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What sourcebook or setting book (or even adventure) for CoC ought to exist but doesn't yet?

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Cthulhu: The High School Years
 
Supplemented by:
Hastur Stole My Lunch Money Again
Dagon and the Math Teacher's Sanity Hits

" That is not dead which can eternal lie.
    And locked in his gym locker even death may die"

-=Grim=-

Chaosium has done a good job mining Lovecraft and his followers for every drop of Mythos goodness.  

Has there been a book on the Great Race?   They could be interesting.

I know someone who was doing a translation of a Japanese monograph about CoC in the Samurai years.   I am unsure if that was finished.    He did a demo at the local con and it was a hit.  

My buddy always wanted to write Cavemen Cthulhu: Encounters with a slightly less ancient evil.  

Quote from: GrimJesta;290659" That is not dead which can eternal lie.
    And locked in his gym locker even death may die"

AWESOME!

Quote from: Spinachcat;290667AWESOME!

New pain meds. Makes me mo' retarded.

-=Grim=-

Secrets of Shanghai

Something about the Vatican, or how the main religions may be infected by the Mythos, even if only locally.

Quote from: Imperator;290736Something about the Vatican, or how the main religions may be infected by the Mythos, even if only locally.

That one would be a very good choice!

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Quote from: RPGPundit;290876That one would be a very good choice!

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Specially if they don't go the oWoD road of "Everyone at the Vatican is EEEEEVVVUUUUULLLL". But a small cult within the Catholic Church, with a bit of influence would be nice. Small enough to have to hide or be crushed, big enough to cause trouble to PCs.

Same goes for any other religion, of course. I simply happen to be more familiar with the Catholic Church.

Delta Green: Deep Ops

Your a cell who must infiltrate plots of cults, and make it out again. Good news is your allowed to kill without question, as long as you don't get caught. Bad news is you must use your bare hands.

Martial Arts rules (for COC), Information on Disguises, subterfuge, and not losing your mind in the darkest pits man was not meant to go into.

A big epic futuristic campaign...spanning the globe and our solar system...

Quote from: Silverlion;290881Delta Green: Deep Ops

A very cool idea, but dependent upon the now-very-disparate Pagan Publishing fellas.  Then again, they've sorted out their issues to put out Secrets of Mesoamerica recently, so who knows?

Quote from: Lawbag;290887A big epic futuristic campaign...spanning the globe and our solar system...

I can't recall who just off hand, but I know that someone was working on just such a project.  It wasn't CthulhuTech...was it also the Pagan boys?

!i!

[Edit: It was Pagan Publishing -- they had plans for putting out a product called End Times.  Some of the unpublished work by one of the authors was released here (http://www.opifexphoenix.com/endtime/End_Time.pdf).
Also, there's the whole Cthulhu Rising (http://www.cthulhurising.co.uk/index.php) setting material, available both in monograph and by download.]

Cthulhu set in India. Perhps something inspired by this book

http://www.sfsite.com/05a/so199.htm :

Regards,
David R

Quote from: David R;290905Cthulhu set in India.

It would be interesting, indeed, to see the multiferous Hindu pantheon viewed through the lens of the Mythos.  In fact, I think it's fair to suggest that it already has to some degree or another (e.g. Ganesha --> Chaugnar Faugn).

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Isn't Cthulhu Rising the sci fi monograph to do that already?

I'd like to do my Cthulhu-Supers game (supers are all spawned of various Yog-Sothery things.)

Ian, interesting spin on Hindu mythology. Something which I admit didn't occur to me - strange. Another sourcebook that I think would be interesting is something set in Thailand. About backpackers !

Regards,
David R

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.

Regards,
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.

Regards,
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.

!i!

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 (http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1644&qsSeries=Flaming%20Cobra)

1) cthulhu supers...though seems a natural fit as a Wild Talents (http://www.arcdream.com/wildtalents/home.php) 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 (http://www.arcdream.com/wildtalents/home.php) 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.

!i!

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.

!i!

yep, exactly that right there! ;)

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

Quote from: David R;291271Sounds a bit like Blood Meridian :

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

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

Regards,
David R

uhuh, the story starts out in a town i grew up around...my 2nd favorite McCarthy book, also. :D  Judge Holden would be a fantastic big-bad for this kind of game.  he always read as being vaguely cult'ish.

Cthvlhv Imperiovs:. The Mythos in Imperial Rome.

There was a Cthulhu Rome sourcebook... or did I dream it?

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Damn, all this talk makes me want to run a Cthulhu Western, something out of a Nick Cave hangover....wait a minute....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7V-CW_SUos so it's an Australian Western (which goes towards explaining kyle, but not droog....ok maybe droog)

Regards,
David R

Quote from: David R;291271Sounds a bit like Blood Meridian ...

Shit, I'd forgotten about the scalp hunters. :eek:  There's the topic for an unpleasant little adventure for you right there, whether you rope in the Mythos or play it straight.

See also, Ravenous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenous) for a direct tie-in to the Wendigo/Ithaqua.

!i!

Quote from: David R;291286Damn, all this talk makes me want to run a Cthulhu Western, something out of a Nick Cave hangover....wait a minute....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7V-CW_SUos so it's an Australian Western (which goes towards explaining kyle, but not droog....ok maybe droog)

Regards,
David R

Sorry not to derail (But here it goes anyway) The Proposition is a good movie. If you look'n for Aussie westerns with featuring Bushrangers you should check out Mad Dog Morgan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfXCH4IEjs).

Ian, good call on Ravenous.

Ronin always good to hear about another movie....never mind the slight derail :)

Regards,
David R

Quote from: RPGPundit;291283There was a Cthulhu Rome sourcebook... or did I dream it?

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Cthulhu Invictus.  Its in their monographs section, along with a supplement or two.

Quote from: David R;291044Ian, 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.

Regards,
David R

With that, and a Blood Meridian reference, you can be assured if you ever run CoC anywhere near me I'll be at the door hoping to play.

Or creepily staring in the window, that works for me too...

Quote from: Captain Rufus;291298Cthulhu Invictus.  Its in their monographs section, along with a supplement or two.

Uh huh, I knew it!

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Quote from: Captain Rufus;291298Cthulhu Invictus.  Its in their monographs section, along with a supplement or two.

Great minds, yaddayadda . . .

A Cthulhu Sourcebook about the Andes, Incan ruins, and the nazca plain, would be a good addition.

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Quote from: Ian Absentia;290894A very cool idea, but dependent upon the now-very-disparate Pagan Publishing fellas.  Then again, they've sorted out their issues to put out Secrets of Mesoamerica recently, so who knows?I can't recall who just off hand, but I know that someone was working on just such a project.  It wasn't CthulhuTech...was it also the Pagan boys?

!i!

[Edit: It was Pagan Publishing -- they had plans for putting out a product called End Times.  Some of the unpublished work by one of the authors was released here (http://www.opifexphoenix.com/endtime/End_Time.pdf).
Also, there's the whole Cthulhu Rising (http://www.cthulhurising.co.uk/index.php) setting material, available both in monograph and by download.]

I know there were a couple of White Dwarf adventures that were one off adventures that were ahead of its time in taking CoC out of the 1920s and into the modern day and the near future.

The Book of Erotic Insanity. Should be popular in Japan.

I wish they would put out a sourcebook devoted to  writers that inspired Lovecraft. Such as Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce , Poe ,ect.

A Dark Tower sourcebook?

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