Tag: Flashlights

Mechanics
June 29, 2016

Always More to Learn

Michael Julius posed a great question over on The Cthulhu Hack Google+ community: Say there’s an interaction with an NPC who has a negative disposition towards the PCs. For example, Peter Bulgrew in The Keepers of the Woods. Perhaps he has just beat up on a PC. Is it possible for the players to gain information from him with ‘smokes’? My response was that if […]

Mechanics
May 16, 2016

The Save

You might not appreciate the real difference between a Save and any other non-equipment roll you make in a game of The Cthulhu Hack. They’re quite different. (Actually, the current version of the rules references Tests rather a lot and these will be switched to Saves in the next revision for absolute clarity!) Saves handle risk and danger. If your character faces the prospect of damage, […]