/ysg/ Yog Sothothery

It was a naked Nyarlathotep.

Playin 7th rn but honestly haven’t noticed a difference from 6th.
Although I’m chafing hard at the lack of streetwise or local knowledge as a skill. I’m a street thug for 5 years but apparently dont know ANYTHING without having to ask OOC.

Campaign is egyptian mummy rose from the dead and is currently driving around naked in the 20s.

You should be getting a credit rating bonus. What other situations have come up?

>1. it's the best-written core book they've put out, and you want to use the best stuff as your reference book
Do you just mean the fluff or are there any good rules? I dislike the new stats system because it makes it slightly harder for me as GM to do tests that aren't the standard x5

Somehow I knew that Nyaruko would be the first post in this thread

I don't follow (I never ran

Never used penalty dice, but its possible they give you the stats for hard rolls and such. I just would rather multiply it by something I see fit as a difficulty and it makes more sense to me when its a small number like that. Im just nitpicking though.

So /ysg/, how is your Shotgun Scenario Contest submission coming along?

Maybe if one of you bothered to bump the thread now and then we wouldn't be having this problem

sounds like more work for no real benefit 3 difficulties is enough

Joining a CoC group today, no clue how the system works.
Hope it will be fun.

In the midst of planning a DG campaign for when my current campaigns are finished.

A large part of it is going to be setup to the modern era with stuff set in WW2 and 'nam, so I'm pretty much gonna just convert up Achtung Cthulu stuff and make sure it all works.
Should be fun hopefully

Just finished the Last Equation with my group, had done Last Things Last previously. This week we'll be playing Legend of the 5 Rings, but when we pick DG back up again I'm thinking it'll be time for Lover in the Ice. Overarching this I'm writing my own campaign, but it's still pretty bare bones.

What are some game ideas you'really hoping to run /ysg/?
I've got one for an island controlled by Russia, and they're experimenting tech captured from WW2 Germany, specifically a Resonator. The resonator is also causing the water around the island to give off a heavy fog, so I can play with two big ideas I've been wanting to use. Deadly fog and the Resonator. I'm using the real island of Shikotan as the location. This gives me a potential interplay between the US, Japan, and Russia.

Give me a good idea for a scenario set in Egypt, the South or Scandinavia/Germany

The resonator goes haywire or someone deliberately makes the resonator have a huge output, this creates a cyclone either intentionally or unintentionally. A deep one colony is disturbed by the cyclone and rises to the surface to investigate whats causing the ruckus. Americans and Japs conduct reconnaissance on the Island. Plane crashes. can't think of anything else interesting.

I'm trying

Any good scenarios that deal with religion specifically?

stat them better yet where the fuck do these things come from?

Mi-go fucking with Shan/something else hybrids.

Nazi general researching occult rituals to prolong life indefinitely - hoping to use it for himself primarily, but for the nazi leadership secondarily.

French, American and British agents kill the guy, but not before he completes his work and it shunts his 'essence' into someone else - metaphysical immortality of the mind rather than the body.
He then shows up again in the modern era for a 'part two' of the campaign using modern Delta Green america, but this time as someone new but with the same spirit. For that Im gonna mock up after-action reports of the missions in the WW2 sections of the campaign, maybe even introduce a very aged version of one of the PCs from back then.
I really hope my players dont read this thread ree.

That's actually kind of what I have planned, but replace Nazi general with southern preacher.

Hellfire and damnation and life everlasting taken all too literally.
I like it.

>life everlasting taken all too literally.
That's his main drive. Players discovered essentially a recording of him sacrificing his congregation and Last Things Last's Baughman was part of a cell that "killed him." In actuality he body swapped or just didn't die(can't decide which) and is currently a high ranking member of the Program, of which one player is spying for(players are outlaws).

Body swap is better I think - means people can't recognise him and can only piece it together from other evidence and shit.
Plus it's got a bit of body horror going on becusse he's not just killing you for sacrifice he's living inside a person.
Way creepier than just 'doesn't die', imo

I'm also leaning with bodyswap, but part of me also really wants to go the Charles Dexter Ward route too.

