Reply With QuoteI've never run a straight Cthulhu game. However, I have many of the modules and the monster books just because they were excellent resources for a dark world (not WoD - just a game that was placed in a tainted world) game I did run.
We use Chaosium-written modules.
We write homebrew modules.
We've battled cultists.
We've battled monsters.
We've battled Great Old Ones and/or Outer Gods directly.
Most party members survive with their wits intact.
We use creatures from Lovecraft or published sources.
We make up new beasties as needed.
We play Cthulhu d20, not the original BRP version.
Cthul-who?
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I've never run a straight Cthulhu game. However, I have many of the modules and the monster books just because they were excellent resources for a dark world (not WoD - just a game that was placed in a tainted world) game I did run.
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Actually, I've never played a straight-up Cthulhu game either. I have played Delta Green, and it was one of my all time favorite TPK's.
For future reference, if I say that there's a sniper across the lake with a Barrett .50 cal, don't ask a bunch of stupid questions about how I know it, just duck. Otherwise, the entire affair will end in flaming badness. Trust me in this matter.
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I'd vote for him.
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At least we'd know what we were getting.
I like good old 1920s BRP where your expecting to die or go insane
Originally Posted by Ed Zachary
He's had my vote since 92
I don't exactly play CoC. I play Bureau 13 with guest appearances by the Lovecraftian horrors.
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Any way I can get it is how I play. I like to have a game of it rather than just a one shot every now and then.
Normal people worry me.
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MY LITTLE CTHULHU
along with MY LITTLE VICTIMS, Complete with Realistic Dismemberment Action!!
We use Unknown Armies. The madness meters are far superior to the madness tracking systems in any other Cthulhu games that have been published.
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I love Call of Cthulhu, unfortunately I almost never get to play it. One of the players in our group refuses to play anything he dubs as a "victim game". CoC is at the top of his list.
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He's got my vote.
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How do I Cthulhu?
As a diehard, Call of Cthulhu and BRP fan, anyway I can. It seems that the Cthulhu Mythos leaks into just about any campaign I run.
I notice I'm not alone. Cthulhoid monstrousities are common place in D&D. The first published 4ed module had a distinctly Cthulhu-esque flair about it (evil cultist, portal to another world, a thing from beyond).
RPGs and horror often go hand in hand and was there a more influential horror writer of the 20th century than H.P. Lovecraft?
I think not.
Gary
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