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Roll an extra die and take the lower of the two possible values when it is a bonus and the higher of the two when a penalty die. Roll 85 and 45 with a 5 units die an 80 and 40 tens dice. If it's a bonus then the roll is 45 and if it's a penalty 85. For firing in darkness I'd say it's hard (50%) or even extreme (1/5th skill) to start and maybe throw in a penalty die for other locational reasons.

There's no specific penalty for firing in darkness given in 7e IIRC so it's a judgement call. Shooting at someone in Cover (50% + concealment) is generally a penalty die so I might either go for that or make it hard and give a penalty die depending upon actual circumstances (range etc). A fast moving target is also a penalty die so it could be two or more penalty dice with the worst combination counting.

Don't believe so, It seems to be financed by the BBC and produced by two outside companies. Netflix bought the rights to distribute the series in the US although with a sound track that was different due to licensing restrictions.

But for a lot of people the 1920's is within living memory of their parents or grandparents and I rather suspect (having lived in the US for a number of years) that the parallels between 2008 and the Wall Street crash brought home to many people the similarities between the two were more real than might be apparent - food banks loss of homes via bank repossession and the like. The UK has just had a fourth and fifth series of the Peaky Blinders show greenlit and that's British gang wars in the 1920's and if that can get enough viewers for BBC 2 (a second tier channel on terrestial television) to warrant five series then someone likes it. Even if they regard it as a British version of The Sopranos there is interest there and the parallels between the numbers game run by American Mobsters and the racecourse rackets engaged in by the British gangs are very clear even if bookkeeping on courses was legal in the UK the protection rackets used by the gangs and their turf wars were not very different. The lack of a movie industry glorifying the gangsters as the US industry did with Cagney's films is really the difference in the populations general knowledge of the period. Plus of course we didn't get Prohibition which although well meaning still affects American society today.

While I enjoy things like Ripper Street and Penny Dreadful I don't think that they are very big in terms of a significant number of US-based people in the Venn diagram that is the overlap between gamers and people interested in sitting down and watching an hour of a pseudo-Victorian semi-horror/investigative program.

Unfortunately while it's one of my favourite periods too the American demographic doesn't buy it. AFAIR one of 'new' Chaosium team mentioned this and so until that changes I can't see a full Gaslight product for 7e. A peak time tv show set in the period from Amazon or Netflix might change that but I really doubt it. The 'Victorian' period for US gamers is Billy the Kid or the Gunfight at the OK Corral rather than Gaslight Boston, NYC or Paris or London.

If you can find a Canadian store that sells Chaosium stuff then as Chaosium are now part of Bits and Mortar any store in that program should be able to supply the pdf. Same for Cubicle 7 stuff. It's free for a store so any store should sign up as lots of publishers use B&M to support stores.

There are suggestions that starting skills are capped at 75% (Keeper's Book page 48) Let him have 100% in Firearms as he'll still Fumble/Malfunction on 00% anyway. I'd also point out that a lot of Mythos creatures are immune to gunfire and take minimum damage. Spending all those points on Firearms will make him fairly useless at just about everything else so don't offer any opportunities for him to shoot stuff and when he does arrest him and throw him in jail after warning him that shooting things never solved anything.

Cap any Interpersonal skill (Charm/Fast Talk/Intimidate or Persuade) test with the language percentage. E.G the player of the Turk may have 75% in Charm but as far as Charming someone in English goes it's 11%. Combined skill rolls is on page 55. Also check out the Languages section on pages 66/67 The minimum to communicate is 10% - simple ideas. Anything sophisticated like changing someones impression of you or changing their mind needs to be 40% or higher as 30% allows "transactional requests" - How much is this meal or similar.

Go to Chaosium's web site and join there.

Perhaps they confused August with September for the worldwide release.

