Cthulhu vs. the Tarrasque

[EditorBFG]

Can cuthlu penetrate DR/epic?

He's divine, so yeah, as I understand it.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

Cthulhu, no question. Of course the real question is, how would Big C do against a Super Sentai Squad in giant Tesla-Crowley Golem-mecha? Hmmm?

And there's art a-coming to demonstrate this...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Cthulhu, hands down!

 

[Jim Hague]

Ah yes great Cthulu... fear me puny mortal for I am strange and possess many tentacles!

Not much of a contest deities are killable even strange nonsensical deities mad with the taint of noneuclidian geometry. The tentacled one looks at Big T waiting for the beasts mind to explode, and it eats him.

Then again I really dislike Lovecraft and his pitiful little "oh no it's strange and doesn't make sense I will now go mad and commit suicide in horror" ideas, so I'm biased.

Oh, jeez.

Go read some of Derleth's stories on the Mythos...or, since we're talking D&D, Robert Howard's. You do know that conan's 'demons of the Outer Dark' are, essentially, Howard's take on Lovecraftian creatures, right?

Please don't go crapping on writers you pretty plainly know very little about. If you want to put an opinion forth, please, in future, make sure it's informed.

 

[The Human Target]

Cthulhu, by the rules as written.

My friends and are are gonna use the D20 stats for Cthulhu and pit his giant Horrorclix mini against the Colossal Red Dragon mini that my buddy bought.

Its gonna be..... glorious.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Oh, jeez.

Go read some of Derleth's stories on the Mythos...or, since we're talking D&D, Robert Howard's. You do know that conan's 'demons of the Outer Dark' are, essentially, Howard's take on Lovecraftian creatures, right?

Please don't go crapping on writers you pretty plainly know very little about. If you want to put an opinion forth, please, in future, make sure it's informed.

I've read Howard and I don't mind his take on the Lovecraft Mythos so much. Derleth I haven't read. Regarding Lovecraft I've read precisely two of his stories, one involving the scientist who discovers that the air is really monsters and The Call of Cthulu itself though that was nearly a decade ago.

I disliked the themes and motifs of his work and feel that the way he wields the memes that true knowledge will drive men mad as they are inherently unable to handle it and the inevitability of a dark and horrid fate mankind can not prevent are disgusting in their weakness and the renouncement of responsibility for ones own fate. His writing was not bad by any means I simply find the ideas he used reprehensible from an ethical standpoint and reserve the right to criticize him as I will. I have not attacked you, do not attack me.

 

[ValhallaGH]

Intelligent, thought out and well written replies!? On the Internet!? What's next, world peace?

reserve the right to criticize him as I will.

A poor policy on these forums. Personal attacks are frowned upon, regardless of the recipient's health, involvement on these forums or lack of either. Given your skillful reply to an unwarranted personal affront, I'd hate to see you get banned for any length of time.


P.S. My money's on Cthulhu. Not because he should win but because he will win; if nothing else, he'll simply take over the Tarrasque and use it to distract one of the meaner Elder Gods while Cthulhu attempts to usurp the more powerful entity.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

to critisize I said not attack.

I was perhaps overly harsh in my first characterization of his work, it is not bad, I simply disagree with its themes. Lovecraft was a skilled author and from what little I know was not a bad person. Yet his work is not to my taste and I do not approve of the way he uses certain ideas in them nor will I ever.

Saying so is not a personal attack and if I have been misinterpreted I hope this has cleared it up. If not I cannot control what goes on inside the heads of other people nor do I want to.

 

[EditorBFG]

I worship Lovecraft like a god, but I find a disagreement with his central tenet-- that the true nature of the universe cannot be understood by humans without driving them mad-- to be a fair viewpoint for someone to have. I personally enjoy Lovecraft's perpsective in context, but I think if a person disagrees with it, they are certainly not criticizing due to ignorance; it shows that they understand Lovecraft, they just don't like him. Fair enough.

I will say this: There is a lot of genre fiction out there with the opposite viewpoint, so much so that Lovecraft is, in many ways, refreshing, and no doubt he was moreso in his time.

 

[snikle]

I agree, Lovecraft is a god. Try reading some of his other work, my favorites are The Dunwich Horror and The Shadow Over Innsmouth.