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Sans Detour Call of Cthulhu 7th edition unboxing video

Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 7:12 pm
by Scott Dorward
If you fancy watching someone else opening a Christmas present, Paul Fricker has recorded a video of himself opening a huge box of goodies from Sans Detour. The associated blog post also includes lots of pictures of the books themselves.

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Re: Sans Detour Call of Cthulhu 7th edition unboxing video

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2015 10:05 pm
by Keeper Jon
That is bad ass! Thanks for sharing!

Re: Sans Detour Call of Cthulhu 7th edition unboxing video

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:13 am
by Scott Dorward
I wonder how many Call of Cthulhu players are currently busy brushing up their French. :)

Re: Sans Detour Call of Cthulhu 7th edition unboxing video

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 4:06 pm
by PirateLawyer
Scott Dorward wrote:I wonder how many Call of Cthulhu players are currently busy brushing up their French. :)
Although I have not yet purchased this product, fortunately I can rely upon my time in Canada's excellent French immersion program in public school. As such, I own quite a few of Sans-Detour's fine CoC books ...

Re: Sans Detour Call of Cthulhu 7th edition unboxing video

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 4:59 pm
by Gladius
Thanks to Paul for doing this, I had taken a bunch of photos of mine but was dreading the uploading/posting of them :)

This thing is awesome-sauce. I love the use of period photos throughout the rules books, it really gives me a good idea as a keeper as to what the setting was like, rather than some of the terrible cartoony art in the Chaosium 7e. Then the monster book is all fantastic artwork.

Even though I don't have more than 2 years of French, I will still be able to use some of this stuff. I can easily use the monster cards as handouts (since my players won't be able to read the French stats anyway :twisted: ). As for the rest, it's great to look at.

Also amazingly high production quality, kickstarter was this spring and it's already fulfilled (Chaosium, get with the program!)

Re: Sans Detour Call of Cthulhu 7th edition unboxing video

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:21 am
by Odin
Wow. Just wow.

That is amazing. Hopefully we'll get the same exact thing in English on the stateside.

Re: Sans Detour Call of Cthulhu 7th edition unboxing video

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:20 am
by Paul Fricker
As far as the text goes, the Keeper Rulebook and Investigator Handbook are translations of the English books that Chaosium are publishing. They do look nice, but I won't be able to tell which version I prefer until I see the English version in print.

Do you think the period photographs work? They convey a period feel, but for me, Call of Cthulhu is modern day as much as 1920s. When I ask 'do they work', I mean do they excite you and make you want to play the game?