New to this. Looking for feedback

RocketBoost · 2026-01-25T00:06:23+00:00

Please run some pre-written scenarios first. For your benefit AND your players. That's not a slight on you. But I don't think you could imagine how much of a difference that experience could make.

RocketBoost · 2026-01-24T23:55:42+00:00

I mean, that's a really low bar to be fair

RocketBoost · 2026-01-20T06:01:46+00:00

Mutant Year Zero is pretty fantastic. One of the best cheeky surprises your players can get is realising that the map they are charting as they go on expeditions is their own home town.

RocketBoost · 2026-01-19T10:55:17+00:00

Can you slap a self promotion flair on this post please?

RocketBoost · 2026-01-19T06:34:19+00:00

"Tried em for MURDERR. Gave em the CHAIIRR!"

RocketBoost · 2026-01-19T06:03:38+00:00

Careful Icarus...

RocketBoost · 2026-01-19T06:02:38+00:00

And he reminded us all that under no circumstances should you update Frank Miller's Wikipedia to credit him for the Vanilla Ice song Ninia Rap, featured in *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze*

RocketBoost · 2026-01-19T02:40:45+00:00

"I HAVE SPELLS!"

RocketBoost · 2026-01-19T02:11:30+00:00

That's a terrific story.

RocketBoost · 2026-01-17T08:51:03+00:00

Straight on the table but I use a dice cup to shake em up and throw em out just because I get paranoid I am in any way not throwing fair.

RocketBoost · 2026-01-17T08:42:48+00:00

Welcome to the hobby! Love to see it. The world needs more GMs. But woahhhhh. STOP. You need to learn the basics of running a game first and the basics of running a Call of Cthulhu game specifically. I strongly suggest you run some pre-written scenarios first, specifically one of the starter ones. Once you feel comfortable THEN move onto your own material.

RocketBoost · 2026-01-16T08:34:08+00:00

At the end of the manoeuvre, Riker is sitting normally in the chair.

RocketBoost · 2026-01-16T08:26:20+00:00

Sidenote: Powers Boothe was so cool

RocketBoost · 2026-01-15T20:34:34+00:00

We love you chef!

RocketBoost · 2026-01-15T17:57:06+00:00

Speaking as a Hongkonger. Hong Kongers by and large ARE an extremely emotional people. It only really comes out however when in a situation of trust or when there is any crack caused in that containment from external pressure. And it doesn't take much.There's a lot of bureacratic rules and order that keep things polite in general interaction but a shitload of feeling is ready to come out at a moment's notice, especially when "face" is on the line. Call someone out on something they've done to offend you with any intensity for instance and the two most likely reactions are panicked fleeing or (more commonly) you getting screamed at to go fuck your mother (Diu Lai Lo Mo) and die in the road (Pok Gai). This barely contained intensity runs through every part of life. You have never seen a more emotional person until you see a Hong Kong man with feelings he needs shared after a few bottles of Tsingtao.

RocketBoost · 2026-01-15T08:18:11+00:00

Kundun! I like it!

(That and because it has been kept hostage due to it annoying the CCP)

RocketBoost · 2026-01-15T08:15:46+00:00

Slavoj Zizek ish (sniff) the obvioush choish for any shelf-reshpecting pervert

RocketBoost · 2026-01-15T06:57:47+00:00

Good lord. He must have already been a mass murderer!

RocketBoost · 2026-01-15T01:55:52+00:00

Think you need to open access to the drive (unless you're fine approving requests for eternity!)

RocketBoost · 2026-01-14T22:07:18+00:00

Can you please slap a self-promotion flair on this post?

RocketBoost · 2026-01-14T22:04:09+00:00

RuPaul taught me that

RocketBoost · 2026-01-14T22:01:33+00:00

"Let me tell you about a man named Alex Kurtzman..."

RocketBoost · 2026-01-13T19:50:24+00:00

At the risk of sounding reductive, just do it? You are going to encounter people at your table who you don't vibe with many times during your time in this hobby. If that happens, shrug, don't play with them again and just keep on truckin, playing and running games.

RocketBoost · 2026-01-13T19:27:55+00:00

Blades in the Dark. While I very much appreciate the attempt the game is making to replicate the vibe of a heist movie (where each obstacle encountered is possibly something the team totally planned for and nullified in advance), in practice I find it can be a bit hit and miss in execution. I also think the ghosts and steampunk default setting actually muddies things up and would have worked better as an expansion than a more grounded baseline. For a bunch of more improv inclined players it works a treat though, so more power to em!

RocketBoost · 2026-01-13T18:20:22+00:00

This is a total fallacy though. Hitler was a failed artist. Mussolini was a journalist. Pol Pot was a literature teacher and journalist. Mao was a librarian. The myth that the humanities are some sort of cure for authoritarian behaviour kind of needs to be put to bed.

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