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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1104332" data-attributes="member: 7177">Nice. Though in a true Lovecraftian vein, "Benevolence" should either impotent, or a cosmic evil in its own right.Perhaps it caught the Great Old Ones slumbering, threw a few wards over them that should barely hold for a millenium or two (if that), and then took credit for "saving the world" (yeah, right...).Or perhaps it is just another of the Masks of Nyarlathotep playing mind games with humanity...Fun story: Among those who discuss the Cthulhu Mythos, a popular theory is that the "burning bush" that Moses saw on Mount Sinai was actually a manifestation of Yog-Sothoth. Letting the investigators learn of this theory is a nice way of adding to the "You are soooo screwed" feeling that is so essential to Lovecraftian horror.And of course, the same thing can be done with other worlds - if some stout Defenders of the Faith (i.e. religious-minded PCs) learn that some angelic or divine manifestation that appeared to one of the religion's prophets or founders was actually a vile alien entity that the ramblings of a madman turned into something beautiful and good in religious doctrine......well, if any of you do this to your PCs, tell me about the looks on your players' faces.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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