/ysg/ Yog Sothothery

If you're going to have it set in India use Thuggees

>If someone could be a dear autist
not after this. do your own research, faggot.

To be fair you would have to be pretty autistic to actually go through with my request and index all of those creatures and cite their source material.

That's the very opposite of being fair. That's being a cunt. Please don't be a cunt to other people.

protomatter constructs. T-1000 and a shoggoth have a baby who grows up to be a MIB

Yeah, apriori mythos knowledge gets to be a pain. I like to avoid "proper" mythos names for as much as I can, that usually makes a difference. Like the serpent god Yig might have worshippers who refer to them by some sorta Voodun name. In your case, I believe there's a Hindu or pre-Hindu snake god, I know there's stuff like the Lamia/Lahmia too, and the Greeks, Romans, Saxons, Gauls, and Celts all had some sort of snake worship which could've survived the ages and thence be taken to India. And you can always double-bluff them, so the snake worshippers are actually a cult of, say, Shub-Niggurath. Again, I like to keep most mythos names out if I can.
I've got a preference for either Ancient World traditions being perverted to the Dark God's splendor, or always have been that way and we just well hidden (because the stars were never right) or the advance of man bringing them closer to things they ought not touch, so I try to play up the mystery and lend some real-world touches to the paranormal, supernatural, and alien.

This is why your loved ones think you're a disappointment and everyone around you would be secretly, guiltily relieved if you just did the right thing and killed yourself. How fucking hard is it to ask people on Veeky Forums, of all places, to compile shit in which they're already heavily invested? This is the fucking niche thread of a goddamn niche board.
Seriously, just a, "hey fuckers, anyone know of, or want to create, a compilation of mythos monsters that includes what stories and maybe geographic locations they're on" would probably have worked.
But nah, you can't even manage to stutter-type that. Fuck. Do the planet a favour and go plant some trees or something. Give back the oxygen you're wasting.

Unrelated, would anyone have any favourite or just generally good suggestions for an environmental extremist villain? Preferably modern day, but any help would be appreciated.

so while helping characters with their character sheets the topic of spending level came up
I know I had seen and even discussed in a previous /ysg/ about gripes/alternatives to spending level. Now I'm looking for it in archive and finding out that some people actually like it
wtf

I'm new, so I don't know if this is the place to mention it, but the CoC Trove has one missing file. The 1920s Investigators' Companion Volume 1 (5th Edition) was pulled on copyright grounds. I downloaded everything else and the rest of the files were fine. Just a heads up for the person running the file collection!

think the X files did something like this
dude is stopping logging in a haunted forest well, glow in the dark mites, still, lovecraft that shit up

An awesome second season which managed to top Season 1 - also, it screams architectural horror and the King in Yellow.

I think the druidy shub-niggurath nonsense in Tatters of the King was rather nice. Good old backwater cultists and their power struggles.

Thanks! I vaguely recall that episode. Pretty sweet ideas, but I found the execution sloppy.
Thanks as well, I'll check that out, as somehow I've never done that.

Well shit user, I didn't know I was going to end up tickling your sphincter quite this badly. My apologise.

I don't suppose you would be interestes in creating a compilation of mythos monsters, including what stories and maybe geographic locations they're on? Or maybe just know of a list that's already like that B-baka a-user s-sempai u-ugu ?

Unrelated but did anyone else fuck anons loved one last night?

>Mi-go: The Whisperer in Darkness
>Elder Things: At the Mountains of Madness
>Yithians: The Shadow out of Time

If you type out all the creatures on there, I'll do my best to tell you which creature comes from where.

There are these buildings in regions that practiced Zoroastrianism called something like Towers of the Dead, basically big open air grave sites. Wrap that up with a sect that worships Ghouls and you're all set.

Thanks user. Any idea why I might have gotten them confused? I swear that in the Mountains of Madness they were refereed to as both the Elder Things and the Mi-go. Probably just poor memory on my part.

I'll take you up on this offer user.

Outer Gods
>Hypnos
>Shub-Niggurath
>Nodens
>Nyarlathotep (Pronounced Nyar - Lat - Ho - Tep, right?)
>Azathoth
>Yog-Sothoth
>Ubbo-Sathla
>Abhoth

Great Old Ones
>Chaugnar Faugh
>Hastur
>Tsathoggua
>Dagon
>Bokrug
>Cthugha
>Ghatanothoa
>Cthulhu
>Shudde M'ell
>Zhar
>Rhan-Tegoth
>Ithaqua
>Atlach-Nacha
>Y'Golonac
>Yig

Lesser Servitor Races
>Shantak
>Sand-Dreller
>Deep One
>Tcho-Tchos
>Formless Spawn
>Nightgaunt
>Fire Vampire
>Byakshee
>Rat-Thing
>Shoggoth

Greater Servitor Races
>Hunting Horror
>Star-spawn of Cthulhu
>Dark Young
>Servitors of the Outer Gods

Lesser Independent Races
>Mi-Go
>Serpent People
>Ghast
>Ghoul
>Star Vampire
>Dimensional Shambler
>Elder Thing
>Gug
>Leng Spider

Greater Independent Races
>Chthonian
>Moon-Beast
>Dhole
>Colour Out Of Space
>Hound of Tindalos
>Flying Polyp
>Gnoph-Keh
>Great Race of Yith

I recognise a few of them but so far I've only Read the Kind in Yellow and the first Lovecradt Omnibus (AtMoM, Charles Dexter Ward, Witch House, Statement of Randolph Carter and the Dream Quest Books).

