Cthulu? Wtf..?
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Psimancer
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It’s also interesting to note that H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (the creator of Conan the Barbarian) were pen-pals and that both stories reportedly shared the same setting, albeit during different time periods. Some very Cthulhu-esque beasties appear in the Conan stories, such as Yog Sogoth…
I think it was "...Why vote for the Lesser Evil..." - They had t-shirts and badges and campaign packs... It was one of my favorite t-shirts of all time...Templetroll said:
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TheAuldGrump
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Turjan said:
And the even better Walker in the Wastes by Pagan Publishing... dang! that adventure is, ummm, cool!
The Auld Grump - Stupid aside from when Call of Cthulhu D20 and Star Wars D20 came out...
Player 1: So you could have Cthulhu creatures in Star Wars, like Darth Vader fighting Ithaqua?
Me in Darth Vader voice: I find your lack of feet disturbing...*
*I warned you it was stupid...
The_Gneech
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Actually, Howard wrote several "contemporary" (meaning set in the '20s) Cthulhu cycle stories as well. One of their favorite tricks was to reference a common "tomes of forbidden lore" such as "Nameless Cults by Von Juzt" and of course "The Necronomicon" in order to give the books the sound of legitimacy.
It's hard to imagine two more different guys -- Howard was a rough-and-ready Texan and an accomplished boxer, while Lovecraft was a retiring and prone-to-sickliness New England scholar. But they both admired each other's work greatly and corresponded a great deal, although they never met in person.
-The Gneech
Thorindale
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Also try Toy Vault..... My ex-wife actually got my the large-sized one right after the divorce....kinda makes you think what was going through mind?
I'm looking forward to the giant-sized one. Might make an interesting passenger on my road-trips.....
WayneLigon
Adventurer
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Many of Lovecraft's contemporaries in weird fiction were friends and corresponded a great deal. There are volumes of published letters by both men, and others of the time period. It's just something you did at the time. Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch (probably still most famous for writing 'Psycho') and others of time time all shared the Mythos around. They cross-pollinated, each using the other in stories as subtle jokes. Bloch kills off Lovecraft in one of his stories, Lovecraft speaks of the sorcerer 'Klarkash Ton', etc.
Because of that tradition, Lovecraft has also proven to be amazingly influential on modern horror fiction. Many, many people have written 'Mythos' stories and many more mention elements of it. Marion Zimmer Bradley lifted most of her Darkover place and house names from Lovecraft (Thus, don't feel fooled if you pick up 'Heritage of Hastur' thinking it's a Mythos book; she just uses the name, along with Hali and a few others). Stephen King uses Mythos names several places (Along with at least two full blown Mythos stories, 'Grandma' and .. another one that escapes my memory), even in 'The Strand' and 'Eye of the Dragon'.
A more recent turn is combining the Mythos with other genres. 'Shadows over Baker Street' is an entire book of tales involving Sherlock Holmes and the Mythos. 'The Arcanum', a book I just finished, features Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marie Lavoux, and a very young HP Lovecraft as members of a secret society protecting the Book of Enoch, the book that chronicles the mistakes of God.
The_Gneech said:Actually, Howard wrote several "contemporary" (meaning set in the '20s) Cthulhu cycle stories as well. One of their favorite tricks was to reference a common "tomes of forbidden lore" such as "Nameless Cults by Von Juzt" and of course "The Necronomicon" in order to give the books the sound of legitimacy.
It's hard to imagine two more different guys -- Howard was a rough-and-ready Texan and an accomplished boxer, while Lovecraft was a retiring and prone-to-sickliness New England scholar. But they both admired each other's work greatly and corresponded a great deal, although they never met in person.
-The Gneech
Try Robert Silverberg's Gilgamesh in the Outback. In the story Howard and Lovecraft are in Hell roaming a vast desert looking for Gilgamesh of Uruk. Robert's reaction upon finally meeting Gilgamesh after all those years is priceless. Even better is Howard's reaction to learning about the joys of swashbuckling and derring do. Something akin to, "Robert, you didn't tell me adventures are fun."
TheAuldGrump
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Turjan said:Unfortunately, I don't know that one.
It may be stupid, but it is funny! I had to laugh out loud at this image!
A review on RPGnet of Walker in the Wastes.
The person that I used the Vader line on got the hiccups laughing... (And WitW and the joke are causually related...)
The Auld Grump