Quote from: Pierce InverarityHoly cow, that's an awesome line. And it has so many applications, too.

What's better is everybody grilling him on what that means and then Chris blurting out "I hate you!"

I have yet to get to those two, but I finished a collection including At The Mountains of Madness recently and I found myself kind of dragging. The violinist piece and the one ghost-written for Houdini were quite good (names escape me right now), though the Strange Music one is over-short like a crab puff of Mythos, the Dunwich Horror crackles along quite well, and The Thing On The Doorstep is brilliant (IMO). Many of the rest I found...sluggish, though I'm willing to attribute AtMoM's slowness to knowing all about Elder Things and Shoggoths ahead of time.

My thoughts on Cthulhutech:

I don't have a problem with the concept.  I'm with Christmas Ape - the concept of humanity as insignificant being in and of itself a foundation for horror is dated.  Very, very dated.  

Which is probably why most contemporary horror writers avoid it - Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Saul, Clive Barker, etc.  The focus is more on "hidden evil/supernatural forces that must be defeated".

Personally, I always run CoC as a Dashiell Hammet novel with horror elements.  A lot closer to the pulp horror novels that were popular in the 20's and 30's than Lovecraft's more science-fictiony stories.

Lovecraft was a decent enough writer, but I hardly think the Cthulhu mythos is the end-all and be-all of horror.  Personally, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward novella was always my favorite (and the best one adapted to a movie).

That all said, I'm not sure this execution is exactly what I'm looking for.  It sounds like a Palladium-esque game (very similar to Splicers and/or Nightbane).

But, I'll wait until I see the final product.

Quote from: Christmas ApeI have yet to get to those two, but I finished a collection including At The Mountains of Madness recently and I found myself kind of dragging.

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