I mean you could always Do both.
Maybe the ritual fucked up - it's SUPPOSED to push your soul into someone else, then reinforce your body at the cost of *their* soul, and then put you back into a now immortal body.
Being attacked by Baughman and his cell interrupted it however - now there's a corrupted immortal body on the move but also the guy's soul implanted in someone else.
Just when they think they've solved it, shit bites them on the ass from the other side.

I like it. Especially since, in my canon, Baughman got the ritual for you know what from that opera. And that didn't exactly go as planned, so the Preacher just had a boatload of different immortality rituals around.

For an Egypt scenario, I am assuming this is modernish.
Egyptology Rush, taking cues from Rats in the Walls with hyperborean society of 'individuals' (aliens, abominations, mutants, humans, etc). Secret chamber of King Tut. Players are forcibly 'conscripted' by dead priests to help them locate an obscure copy of the Book of the Dead which had been stolen by a traitor priest a long time before. Due to magic, traitor-priest has been 'stuck' within a given area near settlements and it is up to the PCs to locate the traitor-priest

The chaos that crawls up to you with a smile or a fat woman with a tentacle coming out of her throat?

>Scandinavia
An ancient Viking burial ground has been uncovered, but the archaeological team investigating it has disappeared completely.
There's blood, belonging to them, to be found at the dig and since all the artifacts are missing, local police are basically assuming that they were killed and hidden somewhereby looters who are planning to sell the ancient viking burial gifts.
Something far worse happened.
Maybe something unspeakable was sealed there, maybe one of the archaologists accidentally read aloud an incantation of some kind that was written on the wall with a 'DO NOT SPEAK' warning he ignored becuase >haha silly viking superstitions, i wonder what this says
Or maybe one of them knew the tomb was there somehow, and maybe he deliberately summoned or brought something in there back to life, to kill the rest of the dig team.

anyone have anything?
fairfieldproject.wikidot.com/shotgun-contest-announcement

Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home

Yes, I finished the first playtest over the weekend. If possible I'm going to squeeze a second one in to try out the changes before I submit it.

Was Jesus Nyarlathotep?

>[historical thing] had a mythos connection all along!

This thread must be infested with lloigor, because you're cancer

The former.

This backfired and whatever the vikings had sealed away escaped.
ancientworldreview.com/2017/08/sweden-destroying-archaeological-finds.html

Retard white supremacist begone unless you have Lovecraft level material to share

Not him, but what if the Swedish government knows about the mythos and are destroying artifacts that can be used to summon forth some sort of being? If investigators start to get to close they send government agents to stop you maybe? Just spitballing

Well I mean, in fairness to him, if the swedes melted down ancient artefacts and one was integral to sealing an ancient evil, that could be a pretty good plot

White supremacism is synonymous with realism. It's a shame that white people have turned into self-loathing idiots.

The world was literally built by white men.

>muh trailerpark racism is true guis!

get back to your containment board alt-shit

Appreciating the achievements of your own race is not racism. And neither is acknowledging observable differences between races.

Go be triggered somewhere else.

Any ideas for an Adventure in 1920's greece? I thought maybe something with Hecatoncheires, but one of you probably has a better Idea.

Also, do you happen to have links to some physical puzzles that look like Mi-Go technology?
Thanks in Advance(sorry for the bad english)

>you triggered?

I'm going to stick with fuck off alt-shit. You can dress up your racism in pretty words but you're still in same class of retards and still on the wrong board.

Fine, if you aren't triggered, then you must be retarded. Go be retarded somewhere else.

Lad, this is Veeky Forums. If you get upset over casual racism, especially when it comes from a reasonable post like that, you would be much better off in some hugbox like lebbit where you can ignore users.

Lad, this is Veeky Forums. If there is four people posting, there is gonna be 6 opinions an 2 shitposters. Now, the fact that some of us are posting racist comments, as casual and reasonable as you want them to be, will make us who disagree to tell you how wrong you are, or tell you to shut the fuck up, or call you faggot or autist.
This is Veeky Forums, and if contrariarism bothers you, get out of your computer and cry on your momma's tits, you alt-right dipshit.

