[OT] Big Cthulhu updates!

[Krug]

From OgreCave.com -
Chaosium cultists loose at GTS
Chaosium was moderately high profile, despite all the recent rumors flying around (which feeds into their Latin motto, "All rumors are true"), having a decent sized booth in the third exhibit hall and a big ad on the show bag. Arkham, the latest Cthulhu supplement, is shipping now, complete with a fold-out town map in the back and small fold-out newspaper in the front. Disciples of Cthulhu II will continue the stream of popular Lovecraftian fiction this month, followed later (no date specified) by The White People and Other Tales. Further down the line, H.P. Lovecraft's Kingsport will describe the famed coastal town for CoC, imitating the neighboring Arkham with a tourist brochure and fold-out map. A second edition of The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana will bring 150 pages more than the previous edition, including an expanded Necronomicon appendix and a Cthulhu Mythos timeline. Last among the planned products, the long awaited Secrets of Japan will detail the Great Old Ones' effects on the Land of the Rising Sun. And yes, it will explain the enigma that is adult tentacle anime, though it won't make it any less odd.

 

[frankthedm]

From OgreCave.com -
And yes, it will explain the enigma that is adult tentacle anime, though it won't make it any less odd.

What is so odd bout that genre?

It is designed to appeal to mysoginistic phalliphiles in a country where you have to blur out real reproductive organs. I do think Overfiend's manga creator may have been a Mythos reader though since the continent of "Mu" was reference in one of the episodes.

 

[trancejeremy]

Hmmm. No Pulp Cthulhu, though.

That's a shame they seem to dead set against releasing that, because I think it would really help re-energize Call of Cthulhu, which IMHO, is getting a bit stale. (Delta Green did the same thing for a while...)

All they seem to be doing is re-releasing older books. Which is okay, but...

 

[Alzrius]

I'm experiencing some sort of temporal distortion...hasn't some of this already been done? I know I picked up the second edition of Encyclopedia Cthulhiana at the last GenCon (at a song for only $5 too), and it has the expanded Necronomicon section, and the expanded timeline...

 

[cptg1481]

I use this kind of stuff all the time

Just recently I used the skeletal elephant (yu-gi-oh) as a mount for a mummy. It worked out swimingly....I'm looking at others as well.

I get cool terain and prop pieces from the dollar store, like I got some cool boats (canoes actually) that are perfect scale for a river adventure ala deliverance - without the man on man action inferances of course.