Cthulu set in the world of Saturday Night Fever. So now you're back, back from outer space...

Quote from: David R;290911Another sourcebook that I think would be interesting is something set in Thailand. About backpackers !

Delta Green: Countdown touches on this tangentially.  There's an adventure dealing with the immigrant Tcho-Tcho community in Chicago.  It seems kind of touchy and potentially racist at first blush, until they make it clear that everyone in the Southeast Asian community fucking loathes them -- Vietnamese, Cambodians, Thais, everyone.

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Y'know I should really get into the whole Delta Green scene. The more I hear of it, the more I like.

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David R

The Delta Green thing can be taken too far at times (though, in my opinion, not by the authors -- just some of the more exuberant fans), but they really make some good, creepy sense out of the Mythos in the modern world.  Like the Tcho-Tcho scenario I mentioned above.  They're objectively and innately evil, degenerate cannibals -- even if they wanted to be good and decent, they couldn't be.  And some of them immigrated to the US in significant numbers during the '70s and '80s, just like many other SE Asian groups.  And when they've settled in the US, their Cambodian and Laotian neighbors who remember the stories from the home country are terrified and shun them, but well-meaning American social workers interpret this as some kind of relict, backwater bigotry that can be overcome with understanding and assistance.  It's a beautiful set-up, really, and generally plays on a much more modern sense of horror (not terror) quite successfully.

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If they were gonna do Cthulhu supers I wouldn't mind them just using this as source material: http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/

Still dark, but brings in the opposition the the GOOs and all.  Not too bad of a comic either.

Song of Kali, my favourite Simmons novel by some way, oddly enough contains no supernatural elements of any kind.

Which isn't to say it wouldn't make a good place to look for tone for a supplement.

Ian, is DG a series of books and if so, which ones do personally like ? Balbinus, I would use Song of Kali as inspiration for a Cthulhu sourcebook set in India, the same way I would use Don't Look Now (Roeg film) as inspiration for an Unknown Armies sourcebook set in Venice.

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David R

Delta Green started as a single, eponymous, sourcebook.  They followed with a small series of chapter books that fleshed out the background, then came out with the next sourcebook, DG: Countdown, which was huge.  More recently, they've released DG: Eyes Only, which I don't have and haven't seen.  

Personally, I'd only recommend the actual sourcebooks as must-have material, but I know a lot of people have raved about the chap-books as well.  The original book is back in print (with d20 stats along with the original BRP stats), and I think Eyes Only is still available.  Countdown may be difficult to track down.

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I came across this on my net wanderings. I figured since I know people here like CoC and True20. They might want to check this out. Shadows of Cthulhu

1) cthulhu supers...though seems a natural fit as a Wild Talents setting.

2) a whole book expanding on "The Good, the Bad, and the Utterly Insane" from Worlds of Cthulhu magazine, issue #2.  a good Western setting would be wonderful!  (like a less campy Deadlands.)

Hmmm... that reasonably interesting, but the True20 companion (and the revised corebook) has a really good horror section, complete with a SAN style system. Using that and a cthulu stuff I already have (1st ed, 4th ed, and D20) I think I could do just about anything I'd like.
Thanks for mentioning it though.

Quote from: kregmosier;2912591) cthulhu supers...though seems a natural fit as a Wild Talents setting.

I think that Chaosium's SuperWorld touched on this a bit.

Quote from: kregmosier;2912592) a whole book expanding on "The Good, the Bad, and the Utterly Insane" from Worlds of Cthulhu magazine, issue #2.  a good Western setting would be wonderful!  (like a less campy Deadlands.)

There was a good late Western period adventure in an issue of White Dwarf years back.  It was a very nice fit.  Like with the Tcho-Tchos as I mentioned up-thread, there's a lot of room for dealing with one intractable tribe only to find that they're positively hateful of that even nastier tribe in that shitty little box canyon over the ridge.

Yeah, shell-shocked Civil War vets, whacked-out fur trappers, and wood-alcohol-blind miners stumbling into the Mythos of lost civilisations.

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Quote from: Ian Absentia;291269Yeah, shell-shocked Civil War vets, whacked-out fur trappers, and wood-alcohol-blind miners stumbling into the Mythos of lost civilisations.

Sounds a bit like Blood Meridian :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian

which is damn cool....in a chilling way.

Regards,
David R

Quote from: Ian Absentia;291269Yeah, shell-shocked Civil War vets, whacked-out fur trappers, and wood-alcohol-blind miners stumbling into the Mythos of lost civilisations.

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yep, exactly that right there!

cool about the article...i'll try and dig around for it!