Jesus fucking christ, you're one of those entitled socialist assholes, aren't you?

Please, stop posting.

I'm not bothered by your retardation, I'm just pointing it out. You have the right to be wrong, but you should express that right somewhere else.

What's a good scenario to run with three players if only one has experience with the system?

cry me river imbecile

What game?

CoC
I'd prefer 7e but I'm sure it's not hard to translate them over

fuck off triggerboo

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Does anyone have a copy of Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies that they want to share?

>Scandinavia
You seen the movie Sauna? Might yield some interesting ideas, and it's a very good horror kino anyway.

Here's your chance for diplomacy with Deep Ones

>You seen the movie Sauna?
Finland isn't scandinavia.

Why would Deep Ones, Great Old Ones, etc need human sacrifice? Do human tastes good or something?

I mean they accept males too so it's not 100% half-breed factory I presume, but they wouldn't need human slave workers do they?

How easy is it for a new GM to run Delta Green? I want to run a tom clancy-esque military thriller game and I hear Delta Green is the best go to game for that but my GMing experience is p much like 3 sessions of DnD 5e.

Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu are easy as shit systems. Just read the book and in a couple sessions you'll be perfect at it. Percentile Die systems are very easy

i've always been interested in doing a CoC game, or something set in Lovecraft Land, but it's hard to find people who are willing to get into the mindset a horror game needs. woe is me

None of my players are ever really in a horror mindset but its still a fun setting. I'd say don't expect anyone to get real spooked but play it anyway.

I only started playing TTRPGs around the beginning of this year, played only 10 sessions of Pathfinder and 3 sessions of Deathwatch before I started running DG about a month ago to the group's enjoyment. It's pretty easy.

This. You don't actually have to scare people to run a good "horror" game. Even if the atmosphere isn't there you can still present interesting mysteries and challenges.

Has anyone ran the Amidst the Ancient Trees scenario in the 7th ed Keeper's handbook?

It looks fun. I may try and re-run the haunting in 7th edition at some point.

I'd like to think Nyarly is more subtle than that.
Also this Shits and giggles, souls, meat, uses for their own sacrifice to Dagon or whoever

Pretty easy. Make sure you know the basics of the system and have a good theme for your game. If your players are halfway competent it will fall into place.

Where are you getting this from? I can't remember anything from The Shadow Over Innsmouth mentioning sacrifice. The Deep Ones seemed more interested in human pussy/dick than blood.

Not sure about CoC, but DG has some sacrificing going on in the lore. Specifically the Deep Ones.

That's dumb. Deep Ones aren't interested in meat. They want a working relationship with human communities.

It goes in that the ones that interact with humanity are lesser Deep Ones. Greater Deep Ones wants and desires are completely inhuman and thus not really applicable to being understood.

>the deep ones we see in the story aren't the real deep ones! the real deep ones are our special snowflake OC that we made up!

Cancer

Fucking this, the Greater Deep One shit is the worst thing in the new edition. A hundred bucks says Detwiller put it in to avoid the whole "the ocean needs women" thing which apparently some progressive fags think is problematic.

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Greater Deep Ones weren't made up for the new Delta Green. They were introduced in a supplement for the original game called Targets of Opportunity, in the section about Black Cod Island.

No answer is given in Lovecraft. DG takes an extremely lazy "they eat humans to become big and strong" approach.

TSoI does mention sacrifices done for Deep Ones. The islanders did it, and so did the people of Innsmouth, I'm pretty sure. However these sacrifices didn't seem to be something done extremely frequently, and what exactly constitutes them hasn't been mentioned either.

The stupidest part is that it would actually be a case of "the ocean needs men" because most of the time Deep One rape falls on men, not women. Everybody seems to forget this.

>DG takes an extremely lazy "they eat humans to become big and strong" approach.

