"I never said anything about being a hero." Beautiful delivery from Ross.

"Someone made rather grizzly work of one of our asses!" As Rob and I die at the same time.

Vaughn and Carter are such a dynamic duo. Amazing together

The opening combat is why many people play Masks using the Pulp Cthulhu rules. And, yep, you can have 2 penalty dice (and up to 2 bonus dice).

You are all absolutely fantastic actors, but Jeez, Ross around the campfire talking about Heroes was something else

Whoever is doing the score for this show is killing it! The music is adding even more cosmic horror vibe.

Whoever told you that the DEX bonus to initiative for having a readied firearm only lasts for the first round of combat is ABSOLUTELY incorrect. There is a gameplay example on page 115 of the rulebook that clearly shows you are able to make use of the bonus for every combat round that your gun is drawn and readied. If you use the optional Movement During Combat rule (pg 127) however, you will lose the bonus if you move before shooting.

Ross and Noura singing G&S had me rolling around laughing ❤ and may I reiterate, what a brilliant job Ross/ Vaughan did narrating the prelude to Season 2! I can't wait!

The only thing I have to say is "great cast." This episode was a joy to watch.

NOURA!!!!! Spinach does that to my teeth too AND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. Right here sista! (Eventually asked my dentist: it's an acid crystalizing on your enamel.) Ross, how could you pass up "looks like someone tore us a new ass-hole, old boy."?

“…an entendre I didn’t quite intend…” I’m dying here this is so great hahaha

Nobody asked me but a food I refuse to eat is Liver. Traumatic childhood memories of horrible smells and forced to eat poorly cooked Liver. As for Kale, this is stupid, but massage it first so it turns bright green and then cook with it. It really works. Just rip it up and roll it like a meatball, first.

Love Ross and his way with words

You guys are definitely the best live plays around!

I appreciate Rob for dying at the comment, "Something made rather grizzly work of one of our asses." Everyone should have lost it. Sad!

Double bonus or penalty is possible. For the rifle shot that put the child kharisiri down, a bonus die for point blank range could've been appropriate. That would've canceled 1 penalty die.

I like this channel, specially when they play Call of Cthulhu rpg. This is better entertainment than TV.

Hey guys! Lovin' this run, amazing chemistry, but some friendly keeper advice. The +50 for a readied Firearm can always be applied *as long as they are firing their gun and nothing else*. I don't remember if they lose their movement or if they get it later at their normal DEX order. And don't forget to add your damage bonuses on melee attacks!

"I wouldn't call that heroism. It's just murder." Vaughn is something else. A good something else. Get Ross on the show more!

Re: using 40 luck points, I believe Troy set the rule of only using up to 10 at a time... Not sure if that survived through later sessions, but I think it was put in place to prevent overruling the dice too hard.

38:55 - That's hilarious; Carter, the one we perceive to be a bit of a wimp and out for himself, gallantly runs and attempts to save his "newish friend." Vaughn, the hardened soldier, is the first to run and almost loses his mind. Fairuz, the bad-ass persian lady, offloads her pistol into the nearest monster and then runs away. Margo, the German with the frown lines, initially fights but, after Carter engages the monster, runs away and joins the others! Goes to show that the most unlikeliest of people can become heroes when the times get hard!

I have been looking forward to this ep! CoC seems like such a fun system, I just got the starter set and hope to start playing it with my siblings soon.

A real man poet ross is

I would really love too see the art of the heroes around the border of players

Great episode and love the dialog between characters and also the NPC's. Amazing cast

New ep, let's go.

man this is awesome. probably my new favorite from you guys

i also get the spinach teeth thing! people think i'm crazy when i try to describe it. my food i cannot tolerate is olives.

Noura talking about spinach and the feeling on your teeth after eating it, is the most seen I've felt in years.

I'm loving this series! I wish I could look at a virtual board (roll20 and so on), and see the rolls. You could use the macros for the rolls, too, that can totally help with the rules.

Such a great episode!

at around 40 - Carter fought back and got a hard success. That means he should have done brawl damage to the child.

Best session thusfar! Keep it up guys.

I can never remember whether cilantro is parsley or coriander.. I don't think I like either, but parsley is extra ick. Also kale is petrified carpet underlay. Eating upside down does make sense for pizza though, since it puts the good stuff in contact with your tongue. I believe the dex order rules state that anyone with a firearm drawn and leveled at a target gets +50 to their usual dex for initiative purposes at the start of every combat round, not only the first. They have to fire immediately on their turn though, or they lose that bonus. It's a way to make it worthwhile to spend an entire turn drawing a gun, where you could otherwise throw something to do actual damage, & to ensure that you can't charge someone with a drawn gun without risking being shot before you can swing. However, it's much simpler to pare things down to allowing anyone with a gun drawn & wanting to fire to act first in each round & then anyone without a drawn gun or not wanting to fire act second, in their respective dex order; basically split each round into two for fast stuff & then slow stuff. The CoC rules have a lot of details that I think are mostly best ignored or simplified for the majority of games (smoothing the less-needed stuff for pace & house-rulesing things that fit circumstantially). The nice thing is that all that detail does allow you to pick & choose to customise a game for the kind of experience you want players to have & how grim it should be for their characters, it just requires everyone to know what's going on & for those house rules to be consistent (or applied when it'd make sense, such as with spending luck). Aww, Carter. Some day it'll be you doing the abandoning. You can apply 2 penalty or bonus dice to a single roll, believe it or not. You probably shouldn't though. Poor victim didn't find that at all amulesing *twirls moustache*

I suspect Ross will need a new character before the end of Peru due to that sanity

So good

Any character who doesn’t desperately try to get back to Lima and GTFO of Peru at this point has lost a *lot* of sanity

NOURA!! That spinach thing with my teeth! EXACTLY that!

