I’m apparently overplaying my hand a bit. I’d be better off saying I don’t think it’s an automatic gimme that only Cthulhu could be a sensible dreaded choice for Innsmouth as a domain.
I’d be happier with 3d6 or 2d10 than 1d20.
The 3.5 Unearthed Arcana has a section on using 3d6 that, as I recall, really got into the weeds in a good way about it.
Here we go:
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/bellCurveRolls.htm
Why everyone else said. Maybe my meta-favorite thing is that there’s no presence of medievalism - it’s unabashedly fantasy with more modern touchstones. I’m good with that.
@Thommy H-H : What I see here is essentially all negative evidence. If the question is “Must there not be any association between Cthulhu and Innsmouth?”, that’s fine. But it seems like most of us are asking if it’s required that Innsmouth be connected to Cthulhu, and does it benefit Innsmouth...
And he’s citing Wikipedia’s quotes from Robert Price, by far the least reliable of prominent Lovecraft experts. Price is the equivalent of that astronomer who keeps claiming unusual asteroids/comets are aliens: he’s got genuine chops in th field, but for a long time now, you learn more about...
Okay, so I didn’t miss anything. Thanks. It’s just that Cthulhu is down the list some of Great Old Ones I’d link with Innsmouth. (What I’d do with it is a write up of not as an intrusive element in an existing setting, but that’s just me.) Guess we’ll all know in a couple of months.
Do we actually have any reason to believe Cthulhu is in it? The article writer said “presumably”; I don’t remember WotC giving thm reason for the presumption.
My cardio rehab case manager describes herself as one “who can be kind of a dick” when not working with clients, having to rein in sarcasm in journals and notes and like that. So it’s as you say. :)
I was startled and delighted to discover the King County Library System has copies of an audiobook of Madeleine L’Engle reading A Wind In The Door, the sequel to A Wrinkle In Time. It is wonderful. Recorded in 1994, her voice has strength and vibrancy I remember from her at a lecture and reading...
From my cardio rehab session today:
“Another One Bites The Dust” is a good song to perform CPR to, because it’s right at 120-122 beats per minute, which is the right rhythm.