They're big fish

It is what it is.

u u u u

So I've had a general interest in Lovecraftian horror for a while but I've only just recently picked up any literature on it: The king in Yellow & pic related. Really enjoyed the King in Yellow, particularly 'In the Court of the Dragon', but it did raise some questions for me about the titular character. From what I understood The King in Yellow and Hastur are the same being but I have read that in pre-lovecraft tales Hastur is a much more Benevolent(ish) entity than the King is Yellow is shown as. Am I wrong about the connection of the two or did something change or get added by H.P.L. or one of his circle?

Also what's the general consensus on pic related? I've only read the first two stories so far and while I've enjoyed them both I have to say that 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' has so far been much more enjoyable to actually read as 'At the Mountains of Madness' came of very dry in comparison. Still a great story though in it's own right and brilliant for the imagination.

Last thing. Are the other works of Robert W. Chambers and the works of Lord Dunsany and Ambrose Bierce worth taking a look at and if so are there any recommendations?

Hastur was originally created by Ambrose Bierce. The assimilation of the name to the Mythos has basically nothing to do with Bierce's story, I believe. Lovecraft name-dropped Hastur and the King like maybe once in all of his stories; the whole King in Yellow stuff took a life of its own after him.
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is one of Lovecraft's best. So is Mountains of Madness; its dryness comes from the fact that it's written as if it was a real report by a scientist. It's possibly the Lovecraft story people struggle the most with. What other stories does that volume have? Reminder that all of Lovecraft's fiction is available on the net legally and for free, so you can continue your reading from there if you don't want to spend money.
Chambers' best are the actual horror stories he wrote -the first 4 or 5 stories of TKiY. Most of his other stuff is not horror or weird fiction, and I personally didn't check out his other works of the kind. Dunsany is definitely worth it. I read some of Bierce a very long time ago, he has some good short stories.
You can also check out Algernon Blackwood (The Willows was Lovecraft's favorite of his) and Arthur Machen (Novel of the Black Seal & White Powder, The White People). And Thomas Ligotti for a more recent and quite unique take on cosmic horror.

Read your Lovecrafts first!

>he whole King in Yellow stuff took a life of its own after him

Yeah I did do a quick google search on Hastur and TKiY and it seems like a lot of the 'lore' on them was codified and expanded upon by Delta Green and Chaosium.

>Hastur was originally created by Ambrose Bierce

Yeah I know that Chambers took a few names from Bierce's work. It's what peaked my interest in the author.

>its dryness comes from the fact that it's written as if it was a real report by a scientist

I figured that it was a combination of that and just the general use of the language of the day coupled with the fact that I am not a clever man. I was able to make it through with only a few re-reads of a paragraph here and there so I could be worse, right? haha. . .

>What other stories does that volume have?

It also has 'The Dreams in the Witch-House' and 'The Statement of Randolph Carter', 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath', 'The Silver Key', and 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key'. The last four of which are apparently related and not as connected to the mythos as his other books. According to the note by Derleth at the beginning of the Omnibus anyways.

Oh and thanks for the reading recommendations. I'll add them to my list!

Dreams in the Witch-House has some great bits in it dealing with hypergeometry and non-third dimensional stuff. It's not everybody's favorite I guess, but I like it.
Statement is creepy and ultra-short, it might be connected with the Mythos easily.
Kadath, Silver Key and Through the Gates are the primary Dreamlands stories, and as such they occupy a different place than most of Lovecraft's real world stories. There still are connections however. I think Kadath is a great work, even though it has many imperfections. The Silver Key is more like a poem than a story really, it's fine. Through the Gates... it's been ages since I read that one. I remember thinking it wasn't great, but it might not be as terrible as its usual reputation suggests.

I die run it as my first Adventure 4 Weeks ago. It's pretty good, espacely if your players know nothing about the Mythos
(For then it went from Kidnapping to "holy shit heres Zombies" to "WTF is even going on")

Just look out that they don't steal the Truck, this almost crashed my game.

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I've always thought it interesting how Lovecraft, a staunch atheist held many overtly religious authors in high esteem.

Never really thought about that but yeah, you're right. He was also a big fan of Paradise Lost, IIRC.