I saw a recent announcement about another campaign for 2017. An organised play campaign (for CoC) works by releasing a campaign in segments to Cult of Chaos members for play either in their own home or at Organised Play sessions at a game store (with the permission of the store as it presumably want's to sell material for CoC to people and OP encourages that). There is a forum here for discussing the campaign. It is behind a password wall which you get access to on joining the Cult of Chaos.

On another thread Mike mason said that the pdf's should be updated by the end of the year (2016). No word on a new printing with those incorporated.

Might be a year or more as most of the folks who really want the books got them with the KS and recent second shipment. Don't know how many people are left who might be buying the new books to use up any stocks necessitating a second, revised, printing in a short period of time

AFAIK There is no second printing with corrections. The second shipment is, I believe, the same as the first. There has been no notification of any second printing with updates/corrections/errata.

I don't know if ESDEVIUM actually distribute Chaosium's stuff as they seem to never want to pick up anything whenever I've seen a smaller company try to get into UK distribution. I know of a number of rpg publishers who say that they never got any response to queries about being distributed by ESDEVIUM. AFAIR (based on MOB, Chaosium's VP, posting here) the worldwide release date was third week of August. As I said before Chaosium ship from their European distribution hub in Exeter so buying direct will get you the books at UK shipping prices.

Chaosium has copies and they ship from their warehouse in the UK so if you don't want to get it from your local FLGS you can order from them. The first ship contained backers copies and a smaller amount for people who jumped on the wagon around March. The second shipment hit Lowestoft mid/early August and official store/retail release date was around the 21st August IIRC.

Mythic Saxons is in playtest. I believe that it's due in 2017.

Like Rust our group doesn't use miniatures and relies upon the descriptive powers of the Keeper or the scenario writer to convey atmosphere and use our imagination to 'see' the place and people being described. Things we use to support this often include atmospheric music, appropriate physical props, handouts and time of day (gaming late in the evening with reduced lighting for example)

Err you can use Roll20 for free unless you want the extra bells and whistles that come with a subscription. It's misleading to say otherwise when only a GM needs to pay for those extras anyway. Fantasy Grounds has no single player free option and only if a GM buys an Ultimate license can their players play for free. Stopping a FG sub removes your ability to play the game on their platform. Stopping a Roll20 sub means you continue with the free option. YMMV depending on what you want from a VTT so take a look and make sure you check out the costs before coughing up lots of money.

I've used Roll20 and it's good for CoC. It supports handouts and you can upload maps and the like to show players. It's a bit of overkill if you play Theatre of the Mind (no minis or grid for combat) but does everything else just fine. Google Hangouts has been my app of choice for on-line gaming but that's going corproate so isn't as useful now. Skype works OK and do any number of orher collaboration tools. Twiddla is a whiteboard app with a die roller for example.

Official Release date IIRC was this week and stocks at distributors were embargoed until all the copies were available to world wide customers so you should be good to go. There are very few supplements so far written for 7e but conversion is simple as it's really only the stats that need multiplying by 5 to get them from 6th or earlier editions to be suitable for 7e. Ones I definitely know are for 7e are Cubicle 7's World War Cthulhu - London, Cubicle 7's Curse of Nineveh, The Derelict, which was Chaosium's FreeRPG day 2016 offering, is now available in print. Horror on the Orient Express also from Chaosium. Sygian Fox's The Things We Leave Behind (a modern set of scenarios) has just been authorised by Chaosium and should be released to non-kickstarter buyers in the next week or so.

One per player is what the answer was on the DM forums. I'd personally give a deck to the player who has the most trouble deciding which SE to pick or the one most struggling with the different concepts in Mythras.

Glad I picked up a copy of Stormbringer at Continuum's Bring and Buy/Flea market this weekend must have ahsd an inkling of that announcement.

I play it that a Critical Success is an Extreme Success plus something narrated that is awesome. 6e suggested that a Critical includes the target being stunned as a result of a Special or Critical hit so I might go with that as an 'extra' when someone rolls a Criitical.. A critical in 7e also ignores Yig's armour. A critical in 7e when rolling DEX for Initiative also gives bonus die.