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October 18th, 2016, 06:07 #1
Old School CoC player and GM question. 7th ed vs 5th ed? Differences?
Title says it all what are the differences between 5th and 7th? Most of my experience is with 5th and earlier. I would like to try CoC on FG. Is it mostly the same? Or radically different?
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October 18th, 2016, 07:54 #2
Call of Cthulhu is essentially the same game.
The mechanics have changed a little each edition but its the same game.
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October 18th, 2016, 19:58 #3
Not many changes between 5e (or 6e for that matter) and 7e - the big one is stats/abilities are percentages too (basically the previous value x 5), the resistance table goes away, introduction of skill check difficulties (standard, hard, extreme) and some mechanics to give investigators a slightly better chance of succeeding at skill checks (pushing a check and the luck points mechanic).
There's the 7e quickstart rules (free) here: https://www.chaosium.com/content/Fre...rt%20Rules.pdf
"The New Edition" section (with the following sub-sections) give a good overview of what stays and what's new in CoC 7e: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...he-new-edition
For Fantasy Grounds: There is a 6e ruleset available here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store....xcp?id=DGA070 With quite a few supporting scenarios here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store...search=&sort=1
There is a CoC 7e extension that helps to run 7th Ed on the 6e ruleset here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...ension-Release
There is a full (commercial) 7th edition ruleset in development too. Two events at FG Con this last weekend were ran using a test copy of this in development ruleset.
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October 21st, 2016, 04:52 #4
Great info Trenloe! I definitely hope to find some CoC games......if there is a good ongoing weekly or semi weekly 7E campaign I would be very interested in joining.
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