Thread to discuss Lovecraftian Veeky Forums (like Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu) as well as Lovecraft's works for inspiration and everything fucking else.
I've been tossing around a new idea. If a PC is a war veteran, they get the skill "shell shock xx%" and an additional combat skill of their choice (xx equals that skill's initial%). They may spend an additional number of points toward their other combat skills equal to the amount placed in shell shock.
If a gun fires or another PTSD-trigger happens, he must roll against shell shock and becomes incapacitated for 1d4/1 minutes or rounds. Extreme "success" allows the keeper to gain control of the PC for 1 round.
Asher Reyes
Bump
Jordan Howard
Sounds interesting but could possibly make a character basically unplayable in any combat scenario unless you only do like 10% max
Benjamin Lopez
Heh, your player and me would've either been pals or he'd hate me. I tried joining a game as George Rockwell of the American Nazi Party and portrayed Jews as Lovecaftian cultists and took Yugioh lore to represent their "magi tech" of soulless demon machines that would later become the internet in sort of cyberpunk type shit. In game he'd be seen as suspicious apologizing for the communists that "they are a lesser evil and will not sell us out to machine devils".
GM was a libcuck though and could not appreciate the forethought. What a miserable existence it must be.
Adam Thompson
I'm a Jew and I'd support you. Who's this faggot to tell you who you can or cannot play.
Dylan Barnes
If someone was completely new to Lovecraftian style stories, where would you tell them to start? Specificly, what book or collection should i read first?
Kevin Baker
Dream Quest. If they don't appreciate it call them a pleb and cut contact.
Jack Kelly
Don't listen to this idiotdreamquest is obtuse and weird and is in no way a fair introduction to Lovecraft. ESPECIALLY if one just wants to play coc for fun. Try Call of Cthulhu first; then Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Dunwich Horror, Mountains of Madness.
Juan Parker
Man, as a libcuck myself; that's hilarious, and I'd totally let you play in one of my games, holy fuck my sides are in fucking orbit.
Adam Wright
Nothing is more fun than dreamworld scenarios
Robert Perry
If they have class they will appreciate dreamquest. Some of his best lore and gives you a real appreciation for the man's thought process.
Chase Gomez
Dream Quest is cool but I agree with the other user saying it's not the best introduction to Lovecraft, especially if you're trying to introduce someone who is expecting the typical idea of what is "Lovecraftian" or isn't used to pre-Tolkien fantasy.
By all means recommend Dream Quest if it seems like he'd be down for something that's comepletely not what he's probably expecting but if not give him Rats in the Walls, Shadow Over Innsmouth, hell even Reanimator or Haunter of the Dark.
Eli Foster
What scenarios are people running now or is everyong on Delta Green?
Jonathan Robinson
>Mountains of Madness
Don't read this first. It demystifies a bunch of stuff. I would read it last in all honesty.
Read Innsmouth first. I feel like it works as the best introduction, because it does the most hinting instead of telling.
Caleb Sanchez
All of the new scenarios in the works seem to be Kickstarter projects that I don't feel like dropping money on now so I'm stuck on new DG for a while.
Horrors of War fucking when, Glancy?
Xavier Harris
How is shadow over innsmouth not on your list. It is both cosmic, and easily the best intro because there is actually some action. I'd say that or dunwich horror are the best intros.
Lucas Ortiz
There's a girl in one of my classes who has a bit of an Innsmouth look going on. It's somewhat unsettling.
Carson Bennett
Running Night rooms tonight, hoping to kill my players first agents off (this campaign was kind of a fuck around thing to get used to the rules) , i've started researching what I want to do for my next campaign. I want to do some kind of crazy, Santa muerte narco cultists and insane border bureaucracy in the near future American south. Anyone have any ideas about how to intersect Santa muerte and the mythos? My idea is a cult based around an ancient, skeletal priestess of nyarlathotep, but the idea is still in its early stages.
Anyone running or playing in any interesting games right now?
Jose Morales
Get. On. It.
Oliver Russell
This Do you want your kids to live forever? Hell, you might even get some of that gold stuff out of it.
Matthew Morgan
But she's not even a real New Englander! How do I know it's really Deep One genetics?
Sebastian Powell
Deep Ones are everywhere mang.
Benjamin Campbell
If she has that innsmouth look it means dtf. Every time bruh.
