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80s D&D was always the DM sets the rules and has a lot of discretion in what to apply and how to handle things. So as a player you just go with whatever the DM says and it could vary DM to DM. One DM just roleplays NPC interactions while another rolls on a reaction chart which is modified by PC...

Dead Things: The RPG Microlite20 Zombie: Most zombie literature says that being bitten by a zombie turns you into a zombie, I agree. However that thinking leads to short character lives. So here is how we do it in Dead Things. Zombie attacks are all considered scratches and abrasions except for...

I played in a game where we had to consult with a not adversarial NPC oracle type warlock of the Old Ones and the madness was played up quite enthusiastically and was fairly creepy. It was the opposite of Clint's situation, it was not appropriate to just kill him but we could see how wrong he was.

Red Nails! Where he poisons, then kills a carnivorous stegosaurus. "It must be as big as an elephant,"muttered Conan, echoing her thought. "What the devil——" His voice trailed away in stunned silence. Through the thicket was thrust a head of nightmare and lunacy. Grinning jaws bared rows of...

I also remember doing things like having a serpentfolk cultist complete a ritual summoning when the party uncovered their lair and giving a mythos style description to giant amoebas the Pathfinder Bestiary 2 which was a nice flavor change from enemy clerics summoning things like fiendish wolves.

I have used gods from the Cerulean Seas Campaign Setting which include some variants of Cthulhu along with using some mythos cult information from the statless Cults of Freeport sourcebook.

I have run modules that used Yig and Hastur as entities, serpentfolk cultist sorcerers of Yig and Hastur, a plot involving the Great Race of Yith, and a module of a lost city that ended when half the party died after they uncovered a Shoggoth (the other half fled).

With a few more days left on the Cosmic Horror sale I was wondering to what extent people have used Cthulhu mythos stuff in their D&D games. 1e Deities and Demigods in its first printings had the Melnibonean and Lovecraftian mythos pantheons and Pathfinder 1e has a bunch of mythos creatures...

When I ran the Reign of Winter adventure path I expanded on it with a bunch of time plot and different incarnation elements for "The Baba Yaga" along with the Hut that is bigger on the inside and can travel to different worlds. There can be a lot of rich overlap between Doctor Who and Baba Yaga...

Liber Artefactorum True20 Undead: ?

Took me a little while to find the hut. The Froghemoth(?) tends to draw the eye in that picture for me. Did the Hut have a Time Lady witch associated with it?

It makes a big difference on what the afterlife is like. If it is 4e D&D where Asmodeus lives in Hell, is a real god with powered clerics, and death sends you to the Shadowfell before moving on to the unknown it makes no difference on your afterlife if you worship him or a good god. In Dante's...

I found moral alignment useful as a guide in portraying a monster or NPC. Just a possible hook to riff off of. So CE 3e orcs were generally rowdy marauder lawbreakers. LE AD&D orcs were bullying thugs who worked for a boss. It did not matter if different people would interpret those...

I liked 3e alignment as pure descriptors and cosmic forces. So animate dead to create undead has the evil descriptor not because it is icky, but because it is tapping into a cosmic force of evil. I leaned into this in house rules giving undead the Evil descriptor, fey the Chaos descriptor etc...

Big Trouble in Little Oaktown True20 Ghost: ? Zombie Minion Bugbear: ?

Ok, the Muses are evil. Alternatively I now know torture techniques.

With Moorcock they would come back in though.

True20 Freeport: The Lost Island True20 Undead: As the rulers grew desperate and their armies depleted, they instructed their magicians to call upon preternatural forces for help. As a result, scorching magics added to the devastation. Amidst this chaos, new gods touched the minds of futilely...

James Spader, Kurt Russell, Ancient Egypt, and Sci-Fi. I liked it. :) The movie didn't have any non-English letters. In the title that is.