JoeGKushner
Adventurer
So is anyone out there would would enjoy something like Cthulhu Dark Fantasy instead of Cthulhu 1930s Pulp? Maybe they could take the best of the stuff from old Robert E. Howard and work on that?
Cthulhu Dark Fantasy?
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cybernetic
Explorer
If either of you are interested I am working on a Dark Ages CoCd20 netbook at the present...
trancejeremy
Adventurer
Karl Edward Wagner's Kane series is the definitive Cthulhu-ish dark fantasy. IMHO, anyway.
But anyway, I'd like to see Chaosium put out a d20 version of the Dreamlands setting. Fat chance, especially since they apparently recently re-released the BRP version. But it's very cool - I just don't think BRP suits the epic feel of the dreamlands.
But anyway, I'd like to see Chaosium put out a d20 version of the Dreamlands setting. Fat chance, especially since they apparently recently re-released the BRP version. But it's very cool - I just don't think BRP suits the epic feel of the dreamlands.
JoeCrow
Explorer
Who's actually got the rights to Howard's stuff? I think Clark Ashton's stuff is public domain, isn't it? The Averoigne stuff would make for an interesting setting.
How much of a market for a dark fantasy/Cthulhu sword and sorcery setting do you think there is? I think it'd actually draw a lot of folks to CoC d20, from the DnD traditionalist market.
How much of a market for a dark fantasy/Cthulhu sword and sorcery setting do you think there is? I think it'd actually draw a lot of folks to CoC d20, from the DnD traditionalist market.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
Man, Clark Ashton Smith and Kane eh? Those are names I've often looked for but can never find. Hell, getting the original Conan series in and of itself is an adventure these days.
Glad to see that some think its an interesting idea. Dark Fantasy... yeah, that's the ticket...
Glad to see that some think its an interesting idea. Dark Fantasy... yeah, that's the ticket...
I just recently got a hardbound compilation of the Kane novels, Gods in Darkness. At Amazon UK you can find Clark Ashton Smith's Emperor of Dreams (a collection of short stories) and Book of Eibon (his famous Cthulhu works), as well as Robert E. Howard's Conan stories in two volumes, The Conan Chronicles and The Conan Chronicles, Vol. 2.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
I'm set with Conan. Picked up all of 'em when I was younger in paperback version and the science fiction bookclub recently did a hardcover collection.
How doe that work on s&h to Amercia with Amazon.
How doe that work on s&h to Amercia with Amazon.
Furn_Darkside
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JoeGKushner said:
Someone already mentioned the Dreamlands book from Chaosium- but they are based off original stories set there. (None I could name off the top of my head.. argh, Cats of Leng? *sigh*)
Brian Lumley wrote a 4-book series set in that fantasy world- and it has the cthulhu-weird feel to it.
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