Bonus cool point if you can provide a base description.

>Any idea why I might have gotten them confused?
Well, Elder Things and Mi-go have relatively similar descriptions(and by that I mean weird looking shit with wings). Yithians and Elder Things also lived near one another, and I want to say even some Yithians lived in Antarctica, but it's been a bit since I read A Shadow Out of Time. If you read all three stories one right after another it'd wouldn't be the weirdest thing in the world to confuse them when recalling later. And I'll work on that list when my put my kid down for bed. My knowledge of non-Lovecraft creatures isn't that great though.

>And I'll work on that list when my put my kid down for bed

No worries user I know how that can be, take your time.

Honestly I was just kind of expecting someone to copy those names into google and just copy/pasting from a wikipedia page. Either way thanks for the time and effort.

Conversely, the Fairfield Project wiki & Lovecraft wiki probably has a description and source material for all of these.

So I just watched this series and it was hilarious! No wonder all my friends want to play Call of Cthulhu, this looks like such a fun world! Lol, tentacles and yuri aliens!

Get go and stay go.

The Mi-Go are mentioned in relation with the Elder Things, as other creatures that are alluded to in vague myths and legends, alongside the Cthulhu Spawn.

Also, Lovecraft's commonplace book has tons of potential plot hooks/ideas.

wired.com/2011/07/h-p-lovecrafts-commonplace-book/

What? I'm super excited to play the game now. Going to see about playing Cthugha, she was totes adorbz :3

>play the game
NANI?!

Yeah, I want to play Call of Cthulhu now! Going to look at the books later. Which one has Cthugha in it? She was really cute and I want to play her.

Oh, you want Pathfinder then. Check out the Pathfinder general and they'll hook you up.

Is it better to come up with a character first and hope it fits the campaign, or is it better to wait until you hear the what kind of campaign the keeper wants to run and then make a character?

I'd think it fit better to make a character first, as often people are being put into situations no human is actually prepared for and if you're worried about being useless or something, well, a good keeper can make sure every type of character gets some use. I run a Delta Green game and one of my players plays as a doddering anthropology professor. He's the expert on weird shit and often provides a useful distraction if the Marine and FBI agent need to do covert operator shit.

>a good keeper can make sure every type of character gets some use

True, but don't count on having a good keeper. It's easy to get stuck with someone running a module where whoever you brought is completely useless. And from the perspective of the setting, Delta Green is at least going to be smart enough to pick people somewhat appropriate for the task at hand. They have that luxury, now that they've merged with MAJESTIC and acquired its resources.

Best place to find players?

I like to wait until I know what kind of game I'm getting into. It makes it easier to make a character who will both be useful and fit the game. Plus I tend to have an easier time coming up with interesting character concepts when I have some limitations based on the setting or time period than I do when I have nothing to go on besides "It's a CoC game, do whatever"

If you can't talk your friends into trying it this is a niche enough game that you can get randoms from Veeky Forums gamefinder threads, reddit, or the DG mailing list and have a pretty good chance of finding people who are reliable and not total shit.

>lesser utilized settings and time periods.
I wish the Cthulhu Dark Ages book got a little more love. A time period where Christianity is more prevalent in daily life than ever, most of the western world is literally built on the ruins of a fallen civilization, and everything from the ocean to the woods outside of your village could be filled with god knows what kind of horrible creatures seems like a perfect setting for cosmic horror but I hardly ever see anyone talk about that book.

Depends on what game you want to run

Does anyone happen to have age of cthulhu the lost expedition ?

don't give a shit what some faggy sjws think. write what you want

google nigga

Any of these is fine, but think about what special stuff setting your game in India or Nepal during the Colonial era can offer you. If you could take the story and basically transplant it to another region with the most minimal changes possible, then you know you did something wrong.

Thing is, unless your intellectual age is like 10, you should be rolling your eyes 180 degrees when you encounter a bland and stereotypical portrayal of an "exotic" place. There's no problem at all in having it set in the colonial period; there isn't even a problem in having player character be something other than Charles Marlow types. But there's no justifying taking a place like India or Nepal and settling on UNGA BUNGA WEIRD EVIL NATIVE MEN WITH WEIRD STUFF in a horror game.

A very important component of cosmic horror is how supposed mastery of the physical world and extensive "objective" knowledge turns out to be nothing but illusion and ignorance. Trying to pull that off in a setting in which said mastery and knowledge were at their baby phase and superstition dominated one's outlook towards existence is nonsensical for the most part. It cannot resonate with players living in 2017 unless you're a genius and you manage use the conditions of those ages as a metaphor for our present-day ignorance.
You could nevertheless pull off some great weird horror, with hints of cosmic if you want.

Also find and read "Stealing Cthulhu". Tried uploading it but it doesn't want me to for some reason.

try Return of Kangz

I sense a definite flaw in the credibility of your impression. There is a definite lack of relatability in that weeb charade, especially from a true weeb's viewpoint. Your use of language, choices of expression and syntax do not equate with any known human subculture sect in the current enviroment. As such, I deduce you to be a hostile alien lifeform to this thread, acting with sinister and certifiably deleterious motives to the well-being and future of the posters present.

As such, I bid all posters to enact the rite of banishment immediately, before weaker minds are led to terrible mistakes.