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I Am Just An Awful Call of Cthulhu Player...

Started by Planet Algol, November 25, 2011, 10:15:42 PM

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Ghost Whistler

#75
December 03, 2011, 05:44:13 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;492025That is "straight" only inasmuch as its how the CoC Swine decided you must play CoC.

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oh lord.
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Planet Algol

#76
December 03, 2011, 08:30:31 PM
Martial arts plus kick equals 2d6 + db of non-impaling damage, ergo jacking up Kung Fu.
Yeah, but who gives a fuck? You? Jibba?

Well congrats. No one else gives a shit, so your arguments are a waste of breath.

soltakss

#77
December 03, 2011, 09:14:09 PM
Quote from: Simlasa;493327Bloch gets a pass... but Derleth and Lumley are poison in the well AFAIC, and should be filtered out as thoroughly as possible.

Derleth and Lumley are worse than Lovecraft?

Thanks, I'll avoid them like the plague, then.
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Blackhand

#78
December 03, 2011, 10:37:21 PM
Quote from: soltakss;493532Derleth and Lumley are worse than Lovecraft?

Thanks, I'll avoid them like the plague, then.

You should make your own assessment of that situation.
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TristramEvans

#79
December 03, 2011, 11:24:47 PM
Quote from: soltakss;493532Derleth and Lumley are worse than Lovecraft?

Thanks, I'll avoid them like the plague, then.

Derleth is pretty much schlock, yeah, and he also added some of his own ideas to the Cthulhu mythos, claiming at the time that he was expressing Lovecraft's true intentions, which were anything but (like dividing the Elder Gods up based on associations with the 4 classical elements of Air, Earth, Fire & Water).

It's worth noting here also that Lovecraft himself did appoint an official "successor" during his lifetime...which would be Robert Bloch, best known these days as the author of Psycho.


If Lumley is the guy who wrote those Titus Crow books...then yeah, he's also really, really bad. His prose style is the equivalent of hitting oneself on the head with a brick for hours.

I find that with Lovecraft it's best to go backwards rather than forwards, to his own inspirations rather than his imitators. Robert Chambers, Arthur Machen, and Lord Dunsany I all highly recommend.

Aos

#80
December 03, 2011, 11:31:29 PM
I think hitting myself in the head with a brick for hours would be preferable to reading Titus Crow again.
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Benoist

#81
December 04, 2011, 12:14:37 AM
Quote from: Werekoala;493323The picture Benoist just posted on his Facebook is relavent to this contention, especially re: Cthulhu. I'd post it if I knoew how... :P

You mean my avatar here?

TristramEvans

#82
December 04, 2011, 12:36:23 AM
Quote from: Aos;493542I think hitting myself in the head with a brick for hours would be preferable to reading Titus Crow again.

Well, yeah, at least at the end of it all you'd still have a brick, which is somewhat useful.

Makes a good Hogswatch gift.

skofflox

#83
December 04, 2011, 01:23:54 AM
Quote from: Akrasia;493078:confused: RuneQuest was never "level-based".

thank you...
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Simlasa

#84
December 04, 2011, 03:51:29 AM
Quote from: TristramEvans;493541I find that with Lovecraft it's best to go backwards rather than forwards, to his own inspirations rather than his imitators. Robert Chambers, Arthur Machen, and Lord Dunsany I all highly recommend.
Yeah, imitators are generally weak... but the guys who can take HPL's themes and avoided the urge to merely name drop/catalogue the 'Mythos'... Ramsey Campbell, Karl Edward Wagner, Thomas Ligotti... Junji Ito... they can provide some ace stuff.

TristramEvans

#85
December 04, 2011, 03:55:45 AM
Quote from: Simlasa;493562Yeah, imitators are generally weak... but the guys who can take HPL's themes and avoided the urge to merely name drop/catalogue the 'Mythos'... Ramsey Campbell, Karl Edward Wagner, Thomas Ligotti... Junji Ito... they can provide some ace stuff.

Yeah, come to think of it, Joe R. Lansdale's Mythos stuff has been pretty awesome, sort of a spiritual successor to Manly Wade Wellman in a way.
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