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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is an exception there; I think that one truly is pretty creepy.
Hyboria - More of the same?
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MonsterMash
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To go with the digression about Lovecraft I think that the Color out of Space is genuinely creepy, but at times the language can get a bit overheated.
I'm still waiting to see the Mongoose Conan RPG, so can't comment on that. I think I like Hyboria as a setting because it is formed of nations with sterotypical/archetypal descriptions, but personally I use the Wilderlands as my D&D campaign setting.
I'm still waiting to see the Mongoose Conan RPG, so can't comment on that. I think I like Hyboria as a setting because it is formed of nations with sterotypical/archetypal descriptions, but personally I use the Wilderlands as my D&D campaign setting.
Tars Tarkus
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Aaron L said:
Ditto! And very scary to boot!
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MonsterMash said:
Not to go further Off Topic (well, actually, yeah, to go a little further off topic) what's the Wilderlands setting like? How is it similar to Hyborea (there, that brings it back!)
Joshua Dyal said:
I often wonder why nobody has done a CAS rpg (well, aside from the obvious issue that almost nobody at all knows who CAS is) - I think Zothique would be the best for this. The mood and tone of this world is really great and surprisingly different from most stuff out there - a world in inevitable decay and decline that wallows in baroque and necrotic indulgences as it slides toward the end of time. It has a really great atmosphere, and I've even heard that it might have lapsed into the public domain too so there might not even be licensing issues.
Andrew D. Gable
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Accolades, my good man! Clark Ashton Smith's stuff is great. The man gave us such COC standbys as Tsathoggua and Mordiggian, but we forget him. And remember the issue of Savage Sword that placed Zothique west of Antillia, so it can even go in the Hyborian Age.
Personally, I'd love a gothic RPG (sorta an OGL Ravenloft, and, yes, I know of Mongoose's Horror) set in Averoigne.
Personally, I'd love a gothic RPG (sorta an OGL Ravenloft, and, yes, I know of Mongoose's Horror) set in Averoigne.
Snoweel
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Joshua Dyal said:Well, yeah, I guess there's nothing we can do to change your mind then.
Well actually, S'mon makes a convincing argument (unlike Wulf) - it's etirely possible that Mongoose has taken the standard world-creation line of using analogues to represent the cultures of Hyboria. Like I said, I haven't read any of Howard's books (I'm having a very hard time finding anything other than Conan pastiches in the bookstores here), and it may be that the uniqueness of the Hyborian cultures is lost in translation, so to speak.
Henry said:
Wow.
Another one. Big Ern (Hemingway) blew his brains out with a shotgun iirc. Here's one more reason I don't wanna take that step to publishing any of my stuff.
It seems writing pushes one over the edge.
Agreed. His ideas, though rich...in the actual story department I agree with you in thinking Lovecraft is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overrated...I think that roleplayers set themselves up to be impressed by his stories after the RPG gives him such legendary status. An example of how much people are influenced by hype, perhaps.
As far as bigging up Rats in the Walls goes...my memory of Rats in the Walls is that it has a "punchline" at the end, like some kind of scarey joke, which didn't really do it for me at all. And his prose is the most purple I've seen from anyone, and he's not really a master of it either, IMO. Lord Dunsany does purple prose which is a lot more evocative, poetic and fantastic than Lovecraft, IMO.
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