It keeps getting better!

what a great show! I love it.

This story reminds me of The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro.

This episode is Rob Kerkovich's coming-out party! This show is now firing on all cylinders, and it's just the right time for this campaign! Buckle up nerds! 'Bout to get real.

Who's on the rewatch train with me?

Ross should try durian it's a cultural thing

Bonus / Penalty: "Roll the 10s die twice." There.

Cilantro tastes like soap to me, but I like it?

Woot!

I get that teeth thing with raw spinach too

When did kale go from the garnish on the buffet table no one ever touched to being a super food

Troy has great taste. Les Stroud is the man.

why does nobody ever bring a flame-thrower??

I hope Vaughn packed a bayonet for that Lee Enfield. A flashback to the Somme and going over the top would not be complete without a bayonet charge.

Ohoh! Dead Space rules apply... 😊

Dead Space vibes

I wont eat Foi Gras and other weird organs/parts like kidneys, tongue and stuff like that. It's mostly the idea that makes me queasy

I’m pretty sure pistols have more than 3 rounds in them...

Lucky they are not using the 86 rule.

Loving this show this cast and this adventure!!!!! Small game mechanics note: iirc Tillinghast used some luck to make a successful attack at one point in combat, however luck can’t be spent on combat rolls.

Cilantro is amazing and no other opinion matters

#FKALE lol

14 mins in Ross is down to 27 SAN? Oh, that character is fuuuuuuuucked.

Watching someone explain rules poorly is like kale stuck in your teeth.

Maybe easier to just say: "roll the attack twice, take the worst". The whole tens or hundreds is a distraction.

You seem to be playing Jackson as a lot more scholarly than I thought of him, but tbh it does work, especially as a foil to what seems to be a more martial/adventurous sort of cast, especially for Classic Cthulhu (two characters with guns, one with a rifle, plenty of combat skills). In my experience, Masks really does shine with the Pulp rules, since it was sort of a Pulp campaign before Pulp Cthulhu was a thing, but I've run it as Classic and we still had a blast. One pedantic thing about mechanics though. You don't seem to be doing Luck quite right - you can't use it for Sanity rolls, and you also don't regenerate it every session, but every chapter, at least in Classic Cthulhu. If this is just a Pulp addition, I'd recommend allowing some more uses for Luck taken from Pulp Cthulhu, such as avoiding certain death, especially with Masks being a bit of a meat grinder. I also understand what you meant, but referring to the indigenous regions of Peru as "uncivilized" came off a bit, uh, bad. Puno is one of the cultural centers of Peru, for one thing. As for Luis de Mendoza's name, "de Mendoza" would not be a very common name, and in fact would stick out a lot as being antiquated. Just "Mendoza" would be more common - it'd be like a modern-day Englishman having the last name "de Poitou." It marks him out as being from a pretty ancient lineage. Specifically, "de" in Spanish names means "of," and is almost always seen in aristocratic names in the modern day. Since Peru does not have formal orders of aristocracy, the surname "de Mendoza" would mark LdM as being a Spanish aristocrat, though perhaps a very minor one given his line of work - sort of like the "hidalgo" class made famous by Don Quixote. An aristocrat with nothing left but his surname. (ofc, we all know LdM is something much darker by this point, but I think that'd be the vibe someone well-versed with Spanish-speaking cultures, such as Jackson, would get. For Luis himself, he probably comes from an era before most people had surnames beyond something indicating who their father was. So someone named Hernando whose father was named Fernando would be called "Hernando Fernandez," while his son, Enrique, would be called "Enrique Hernandez." Mendoza means "cold mountain" in Basque, but there was also a noble family prominent at the time called the House of Mendoza, so either Luis was a commoner from a place called Mendoza, or he was a scion of the de Mendoza noble family)

4 actual episodes and 0 deaths. Hmmm...is this actually CoC? I feel like we're heading towards a TPK soon. This group is just so great. It truly is a joy to watch the story unfold. But damn it to hell with these cliffhanger endings! Now I'm wondering if I ever truly want to catch up and watch an episode live because at least playing catch up means there's another episode to immediately cue up. I'm kidding. I'm truly going to catch up. The series is too awesome not to do so.

Why one should not rush to judgment: recently, in the first episode, someone accused Noura of cheating during character creation. Had they continued to watch they would see that she has made some honest mistakes. Additionally they claimed she cheated because she's female implying that all females cheat. This is so incredibly unfair to Noura who has proven to be a thrilling player to watch over and over again!

Rob was great right up til he said he hated cilantro. Now he's dead to me. /sarcasm

Foods - Cauliflower... if a fart could burp and then blow it in your face - that's what cauliflower tastes like.

I hate how percentile dice are. Like is the 00 a 0, or a 100? a 100 doesn't make sense, because then you could roll a 109; so it must mean 0. But what about the d10s 0? is that a 0 or a 10? It it's a 0 then your range is only 0-99. So it that 0 must be a 10? If it's a 10, then it just gets messy. Like rolling a 20 and 10 means 30. (it's not hard to do the math but you have to add them together.) maybe you just make 00 0 into the 100? It's just messy.

Players trying to be funny seem desperate to me.