Details here:  http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2013/11/best-rpg-descriptive-words-phrases.html

If you suggest something, please give me a context and/or anecdote from your own gaming experiences.  Thanks!

VS

Come on, man. At least give me a question I can answer to without having to click on that link. Please?

Not worth clicking on the link.

Good list of Lovecraft's famous adjectives (plus some other words)!  I'm not sure I agree with this though:

Quote from: VengerSatanisMy point is that they should be used with greater frequency.

I think it's easy to overdo-it with such words.  Lovecraft himself, though definitely unrestrained when he wants to be, tends to release such adjectives in kaleidoscopic, multifarious torrents of daemoniacal profusion, rather than scattering them throughout at an even distribution.  They work better when they're special, in other words.

Some of my own personal favourite evocative words:

Tenebrous - it means dark or shadowy, also obscure.  I like it because it has an ancient Latin quality to it, and it sounds sort of spidery.  Bonus points because it's an epithet of Orcus in D&D.

Mucilaginous - even those unfamiliar with this word know that its suggestive of mucus and its secretion.  Mucal is also a word, but it actually means "pertaining to mucus," whereas mucilaginous is more "like mucus" or "similar to mucus" - sticky, viscous, oozing, etc.  A thoroughly disgusting yet oddly sophisticated-sounding word.

Corpulent - as a more grotesque word for "fat."  I like it because it suggests a kind of morbidity, a corpse-like quality, again derived from the strongly Latin sound.  I use it to describe bloated blood-drench fiends or swollen alien egg-sacs and the like.

Putrescence - a word Poe uses to great effect.  I like it because it's a noun that encompasses decay and all its concomitants.  It's wonderfully vague and very useful, suggestive and repulsive and unsettling.

Hecatomb - has a nice ring to it.  Useful for hideous sacrifices and the like.

Gloom - may just be the most evocative word in the English language, for my money.  Even though darkness doesn't make any sort of sound "gloom" somehow manages to sound like it's somehow onomatopoeic.

Haven't clicked through the link, but your examples are great. I agree with others, though: they need to be used judiciously to avoid the spoken equivalent of purple prose.

Unctuous...

Glabrous.

Using those words too often is like scrubbing the head of your dick with sandpaper.  When I read ACKS I was tired of "cthonic" by page 9.

The 4e CoC rulebook is choc-a-bloc full of great meta-humor, one of the best parts being a two page list of "lovecraftian" adjectives (gibbous, glibbering, meeping, necrous, etc. etc.) and suggests that if you read the entire thing in one sitting give yourself (not your character) a d3 sanity loss.

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But, yeah not clicking that link.

Squamous.

Why is everyone acting like clicking on the link takes some sort of progious effort or investment?  Are you guys really so reluctant to visit someone's blog?  It takes more effort to write "Not worth clicking on the link" than it does to click on the link.

Some other words that haven't been mentioned:

Mephitic
Noisome
Malodorous
Glistening (in relation to slimy things)
Seething
Writhing
Pulsating
Slick (simple but rather evocative)
Tumourous
Iridescent
Deliquescent

Quote from: Old Geezer;705560Glabrous.

Using those words too often is like scrubbing the head of your dick with sandpaper.  When I read ACKS I was tired of "cthonic" by page 9.

To be fair, ACKS uses that in the original meaning of the word, which is in pretty common use in discussions of the Gods and worldview of time period ACKS is modeled around.

Ichorous doesn't get enough airplay these days. Also did anyone mention viscid? I'm mentioning viscid.

Quote from: Bobloblah;705594To be fair, ACKS uses that in the original meaning of the word, which is in pretty common use in discussions of the Gods and worldview of time period ACKS is modeled around.

That does not prevent it from becoming tiresome.

Tentacular! Bilious! Visceral?

Rugose!