknown horror artists who would jump at the chance to illustrate CoC.

Simlasa

#13
August 05, 2019, 04:12:55 AM
Quote from: GIMME SOME SUGAR;1098291It's a great game, but for each new product or for each "remake" of old material they seem to strive for something less horrific than found in earlier editions.
Yep, it's 'action horror' now... comfortably spooky... but nothing transgressive like you'll find in Delta Green or Kult... or even the WoD games. And hey, that's what the mainstream audience prefers... and Chaosium is there to make money. So we're going to have to look elsewhere if we want something 'harder' to drink.

Rhedyn

#14
August 05, 2019, 08:22:02 AM
The only thing that caught my eye from the ENnies was Forbidden Lands, but it's sold out in the US.
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