Azathoth took Toughness?

[kenjib]

This is kinda OT, but I love Lovecraft and ecspecialy the Cthulu Mythos. Is there a book that has all the Cthulu stories that lovecraft wrote? I mean, I have one called the Cthulu Mythos, but only two of the stories are writen by lovecraft himself. Thanx.

Arkham House put out some really excellent editions in hardcover, including nice revisions, editing, and stories penned as a ghost writer, a collaborator, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...4370/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_71_2/102-5398983-8328126

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870540386/ref=pd_sim_books/102-5398983-8328126

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870540394/ref=pd_sim_books/102-5398983-8328126

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870540408/ref=pd_sim_books/102-5398983-8328126

It's four volumes and hardcover, so it's pretty expensive, but they are really nice. The editor, S.T. Joshi, is a rather active H.P. Lovecraft scholar and Arkham House is the publishing house that revived H.P. Lovecraft, pulling him from obscurity. Maybe someone else can recommend some paperback editions, but I think these are the best ones.

If you don't want all four, here is the order I would buy them in:

1. The Dunwich Horror and Others: This one's got many of the best and most classic stories.
2. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels: Longer stories here. There are a few dreamworld fantasy pieces, which I don't think were HPL's strongpoint, but some amazing classic horror stories like The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, and a couple others are really great.
3. Dagon and Other Macabre Tales: A higher ratio of dreamworld stuff here and some stories that are kind of like table scraps. There are some great ones mixed in but this one's a bit more of a mixed bag. Some of them can be best appreciated from a more esoteric viewpoint in how they relate to HPL's body of work.
4. The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions: These are collaborations, revisions, etc. and thus are not 100% written by HPL. They are a mixed bag, some are interesting but none of them are all that famous.

It's all good though, but that's my opinion on them. I'm sure you can find better reviews elsewhere online with a bit of research.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hello Akunin mate!

Hi Akunin!

Did you get the email I sent a few days ago mate!

I was having trouble with hotmail, not sure if I deleted one of your posts or accidently blocked your address - while I was dispensing with a flood of junk mail!

Have you tried to send me something over the past few days?

 

[Information]

Re: Cthulu D&D crossover

I know that I'll probably catch hell for saying this but I'm very excited with the stats in CoC. I'm waiting to get my hands on a copy of it and then the Epic Level Handbook. I really want to do a serious powergaming epic campaign. (Call it munchkin if you want to) I just want to have a good old hack/slash adventure where the PC can take on gods after reaching epic levels. Azoth would really make a great "Final Boss" for very epic level PC's to challenge. I really don't care to much for 'staying true to the spirit of Lovecraft.' I'm more concerned about having a fun game, even if more serious roleplayers will call it munchkin.

Amen to that!

Stats are great! I can't wait to get Deities and Demigods and Faiths and Pantheons.

 

[Akunin]

Re: Hello Akunin mate!

Hi Akunin!

Did you get the email I sent a few days ago mate!

I was having trouble with hotmail, not sure if I deleted one of your posts or accidently blocked your address - while I was dispensing with a flood of junk mail!

Have you tried to send me something over the past few days?

Yep.. Thanks! I spent the last week helping put together a 100-something-player Vampire LARP on a rented Riverboat, and am in "recovery" from the event right now

 

[Moleculo]

YOu know what would be awesome? To make a campaign where all your characters are gods, and then having them have to fight the gods from CoC. that would be awesome! heheh


jake

 

[Upper_Krust]

Re: Re: Hello Akunin mate!

Hi Akunin mate!

Yep.. Thanks! I spent the last week helping put together a 100-something-player Vampire LARP on a rented Riverboat, and am in "recovery" from the event right now

Phew! Thats okay then.

'Get well soon!'

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi jake!

YOu know what would be awesome? To make a campaign where all your characters are gods, and then having them have to fight the gods from CoC. that would be awesome! heheh

That is our campaign!*

...and it is awesome!

*though to date the Sword Gods from the Melnibonean Mythos have been more of a thorn than the Great Old Ones I must be honest.

 

[Gez]

Just _what_ gods are not in your campaign, by the way ?

Oh well. I have another silly question in the Immortal Handbook thread. A bit off-topic, by the way.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Gez mate!

Just _what_ gods are not in your campaign, by the way ?

None.

They're all out there somewhere - its a big metaverse you know!

Oh well. I have another silly question in the Immortal Handbook thread. A bit off-topic, by the way.

I know - I just replied. Metabarons looks cool I must admit!

 

[Pielorinho]

My housemate had a pretty funny reaction to the book. I've been looking forward to it for about a year now; she, a conservative CoC player, has spent the last year saying how superior Chaosium's version was to any version made with D20 rules. Even the fact that John Tynes and Ken Hite, two of her favorite designers, were working on it didn't overshadow her contempt for D20.

I picked the book up yesterday, and as we drove to gaming, she looked through it. After two minutes (which I think she spent perusing Azathoth's stats, looking for his ability to double in size every round), she closed the book and told me, "This version isn't as subtle as previous versions." She sounded very confident in her assessment, given that she'd had a full two minutes to look through it.

I've been teasing her pretty strongly about it.

Personally, I've never played CoC: its reputation as a character-killer doesn't really do much for me, and while I enjoy horror fiction, I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy playing in an unrelentingly grim setting. However, I *love* pulling in lovecraftian horror elements into the game I run, so I'll probably steal (and modify) the sanity rules, as well as yoinking some of the nastier spells for use by my nastier cultists. Other than that, it looks like a fun read.

Daniel