133 episodes
Stars Are Right | Call of Cthulhu TTRPG actual-play podcast Stars Are Right
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4.8 • 13 Ratings
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Weekly actual-play of the Call of Cthulhu table-top RPG, 7th edition.
Join our talented cast of role-players as they investigate mysteries humankind was never meant to comprehend.
Featuring a mix of published campaigns and original scenarios. You don’t need to know the rules of the Call of Cthulhu table-top RPG to enjoy the stories, just an appreciation of the other-worldly and creepy, and a sense of humour!
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4 - Exhibition of Dread - Suffering for Your Art
In the gruesome finale of the scenario, the desperate students descend to the depths of the college, uncovering a burning truth about the former sanatorium and the ghosts who haunt it. In their bid to escape, the investigators meet some very strange gallery patrons who have an equally strange request. Yes it’s madness, but is it art?
You can buy this scenario to run for your friends! Check it out here.
Cast:
Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore
Lydia as Simone the potter.
Tyler as Maia the painter.
Jayson as Leo the musician.
Knoxicles as Bernie the jewellery-maker.
Audio Editors:
Tyler & Jayson
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For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate. -
3 - Exhibition of Dread - Artistic Hacks Amongst the Stacks
The students find themselves hating the rich kids who got them into this mess. Maia has torn off much of her face, Bernie has been hassled by a ghost, and no one is having a good time. Will the answers await them in the library, or should some truths be left alone?
You can buy this scenario to run for your friends! Check it out here.
Cast:
Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore
Lydia as Simone the potter.
Tyler as Maia the painter.
Jayson as Leo the musician.
Knoxicles as Bernie the jewellery-maker.
Audio Editors:
Howl & Jayson
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For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate. -
2 - Exhibition of Dread - Revisiting Old Haunts
Our group of students continue exploring the so-called “haunted” college building. Choosing to let sleeping security guards lie and indulge their artistic curiosity, they sneak past and poke around in the back of the gallery. They soon come across some pieces that affect them more than art usually does…
You can buy this scenario to run for your friends! Check it out here.
Cast:
Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore
Lydia as Simone the potter.
Tyler as Maia the painter.
Jayson as Leo the musician.
Knoxicles as Bernie the jewellery-maker.
Audio Editors:
Seb & Jayson
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For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate. -
1 - Exhibition of Dread - Who You Gonna Call? Ghost Hipsters!
Chapter one of our playthrough of a new, and super spooky, Stars Are Right scenario: The Exhibition of Dread by Jared Tallis. Join a ragtag bunch of art students as they tour the college buildings after dark in search of artistic inspiration, but get more than they bargained for.
You can buy this scenario to run for your friends! Check it out here.
Cast:
Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore
Lydia as Simone the potter.
Tyler as Maia the painter.
Jayson as Leo the musician.
Knoxicles as Bernie the jewellery-maker.
Audio Editors:
Braydon & Jayson
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For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate. -
Announcement: the state of the stars
Wonderful cultists,
The earliest part of 2024 has been a series of failed rolls that we’ve been continuing to try to Push, but unfortunately we’ve not always succeeded.
There have been some critical successes as well as fumbles, though. First of all, the inimitable Braydon has, through fel magicks, brought his own new spawn into the universe. Join us in welcoming Reya (and admire her either on Discord or on our Patreon!)
Gilly’s also had her own life changes, in the form of having to travel extensively for work this year! She’s consequently not able to join us on the regular for the next part of our Berlin campaign, but we’re sure you’ll join us in wishing her well on her adventures and hoping she can come back soon to play with us!
Thus, we have had to make some changes in how we are doing things on our end, at least for the time being. Here’s the breakdown:
We’ll be reducing our release frequency to every two weeks, rather than every week, in order to rebuild a buffer, and rush less with recording and editing.
We’ll be tweaking our patreon offerings to make our bonus content more accessible. Beyond The Madness, our post-recording chit-chat show, will soon also be available at the Cult Initiate tier! The Cult Elder and Avatar tiers will continue to have exclusive access to our bonus game-play. This will soon include a second play-through of Alone Against the Static (for any completionists) and The Necropolis (run by Gilly, to help you not miss her too much!).
The next adventure released will be The Exhibition of Dread, a spectral one-shot written by Jared Tallis and published by Stars Are Right. Berlin the Wicked City part 2 is currently being recorded and will be released after that, everything progressing smoothly, so get hyped!
The idea behind this slowing down is for us to serve you the finest Deep One Steaks instead of mere soggy fishburgers, and to ensure that we can keep putting out the podcasts that you’ve all been loving. None of this would have been possible without you, and we appreciate the ongoing support that we have had over the years.
Onwards and upwards, with many hopeful things on the horizon.
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2 - Alone Against the Static - A Walk in the Woods
The second and final part of Chaosium's newest Alone Against... adventure. Can Seb make the right choices to reunite Alex with his lost love and escape, or is it already too late? Stick around for some Beyond-the-Madness style chit chat afterwards!
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For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic fun and cosmic horror
Thank you Stars are Right team! I’m having so much fun listening to your podcast. Love the scenarios and brilliant production, but what makes it extra special is the fantastic chemistry between all of the players and the characters you create. You are having a great time and are so invested - it’s infectious, I love it and I can’t stop listening :)
Good vibes only
A real gem of a podcast with all the elements I want in an actual play, a great group of players who bring a variety of characters to life brilliantly, an accomplished keeper with a relish for the horror but also the humour of the game, and exactly the right mix of professional sounding game play, but still keeping in every dice roll and all the goofy table talk so you feel like you’re playing along with them.
They have an online community too, and they all seem really fun, friendly people, with a special mention for Phaedra who binds everything together brilliantly, it’s honestly a joy to listen to her infectious enthusiasm.
Stars are Right
This is a great actual play podcast. I had never listened to an actual play podcast before this one, and tried it see whether my own CoC players might like to play the scenario, Children of Fear. 40+ hours of listening later I had forgotten all about that, and was genuinely invested in the characters. It’s a nice blend of tension and humour which feels like a really good play session, and not like an overblown dramatic production. I have since listened to a couple of other actual play podcasts and realised how good the production and pacing of Stars are Right podcasts are.
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