You need to be smart and work together, and remember that brute force isn't always the answer. A monster might seem immune to every bullet you put into it and appear unstoppable, but its greatest weakness might be the flashlight you have stored in your car, which could burn it up like a pile of dead leaves just by shining the beam on it.Ĭall of Cthulhu combat is less about it being unfair, which it isn't meant to be, and more about being smart, such as not rushing Cthulhu with a pistol and expecting to live. Balance is as important in Call of Cthulhu as any other game, but you have more creative ways of keeping it balanced. Cthulhu was injured by a boat imagine what a 120mm AT cannon would do. The power of monsters is overstated a lot, and really, unless you get to the truly big, bad, awful things, a heavy arsenal can handle just about anything you'd expect to run into combat with, and even those bigger things are still vulnerable. If it was, then the players wouldn't have time to stop the cult and they'd all just converge on them and gun them down. Not really in agreement with the idea that the game's meant to be unbalanced.
I hope that helps answer your question, but this game is pretty different from say D&D, so if you have any further questions please reach out:) In fact, the enemies don't really get more powerful (unless you want them to, all the rules are really suggestions and Keepers should do whatever works for their game), the players get progressively weaker as their sanity is drained away. True to its nature, horror is supposed to be disturbing or at least have a sense of helplessness. While players can increase some skills, the majority of the game is spent role-playing a horror themed game. The idea is to have the players figure out what's going on, then you can add a weakness the "monster" has for the players to discover (you only need to do this if the monster is supposed to be defeated, many scenarios revolve around other ides such as escape, NPC protection, or stopping the horror as opposed to killing it).Ĭall of Cthulhu's mythos monsters are mostly overpowered to insane levels, and Investigators don't level up in the usual sense of the word.
CALL OF CTHULHU MONSTERS PC
A cultist or ghoul is about the best any PC could hope to slay the conventional way. It is not balanced in the normal way, and Investigators are actually discouraged from battling enemies too much. So here's the major difference between Call of Cthulhu and most other systems.
But a skills based system is not as intuitive for me. If your campaign has been running for awhile, and your PCs have increased their skills a bit, how do you create monsters that are appropriate for the group? Coming from a level system, it was easy.
I have a question about levelling monsters.
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